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Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 things [...]
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Head over to this page to see the official download counter, with sub division by countries. Currently it’s in 670,000, with 9700 downloads per minute…
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The new semantic search tool for wikipedia, Powerset, have just announced a competition challenging users to find interesting “Factz” using their search tool.
So far, I’ve found:
What eats humans?
We have the usual: zombies, monsters and sharks, but the list also includes Catholics, foxes, streets and pigs…
What do chickens like?
Only three things, potatoes, ham and tandoori. That’s [...]
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Google have released a section in the settings tab of Gmail called labs. This was predicted by a few blogs recently, and it seems to have come true today.
The new labs section includes:
Quick Links: Add links to the sidebar for any bookmarkable page in Gmail. This lets you add custom searches, filters etc.
Superstars: [...]
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AppJet bills itself as allowing “instant web programming”. As a relatively competent programmer, I had a look to see whether this tool would be useful to me.
The key feature of AppJet is that it allows you to write code and publish it without having to host it yourself. Any application that you make has a [...]