Live coverage and highlights from PASS Summit 2017, focusing on Microsoft Data Platform updates, Azure services, and SQL Server.
Explains the five common forms of Clojure keywords, their use cases, and provides recommendations for idiomatic usage.
A guide to best practices for database schema migrations, focusing on tools like Flyway and Hibernate for evolving applications.
Discusses how Docker is a tool that can be misused, arguing that its problems stem from implementation, not the technology itself, and connecting it to DevOps culture.
Introducing heatmaply, an R package for creating interactive, shareable cluster heatmaps for data visualization and online publishing.
Solutions for using different resource URLs in local vs remote environments, featuring Service Workers and other web dev techniques.
A visual guide explaining Evolution Strategies (ES) as a gradient-free optimization alternative to reinforcement learning for training neural networks.
An introductory guide to the fundamental concepts of object detection, covering image gradients, HOG, and segmentation, as a precursor to deep learning methods.
An updated guide to locks, mutexes, and thread safety in Swift, covering modern APIs and best practices for concurrent programming.
A brief review of Refind, a tool that curates links from tweets into a browsable format for discovering tech articles and resources.
A manifesto proposing Upspin, a global file system to restore user data ownership and enable seamless sharing between programs and people.
Explores using C# operator overloading to create cleaner syntax for cross-platform file path concatenation, inspired by ReSharper's code.
Sway developer explains why future versions will drop Nvidia proprietary driver support, criticizing Nvidia's lack of open standards support.
Explains why Azure API Management returns 200 OK but no backend traffic occurs, due to a missing forward-request policy.
A guide to enabling and automating backups for Azure Analysis Services using PowerShell scripts and runbooks.
A guide to setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Docker containers using Azure DevOps and Azure Container Registry for ASP.NET Core applications.
A recap of #PSBlogWeek 2017, summarizing five days of community blog posts covering advanced PowerShell automation, logging, and DevOps topics.
A data scientist explores using the Papyrus font in R and ggplot2, analyzing Avatar box office data with custom visualizations.
A comparison of 5 popular Python web frameworks: API Star, Falcon, Flask, Django, and Pyramid, from a Python Frederick presentation.
A technical guide on updating the Hugo static site generator version for blogdown projects deployed on the Netlify platform.
