Replica Set Internals Bootcamp: Reconfiguring
This replica set bootcamp is focused on keeping the mongodb user from reconfiguring him/herself into a corner and ending up with all arbiters.
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ampex — a practical use of Ruby's & operator
Ruby is renowned for both its readability and its flexibility. The ultimate goal of every Ruby program is to work well while appearing as... more »
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Print Barcode at ASP.NET Application
Barcodesoft ASP.Net Server Control enpowers you to print barcode from your own ASP.NET application. It supports all major linear and... more »
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The guide to implementing 2D platformers
Having previously been disappointed by the information available on the topic, this is my attempt at categorizing different ways to... more »
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Scala DSL tutorial – writing web framework router
Recently released Play 2.0 framework brings new way of creating web services to Java community. It’s nice and fun, but I dislike few... more »
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Building Twilio Client for Android
Building software for a client-side device is quite a bit different than building for the cloud. In the cloud, deployment intervals are... more »
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Dark Patterns
Normally when you think of "bad design", you think of laziness or mistakes. These are known as design anti-patterns. Dark Patterns are... more »
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Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data
There has been an update on Pinterest: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability since our last post: A Short on the Pinterest... more »
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Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
I teach entrepreneurship for ~50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia. For the National... more »
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Tech Talk: Josh Wills - Meetups on Airbnb
Data scientists-- the people who straddle the line between statistician and software engineer-- are in demand like never before. Even... more »
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wysihtml5 - A better approach to rich text editing
wysihtml5 - A better approach to rich text editing
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The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours
Last week, I launched The Toolbox, a directory of useful one-page sites and apps. It got upvoted a lot on Hacker News, then went viral on... more »
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Announcing RavenHQ - RavenDB as a Service on the Cloud
RavenHQ is now out of beta as a fully-managed cloud of RvenDB servers and scalable plans.
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the perl 5.16.0 epigraph
It is traditional for each release of perl to be announced with a form letter beginning with a quote, or epigraph, chosen by the release... more »
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GitHub for Windows
Ever wish there was an easy way to get up and running with Git and GitHub on your Windows computer? Turned off by command line utilities... more »
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Bootstrapped GitHub Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz
Github is nearing a close on a round of venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack
Simply put, it is a type of stateful firewalls that tracks the state of TCP connections and drop packets that do not match the current... more »
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A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity With Signed Commits
It’s 2:00 AM. The house is quiet, the kid is in bed and your significant other has long since fallen asleep on the couch waiting for you,... more »
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MySQL Insert Statement with Duplication Handling
This article explains MySQL insert statement with examples on multiple inserts, duplication handling, and alternate syntaxes.
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Migrating from Hibernate 3 to 4 with Spring integration
Hibernate 3 to Hibernate 4 migration using Spring framework integration. Requires extra configuration for properly supporting JTA... more »
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Cull.io - A cool way to conduct your interview round 1, By having candidates develop a real web app
Cull.io is a cool new way to pre-qualify candidates for a tech-interview by having candidates build a real web app that does 'something'.
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Apache Giraph: Distributed Graph Processing in the Cloud
Apeche Giraph is a loose implementation of Google Pregel. This post includes a couple informative videos pointing out the advantages of... more »
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Get to Know Stratos - WSO2's Cloud Middleware Platform
A quick, informative 29-slide introduction to Stratos, WSO2's cloud middleware platform.
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More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus
The focus of this post is on Service Bus queues - you can get the full source code from GitHub, linked within.
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Java 5 concurrency Example - Counting Semaphore
Counting Semaphore is one of many synchronizer provided by Java 5 concurrency library. By using binary semaphore (semaphore with exactly... more »
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