Twitter challenged a court gag order to notify users about a government data request, setting a precedent for digital privacy rights.
A WordPress plugin that adapts The New York Times' open-source text highlighting and deep linking feature for easy installation and use.
Explains the GROUPING SETS operator in SQL Server for flexible data aggregation, comparing it to UNION ALL and WITH CUBE approaches.
A developer shares their experience using MongoVUE, a free .NET-based GUI tool for managing MongoDB databases.
Explains how to share data between HST components in Hippo CMS using the HstRequestContext object during request processing.
Discusses the challenges and benefits of publishing scientific papers about software development, especially interdisciplinary scientific software.
A technical deep-dive into making Partition Change Tracking (PCT) refresh with partition truncation work correctly for Materialized Views in Oracle 11g.
A quick-start guide to setting up and using MongoDB with C# and the .NET framework, covering installation and basic database operations.
Explores using Templify and NuGet to automate repetitive setup tasks for new ASP.NET MVC projects, saving time and effort.
A follow-up article discussing three alternative solutions to CAPTCHA systems for spam prevention, focusing on user experience and accessibility.
Lea Verou announces her talk 'CSS3 at the Outer Rim' at the @media Web Directions conference, focusing on advanced CSS3 features.
A critique of CAPTCHAs, arguing they are insecure, inaccessible, and shift the burden of spam prevention onto users instead of site owners.
A developer's 2010 year-in-review, highlighting top ASP.NET MVC blog posts, open-source contributions, and conference presentations.
A SQL Server/.NET developer reflects on their first year of blogging, top technical posts, and community event participation in 2010.
Explains Oracle 11g's incremental global statistics for partitioned data warehouses, covering benefits and a major storage overhead issue.
An introduction to the Tipfy web framework, a lightweight Python framework specifically designed for Google App Engine development.
A guide to hiding content from screen readers and making JavaScript widgets accessible using CSS and JavaScript techniques.
A developer's 2010 entry for the JS1k contest: a compact, canvas-based drawing app created with native JavaScript under 1KB.
A developer's perspective on why solving new problems is easier to sell than making marginal improvements to existing solutions.
An introduction to using Phing, a free automation tool, to streamline and automate performance optimization tasks in web development.
