Explains how to exclude specific nodes from XML data in SQL Server using T-SQL's modify method, UDFs, or temp tables.
A developer shares a custom jQuery plugin for animating color transitions using RGB interpolation in 3D space.
A technical critique of Smashing Magazine's website redesign, focusing on performance issues like page weight and ad loading.
A review of the book 'NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide', covering its content, style, and suitability for learning numerical computing with Python.
Author announces a new book on responsive enhancement, covering workflow integration, fluid layouts, media queries, and modern web development techniques.
Explores current limitations in web development that cannot be solved client-side, including templating, localization, screen capture, and accessing POST data.
Joblib 0.6 beta release introduces fast compressed persistence for Python objects and Python 3 support, improving I/O performance.
Explores using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions to synchronize to-do lists across millions of devices in a scalable, offline-capable system.
Announcing the new Dabblet blog for updates on the web development tool, hosted on Tumblr with custom HTML5 theming.
A developer's 2011 year-in-review covering tech conferences (SQLBits, Mongo UK), community contributions, job changes, and open-source projects.
A critique of modern programmers' tendency to complain about new languages and tools rather than engaging with them, using Go and Dart as examples.
A developer's 2011 retrospective on adopting Vim, switching to Mac, and diving deep into Python, Twisted, and the Python community.
Explains how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to build a flexible, message-based request/response service layer in .NET.
A developer's postmortem analysis of creating the game 'Sat-E' for the Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam, covering lessons learned and feedback.
Discusses the drawbacks of using too many programming languages in a project, arguing for a balanced approach to benefit operations and maintainability.
A technical guide explaining character escape sequences in JavaScript, covering code points, single character escapes, and encoding details.
A critique of modern software versioning practices, proposing clearer definitions for semantic versioning (x.y.z) and addressing confusion caused by terms like alpha, beta, and release candidates.
A developer created a game called Sat-E for the Ludum Dare 22 game jam, inspired by the theme 'Alone' and Wall-E.
A discussion on the design choice of overriding browser keyboard shortcuts in web applications to leverage user muscle memory.
Explores the smallest possible valid (X)HTML documents for various historical HTML versions, detailing byte counts and SGML minimization tricks.
