The pictures of Day 2 are here. The second day consisted of 6 workshops – 3 before lunch and 3 after. I was confused on choosing between Sheeraj Shah and Mano Paul’s workshops during the first half; and Jason Li’s talk on “Web 2.0 Security” and “Secure Code Review” workshop (originally by Dinis Cruz,...
Read more →Demo 1. Phizy-Phizy-Phizy I have always loved making this phizy-phizy-phizy sound purposelessly, which I once heard in a Rob Schneider movie (which, if I remember correctly, was a pathetic movie). Anyhoo! I, now, have a set of very strong reasons to move around repeating the same lines. First, we received a request to be...
Read more →1. Life & Code (The title of this section is taken from Johnny’s blog of the same name, Life and Code. Although my implementation of the phrase isn’t in terms with Johnny’s, yet I could resist using it. ) Life: Three days ago I found that there are some strange entries in my local...
Read more →Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor. 1. YAWN Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian,...
Read more →DEMO This post was due since the Bank of India hack incident, and was fueled by PDP’s Drive-by Java post, which is a very simple, yet a well thought of extension (sort of) to the Drive-by Download attack. This post is aimed to provide a clearer understanding of the Drive-by Download attack (via a...
Read more →Update 1: I was unable to configure MySQL. Reason: It was installed in C:\(blah-blah) and , probably, do not have write rights in the directory. Installing it to D:\(bigBlah) solved the issue. Duh! Update 2: I see a fairly good traffic coming here searching for the same problem. So, in case you are in a...
Read more →Yes, you read it correctly. A 13 year old CEO and an 11 year old VP, Sales. My grandmother is no businesswoman, but I always cite two of her sayings pertaining to business: Doctors can earn even in a jungle, People will never stop learning/studying (formal education), at least not in India. I personally...
Read more →Note: This article still seems to attract a fair bit of traffic. Just wanted to let you guys know that this is a pretty old article. PHP development environment has come a long way since then. You may want to download and use any of the following packaged environments instead: WAMP or XAMPP on...
Read more →It’s really interesting that even enginieering students, who are supposed to have a very ANALYTIC are least bothered in verifying anything before believing it…… and that too when they have access to GOOGLE. This blog of mine is in response to the hundreds and thousands of mails that are forwarded so that somewhere, somebody’s...
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