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« These days, many browsers can function in Standards Mode and Quirks Mode. In a nutshell, they perform an intelligence test based on the document author's choice (or lack thereof) of Doctype. If they see a "good" Doctype, they enter Standards mode and more closely follow standards, otherwise they enter Quirks and … don't. »

These days, many browsers can function in Standards Mode and Quirks Mode. In a nutshell, they perform an intelligence test based on the document author's choice (or lack thereof) of Doctype. If they see a "good" Doctype, they enter Standards mode and more closely follow standards, otherwise they enter Quirks and … don't.

This time I want to speak on the 'printf' function. Everybody has heard of software vulnerabilities and that functions like 'printf' are outlaw. But it's one thing to know that you'd better not use these functions, and quite the other to understand why. In this article, I will describe two classic software vulnerabilities related to 'printf'. You won't become a hacker after that but perhaps you will have a fresh look at your code. You might create similar vulnerable functions in your project without knowing that. STOP. Reader, please stop, don't pass by. You have seen the word "printf", I know. And you're sure that you will now be told a banal story that the function cannot check types of passed arguments. No! It's vulnerabilities themselves that the article deals with, not the things you have thought. Please come and read it.

There is no fragment in program code where you cannot make mistakes. You may actually make them in very simple fragments. While programmers have worked out the habit of testing algorithms, data exchange mechanisms and interfaces, it's much worse concerning security testing. It is often implemented on the leftover principle. A programmer is thinking: "I just write a couple of lines now, and everything will be ok. And I don't even need to test it. The code is too simple to make a mistake there!". That's not right. Since you're working on security and writing some code for this purpose, test it as carefully!

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Improving organic traffic becomes sometimes challenging, but if you apply correct and smart SEO techniques, the hard work will eventually pay off. Search engine organic traffic is great because it's relevant and targeted. People says building organic traffic is easy, don't listen to them. Building organic traffic is the hardest work you'll ever put in to your website.

VirtualDub dedicates to processing AVI files and can be extended with third-party video filters. Although it's not so fully-featured as other professional video editors, it certainly can accomplish more than a few tasks that you might think you need other separate applications for. As you may know, VirtualDub, as stand-alone, cannot handle MP4, MKV, FLV, MOV or any other files besides AVI. And that's why you will encounter problems when you try to open MP4 files in VirtualDub.Then, how to get MP4 files and VirtualDub to play nicely? Don't worry! Just watch this tutorial.

To be honest, I don't know what the TPP project is intended for. As far as I understand, this is a set of tools to assist in research of proteins and their interaction in living organisms. However, that's not so much important. What is important is that their source codes are open. It means that I can check them with the PVS-Studio static analyzer. Which I'm very much fond of.

Programming is a deceptively damaging field to be in, partly because it doesn't seem like you're doing much, and also because of the attitude many programmers have toward their body. You should care about keeping yourself healthy because, when your body is in good shape, that removes "friction" from your mental capacity so that it can focus on important things rather than annoying little problems with your physical wellness.

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services. We don't need architects! …Do we ?

The Winchester Mystery House as an example of what happens when you don't have an architect...

The latest version of Adobe's latest proprietary Flex technology (Flex 3.0) is now available with the RTM of Adobe Air. If you like Javascript (I don't), this may be the way for you to move forward to developing "real" cross-platform apps ...

Growl - why don't we make it a standard?

Two Part

Balsamiq Mockups intentionally uses hand-drawn UI elements, so that people don't get attached to "that pretty color gradient" or think that your mockup has actual code behind it and is "practically done".

Is it time to consider measures (in software like WordPress) like implementing automatic blog-disabling for sites which don't upgrade in a timely manner?

quote: "Mono.Options is a beautiful command line parsing library. It is small, succinct, a joy to use, easy and powerful, all in one." ... well, I don't know about that, but it's simple enough :)

Message: don't use the Microsoft Test tools -- they are not extensible, replaceable nor compatible with anyone else's tools -- bad show, Microsoft.

The Express Edition of Persistor.NET® means carefree database storage -- "it is the right tool for all developers who just don't want to care about the database."

This is Part 2. If you don't know WHY you'd want to do Branch-Per-Feature, you should read Part 1 ( http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/derickbailey/archive/2009/07/15/branch-per-feature-source-control-introduction.aspx )

I love this article. Lawrence is 60 and can perhaps afford to be sanguine, but I am glad he is warning the rest of us.

Some quotable quotes here: "while we laugh at the guy who expected that his computer could be hooked up to his boom box to use the cd, he's actually just a bit ahead of us. Yes, ahead, not behind. In the future, he probably could get his computer to talk the boom box into transferring data from its cd." "When I was a teenager, I had a friend who made extra money testing and changing vacuum tubes in TV's and radios. Try earning money that way today- there is actually a very small market for that kind of thing, and there are still people who sell tubes and the like, but that market is pretty small. In the dumbed down computers of the future, there may still be a few antique machines kicking around here and there, but that isn't going to support very many of us." This is largely true and happening all the time. A programmer can use Python or Smalltalk without needing to know C (or Fortran or assembler.) A child can program in Morphic tiles (Etoys and Scratch)! We don't need to know the difference between a serial cable and a printer cable, or how to install a driver' it is all USB (or Bluetooth!) There are some gurus that program USB, but perhaps only a few hundred of them, and the rest of us just use it.