A detailed guide on upgrading a MacBook Pro Mid 2009 with a Kingston SSD, including benchmarks and performance improvements.
A weekly roundup of interesting tech articles from July 2011, covering Android, Outlook, Evernote, and military tech.
MyGet introduces feed privilege delegation, allowing co-admins and contributors to manage private package feeds, plus enhanced security and global deployment.
Article on optimizing OBIEE performance by pushing data processing to the database layer instead of the application server.
A guide on creating a USB boot disk for Windows 98 DOS mode using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.
A technical guide on implementing dynamic, MVC-style routing for WCF services to support route parameters like {customerName}.
Announcement of the official Windows Phone 7 app for Belgium TechDays 2011, built with Silverlight, Azure, and jQuery.
Explains the cost benefits of dynamic scaling for cloud applications on Windows Azure, with a focus on optimizing instance usage.
A recap of the PyPy team's San Francisco tour, including sprints at Noisebridge and tech talks at Google and Mozilla, focusing on performance improvements and compiler discussions.
A talk on using WordPress to build and control your personal brand online, covering key steps and recommended plugins.
Compares I/O measurement methods using Oracle V$SYSSTAT and HP MeasureWare, showing near-identical results graphed with rrdtool.
Announcement for the SQLSoton User Group meeting on March 9th, 2011, featuring a talk on SQL Server replication.
A student reflects on learning Ada programming and the concept of being a 'great programmer' after a teacher's provocative question.
A Google engineer refutes claims about talent retention, arguing that Google is ideal for technologists focused on deep engineering work, unlike startups focused on business models.
Google's white paper argues China's internet restrictions violate WTO rules and hinder global e-commerce by blocking access to information and trade.
A WordPress plugin that imports Twitter mentions as comments, integrating tweets into your blog's native comment system.
A programmer clarifies confusing terminology in programming languages, defining dynamic typing, type safety, and strong typing.
Using awk to split a fixed-width file into separate output files based on content in specific columns.
Slides and code from a 2010 Remix session on building and deploying a Silverlight application to Windows Azure cloud platform.
Explains how to use Windows Azure Diagnostics with PHP to collect and analyze logs, traces, and performance counters from cloud applications.
