Introduction to the #obihackers IRC channel for discussing Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), ODI, and general tech topics in an informal setting.
Explores challenges and solutions for implementing multi-tenant authentication middleware pipelines in ASP.NET Core applications.
Explains the removal of sun.misc.Unsafe from Scala's Future implementation in version 2.12, replaced with AtomicReference for better compatibility.
Explains how to use Swift protocols to abstract third-party dependencies like NSHTTPCookieStorage, improving code testability and isolation.
A discussion on the historical use and modern challenges of strong-naming .NET assemblies, advocating against the practice in 2016.
Explains how to prevent unstyled SVG scaling issues when CSS fails by using presentation attributes and style inheritance.
A JavaScript challenge to recreate the drag-to-complete and drag-to-delete interactions of the Clear todo app using pure JS.
Explores improvements to ExecutionContext and BlockContext in Scala 2.12's Future API, focusing on deprecations, new features, and thread management.
Analysis of the Apple vs FBI encryption case, arguing that longer passcodes can maintain iPhone security even if Apple loses.
A critical review of the fanfiction 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality', highlighting its clever ideas but flawed execution.
An archived blog post introducing quantum mechanics concepts, starting with classical physics and Fermat's principle of least time in optics.
Exploring the development of ng2lint, a configurable static code analyzer for Angular 2 and TypeScript projects to enforce style guides and best practices.
Explores missing utility methods in Scala Futures, specifically Future.unit and Future.never, discussing their implementation and use cases.
Explains linear splines, their mathematical basis, and two practical parametrizations for regression, comparing them to higher-degree splines.
A guide to using Git Credential Manager (GCM) for seamless authentication with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Git repositories on multiple platforms.
A guide to streaming custom system metrics into InfluxDB using bash commands, sed, awk, and curl for monitoring with tools like Grafana.
A curated list of resources for beginners to learn Python specifically for data science, including tutorials, courses, and books.
A developer recreates a real-time data visualization, plotting geotagged tweets about Trump on a 3D globe using d3, socket.io, and the Twitter API.
A history of visualizing OBIEE DMS metrics, from early JMX tools to modern Grafana dashboards.
Explains the importance of metrics for diagnosing OBIEE performance issues and introduces an updated monitoring tool.
