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Thursday, 29 November 2012
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Click to view enlarged imageSome interesting facts & trivia from this infographic on the Microsoft Careers Facebook page -Bing Translator for Mobile - lets you translate any printed language MS Office is now reported to be used by over 1 billion people worldwide Windows 8 Phone capabilities include multi-core processor support, Micro SD support, NFC wireless sharing and easier development of applications Kinect is a groundbreaking...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Paraphrased suggestions from a Wired magazine article to make your passwords harder to crack -Don't reuse passwords. If you do, a hacker who gets just one of your accounts will own them all.If you must a dictionary word as your password, then string several together into a pass phrase.Avoid standard number substitutions. Think “P455w0rd” is a good password? N0p3! Cracking tools now have those built in.Use the longest possible password.Enable two-factor authentication when offered. Give bogus answers to security questions - not something hackers...
Monday, 26 November 2012
"Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess." - XKCDWhile some websites have a password strength checker to gently suggest that a chosen password may not be good enough others don't give you the liberty of choosing your own password pattern while framing one.Some websites enforce rules that THEY think will be right...
Friday, 23 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The O'Reilly book "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" is available for free in Wiki format. The wiki contains original, unedited contributions. Some essays are also un-formatted.The feedback on Amazon for this book is not generous. So you can read the original drafts to check if the material suits your tastes.Also see: 100 Interview Questions & Answers For Software Develop...
My wife and I built a simple Windows 8 Store geo-location based app called GeoBuzz. It is a free app that lets you discover the world around you. It uses your location coordinates to fetch geo-tagged articles from Wikipedia about or related to the places around you.This app makes use of -HTML & JavaScriptGeoNames APIMediaWiki APIWorld Weather Online APIjQueryIt is based on an idea by Chris Heilmann. My wife wrote most of the code while I threw...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Where in the World? is a simple game that is a mashup of Picassa & Google Maps. This geography game lets you view public photos stored by users around the world on Picassa and guess where they were taken.There is no information on how exactly points are scored. The closer your guess is about where a geo-tagged photo is shot, the more points you win. I noticed that if your guess about the location is close to 150 kilometers,...
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Before you set out to write your own Windows 8 Store App, it helps to know how others have done it. Here's a list of case studies I have come across -Development of the Wikipedia app, source on GithubChannel 9 video: Media app case studies Channel 9 video: Shopping app case studiesChannel 9 video: Gaming reimagined: Gaming case studies Shufflr social video discovery appMSDN Windows 8 Store apps - Case stud...
Friday, 9 November 2012
Some notable India-centric Windows 8 Store Apps -The Economic Times Hindustan Times Times of India NDTVNDTV Play Aaj Tak Rediff Realtime News India Today Make My Trip Gaana BookMyShow Flyte MP3 BurrpZomato Thomas Cook, India work in progress...Also see:HOW TO quickly find if a site/service is available as a Windows 8 appFree print version of Indian Newspap...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Jatinder Mann's presentation at the Build 2012 conference "50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster" has some interesting facts & 50 tips on improving performance -* 3 dimensions to improve web performance -- Network- CPU- GPU* AJAX performance does not wholly depend on JavaScript performance* Where does the CPU time go?NetworkingHTMLCSSCollectionsJavaScriptMarshallingDOMFormattingBlock buildingLayoutRenderingMost of the 50 tips are well covered in Souders' book High Performance Web Sites and the YSlow...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Microsoft is offering a voucher code (of $80 value, available through 3/31/2013 while supplies last) to take the Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 exam (70-480) for free.The code is in the fourth para of this linkWhen you pass Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s):Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 SpecialistExam...
Friday, 2 November 2012
In this Channel9 video, 15 well-known developers tell what they love about programming. My favorite among them -"The geekiest thing about me is I actually write code on the weekends for fun but don't tell anybody"Did you know, Matt Mullenweg created WordPress when he was eighteen and John Resig was 22 when he started jQuery in 2006.Also see:More Quo...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Till a few years ago, MSDN subscribers could opt to receive the MSDN documentation on a CD\DVD. Though this facility been discontinued, the MSDN documentation is now available for offline use even for the free Visual Studio Express edition users. Local availability of the documentation is most helpful if have a low bandwidth Internet connection and you need faster access.To access MSDN documentation locally in any edition of Studio...
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