First part of a series on migrating an ASP.NET MVC car expense app to Microsoft Azure, covering architecture and planning.
Author's talk proposal for a panel on ORM design philosophies at PyCon 2009 has been accepted, featuring notable Python developers.
A developer's preview and technical overview of the upcoming Hippo CMS 7 and ECM platform, discussing its architecture, plugins, and new features.
Spring 3.0 M1 is now available in Maven repositories, addressing initial release feedback.
A blog recommendation for posts covering Entity Framework errors, stored procedures, and dynamic LINQ queries with expression trees.
A developer's personal recap and impressions from attending the Devoxx 2008 technology conference, covering talks on Scala, Java performance, Spring, and REST.
Introduces Active Objects, a Scala library combining actors, supervisor hierarchies, and OO methods for fault-tolerant, concurrent asynchronous components.
Explores using Scala's mixin composition and AOP to modularize cross-cutting concerns like logging and security, reducing code tangling.
Announcement of Hades 0.3, an open-source project release featuring a new EclipseLink-based DAO implementation and package refactorings.
A developer's preview of attending the Devoxx conference, including plans to present on the Hades project and share daily updates.
Introduces MVC XForms, a new ASP.NET MVC UI framework on CodePlex for generating clean HTML forms based on the W3C XForms specification.
Explains how to implement polymorphic behavior for Django model inheritance, allowing base class querysets to return subclass instances.
A 2008 article comparing REST web services to the Spring framework, highlighting their shared principles of simplicity and real-world influence.
Analyzes Sun Microsystems' business struggles and potential acquisition, focusing on risks to its patent portfolio and the broader Linux/OSS community.
Introduces CSSDOC, a standardized DocBlock-style commenting system for CSS to improve code organization, navigation, and maintainability.
A summary of the OpenXML Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) workshop in Brussels, covering Microsoft's efforts, conversion tools, and community discussions.
A developer reflects on a month of daily blogging, sharing traffic stats and popular posts about Python, Django, and web development.
PHPExcel library featured in php|architect magazine for generating Excel files and charts using PHP and the Google Charts API.
A technical guide on implementing an identity mapper with caching optimizations in Django to reduce database queries.
Technical analysis of optimizing an Identity Mapper in Django, focusing on query reduction and in-process caching strategies.
