A developer shares lessons learned from building Gradient Backgrounds Studio, focusing on using CAGradientLayer and image manipulation in iOS.
A preview of a conference talk on methodical performance analysis and troubleshooting for Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE).
Microsoft halts SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 due to update issues, then releases a fix.
A technical guide on designing a modular iOS app architecture for data parsing, using libraries like CoreData and AFNetworking.
Author announces receiving the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server, highlighting their community contributions and speaking engagements.
An analysis of the 2048 game's source code, focusing on its MVC architecture and the process of creating a word-based variant.
Analyzes trends in modern programming languages, focusing on static typing and native compilation as key directions for scalable development.
A technical analysis of performance issues with the WrapPanel control in Windows Phone development and a proposed alternative using VirtualizingStackPanel.
Explores the fundamental differences between Word and Markdown, arguing Markdown's semantic nature is better suited for web content creation.
A tutorial on using the @font-face CSS rule to add custom fonts to a website, covering font conversion and implementation.
A technical guide on visualizing OBIEE DMS performance metrics using Graphite for monitoring and dashboard creation.
A humorous first-person account of a developer's obsession with CSS classes, selector performance, and the pitfalls of over-engineering styles.
A developer shares a troubleshooting tip for a common linker error when upgrading a CocoaPods Podfile in an iOS project.
Explores hidden load testing features within OBIEE's nqcmd tool for performance analysis.
Explains how to use Reactive Extensions (Rx) to await Observables, converting event-based async patterns into simpler, awaitable tasks in C#.
Guide to installing obi-metrics-agent, Graphite, and collectl for monitoring OBIEE and system metrics on Linux.
A retrospective on the first year of the Postgres Weekly newsletter, highlighting key articles, extensions, and community insights about PostgreSQL.
Introduces obi-metrics-agent, an open-source Python tool for collecting and monitoring OBIEE performance metrics from DMS.
Explains how and why two different strings produce the same PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 hash, detailing the cryptographic property behind the collision.
Overview of new PostgreSQL 9.4 features, focusing on the performance benefits of JSONB for document storage and the introduction of logical decoding.
