How to use the policy-rc.d script on Debian/Ubuntu to prevent services from starting automatically during package installation or upgrade.
A developer's plan to deepen their technical knowledge by asking 'How?' and 'Why?' about iOS development tools like Xcode and CocoaPods.
Explores non-transitivity in games like rock-paper-scissors, its history, and connections to statistics, evolution, and voting systems.
A technical guide to fixing the broken UISearchDisplayController appearance on iOS 7 with a clean code solution.
Analyzes the flaws in Hacker News and Reddit ranking algorithms and proposes a randomized solution to improve content discovery.
A developer shares lessons from September, covering JavaScript data visualization libraries, Node.js, Bower, CSS frameworks, Jenkins CI, and Ruby gems.
Analysis of the Lavabit case, focusing on government overreach and Fourth Amendment violations in demanding encryption keys.
A technical tutorial on creating a settings page for a Drupal 8 module, focusing on configuration forms and the Global Redirect module.
A guide to lazy prefetching of AngularJS partials to improve performance in Single-Page Applications (SPAs).
A Presidential Innovation Fellow shares 10 key lessons on driving tech innovation within government, focusing on culture, process, and bureaucracy.
Guide to installing Windows 7 on a 2011 MacBook Pro after removing the internal SuperDrive, using VMWare and rEFIt.
A tutorial explaining the Python yield keyword, generators, and iterables with code examples.
A blog post sharing a useful Python 2.7 Quick Reference guide for developers to look up functions and syntax.
A guide to implementing effective code reviews in software teams, covering the benefits, principles, and practical steps for a healthy review culture.
Introduces Gunsub, a Python tool to manage GitHub notifications by automatically unsubscribing from passive threads after the first message.
A review of the ZeroMQ book, praising its coverage of the technology and its advanced software development concepts.
A tutorial on creating a configuration settings page for a Drupal 8 module, covering form class structure and Drupal's configuration system.
A technical guide explaining the browser Notification API, covering support, permission requests, and cross-browser implementation.
A summary of leading UX designers' opinions on the visual and experiential changes in Apple's iOS 7 operating system.
A detailed breakdown of the major changes and breaking updates in the Requests library version 2.0, including header handling and proxy requirements.
