Using R to create a Google Calendar with sunset times and travel alerts for a personal viewing spot.
Explains a workflow using Berkshelf and GitHub to manage and test interdependent Chef cookbooks during development.
How to use Grunt.js's built-in file copy utility to rename files by changing their extensions, avoiding the need for a dedicated rename plugin.
A guide to setting up core files and customizing the terminal environment (Zsh/OhMyZsh) on a new OS X development machine.
A Python developer proposes objective metrics and a schedule to measure the success of Python 3 adoption, moving beyond subjective debates.
Explains the differences between Compass and Autoprefixer, two tools for handling CSS vendor prefixes and authoring.
Guide to publishing Office 365 apps to Windows Azure Web Sites for production use.
A guide to writing unit tests for Node.js applications using the Mocha test framework, Chai assertion library, and Sinon mocking library.
Explores using PhantomCSS for visual regression testing of OBIEE front ends, addressing limitations of traditional tools like Selenium.
A guide on setting up a Laravel queue worker with Beanstalkd using Laravel Forge, including a warning about environment detection.
A primer on PostgreSQL connection pooling, covering framework-level and standalone poolers to optimize database performance and manage connections.
A guide to configuring Vagrant networking with bridged interfaces and static IPs for internet-accessible virtual machines.
Explores the statistical power of monotonicity vs. smoothness assumptions in modeling, analyzing their asymptotic and finite-sample impacts.
Introduces grunt-perfbudget, a Grunt.js plugin that enforces web performance budgets using WebPageTest metrics.
A technical guide on using Fiddler to analyze and optimize Azure storage traffic for a high-traffic application like MyGet.
A tutorial on creating tables of contents with internal links in IPython Notebooks and Markdown documents using HTML anchors.
A tutorial on creating internal links and a table of contents in IPython Notebooks and Markdown documents using HTML anchors.
Explains how Unix shell commands use Lisp-like syntax with program-name-first structure and expression composition.
A tech news roundup covering a wireless medical chip breakthrough, the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, and issues in web payments and cybersecurity.
A technical guide explaining a workaround to use the Autoprefixer tool with the Compass framework in the CodeKit 2 build tool for Mac.
