XAMPP for Mac OS X is the simplest, most practical and most complete webserver solution for Mac OS X. The distribution includes an Apache 2 web server, integrated with the latest builds of MySQL, PHP and Perl. It comes as a Mac OS X Installer package which contains all the necessary files and requires no dependencies.
Windows 8 is on its way, and it'll be a departure from the Windows we know and love today. That was the message Microsoft sent Wednesday afternoon at the annual D: All Things Digital Conference, taking place near Los Angeles.
Hacking is not a recent invention. In fact, it has been around since the 1930s, although not always associated with computers. Here's a rundown of some of the most noteworthy hackers in history.
Researchers attending the Black Hat security conference on Thursday demonstrated two ways in which Square - a mobile gadget that enables Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to accept credit card payments - can be hacked to steal credit card data, with very little technical hardware required and "no technical skills at all."
"This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals (see Resources) and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code."
In this post I will offer some guidance based on my own readings. The papers chosen herein are not intended to act as a C.S. hall of fame, but instead hope to accomplish the following:
All papers are freely available online (i.e. not pay-walled)
They are technical (at times highly so)
They cover a wide-range of topics
The form the basis of knowledge that every great programmer should know, and may already
The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies that makes all of this possible.
Installing a solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer, but migrating your Windows installation to a small drive can be tricky, because your data won't necessarily all fit on the drive. Here's how to install an SSD without reinstalling Windows from scratch.
For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program with it, even in a rudimentary way.
Those days are gone
Good news to all Android and PC users. You can now run your favourite Android OS apps on your Windows PC. BlueStacks is a software for Windows that allows you run apps developed for Android OS on your Windows computer with instant switch between Android and Windows, without rebooting the PC.
Squishy circuits are a project from the Thomas Lab at the University of St. Thomas. The goal of the project is to design tools and activities which allow kids of all ages to create circuits and explore electronics using play dough.