A developer shares their experience reducing comment spam on a BlogEngine.NET blog by configuring built-in spam filters like Akismet and StopForumSpam.
A review of the book 'Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010', focusing on its practical coverage of design patterns and OOP principles.
A developer creates an Emacs extension to integrate weather forecasts into the Org agenda using a custom Google Weather API.
The author details the technical process of setting up a personal website and server on a home network, learning various web technologies.
Announcement for the upcoming scikit-learn coding sprint in Paris, including dates, location, remote participation details, and planned tasks.
A guide to integrating OfflineIMAP email synchronization with Emacs using a custom extension for offline mail reading.
A technical analysis of how an expired database password caused Informatica to spawn excessive connections, crashing an Oracle server.
A reflection on how a company's interview process reveals its culture and state, with advice on structuring behavioral and technical interviews.
Advocates for a user-centric approach in tech projects, prioritizing user needs over company goals for better outcomes.
Troubleshooting a BI Publisher error when creating Quartz scheduler tables due to insufficient database privileges.
A guide to exposing an on-premise database to Azure applications securely using OData and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus.
A developer shares a public-domain SVG world map for visualizing country-specific data, created as a static alternative to matplotlib basemap.
A developer uses Webgrind, a PHP profiling tool, to identify and fix performance bottlenecks in inherited code, reducing database queries and page load time.
Author shares their SXSW panel submission on web performance and neuroscience, and recommends other tech-focused talks they hope get selected.
A technical guide on using Emacs Lisp to plot BBDB contact addresses onto a Google Maps static map for visualization.
Exploring the idea of automatic login via notification emails, discussing the tradeoffs between usability and security.
A technical guide on using Windows Azure AppFabric Labs' Access Control Service for simplified, claims-based authentication across multiple identity providers.
A guide explaining Mercurial Queues (MQ) for Git users, comparing it to Git's index and showing its advanced capabilities.
Explains how to pass a TABLE variable into a dynamic SQL statement in SQL Server, including code examples.
The rainbow-mode Emacs package was rejected from core but added to the package repository, with new features like hsl() and CSS3 color names.
