A technical guide resolving a specific installation error for Microsoft Expression Studio 4 on Windows XP by modifying a registry key.
Announcing the release of MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 for ASP.NET MVC 3, detailing new features and availability.
A programmer reflects on juggling multiple unfinished tech projects and personal goals, discussing the challenge of focusing on a single 'top idea'.
A guide to using Windows Azure Connect to easily create a VPN and connect on-premises machines to Azure resources, solving home server backup challenges.
Analyzes Nokia's future in 2010, debating its high-end product struggles, Symbian's decline, and differing US/European market perspectives on data plans and phone usage.
Android Gingerbread will adopt the ext4 filesystem for improved performance, especially on dual-core ARM devices, replacing YAFFS.
Google App Engine 1.4.0 release introduces major features like the Channel API for real-time client push, Always On instances, and background processing improvements.
Author introduces 'shore', a statically typed, Python-inspired language designed for conciseness and high-level abstractions.
A low-cost method for monitoring OBIEE 10g systems using built-in JMX, jconsole, and custom scripting for data export and visualization.
A developer presents benchmark results showing ext4 filesystem scalability improvements on a 48-core system for an upcoming Linux kernel talk.
Patches added to Emacs 24 to enable proper transparency display for GIF images, using the frame color as the transparency color.
A Django core developer explains his personal system for prioritizing bug fixes, features, and contributions to the open-source framework.
A patch removing the traditional dashes from the Emacs mode-line has been merged into Emacs 24 for graphical mode.
A developer shares first impressions of a Windows Phone 7 prototype, highlighting UI features, syncing, and noting missing apps.
A guide to dynamically adjusting log levels at runtime using JMX and Spring, with a custom namespace example.
A developer shares a personal project from 2001-2003: Goal4D, a now-obsolete Java 3D engine, and considers open-sourcing it.
Announcement for a free, online Windows Azure conference with three technical tracks covering high-level concepts to deep technical sessions.
Explains why average I/O throughput metrics from AWR snapshots can be misleading for capacity planning, using real database examples.
A guide to exposing an on-premise database to Azure applications securely using OData and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus.
A guide to geotagging photos from non-GPS cameras using an iPhone's background GPS tracking and desktop software.
