Mar 12, 2012
Microsoft Office developed Excel 2011 version which supports Visual Basic for Applications. The way this article explains how it actually works is by providing an example about how a project can track how much time an employee dedicates to a spreadsheet by using Visual Basic programming code. By implementing this feature an employee will have [...]
Mar 5, 2012
In 2010, Microsoft rushed out a fix for ASP.NET bug on Windows server. It was a flaw that started to be deployed by online attackers who caused some limited attacks but made several attempts to bypass Windows Server Operating system. “ ASP.NET is used to build Web applications, and the bug gives attackers a [...]
Feb 26, 2012
Microsoft’s developers focused on developing a new version of Visual Studio that offers a better user interface, code review, and supports HTML5 features. Moreover, they focused on fixing some of the basic functional problems generated by the previous version such as its tendency to freeze a lot which requires to reset your computer to [...]
Feb 20, 2012
I read an article from 2011 that says that about 180,000 pages from websites, using ASP.Net platform, have been affected by hackers who are massively attacking them with SQL injection. Hackers plant malicious JavaScript on ASP. NET websites which “causes the browser to load an iframe with one of the two remote sites: www3.strongdefenseiz.in [...]
Feb 13, 2012
Since Web application development has become so complex for the need to incorporate different programming languages such as “HTML, cascading stylesheets (CSS), JavaScript, Flash, Java, XML, Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation (XSLT), Hibernate, and JavaServer Faces (JSF)” to create interactive and dynamic web pages, Web developers are required to have a high degree of proficiency [...]
Feb 2, 2012
The journal I read this week is about how Javascript was not considered an important scripting language and how it has become crucial for Web developers and Web applications after the emergence of Web 2.0 which has brought sophisticated user interfaces and client-side browser functionality. Scripting languages like Shell, Tcl/Tk and JavaScript share common characteristics [...]
Jan 29, 2012
The journal I read this week is about the current uncontrolled web browser environment. The journal explains how the current protection policy restricting content is the same-origin policy (SOP) which is embedded in browsers, but still accessible to attackers who are able to insert their script into the content by using “Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) [...]
Jan 22, 2012
HTML5 is the latest version of the Hypertext Markup Language used to present content on the World Wide Web. Even though, this version is still under development, one of the innovating features is the allowance to include 3D graphics on the Web pages without the need for plug-ins. The Web-based Graphics Library (WebGL) has extended [...]
Jan 15, 2012
Google’s web robot, which is a program that collects information from the web and builds an index for the search engine, has been upgraded and it is now capable of indexing AJAX and JavaScript content from web sites such as Facebook. This means that “Facebook comments are now open to being searched” by the top [...]
Jan 8, 2012
According to Cisco, cloud computing services are predicted to increase “12-fold by 2015.” Businesses are considering the use of cloud solution providers such as “Amazon, IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft” to lower cost of ownership. Having an off-site server is considered to be more cost-effective because it reduces the need to invest on costly technology and [...]
