A SQL Server/.NET developer reflects on their first year of blogging, top technical posts, and community event participation in 2010.
Explains Oracle 11g's incremental global statistics for partitioned data warehouses, covering benefits and a major storage overhead issue.
An introduction to the Tipfy web framework, a lightweight Python framework specifically designed for Google App Engine development.
A guide to hiding content from screen readers and making JavaScript widgets accessible using CSS and JavaScript techniques.
A developer's 2010 entry for the JS1k contest: a compact, canvas-based drawing app created with native JavaScript under 1KB.
A developer's perspective on why solving new problems is easier to sell than making marginal improvements to existing solutions.
An introduction to using Phing, a free automation tool, to streamline and automate performance optimization tasks in web development.
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A tutorial on creating custom DateTime editor templates in ASP.NET MVC 2, splitting date and time into dropdown lists for model binding.
A guide on configuring multiple HDDs, comparing RAID setups and partition strategies for optimal storage and OS performance.
A guide to using Windows Azure Connect to easily create a VPN and connect on-premises machines to Azure resources, solving home server backup challenges.
Announcement and details for SQLBits 8, a SQL Server conference in Brighton in April 2011.
Explains common pitfalls in JavaScript benchmarking and introduces tools like jsPerf and Benchmark.js to create reliable performance tests.
Learn how to create checkerboard, striped, and other background patterns using CSS3 gradients without images.
Analysis of a court ruling extending Fourth Amendment warrant requirements to emails stored on third-party servers, challenging the Stored Communications Act.
Announcement for the January 2011 SQL Server Southampton UserGroup meeting, featuring a talk on SQL Server architecture and a networking supper.
A guide to using tox, a Python testing tool, for multi-environment testing, documentation building, and dependency management.
A technical exploration of how to use CSS without any HTML markup, demonstrating implied elements and HTTP headers.
Analyzes Nokia's future in 2010, debating its high-end product struggles, Symbian's decline, and differing US/European market perspectives on data plans and phone usage.
A developer's personal journey back to Ubuntu, detailing driver struggles, software preferences, and the search for a PHP/HTML editor.
Android Gingerbread will adopt the ext4 filesystem for improved performance, especially on dual-core ARM devices, replacing YAFFS.
