Discusses the shift from chasing website visitor numbers to focusing on deeper user engagement and content contribution in a saturated web.
A developer's postmortem analysis of their first shooter game, 'The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros', discussing development time, features, and shortcomings.
Author announces blog reactivation and discusses technical changes to his static blogging infrastructure, including Blosxom and Disqus.
A tutorial on creating an externally accessible TCP endpoint for a Worker Role in Microsoft Azure, including code examples.
A review of Douglas Crockford's book 'JavaScript: The Good Parts' and how it changed the author's perspective on the language.
A developer details their migration from a dynamic Django site to the static site generator Hyde, explaining the technical motivations and process.
A programmer argues that innate talent, particularly intelligence, is a significant factor in programming skill, contrasting with the 'hard work over talent' viewpoint.
A new Googler expresses pride in the company's ethical stance against censorship in China and discusses tech industry implications.
A review of 'Dive into Python 3', a book for programmers learning Python, covering its content, style, and availability.
A guide to implementing custom field ordering in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers using a custom OrderAttribute and metadata provider.
Announcing django-wsgi, a package to bridge Django and the WSGI world, allowing Django views/URLConfs to be exposed as WSGI apps and vice versa.
A developer announces moving their blog to a custom Django-based platform, thanking contributors for hosting and design.
A developer's troubleshooting guide for handling AS3 mouse events, specifically MOUSE_LEAVE and MOUSE_OUT, in Flash navigation.
Explores how cognitive dissonance and diverse perspectives are essential for overcoming confirmation bias and driving innovation in tech and problem-solving.
Announcement of a new blog by a Tapestry 5 committer, featuring posts on the framework, releases, and integration with JSR-303.
A developer's 2009 year-end review, highlighting top ASP.NET MVC and performance posts, open-source projects, and tech presentations.
Introduces Akka, an open-source toolkit for building concurrent, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications using the Actor Model in Scala and Java.
A game developer introduces the new year's theme '100 Things' for the Experimental Gameplay Project, focusing on creative constraints.
A 2010 debate on whether a single closed platform like Facebook would inevitably dominate social networks, or if a distributed model was possible.
Analyzes the startup culture gap between Boston and Silicon Valley, focusing on entrepreneurial density and university influence.
