What is the difference between Hacking and programming? One opinion I have heard expressed is that a hacker can put a lot of code together in a hurry but if a change is needed the code has to be completely rewritten. A programmer may take a little longer but if […]
Microsoft Store India hacked
Microsoft’s online storefront in India has been hacked and subsequently defaced by a Chinese hacking group that goes by the alias of EvilShadow. As of 12PM EST, visiting the website will display the message as screenshotted above. Links to the hackers’ blog have also been included, in which a post […]
High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps
Metro style apps in Windows 8 have all the performance benefits of IE10 when showing Web content. In Metro style apps, Web content is always JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated. Other platforms do not provide the same level of performance in apps. For example, Cocoa apps on iOS offer significantly worse […]
Study finds chemical reason behind Facebook ‘addiction’
From time to time, you hear people make the tongue-in-cheek assertion that they’re “addicted” to Facebook. But recent data suggests that there might be some truth to such statements. A group of researchers from the University of Milan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) identified chemical reasons at the […]
Google TV goes Android 3.2, next up Ice Cream Sandwich
Google rolled out a significant update to its Google TV platform this week, which started to reach Sony’s Google TV devices a few days ago. The update brings Google TV to Android Honeycomb 3.2, which makes this the last big update before the platform migrates to Android 4, a.k.a. Ice […]
Develop a simple application using LINQ
We saw how LINQ works with data and objects. In this article which is a part of a series, we will develop a very simple inventory application for a grocery store (let’s call is Evergreen Store). Over the next five articles in this series, we’ll see the basic operations in […]