WordPress is one of the most popular and best CMS (content management system) for beginners and professional developers, designers and bloggers. There are a plethora of WordPress plugins being created by developers almost every day for the WordPress platform which are useful and provide something new by which to enhance the Blogging experience.

A simple little tip, but quite handy. How you can make a separate Eclipse project build into a JAR file and get consumed in the proper spot of another project.

Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands:

This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?

Guide on how to set up Maven to use Spring Repositories - Release Candidates, Milestones and Snapshots - after the Spring infrastructure updates.

Overview of Google I/O from the Android perspective

Recently I’ve been looking for tools to improve my web design workflow, especially to work with CSS better. In this post you can discover some of the tools I have discovered in my quest.

Learn about the Postgres features and why you should consider it for your next project. These include: Datatypes Using other languages within Postgres Extensions including NoSQL inside your SQL database Accessing your non-Postgres data (Redis, Oracle, MySQL) from within Postgres Window Functions.

Raygun.io now includes an activity feed for each error group showing a complete history - when an error first occurred, the status changes (resolved, ignored, etc) and the comments made by team members about the error group. This addition helps improve the visibility of an errors lifecycle across teams. Included in the feature release is a fully responsive design for the error information page that makes it perfectly accessible on mobile devices.

Another uplift has left the building and it’s time to take a look at what’s in Firefox Developer Tools in Firefox 23 currently Aurora, our pre-beta channel. You can download it from the Aurora Download page today. Firefox 23 is currently scheduled to hit the release channel on Tuesday August 6th, 2013.

This article explains how to monitor memory usage in your web application by requesting the MemoryMXBean and exposing collected metrics within a Primefaces LineChart component in a JSF page.

We’ve got another video in our series on common web app performance problems. This time – we’re looking into how to identify and solve query loop problems. Today we’re going to use TraceView to investigate ORMs and their performance within a PHP application.

A new maven plugin is available enabling git flow workflows in your maven builds

From the outside, writing code can seem closer to the practice of mathematics than something like painting or sculpture. Not so. Developers are inherently creative types – driven by the desire to build out their visions, taking an idea and turning it into a tangible thing of beauty, utility, and even mystery. This is nowhere more obvious than with game developers.

Using ASM to calculate test coverage in a new way. ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework.

Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an IaaS product announced by Google. It uses KVM as the hypervisor and currently only supports guest images running Linux. Google Compute Engine offers a RESTful API for managing resources such as disk, images, and instances.

When I wrote stljs, a library to read, write, and convert STL to PNG, one of the things I had to decide was how to calculate where the camera was located and where to point the camera. You want to be able to be able to show off the model at angles where you can see the most detail. How do you do that automatically for any sized object of any shape? I’ll show you how stljs does it.

Working with codecs and examining their output yields fascinating insights into how exactly Lucene’s search works in its most fundamental form.

I’m currently working on a more exhaustive Pluralsight course on Glimpse, but I thought I’d write up a quick getting started tutorial here.

This has always boggled me. Obviously GameShark and Game Genie never got inside access to place their own cheats into every game. I don't think any developers gave them the source code to pour over for codes. And I don't think the original development process for these games included placing any of these codes themselves. So, what is a GameShark or Game Genie code, really?

Today: The sketchy world of DDoSaaS, Apple's taxes, bringing the power of NumPy to HPC, why Googlers aren't using Glass at I/O, and some truly clever 3D-printed garden contraptions.

Learn how to load Mustache templates from the file system, classpath, web context, database and more.

With the explosion of APIs, the Enterprise has flung open its doors and windows and ripped off its roof in order to reach to the sky to exploit the vast array of cloud-based services on offer and include them in its software inventory.

Something that I get quite often is how do you specify the startup page in Windows Phone. Most people are trying to use the MVVM pattern and by default the MainPage.xaml lives in the root folder as shown below:

From the OpenStack summit comes a lightning talk presentation on an implementation within the OpenStack IaaS software using the ZeroMQ message broker and Grizzly, the NIO Event simplifying framework.