OSX is nice , and not because it has no shortcomings , but because you can fix them as opposed to windows.This has a lot to do with the power of osx that stems from it having applescript and a posix compliant shell. Here is how to change metadata of files so you can play …
It comes as no surprise too , microsoft’s paradigm for adding new features is reinventing the wheel , and they overengineer it just to the point where it is inevitable to break , and impossible to determine why it did so. Without further adieu let me present MicroSoft Visual C++ 2005 and it’s brand new …
It is common belief that Perl is the language of choice for the purpose of data processing and manipulation , and i couldn’t agree more , having been turning to it every time i needed some serious data processing , only to get the best results at each undertaking. However back then in 99 when …
I was baffled but not really surprised by a relatively new discovery by Dr. David Dunning that the most likely persons to overestimate their skills in a area are the ones that do not have any skills in that area. The logical explanation seems to be that the skills required for competence often are the same …
Xtreme Programming or XP for short are “agile” programming methodologies are the spearhead of what are known as lightweight programming methodologies , and are getting more popular every day. They relate closely to opensource methodologies and are essentially a license to hack for the oppressed corporate developers so i can easily understand their joy and sympathize with these …
It looks like it is going to be a bleak year for PhpBB securitywise , do not get me wrong however , i am a big fan of the software and it is the bulletin board that i will always use. With not less than 3 major security vulnerabilities in the last 3 months and still …
Since aprox Sept 2004 there is a new headache for mail server administrators but it is not sure whatever it has the same effect on spammers , like it was intended to , and it’s name is SPF . It is part of a set of rules that work for the purpose of stopping spam , …
In a age when the browser seems to be more important than the content in it , i invite you to take a trip out from the general mood and present you with a rough , but hmm.. revelatory proposition These day you can also not speak about browsers without mentioning the “nothing short of …