Discusses the ethics and legal guidelines of excerpting content online, focusing on adding value over just avoiding copyright issues.
A tutorial on building a custom domain URL shortener using Ruby on Rails, covering models, migrations, and routing.
A technical critique of Lua's stack-based C API, highlighting its complexity and potential for bugs in real-world integration scenarios.
Notes from a DDD/CQRS course covering aggregates, commands, queries, and handling consistency without distributed transactions.
Explains how to use Windows Azure Traffic Manager for geographic distribution and high availability of cloud applications, with failover strategies.
Announcing the beta release of Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0, featuring a management API, improved logging, and DateTime object support.
Fixes a Windows XP issue where StickyKeys settings won't open, providing a command-line solution to install the missing Accessibility Options.
Explains why a network drive mapping script fails on Windows 7 but works on Windows XP due to a trailing slash in the path.
A guide to displaying generated SQL queries in the Rails 3 console by configuring ActiveRecord's logger to output to STDOUT.
A gallery showcasing CSS3 gradient patterns, including a new 'Japanese cubes' design, with browser support details.
Slides and demo code for a talk on integrating ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF, and NuGet to create loosely coupled, easy-to-use architectures.
A guide to inverting all colors on a webpage using only CSS, with a cross-browser bookmarklet and browser support details.
Announcement and preview of a workshop on the Lua programming language, covering its uses and potential drawbacks.
A technical guide on configuring Django to force SSL connections to a PostgreSQL database server.
Argues that user interface design is more critical than backend functionality for initial web app success, prioritizing user experience over technical perfection.
A guide to setting up a custom domain URL shortening service using bit.ly's free Pro tier, including DNS configuration steps.
A developer shares insights from a WordPress meetup talk on HTML and PHP basics, explaining how to edit code without breaking a site.
Analysis of HP's marketing claims against Oracle Exadata, focusing on technical FUD and balanced system design for data warehousing.
Announcement of the official Windows Phone 7 app for Belgium TechDays 2011, built with Silverlight, Azure, and jQuery.
A technical guide to safely overriding global `setTimeout` and `setInterval` in JavaScript, covering browser compatibility and pitfalls.
