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Web development
Online behaviour tracking and the erosion of your privacy
Marketing and media companies are always looking for innovative ways to gauge consumer behaviour and activity online. It affects how accurately they're able to market their products according to age, gender, cultural demographics, and geography. There's a fine line, however, between savvy market research and bypassing the principles of consumer privacy.Many technology companies make it their mission to develop new technologies that practically deauthorise user choice about what is tracked and, even more subversively, how it's tracked.A recent ...How HTML5 follows in the footsteps of Java’s proven WORA
Java was released by Sun Microsystems back in 1996. As a new programming language, it entered a space long dominated by the likes of C; C++; Perl and many others. Java needed to bring something new to the table. At the time, every compiled programming language needed to be recompiled on every platform you wanted to run it on, often with particular fixes to handle the idiosyncrasies of different operating systems. Java was different in that it had the benefits ...Lulzsec and Anonymous: Showing us that internet security is a joke
If you're a bit slow off the mark, you may be wondering who 'Louise Boat' is. LulzSec and Anonymous have been topping all of the major news sites for months now.That's because they're making a mockery of internet security on sites that you would expect to know better. That includes leaking the transaction logs of over 3 000 ATMs in the UK, hacking Sony and compromising the accounts of at least 37 500 people, taking out the CIA website, ...Winners and losers in cloud computing and what your business gains
The buzz around cloud computing has been around for a while now, and it doesn’t seem like the frenzy around this new phenomenon will wane out any time soon. This might be due to the realisation that the entire IT industry is on the verge of a major revolution, and we all know that in the midst of a revolution, there will always be winners and losers.The promise
Cloud computing promises a paradigm shift in the way that we ...Flashplayer 11 brings native 64-bit support to Linux… and more
Adobe has announced that it was making available its first beta of Flash Player 11, and whereas with new updates being released almost as an afterthought, Linux users were amazed to discover that for this release, Adobe has provided a Linux binary at the same time that it has released the Windows and Mac OS X installers.This release shows that Adobe is taking a different tack. New features include native 64-bit support for Linux 64-bit operating systems using 64-bit ...3rd party comments: Which system is best for your website?
Putting the functionality in place for users to comment on your content is key to building relationships with your readers. Getting them to engage with your website means that they will be more likely to return for more in the future, if their experience is good.Commenting is fast becoming a science, now rich in functionality to manage volumes of users and to keep the quality of the interactions higher (in most cases). This is why many sites outsource commenting ...The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg
Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has revolutionised website publishing. WordPress began its life as free, open-source blogging software which quickly evolved into a general-purpose CMS used by millions of sites on the web. The success of WordPress speaks for itself -- and it is one of the most popular content management system engines around today, also used by many Fortune 500 companies.Mullenweg ...32 web frameworks to choose from for your next project
Whether you're wanting to build a tech startup or enhance your company's online presence you are going to be facing two constraints. First, a limited budget and second, a tight deadline.A solution to these problems is a web development framework. Frameworks are built on top of programming languages and provide methods of streamlining some of the more mundane and common tasks associated with web development. In essence, they allow developers to achieve more with less coding, saving both time ...Sayonara IE7… or is it?
At the beginning of the month, Google announced that it was phasing out support for older web browsers like Internet Explorer 7(IE7) for any of the Google Apps suite -- Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and others.It is not a particularly bold move, since IE7 is only used by about 10 to 15 percent of the global market, and that number has been decreasing steadily by the month.That said, developers are breathing a huge sigh of relief that ...A new age in cyber warfare — Anonymous, LulzSec and Stuxnet
Growing up in the nineties, television and film made me believe that hackers could do anything. I pictured an emaciated Russian teenager typing on the keyboard of his multiple monitor display, green text scrolling down a black screen. Those scrawny fingers could assume identities or muddle up traffic lights. They were the dark practitioners of mysterious arts. Those were the early days of the web, though, when it was all still a bit wild west. It was before the ...
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