A student's experience at PennApps, the largest student hackathon, where they built a universal uploader app for SoundCloud.
A technical guide on building an in-house slideshow service in Drupal by converting PPT/PDF files to images using open-source tools like Gearman and unoconv.
Explains how to use Drupal's Change Records to find API changes and updates when developing for Drupal 8.
OpenStack Ceilometer's final Havana development milestone released, featuring new API capabilities, storage backends, and bug fixes.
The author announces a hiatus due to preparing a 'Web Scraping in Python' talk submitted for PyCon.
Summary of Luke Wroblewski's 2013 talk on designing mobile web experiences for write/read interactions, focusing on one-handed use and simplified flows.
Argues that over-reliance on color pickers and palette galleries hinders learning and effective design communication.
A presenter shares a screencast of a TechEd Australia 2013 demo that had technical issues live, along with the source code.
Advice for open source project maintainers: prioritize contributor-friendly tools and workflows over personal preferences to grow your community.
Explains a security vulnerability in Express.js's bodyParser middleware and provides safer alternatives for handling file uploads.
An analysis of Verilog's quirks and why seemingly logical code can fail or produce unexpected hardware synthesis results.
A guide to synchronizing SublimeText2 editor settings and packages across multiple machines using Dropbox for a consistent development environment.
A developer explains how to prevent Bootstrap and ForkedBooter apps from popping up in the OS X dock during Maven builds by using Java headless mode.
A tutorial on creating a Python Twitter bot that automatically favorites tweets based on a keyword to help grow followers organically.
An introduction to the Test Anything Protocol (TAP), a simple, language-agnostic protocol for generating automated test results.
A guide to writing effective technical documentation that teaches users, not just tells them, focusing on programming languages and libraries.
A tech professional details the hardware and peripherals on their office desk, including a Microsoft Surface Pro, docking station, and monitors.
A developer shares technical learnings from August, covering iOS, Ruby automation, JavaScript libraries, CSS tools, and interesting tech reads.
Author announces a new book, 'The Hacker's Guide to Python,' sharing advanced Python knowledge and best practices learned from large-scale projects like OpenStack.
Explains how to use PHP's short ternary operator (?:) for more concise code, replacing repetitive variable checks.
