A developer reviews their 2014 tech-focused resolutions, tracking progress on coding goals, open source contributions, and community engagement.
Explores the evolving definition of open source, debating whether it's about collaborative contribution or the right to freely modify software.
A blog update on the author's new Flask-based pastebin project, future Python script post, and a request for feedback.
Announcing Glimpse plugins for Windows Azure, providing runtime and storage monitoring insights directly in your browser for Azure-hosted web applications.
A developer shares the Piperita theme for Mac OS X Terminal, a customized color scheme and prompt based on the Peppermint theme.
Introduces Gunsub, a Python tool to manage GitHub notifications by automatically unsubscribing from passive threads after the first message.
Introducing MTFontIcon, a library for using font-based icons in iOS apps to speed up UI development and avoid graphic design tools.
A presenter shares a screencast of a TechEd Australia 2013 demo that had technical issues live, along with the source code.
Advice for open source project maintainers: prioritize contributor-friendly tools and workflows over personal preferences to grow your community.
A technical workshop on advanced Git techniques, including branching, bisect, interactive rebase, and using the 'hub' tool for GitHub workflows.
A tutorial on converting proprietary Shapefile geodata to open GeoJSON format for mapping and collaboration on GitHub.
Introducing the hippify JavaScript plugin for swapping high-resolution images on high-PPI, non-mobile displays.
A critique of GitHub's pull request workflow, arguing it's less effective than patch-based systems like Gerrit for serious software contributions.
Introduces proftable(), an improved R profiling function that displays detailed call stacks and line numbers to identify performance bottlenecks.
A blog post discussing the value of creating personal R packages for learning, reproducibility, and sharing code within the statistics community.
A developer releases minimal.iOS, a Winterboard theme for jailbroken iPhones, starting with a lockscreen redesign.
A guide to tools and best practices for collaborating on projects using the R programming language, including version control and community engagement.
A developer explains how to automate building and publishing the GoogleAnalyticsTracker NuGet package using MyGet's CI/CD services.
A developer shares their experience moving private repositories from GitHub to Bitbucket, citing Bitbucket's free private repos for small teams.
Argues that Python's dominance in scientific computing will endure due to its massive community on GitHub and the complementary role of languages like Julia.
