Explores how cognitive dissonance and diverse perspectives are essential for overcoming confirmation bias and driving innovation in tech and problem-solving.
Announcement of a new blog by a Tapestry 5 committer, featuring posts on the framework, releases, and integration with JSR-303.
A developer's 2009 year-end review, highlighting top ASP.NET MVC and performance posts, open-source projects, and tech presentations.
Introduces Akka, an open-source toolkit for building concurrent, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications using the Actor Model in Scala and Java.
A game developer introduces the new year's theme '100 Things' for the Experimental Gameplay Project, focusing on creative constraints.
A 2010 debate on whether a single closed platform like Facebook would inevitably dominate social networks, or if a distributed model was possible.
Analyzes the startup culture gap between Boston and Silicon Valley, focusing on entrepreneurial density and university influence.
A critique of automatic website localization that ignores user language preferences, using examples from Twitter, Facebook, and Windows Mobile Marketplace.
A guide to writing schema migrations for Google App Engine using the Mapper class and the deferred library, including a bug-fixed code example.
Developer integrates Python's pycairo with XCB bindings to create XCB surfaces directly, bypassing Xlib dependency.
A developer shares the challenges of starting a new project with Cython and Python 3, detailing a frustrating bug hunt and attempt to get it fixed.
Fixing a specific Oracle OBIEE SELinux error: 'libnnz10.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied'.
Explores integrating semantic web standards like RDFa into content management systems to make web content machine-readable.
Guide to enabling network boot (PXE) on an Acer Veriton N260G by changing a BIOS setting for OS deployment.
A technical guide on configuring Django's FastCGI server to run in the foreground as a specific user using daemontools.
A critical analysis of the CAF migration tool for Oracle BI, discussing its risks and unsupported status in production environments.
Explains a Rhino Mocks unit testing exception and solution for methods requiring a return value.
A guide to diagnosing and fixing connectivity errors between OBIEE Presentation Services (sawserver) and the analytics plugin.
A session recap on cloud computing basics and the Windows Azure Services Platform, covering components and architectural challenges.
A developer recounts attending Microsoft's invite-only Web Development Summit 2009, focusing on dialogue between Microsoft and the PHP community.
