Microsoft's OneDrive Files On Demand feature is ideal for shared student PC labs, solving sync and storage issues by downloading files only when needed.
Explores a potential 'Polymath' project on the Wilcoxon test's non-transitive behavior with dice, connecting math and statistics.
Advocates for a career path alternating between engineering and management roles, rejecting the idea of choosing one permanent lane.
Cimbalino Toolkit 2.5.0 released, now targeting .NET Standard 1.0 for cross-platform compatibility and featuring other improvements.
A tutorial on building a microservices development environment using Docker, Node.js, React, and Docker Compose.
Spring 2017 database news: SQL:2016 standard, cloud pricing wars, ACIDRain security study, and DB-Engines rankings.
Introducing pass-rotate, a tool for bulk password rotation after security breaches, automating password changes across multiple websites.
Explains the behavior and potential dangers of using beforeSuite and afterSuite hooks in the Quick testing framework for Swift.
Explores the various uses of the DISTINCT keyword in PostgreSQL, including DISTINCT ON, with practical SQL examples.
A personal journey from computer science student confusion to understanding APIs, framed as a story to demystify a common programming concept.
Analysis of the Java 9 Jigsaw module system debate, covering compatibility concerns and objections from major vendors like Red Hat and IBM.
A developer investigates and troubleshoots the long startup time of a Spring Boot Java application running on macOS, analyzing logs to find the cause.
A guide to eight essential ES6 features for JavaScript developers, including let/const, arrow functions, and destructuring.
Explores how to write Pythonic code by effectively using the Python standard library's built-in modules for tasks like CSV handling.
Explains recursion, proper tail calls (PTC), tail call optimization (TCO), and syntactic tail calls (STC) in JavaScript, including implementation details and engine support.
A step-by-step tutorial on implementing a Kafka Pub/Sub system using Docker and .NET Core, including code examples.
Developer details rewriting the TimerCheck.io service from NodeJS to Python 3.6 on AWS Lambda using the Chalice framework.
Explains how to use TypeScript's strictNullChecks compiler option in Angular 4.1.1 to write safer, more robust code by preventing null/undefined assignment errors.
Explores monitoring strategies for modern, scalable infrastructure, covering data collection, storage, visualization, and alerting components.
Explores how Jupyter notebooks can be used for infrastructure tasks like system administration, DevOps, and cloud operations, blending documentation, code, and output.
