Oct 28
You’ve probably heard security articles talk about JavaScript being used to attack websites, but you might not know why it’s quite so dangerous. This video helps explain.
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Oct 25
No doubt about it, the Raspberry Pi is nothing short of a homebrew phenomenon. Since its release in February 2012, the British micro-mini-computer has enabled legions of amateur inventors to develop projects both weird and wonderful. Here’s a run-down of the most impressive applications, ranging from weather stations to retro arcades to a supercomputer array on a Lego rack. See if any of them inspire you to do the same.
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Oct 21
How do people manage to write the neatest, most compact code to make programs super-small and lightweight? Well, there are many ways—but one of the most common is to use trees. Upside down trees, to be precise.
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Oct 10
When you hear about major web hacks, you’ll often hear the term "SQL injection" used like everyone in the world knows what it means. They don’t. But this video will help explain so you’re not confused in the future.
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Oct 01
Forget Python and Java. Ruby? Get outta here. If you’re gonna learn to write code, you better make it useful—so why not one that builds DNA when you run it?
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Sep 24
Encoding symbols and characters in digital form is fairly easy—but making sure that everyone in the world is doing it in the same way sure isn’t. Fortunately, Unicode came along—but how the hell does it work?
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Jul 11
If there’s a way to any geek’s heart, it’s through a dubious HTML-based joke—which is why these greeting cards are the perfect way to tell your loved ones exactly what you’re thinking.
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Jul 05
Computer viruses are almost as old as personal computers themselves, and their evolution was only hastened by the birth of Internet. And within each code is a story about its author, about the time it was written, and about the state of computing when it terrorized our hard drives.
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Jul 04
Programming is FUNdamental: A closer look at Code.org’s star-studded computer science campaign
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“All these people who’ve made it big have their own variation of the same story, where they felt lucky to be exposed to computer programming at the right age, and it bloomed into something that changed their life,” explains the organization’s co-founder, Ali Partovi, seated in the conference room of one of the many successful startups he’s helped along the way. The Iranian-born serial entrepreneur has played a role in an impressive list of companies, including the likes of Indiegogo, Zappos and Dropbox. Along with his twin brother, Hadi, he also co-founded music-sharing service iLike.
Unlike past offerings from the brothers, Code.org is a decidedly non-commercial entity, one aimed at making computer science and programming every bit as essential to early education as science or math. For the moment, the organization is assessing just how to go about changing the world. The site currently offers a number of resources for bootstrappers looking to get started in the world of coding. There are simple modules from Scratch, Codecademy, Khan Academy and others, which can help users tap into the buzz of coding their first rectangle, along with links to apps and online tutorials. The organization is also working to build a comprehensive database of schools offering computer science courses and soliciting coders interested in teaching.
May 07
If you’re jealous of Gmail’s newfound talent of opening links directly in Chrome on iOS, Google’s released some code that’ll help you bake that functionality into your own apps for Apple’s mobile OS. By implementing the new OpenInChromeController class with x-callback, devs can have in-app links open in Chrome and let users return to their application with a back button. Developers can even choose if the link opens a new tab in Mountain View’s browser. Of course, the feature will only work if Chrome happens to be installed on the iDevice in question. To grab the code and read up on the documentation, click the second source link below.
Filed under: Misc, Software, Mobile, Google
Via: Google Chrome Developers (Google+)
Source: Chromium Blog, Google Developers
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