#Fail: My Oracle Support
A developer's critical rant about the problematic migration from Oracle Metalink to the new My Oracle Support system, focusing on poor usability and performance.
A developer's critical rant about the problematic migration from Oracle Metalink to the new My Oracle Support system, focusing on poor usability and performance.
Analyzing Django's error messages by replicating common typos from a Rails tutorial comparison to see how helpful they are for debugging.
An update on the progress and remaining challenges for implementing multiple database support in the Django web framework.
A developer's personal thank you to the essential desktop software and web services that power his daily work and life.
Explains an Unladen Swallow optimization for CPython, replacing METH_O/NOARGS with METH_FIXED to speed up calls to built-in functions with fixed arguments.
A developer explains their Python workflow using pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper to manage project dependencies and isolated environments.
Guide to configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in for load balancing and failover across multiple OBIEE servers.
Introduces django-kickass-templatetags, a library offering an object-based syntax for defining Django template tags to reduce boilerplate code.
A tutorial on localizing ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation error messages using resource files instead of hardcoded strings.
A PyCon program committee member reflects on the talk selection process, reviewer biases, and shares excitement for upcoming conference talks.
A technical deep dive into refactoring Django's ManyToManyField to eliminate raw SQL and improve code structure for multi-database support.
Advanced Google search techniques for finding Oracle OBIEE documentation, PDFs, and resources, including using alerts.
Explores two key JIT compiler optimizations in Google's Unladen Swallow project for Python, focusing on type feedback and specialized function calls.
An introduction to Unladen Swallow, a Google-funded project to speed up CPython using a JIT compiler built on LLVM.
A blogger announces a month-long daily blogging challenge focusing on advanced Django, HTTP push tech, and some political content.
An analysis of the declining Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) online community, citing beginner-dominated forums and poor user etiquette.
Fixes for xVal.WebForms validation issues: suppressing duplicate validation calls and ensuring complete validator script options.
Announcing the official release of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse, a plugin for PHP developers to build, debug, and deploy applications to Azure.
A developer details patching xVal.WebForms to support ASP.Net-style Validation Groups and CausesValidation behavior with jQuery Validate.
Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 adds binding support to WPF InputBindings, simplifying MVVM development by allowing direct command binding.