Archive for the 'Programming' Category
are not games. At this years DefCon (a hacker’s conference), NBC inserted a covert media journalist to capture hacker’s admitting to crimes and to out a federal undercover agent attending the conference. It is well known that federal/intelligence agents attend DefCon yearly to learn the latest and greatest intrusion techniques. They even […]
Yet another reason I loathe VBA. The maximum value of an integer data type is 32768. What is it in most modern languages like Java, C++, and C# (hell, even C), if the OS it’s running on is a 32- or 64-bit operating system? 2147483647. Only on those operating systems (some […]
Visual Basic for Applications hurts my head as programmer. WTF! Seriously, the API and pragmatics of the language are horrible. Why not, Java for Applications. I could do that. Even C or C++. But crappy Visual Basic? Jeebus. It’s going to be a long week. Stupid […]
According to this New York Times article about Google, Google today will annoucse (release?) it’s instant messaging system. The Inquierer reports that Google Talk will users to make calls over computers. They recently bought the instant-messaging system Meetro from Meetroduction, LLC according to Slashdot. This could be nice. But I still […]
