A developer's personal experience and key takeaways from attending the QCon London 2010 technology conference, covering talks on architecture and .NET.
Announcement of new Mayavi releases (3.3.0 & 3.3.1) detailing new features, bug fixes, and contributor acknowledgments.
A web-based tool for testing and understanding CSS3 structural pseudo-class selectors like nth-child and nth-of-type with live element manipulation.
An in-depth guide to the JavaScript Module Pattern, covering basics, advanced techniques, and practical examples for clean code.
A developer's postmortem analysis of a personal game project, 'A Geek Valentine', covering development time, graphics, and simple AI implementation.
How to resolve ORA-13757 error when deleting an active SQL Tuning Set in Oracle, including diagnostic queries and cleanup steps.
Analyzes the performance difference between JavaScript's strict (===) and loose (==) equality operators, finding minimal practical impact.
A personal recap of the author's experiences and key technical talks from days 2-4 of the PyCon 2010 conference.
Exploring GCC-CLI, an experimental GCC branch with a .NET CIL backend and frontend for compiling between native and managed code.
Using Modipyd's pyautotest with Growl notifications for automated, feedback-driven Python testing during development.
An explanation of UTF-8 encoding, detailing its design, convenient properties, and why it's simpler than often perceived.
Discusses a security vulnerability in OBIEE's JMX remote access and provides steps to secure it with password authentication.
Troubleshooting an OBIEE authentication failure caused by an expired cookie from a misconfigured F5 load balancer in an EBS integration.
Explores the evolving role of the 'DevBA'—a database developer who incorporates DBA skills like performance tuning and using DMVs to build better systems.
Explains the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) using a shed-building analogy, focusing on its core concepts: export, import, and compose.
A technical note on how Django's self-referencing ForeignKey fields can cause unnecessary SQL JOINs and a workaround using the extra() method.
A free driver for Windows 7 Location API that provides geolocation to apps using Google's services via WiFi or IP.
Oracle's performance recommendations for OBIA 7.9.6, focusing on ETL improvements and hardware sizing.
Explains how to implement a queue processing system in SQL Server using table hints like UPDLOCK and READPAST to ensure reliable, concurrent processing.
A guide to using Django's template2pdf app to render RML templates directly into PDF files within web applications.
