A review of the book 'NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide', covering its content, style, and suitability for learning numerical computing with Python.
Author announces a new book on responsive enhancement, covering workflow integration, fluid layouts, media queries, and modern web development techniques.
Explores current limitations in web development that cannot be solved client-side, including templating, localization, screen capture, and accessing POST data.
Joblib 0.6 beta release introduces fast compressed persistence for Python objects and Python 3 support, improving I/O performance.
Explores using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions to synchronize to-do lists across millions of devices in a scalable, offline-capable system.
Announcing the new Dabblet blog for updates on the web development tool, hosted on Tumblr with custom HTML5 theming.
Automating OBIEE 11g startup/shutdown on Linux using an improved Ant-based script from Oracle's Windows version.
A Python tutorial for creating desktop notifications for Google Calendar events using the pynotify and Google Data APIs.
A developer's 2011 year-in-review covering tech conferences (SQLBits, Mongo UK), community contributions, job changes, and open-source projects.
A critique of modern programmers' tendency to complain about new languages and tools rather than engaging with them, using Go and Dart as examples.
A developer's 2011 retrospective on adopting Vim, switching to Mac, and diving deep into Python, Twisted, and the Python community.
Explains how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to build a flexible, message-based request/response service layer in .NET.
A developer's postmortem analysis of creating the game 'Sat-E' for the Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam, covering lessons learned and feedback.
A technical guide on using GTK+ stock icons with the pynotify library to create desktop notifications in Python.
Discusses the drawbacks of using too many programming languages in a project, arguing for a balanced approach to benefit operations and maintainability.
A technical guide explaining character escape sequences in JavaScript, covering code points, single character escapes, and encoding details.
A critique of modern software versioning practices, proposing clearer definitions for semantic versioning (x.y.z) and addressing confusion caused by terms like alpha, beta, and release candidates.
Explains how to use Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g to call PL/SQL functions for auditing data refreshes.
A developer created a game called Sat-E for the Ludum Dare 22 game jam, inspired by the theme 'Alone' and Wall-E.
A discussion on the design choice of overriding browser keyboard shortcuts in web applications to leverage user muscle memory.
