Explains how to use Windows Azure Diagnostics with PHP to collect and analyze logs, traces, and performance counters from cloud applications.
Explores the design principle that tools with limited, well-defined options foster greater user intimacy and enduring value than feature-packed alternatives.
A developer details their contributions to the Gnus email/news reader for Emacs, including patches for HTML rendering, IMAP support, and icon functionality.
Announcing the release of django-taggit 0.9, a Django app for tagging, with new features, bug fixes, and breaking changes.
A developer solves a TortoiseSVN authentication issue caused by using the svn:// protocol instead of https:// for commits.
A programmer details their journey back to using Vim as their primary text editor after years with TextMate, explaining the efficiency gains and core concepts.
Microsoft announces Windows Azure Companion, a tool for deploying popular PHP applications like WordPress to the Azure cloud platform.
A developer shares a personal project from 2001-2003: Goal4D, a now-obsolete Java 3D engine, and considers open-sourcing it.
A look at integrating multitouch capabilities into VTK-based scientific visualization software like MedINRIA and Mayavi.
A humorous take on machine learning concepts like overfitting and algorithm comparisons, using Python's scikit-learn library as an example.
Using AspectJ to add Hibernate statistics for criteria queries, a missing feature, without patching the core library.
Announcement for a free, online Windows Azure conference with three technical tracks covering high-level concepts to deep technical sessions.
Explains how using setTimeout with a 0ms delay can speed up window.onload by preventing JavaScript from blocking the event.
Discusses the confusion around HTML5 and CSS3 definitions, using a viral article's inaccuracies as a case study for constructive tech discourse.
Explains why average I/O throughput metrics from AWR snapshots can be misleading for capacity planning, using real database examples.
A developer's solution to Oracle's fragmented OBIEE 11g documentation: an offline, searchable PDF collection.
Introducing WP Resume, a WordPress plugin for easily creating and managing an online resume using custom post types and a familiar interface.
A proposal to allow CSS attr() values inside calc() functions for more dynamic styling and semantic HTML integration.
The author shares their upcoming speaking schedule at tech conferences like WebAppDays, GearConf, and Devoxx, focusing on Java, Spring, and developer tools.
A technical guide on implementing and testing Oracle Database Resource Manager for CPU allocation and performance monitoring in a data warehouse environment.
