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Monday, April 28th, 2008
We live in an era of computers and information technology and there is a direct relationship between information technology and home security. Computers allow us to automate many different aspects of out business activities and personal life. Personal computers and other technological systems can also help in various home security ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
One of the things that Apple has always prided itself over and promoted in no uncertain terms, has been the so-called 'robust security' offered by its OSX operating system. However this supposition of Apple's took a huge beating on Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
<?php
/**
* Unzip the source_file in the destination dir
*
* @param string The path to the ZIP-file.
* @param string The path where the zipfile should be unpacked, if false
* the directory of the ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The following function lists all the files in the specified directory ( and subdirectories ), which have specified extension. If extension is not specified, it lists all files.
function listFiles ($directory,$extension = null)
{
$results = array();
$handler = opendir($directory);
while ($file = ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
This just gets better and better by the second: now Microsoft and News Corp are in talks about combining forces to bid for Yahoo, in an unlikely meeting of minds. This would create a behemoth out of MSN, Yahoo and MySpace, and be even more difficult to pass the anti-trust ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
A year after Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) announced the third part of its Flash Triple Play, the company has released Adobe Media Player 1.0—the standalone desktop player meant for online and offline use. With Flash as a major browser and mobile presence, Adobe is now trying to claim desktop space mixed ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I’ve been working with the Zend Framework a bit and in working with MySQL through PDO_MYSQL. I’ve run into a few problems trying to use parameters of queries.
I’ve narrowed the issue down to PDO itself and not the Zend Framework.
$dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db","user","pw");
$query = "insert into silo_test_data (record_id, fieldname, value) ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Vlingo, a provider of voice-based mobile services, has raised a $20 million second round led by Yahoo, along with participation from past backers Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Last August, the Cambridge, MA-based start-up raised $6.5 million, for a total raise of $26.5 million.
The investment from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Converting text to UTF-8 and unicode in Java is very easy, you can use the following block of code:
try
{
// Converting from Unicode to UTF-8
String string = "abc\u5639\u563b";
...
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