A guide for developers on common database mistakes beginners make, including storing images, using limit/offset for pagination, and relying on integer primary keys.
A tech enthusiast details setting up a custom Proxmox home server for hosting VMs and containers for various data and analytics tools.
A developer reflects on lessons from early responsive web design to avoid similar pitfalls when implementing Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
Explains how to use Swift's @available attribute to mark methods as unavailable, with examples for subclassing and legacy code.
A guide to correctly implementing the equals method in Java, covering identity vs. equality and best practices.
Explains scenarios where JavaScript arrow functions are problematic, such as in object methods and prototypes, due to their lexical 'this' binding.
A product manager shares twelve key responsibilities and daily activities based on their experience at GitHub, focusing on accountability, team leadership, and user advocacy.
A developer explains why using their personal website as a live testing playground for new techniques and optimizations is a valuable learning tool.
A PowerShell script to automate starting or stopping all WebApps in an Azure subscription, using Azure Automation runbooks.
A nostalgic guide to installing a TCP/IP stack on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to enable internet connectivity on the 1993-era OS.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to gracefully close or reject unwanted pull requests and patch submissions.
A guide on migrating DNS management to Microsoft Azure DNS, covering setup, benefits, and technical details for improved reliability and performance.
Explains how to compute the Huber/White sandwich estimator incrementally in R's biglm package for large-scale linear regression.
A developer explores parallel computing by writing a Go program to brute-force crack the WWII Enigma cipher, inspired by Alan Turing's work.
Exploration of OBIEE 12c features, focusing on RESTful APIs, web services, cache behavior, and data set service.
A developer shares surprising Laravel features and techniques discovered while writing the book 'Laravel: Up and Running'.
Announcement and feature breakdown of SQL Server 2016 general availability, highlighting new security, performance, and edition-specific capabilities.
A guide to using VSTS Vault, a Windows service for backing up Git repositories from Visual Studio Team Services to a local machine.
Mike Ash announces a hiatus from regular blog posts to focus on completing his book, 'The Complete Friday Q&A: Volume II'.
How to enable and list detailed logging sources in OBIEE 12c Presentation Services for troubleshooting and diagnostics.
