Feb 20, 2012
The company that has promoted itself as the private and secure one has not been private or secure lately. Apple has been giving out people’s address books. Due to privacy slips they will continue doing this for weeks to come. But it’s not only Apple who has focused on other things other than security, Google, [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Last week we started talking about ASP.NET. We just started the topic and didn’t go into more details. Therefore, I decided to talk about an article which talks about the advantages of ASP.NET. ASP.NET stands for Active Server Pages .NET and is developed by Microsoft. ASP.NET allows programmers and developers to build dynamic, rich web [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Will we not need to go to Las Vegas to gamble in the future? Might be, since a casino-specific cloud has been built in the US, in a further sign of the trend towards industry-tailored software as a service solutions. International Game Technology (IGT) is building casino software through the cloud by using the AppLogic cloud computing platform from CA Technologies. Chris [...]
Feb 20, 2012
My article is talking about Google Chrome’s new features. Apparently, Chrome has announced that some new games would run only in Chrome 14 that uses the browser’s Native Client capability. Google added a new Chrome-only feature that allows the browser to run applications programmed in hardcore languages like C and C++ as opposed to the [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Microsoft is gearing up to release a new slew of technologies that help developers create server based apps. All of the products mentioned in the article are currently in their beta releases and are anticipated to be released within the next year. The trio of tools has been designed with flexibility in mind, as more [...]
Feb 20, 2012
As with all new products hitting the market or old products getting an update. There will always be some sort of vulnerability that rises up. The vulnerability that was brought up on this article was the issue with hash tables. In a nut shell Hash tables are what allow for retrieval of Data in a [...]
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 20, 2012
Google has recently introduced an experimental web browser based on the DART programming language. Dart is Google way to improve upon JavaScript. The Chromium browser (the open source version of Google Chrome) which also contains the Dart Virtual Machine is being released under the name Dartium (Link to Dartium will be posted later in the [...]
Feb 19, 2012
It is very common to see or hear about hackers finding new ‘vulnerabilities’ within huge corporations, therefore it is safe to say that this is just another one. Some exploit code was discovered that affected Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development platform, it was called CVE-2011-3414. This type of code apparently allows for all CPU resources to [...]
Feb 19, 2012
In an article that kind of doubles as an advertisement, outsourcing is being discussed. Not only does America do it, but Australia does now as well. A holiday rental time share company from Australia is an online company advertising to the whole world. To increase the efficiency and design of their website, they hired a [...]
Feb 19, 2012
The article I selected this week is about the battle between ASP.NET and PHP. The author specifically states that he himself is a PHP guy, but is now learning about ASP.NET, and he has been fairly impressed with what it’s capable of doing. He goes on in the article explaining .NET framework, how there is [...]
Feb 19, 2012
The journal I read covered the basics on modern Javascript. We know that the language is a scripting language (rather than a coding language) that was developed more than a decade ago. As developers make better and better websites, Javascript has been relegated to a second-class language. It’s typically regarded as a toy, and non-essential [...]
Feb 19, 2012
ASP.NET and PHP are both very powerful, widely used tools for developing dynamic web pages. It can be incredibly difficult to choose between which one to use, or if to use both via Microsoft IIS, and can change on a per-project basis. In terms of performance, ASP.NET is generally considered faster due to being compiled [...]
Feb 18, 2012
Microsoft unleashed a web application framework known as ASP.NET version 1 in 2002. Active Server Pages.Net is a useful tool which enables programmers and developers to create intense web pages(Advantages). Being server side technology ASP.NET can run in any Windows server by using Visual Studio. When ASP was released it tackled web page issues like [...]
Feb 16, 2012
Summary: In the classic story that we CANNOT do anything right the first time it was announced that a patch for ASP.NET actually doesn’t help security that much at all. Microsoft released a patch that was supposed to resolve security issues for ASP.NET and right after a hacker published a vulnerability on how to create [...]
Feb 13, 2012
Web design is beginning to create its own history now. When it was a more proprietary technology it was very expensive to get a website made for a company. After 2008, the web because more open-sourced and easier to learn about. The cost to make a website went down to hire out from about $50-$400. [...]
Feb 13, 2012
Today’s article did not directly link to the week’s topic. Nonetheless, it caught my eye and it brought some awareness of the power of the World Wide Web. In particular social media, this happens to be the biggest highlight nowadays. More specifically Twitter, the article is mainly about the usage of social media and the [...]
Feb 13, 2012
So my article is talking about the improvements of the Firefox 9 web browser. Recently, Google’s web browser Chrome has been surpassing the Firefox web browser. But with the new improvements that Firefox is bringing, it is no longer being over shadowed by Chrome. Mozilla sped up JavaScript performance in its Firefox 9 browser by [...]
Feb 13, 2012
Everyday, users enter in keywords when search the internet. Some people may wonder how Google is able to sift through the endless list of websites out on the internet and return such an accurate listing of websites relevant to the keywords you entered. That is thanks to the developers of those websites who place keywords [...]
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