A developer shares a custom jQuery plugin for animating color transitions using RGB interpolation in 3D space.
A technical critique of Smashing Magazine's website redesign, focusing on performance issues like page weight and ad loading.
A review of the book 'NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide', covering its content, style, and suitability for learning numerical computing with Python.
A 2012 blog post about LibMinecraft, a .NET library for Minecraft servers/clients, and PartyCraft, a server based on it.
Author announces a new book on responsive enhancement, covering workflow integration, fluid layouts, media queries, and modern web development techniques.
Explores current limitations in web development that cannot be solved client-side, including templating, localization, screen capture, and accessing POST data.
Joblib 0.6 beta release introduces fast compressed persistence for Python objects and Python 3 support, improving I/O performance.
Explores using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions to synchronize to-do lists across millions of devices in a scalable, offline-capable system.
Announcing the new Dabblet blog for updates on the web development tool, hosted on Tumblr with custom HTML5 theming.
Automating OBIEE 11g startup/shutdown on Linux using an improved Ant-based script from Oracle's Windows version.
A Python tutorial for creating desktop notifications for Google Calendar events using the pynotify and Google Data APIs.
Developer creates a Minecraft client for Windows Phone 7 using Mango's async socket support.
A developer's 2011 year-in-review covering tech conferences (SQLBits, Mongo UK), community contributions, job changes, and open-source projects.
A critique of modern programmers' tendency to complain about new languages and tools rather than engaging with them, using Go and Dart as examples.
A developer's 2011 retrospective on adopting Vim, switching to Mac, and diving deep into Python, Twisted, and the Python community.
Explains how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to build a flexible, message-based request/response service layer in .NET.
A developer's postmortem analysis of creating the game 'Sat-E' for the Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam, covering lessons learned and feedback.
How to conditionally enable or disable a button in SharePoint 2010 custom Ribbon using EnabledScript.
A technical guide on using GTK+ stock icons with the pynotify library to create desktop notifications in Python.
Discusses the drawbacks of using too many programming languages in a project, arguing for a balanced approach to benefit operations and maintainability.
