A beginner's guide to WordPress covering five essential tasks: installing themes, customizing site identity, uploading media, creating content, and setting up navigation.
A defense of JavaScript callbacks, arguing they are manageable with proper code organization and naming conventions, compared to newer async patterns.
A guide to creating custom shell functions for quickly navigating filesystems using symbolic links and tab completion.
A guide to creating portable C# Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) for Azure Mobile Services when developing cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin.
Explains how to use the Adobe Analytics API and R for statistical anomaly detection in time-series marketing data.
Version 3.1.0 of the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit is released, adding new services and features for developers.
Benchmarks comparing the CPU performance overhead of SQL Server Extended Events vs. SQL Trace under high CPU load.
A developer argues against being labeled a 'JavaScript Developer', advocating for a generalist approach to problem-solving across multiple languages and technologies.
A detailed follow-up on Heroku's 'Rule of Thirds' team planning exercise, sharing refined processes and best practices for long-term technical prioritization.
A guide on creating a Python script to download songs from ex.fm by analyzing its API, though the service is now defunct.
Troubleshooting a specific SSL/TLS error (CURL error 35) when Munki tries to connect to a server, focusing on Apache and CURL protocol configuration.
A programmer shares their experience switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout, discussing the learning curve, tools, and impact on coding.
Explains a Windows Phone 8 audio conflict where FM Radio and BackgroundAudioPlayer play simultaneously, and provides a code fix.
Explores how open source projects can engage non-technical contributors, expanding beyond just code to include documentation, feedback, and community building.
Explains the concept of 'friction' in open source projects and offers strategies to reduce it for new contributors.
A tutorial on creating a circular navigation menu using CSS transforms and mathematical calculations, with an interactive demo.
Argues for the importance of statistical theory in data science, using examples from medical research to show where abstract theory solved practical problems.
Explains why to use JSON over Python's pickle for data serialization, covering security, readability, and cross-language compatibility.
A tutorial on implementing Conway's Game of Life in Python using NumPy and SciPy, with visualization via matplotlib animations.
Overview of scikit-learn 0.14 release, highlighting new features like AdaBoost and performance improvements in benchmarks.
