Since Facebook has an API and Apps that allow creating small programs which can directly interact with data and information without the profile owner's participation, bad actors also appeared who used all of this for purposes quite different from the original intent.
The time has come when multi-core processors are nothing special. Moreover, many new (comparatively) standards and instructions have emerged that no longer allow processor performance to be assessed simply by clock speed or core count.
Although the spatial extension is designed for geometric data, it is also very conveniently usable for comparing time intervals and other solutions that can be projected onto geometric planes.
A problem as old as IE6 and IE7 themselves, but somehow, while fixing someone else's code, I stepped on this rake. I stared and puzzled until I realised it was an IE bug.
It so happened that a need arose to set up a "mini YouTube". More precisely, the ability to watch video on the web and to be able to "scrub" through it. This feature is especially important when the video is long.
There is a nice thing called SVN. This article collects a few useful tricks that will help make day-to-day work with SVN smoother. So - adding new files to svn, cleaning out .svn directories, and SVN hooks. The article is intended for a reader who has at least a vague idea of what SVN is :)
It must be said that human ingenuity knows no bounds, and the keyboard layouts reviewed in this article are by no means the only ones - merely the most popular and historically the oldest. Key layouts change for different alphabets, and there are many of them. Starting from German - where z and y swap places - all the way to Asian countries, where there is not a single character a European would recognise.
All the IT company logos reviewed here are well-known and familiar to the eye. But what were the origins of these logos? Who were their inventors, their creators? How did they develop over the years to become what we see today? For example, did you know that the first Apple logo depicted Isaac Newton himself?
As the title suggests, this is a story about how you can perform actions in Skype from an external application (written in PHP this time). The range of actions is quite impressive. From this rich set we will use the chat procedures - sending a message and receiving a message.
In 1997, two Israelis, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, joined the project and decided to rewrite the parser, resulting in PHP being given a new name - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. The reason the code needed to be rewritten was simple - the existing code was not good enough to build e-commerce websites.