Explains the benefits and technical reasons for using the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve web application performance.
Explains when to manually call willChangeValueForKey for KVO in Objective-C, using NSOperation as an example of proper usage.
Discusses the challenges of serving high-resolution images to new iPads on low-bandwidth connections and criticizes Apple's approach.
A developer announces the reboot of their blog, focusing on iOS development content and personal thoughts, moving away from Twitter's limitations.
A critique of AWS based on a Sydney event, focusing on documentation gaps, lack of public roadmap, and suggestions for smaller customers.
A follow-up to an iPhone programming presentation, providing slides and a sample Xcode project demonstrating gesture-based temperature conversion.
Explains why checking native byte order in code is usually wrong and demonstrates portable, endianness-agnostic data extraction techniques.
Explains the rules for quoting font family names in CSS, clarifying when quotes are required and when unquoted names are valid.
An argument for why developers should sometimes write their own code instead of always using existing libraries, focusing on performance and maintainability.
The author updates the Apache module mod_defensible to be compatible with Apache 2.4, discussing the process and its utility as a prototype.
A critique of poor mobile web practices, arguing against forced redirects to stripped-down mobile sites and intrusive app download prompts.
A developer details migrating their blog to Jekyll on GitHub, discussing the benefits and their technical workflow for writing and publishing.
A guide to setting up and writing unit tests for iOS apps in Xcode 4, covering project configuration, resource management, and bundle paths.
Explains how to automate removal of NSNotificationCenter and KVO observers in iOS using method swizzling and associated objects to prevent crashes.
Guide to enabling and configuring Microsoft Endpoint Protection anti-malware for Windows Azure Web and Worker roles.
A quick tutorial on creating a responsive 960px grid system using SASS loops and variables for CSS layout.
A technical guide on implementing a generic DelegateEqualityComparer in C# to simplify custom equality comparisons in LINQ queries.
Discusses the limitations of Django's built-in authentication system (contrib.auth) and the need for a more flexible alternative like django-newauth.
Jonathan Shapiro explains why he stopped developing the BitC programming language, citing design issues and lack of funding.
