A developer recounts his 12-year career journey at Amazon, starting from his early interest in their web services API to joining the company.
A guide to making embedded SVG images responsive across browsers using CSS techniques like the Padding Hack and inline media queries.
Tips for effective application prototyping, focusing on simplicity, iteration, user feedback, and using familiar tools to validate ideas quickly.
A developer explains how to make GitHub track contributions to OpenStack repositories by starring them, using a Python script.
Explores scalability challenges in OpenStack Ceilometer's metering architecture and introduces the Gnocchi project as a solution for time-series data.
Explains how gutter positions work in the Susy CSS grid framework and how they affect layout margins and paddings.
A tutorial on using Susy's background grid image for debugging responsive layouts across multiple breakpoints.
The author announces hyper v0.1.0, detailing new HTTP/2 support, dropped Python 3.3, and challenges with PyOpenSSL.
A developer's wishlist for upcoming features in PostgreSQL 9.5, including upsert, foreign data wrapper improvements, and better replication.
Guide to migrating app settings from IsolatedStorageSettings to ApplicationData.LocalSettings for Windows Phone Silverlight to Windows Runtime upgrades.
Explains how commercial mocking tools like Typemock and JustMock mock sealed classes and static methods using the .NET Profiling API.
A quick tip on using the keyboard shortcut (Cmd/Ctrl + L) to focus the browser address bar, boosting productivity for keyboard-centric users.
A guide on using a PowerShell script to automatically shut down Azure VMs to reduce cloud computing costs.
Court denies preliminary approval of a $324.5M class action settlement in a high-tech employee wage-fixing antitrust lawsuit.
A 1997 design contest analysis where Verilog users outperformed VHDL users, sparking industry debate and controversy.
A product development philosophy on deciding when to ship a new feature or kill it, based on user feedback when the feature is removed.
A collaborative effort to create an ongoing, community-driven book about KDE Frameworks 5 for Qt developers, using a git-based infrastructure.
Explains why SQL Server's dm_exec_query_plan returns NULL for stored procedures with conditional logic and temp tables, and how to diagnose it.
Chef 12 ends support for Ruby 1.8 and older 1.9 versions, requiring Ruby 1.9.3+. This allows cookbook developers to use modern Ruby features.
