A critique of the PHP programming language used on Obama's change.gov site, advocating for modern frameworks like Django or Rails.
A developer shares their journey building a compiled programming language using Python and the PLY library, discussing design goals and challenges.
A startup founder shares key lessons on building a successful tech startup, focusing on business models, hiring, and avoiding excessive VC funding.
A technical guide on using Python's multiprocessing library with PyGTK to offload intensive calculations from the main GUI thread.
A technical guide on creating a generic LazyForeignKey field in Django to simplify foreign key relationships and add custom manager functionality.
Analyzes the 2008 tech downturn, questioning the sustainability of niche skills like Facebook apps and iPhone development amid layoffs and market saturation.
A guide to creating a custom Django ForeignKey field that automatically generates a manager to filter objects by user, simplifying user-specific queries.
daloRADIUS adds new billing and reporting features for PayPal transactions in hotspot self sign-up portals.
A developer shares their experience using the feedparser library with Django to parse RSS/Atom feeds and handle date/timezone conversion challenges.
A tutorial on creating a custom ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder to automatically bind Linq to SQL entities from URL parameters, reducing controller code.
A developer recounts attending a Python Onsen event, working on a Django lifestream app, and discussing web development with peers.
Announcement of the first release of a WordPress plugin for integrating Disqus comments into blog posts.
A programmer reflects on how coding shapes problem-solving skills and offers a unique perspective on understanding complex systems, using analogies from programming.
Microsoft's Mix Online community releases Oomph, a cross-browser JavaScript toolkit for extracting and using Microformats data from web pages.
Microsoft releases CTP of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for download.
Introducing Locations support in daloRADIUS, allowing management of multiple RADIUS databases from a single web interface.
A sample ASP.NET MVC application demonstrating repository pattern, dependency injection, and various web technologies for tracking fuel usage.
An exploration of the Properties Pattern, a flexible but often overlooked design pattern for software modeling and persistence.
Explores the @font-face CSS rule for using custom fonts on the web, discussing browser compatibility and implementation.
Release notes for CKS EBE Comments Manager v1.1.0.0, a tool to manage blog comments with approval status filtering and auto-select features.
