A guide to enabling HTTPS testing in Django's development server using stunnel to create an SSL tunnel.
Highlights from Microsoft PDC 2009 keynote, focusing on the 'three-screen' cloud vision, Azure, and new developer tools releases.
A developer troubleshoots and resolves a sawserver error related to a corrupted web catalog during an Oracle BI installation.
A technical guide on writing a custom lexer by hand, covering structure, state management, and test-driven development.
A developer plans to migrate from Blogspot to a self-built Django blog with features like reST support and Disqus comments.
A positive review of the Python Essential Reference book, highlighting its coverage of syntax, libraries, and debugging tools.
Argues against including jQuery in Django's admin interface to keep contribution accessible and avoid endorsing a single JavaScript toolkit.
An experimental JavaScript approach to creating elastic textareas that auto-adjust height without hidden divs, discussing browser compatibility.
The author argues that programming language syntax is critically important for code readability and developer productivity, using Go and Scheme as examples.
A critical analysis of the Go programming language's design choices, focusing on syntax, lack of generics, and overhyped features like goroutines.
A developer's critical rant about the problematic migration from Oracle Metalink to the new My Oracle Support system, focusing on poor usability and performance.
Analyzing Django's error messages by replicating common typos from a Rails tutorial comparison to see how helpful they are for debugging.
An update on the progress and remaining challenges for implementing multiple database support in the Django web framework.
A developer's personal thank you to the essential desktop software and web services that power his daily work and life.
Explains an Unladen Swallow optimization for CPython, replacing METH_O/NOARGS with METH_FIXED to speed up calls to built-in functions with fixed arguments.
A developer explains their Python workflow using pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper to manage project dependencies and isolated environments.
Guide to configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in for load balancing and failover across multiple OBIEE servers.
Introduces django-kickass-templatetags, a library offering an object-based syntax for defining Django template tags to reduce boilerplate code.
A tutorial on localizing ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation error messages using resource files instead of hardcoded strings.
A historical look at JavaScript string manipulation, comparing the performance of split/join versus replace() for find-and-replace operations.
