Sweaty palms ? Corroding Horn? Then you need a hand-guard. Handguard nowadays cost a lot of money when purchased from an instrument retailer. Here is a cheap and easy way (just three simple steps) to make one yourself. At first, it will take quite long to make one, but after some practice, you can make one in 15 minutes flat. It makes a great gift to other fellow horn players as well. :)

That’s why talking to both stakeholders and users is important. And once you’ve figured out the short head for each, you’ll need to earn your salary and, through some careful negotiation, combine your takes on each audience type’s needs. That’s what we’ve done in column 4.

Grunt is a task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects.

Grunt is currently in beta. While I'm already using it on multiple projects, it might have a minor issue or two. And things might change before its final release, based on your feedback. Please try it out in a project, and make suggestions or report bugs!

Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.

If you're going to write an insanely fast, headless browser, how can you not call it Zombie? Zombie it is.

Zombie.js is a lightweight framework for testing client-side JavaScript code in a simulated environment. No browser required.

While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more. However, most designers who have been using Photoshop for years may find Fireworks a bit awkward at first. Fireworks does have a slightly different workflow and requires a slightly different approach than you may be used to.

But the differences between NoSQL databases are much bigger than it ever was between one SQL database and another. This means that it is a bigger responsibility on software architects to choose the appropriate one for a project right at the beginning.

In this light, here is a comparison of Cassandra, Mongodb, CouchDB, Redis, Riak, Membase, Neo4j and HBase: