A technical analysis of how an expired database password caused Informatica to spawn excessive connections, crashing an Oracle server.
A reflection on how a company's interview process reveals its culture and state, with advice on structuring behavioral and technical interviews.
A case study on using Windows Azure's autoscaling and cloud services to handle massive traffic spikes for a sports event timing website.
daloRADIUS update deprecates old user portal authentication method, introduces new password and permission settings for better security.
A deep dive into the internal architecture and customization API of the django-taggit library for Django.
A technical guide on creating and mounting Windows Azure Drives for PHP or Ruby applications using a custom .NET HTTP module.
A developer outlines ideal working relationships with designers, from best-case collaboration to worst-case scenarios.
How to resolve ORA-13757 error when deleting an active SQL Tuning Set in Oracle, including diagnostic queries and cleanup steps.
Oracle's performance recommendations for OBIA 7.9.6, focusing on ETL improvements and hardware sizing.
A C# and SQL Server developer explains his motivation for starting a technical blog to share coding challenges and solutions.
A guide to creating a custom application launcher for IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu Linux, including the necessary shell command.
An article recommending Cary Millsap's foundational articles on computer systems performance and structured problem-solving approaches.
Discusses the shift from chasing website visitor numbers to focusing on deeper user engagement and content contribution in a saturated web.
A developer's postmortem analysis of their first shooter game, 'The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros', discussing development time, features, and shortcomings.
A developer's 2009 year-end review, highlighting top ASP.NET MVC and performance posts, open-source projects, and tech presentations.
A critique of automatic website localization that ignores user language preferences, using examples from Twitter, Facebook, and Windows Mobile Marketplace.
Fixing a specific Oracle OBIEE SELinux error: 'libnnz10.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied'.
Explores integrating semantic web standards like RDFa into content management systems to make web content machine-readable.
A critical analysis of the CAF migration tool for Oracle BI, discussing its risks and unsupported status in production environments.
Explains a Rhino Mocks unit testing exception and solution for methods requiring a return value.
