A guide to using Apache Tika for extracting content and metadata from various file formats like PDFs, images, and Office docs in content repositories.
Explains two methods in Mayavi to visualize a surface colored by a separate scalar value, not just elevation.
A developer reflects on shutting down a phpBB forum they didn't build themselves, preferring the satisfaction of using their own custom-built tools.
A technical talk on building RESTful web applications using the Spring 3 framework, including sample code.
A guide and demo session on migrating an existing ASP.NET application to the Windows Azure cloud platform, covering hosting, storage, and SQL Azure.
Exploring advanced CSS counter techniques and demonstrating them with a CSS3 Reversi game UI implementation.
Explores a technical issue with the 'lein swank' command in Clojure's Leiningen build tool related to Java class loading and charset encoding.
A review of the SpriteMe bookmarklet, a tool for creating CSS sprites to optimize website performance by reducing HTTP requests.
A developer shares lessons learned from creating seven experimental games, focusing on iteration, execution, and goal-setting.
Explains how JavaScript converts objects to primitives using toString and valueOf methods, covering basics, edge cases, and performance.
A developer outlines ideal working relationships with designers, from best-case collaboration to worst-case scenarios.
A proposal for improving Django's application architecture with 'Application Objects' to solve issues like model extensibility and GenericForeignKey misuse.
A review of the book 'Matplotlib for Python Developers', covering its content, target audience, and usefulness for scientific plotting.
A developer creates a Python library to mimic JavaScript's flexible object syntax, allowing dot notation and dynamic property access.
How rewriting a MySQL query to use indexes properly improved performance from 10 seconds to 0.03 seconds.
A developer shares their experience creating a Python interface for the open-vcdiff library using Cython, focusing on C++ integration challenges.
A presentation overview on writing efficient, high-quality JavaScript code, aimed at developers with a Python background.
Explains how to create a self-reproducing zip file that contains itself, drawing parallels to self-replicating programs.
A developer builds an FTP server bridge to access and manage Windows Azure Blob Storage, allowing file operations via standard FTP clients.
Explores whether programming languages inherently have performance characteristics by comparing Python and C implementations.
