A technical guide on using CSS and JavaScript to override browser defaults and display hidden HTML elements like <head>, <title>, and <meta> tags.
A personal recap of attending SQLBits VI, covering sessions on SQL Server performance tuning, parallel query execution, and the query optimizer.
Sunflower is an alpha-stage tool for automated content extraction from HTML documents using structural analysis and a Swing GUI.
Explores the size threshold for using inline scripts/styles vs. external files, considering HTTP overhead, caching, and performance trade-offs.
A developer outlines planned improvements to their personal website, including code refactoring, new features, and UI tweaks, before starting a new game project.
Explores fixing compatibility issues between Django and the PyPy Python interpreter, detailing specific bugs and solutions.
A developer explains a case-sensitive ColumnMappings error in SqlBulkCopy and how to resolve it.
Explains how browsers cache 301 permanent redirects, causing issues when websites misuse them for temporary actions like login flows.
Explains how to use JavaScript's debugger statement to inspect private variables in closure-based modules, improving debugging for patterns like the Module Pattern.
Discusses Google's ranking algorithm update prioritizing site speed, addressing web designers' concerns about balancing aesthetics with performance.
Hades 1.5 released, removing the mandatory Persistable interface requirement and introducing new XML namespace features for Spring/JPA applications.
A game developer discusses taking a break from game making to learn new tools like Vim and Haskell, and how exploring different programming paradigms improves skills.
A technical guide on creating and mounting Windows Azure Drives for PHP or Ruby applications using a custom .NET HTTP module.
A technical overview of running PHP applications on Windows Azure, covering scaling, storage, and SQL Azure with sample code.
Explains how to inject Spring beans into non-managed artifacts like Servlets using SpringBeanAutowiringSupport, reducing boilerplate code.
Explains why SQL CAST to VARCHAR without specifying a length can cause errors or truncation, and advises always defining the size.
Discusses how consumer-friendly devices like the iPad will make cloud computing mainstream by making it transparent and seamless for users.
A technical discussion on intentional symbol capture in Clojure macros for GUI development, using a Swing wizard as a case study.
A guide to using Apache Tika for extracting content and metadata from various file formats like PDFs, images, and Office docs in content repositories.
Explains two methods in Mayavi to visualize a surface colored by a separate scalar value, not just elevation.
