A developer's personal thank you to the essential desktop software and web services that power his daily work and life.
Explains an Unladen Swallow optimization for CPython, replacing METH_O/NOARGS with METH_FIXED to speed up calls to built-in functions with fixed arguments.
A developer explains their Python workflow using pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper to manage project dependencies and isolated environments.
Introduces django-kickass-templatetags, a library offering an object-based syntax for defining Django template tags to reduce boilerplate code.
Guide to configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in for load balancing and failover across multiple OBIEE servers.
A tutorial on localizing ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation error messages using resource files instead of hardcoded strings.
A historical look at JavaScript string manipulation, comparing the performance of split/join versus replace() for find-and-replace operations.
Explores a JavaScript technique called 'simplethreading' for handling large data sets asynchronously by batching operations to improve performance.
Extending jQuery with John Resig's micro-templating function for cleaner, nestable JavaScript templates.
A technical article discussing a JavaScript method to dynamically load and manage CSS dependencies in large web applications.
A developer details building a custom, high-performance friend selector UI component for social apps, inspired by Facebook's design.
A PyCon program committee member reflects on the talk selection process, reviewer biases, and shares excitement for upcoming conference talks.
A technical deep dive into refactoring Django's ManyToManyField to eliminate raw SQL and improve code structure for multi-database support.
Explores two key JIT compiler optimizations in Google's Unladen Swallow project for Python, focusing on type feedback and specialized function calls.
Advanced Google search techniques for finding Oracle OBIEE documentation, PDFs, and resources, including using alerts.
An introduction to Unladen Swallow, a Google-funded project to speed up CPython using a JIT compiler built on LLVM.
A blogger announces a month-long daily blogging challenge focusing on advanced Django, HTTP push tech, and some political content.
An analysis of the declining Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) online community, citing beginner-dominated forums and poor user etiquette.
Fixes for xVal.WebForms validation issues: suppressing duplicate validation calls and ensuring complete validator script options.
Announcing the official release of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse, a plugin for PHP developers to build, debug, and deploy applications to Azure.
