Ghost in the Wires is the memoir of Kevin Mitnick, once labelled America's most wanted hacker. Besides time in jail, he received the unusual punishment of not being allowed to use a computer for eight years.His life after that term has changed for the better and he is now a Security Consultant who does ethical hacking (implying what he may have done in the past was unethical after insisting throughout the book that he never hacked for financial gain and never did anything "evil"), public speaker, & author. He has been "hired by government agencies...
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Friday, 26 July 2013
This Week I Learned:The normal Web and Business Editions in SQL Database have a limit of 180 concurrent requests. Applications requiring more connections should use a Premium database (Premium Tier for Windows Azure SQL Databases is a new preview feature in the Azure July Update) with an appropriate reservation size to handle the maximum number of needed requests. The July update also introduces ability to perform recurring, fully automated, exports of a SQL Database to a Storage account in the form of a transactionally consistent .bacpac file....
Sunday, 21 July 2013
This Week I Learned:$.now() is the shorthand for new Date().getTime(). #jqueryPages fetched with POST are never cached, so the cache and ifModified options in jQuery.ajaxSetup() have no effect on these requests. Setting cache to false will only work correctly with HEAD and GET requests. #jqueryOn devices running iOS6 and Safari, POST is also cached. #jqueryHow does Windows detect battery issues? Laptop batteries have a small chip inside that controls/monitors the charging process and also monitors the number of charge/recharge...
Sunday, 14 July 2013
In the article, Which JavaScript Library Should I Pick?, Pamela Fox has listed some practical points to consider before you settle on a JavaScript Library (or a jQuery plugin) for your project. Here is a summary check-list based on her article:* Will it be a good developer experience?* Well documented* Flexible* Responsive community + Number of forks + Number of issues + Vibe on issues + External community* Actively maintained* Future thinking* Tested* Clean code* Will it be a good user experience?* File...
This Week I Learned:Scott Allen who is a big name in the ASP.NET community & one of the most popular teachers on Pluralsight, the video training website, has made a million from his training courses on Pluralsight. Allan Jardine, the creator of Visual Event bookmarklet has also authored the DataTables jQuery plugin and other JavaScript goodies. Reflector is also a compiler. It translates IL into C#VBScript will gradually be retired from Internet Explorer Minified.js is a fully featured client-side JavaScript library and...
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Feedly, the popular Google Reader alternative, shows unread posts only by default, possibly to reduce clutter. This may lead new users to believe that old feeds cannot be retrieved later unless is it "Saved for Later".It is only when you go to Settings (represented by the cog icon) that you realize that there is a filter called Unread Only that is selected by default which causes only unread posts to be shown. To view both read and unread posts,...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
There are multiple ways to write a LINQ query in C#:Use query (comprehension) syntax.Use method or Fluent syntax.Use a combination of query syntax and method syntax.So which syntax is better?MSDN recommends writing most queries using query syntax to create query expressions. The general opinion in this StackOverflow thread seems to be - "it depend...
Sunday, 7 July 2013
This Week I Learned:Chrome DevTools can list the event handlers registered on any element. Visual Events is a nifty bookmarklet that shows the events attached to each of the elements in a webpage. MiniProfiler is a minimal but very effective tool for .NET and Ruby applications. It's targeted primarily for data access performance problems and supports ADO.NET, Entity Framework, LINQ-to-SQL, and other data access technologies. The size of the Indian e-commerce market last year was estimated to be only between $1-2 billion. These estimates...
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