Coders

Covers: Encoding, encryption, checksums, passwords & pass phrases.

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« It's unfortunate that few developers are familiar with The MITRE Corporation's Common Weakness Enumeration list of common software problems. [...] »

« The next revision of C++ that we've been calling "C++0x" is now an International Standard! [...] will be published well within the year, and then we'll be able to call it "C++11." »

One feature of the CLR that is not available in C# or VB.NET are module initializers (or module constructors). A module initializer is simply a global function which is named .cctor and marked with the attributes SpecialName and RTSpecialName. It is run when a module (each .NET assembly is comprised of one or more modules, typically just one) is loaded for the first time, and is guaranteed to run before any other code in the module runs, before any type initializers, static constructors or any other initialization code.

« So what exactly are Web Intents? The name and the purpose are both similar to the Intents system that's present in Google's Android platform. In short, Intents allow two separate applications to communicate with each other, without either of them having to actually know what the other one is. Instead, they offer and listen for generic hooks. »

« Attention webscale aficionados, Twitter says it is planning to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like real-time data processing tool. In a blog post Thursday, the microblogging network said it plans to release the Storm code on Sept. 19 at the Strange Loop event in St. Louis, Mo. »

Demo & examples at : http://pxd.me/dompdf/www/index.php "Official page" at http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/

« The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures. »

« Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, [...] »

"[...] If you are a programmer in a hurry and just catch part of the conversation you might well decided that REST is trivial and fairly obvious - just use URLs to code remote procedure calls. This is 80% of REST but the remaining 20% is important and it is all a matter of how you organise the remote procedure calls. [...] If you take the "URLs are remote procedure calls" approach to web apps then you are free to invent as many commands or verbs as you like."

Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate javascript.

Part one of 6 (and a half) introducing Scala for the C# developer

Miguel de Icaza's working on the Visual Studio integration for Scala.Net to be released this fall along with full access to CLR types from Scala