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Think you put the wrong title on this one (or I didn't get the joke of using the same title twice). But it's not working on Firefox for me, takes me to Paypal still...even after I remembered to enable JS for that page. Good to know about the possibility though, I'll have to be even more careful with links now.
EDIT: Never mind, it's just my habit of middle-clicking links...it works just fine when I left-click though.
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Thanks for the heads up. Copy paste error on my part. Fixed now.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
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At NewsGator and Sepia Labs I worked with Brian Reischl, one of the server-side guys. Among other things, he worked on NewsGator’s RSS content service, which reads n million feeds once an hour. (I don’t know if I can say what n is. It surprised me when I heard it. The system is still running, by the way.) Brian is intimately acquainted with the different ways feeds can be screwed up. So he posted Stupid Feed Tricks on Google Docs. I quote the entire thing below for people like me who don’t have Google accounts. 48 things you should never do to an RSS feed.
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I just checked the requirements for their SDK. ONLY runs on Windows 8, not even Windows 7. What a load of crap.
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W7 doesn't have the metro APIs needed to run W8 apps...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's all right, you aren't eligible for the money anyway. Limited to US only.
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Also worth noting that the offer is for US residents only, so for most of the world this isn't even valid.
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Of course I think all these apps are just fads. I have read where people only use a few. Guess it is a good way to get money for Microsoft. I just can understand all the excitement about these apps when you can probably get any functionality you want as a web application, which quite often is free, and takes very little space since all you have to do is save the URI.
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I bet they are hoping that someone writes a decent mail client for W8.
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No thanks, after the way they pulled Silverlight and loads of other stuff, I'm gonna wait at least 5 years to see if they are sticking with something for a change.
Wout
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All this is very reminiscent of XNA games. gamingcentrum.com/tag/xna/
If through some fluke becomes established. Will they then slap a fee on your app? or worse.
"All your app belong to us."
"It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan
That's what machines are for.
Got a problem?
Sleep on it.
modified 20-Mar-13 8:22am.
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Well, maybe 70%-80%, but I don't want to and I don't have to, so I am not gonna bother with it. Plus, Silverlight was not great, so I don't have a reason to believe that WinPhone 8 will be great. It had potential, but MS never bothered finishing it properly (e.g. half baked 3D support, on Windows only, and no software rendering fallback). So my current view is that they are just rushing from one thing to another without delivering something stable and usable. No thank you Microsoft. XNA, Managed DirectX, WPF, Win Forms (was very good for productity, they should have just made that better), .NET Remoting (very good, and easy to use), the list is endless really.
Wout
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Assuming the stores problem is the lack of solid apps I am failing to see the logic here. I doubt $100 is really going to entice a software firm to make a stellar product. In fact, the $100 is likely to entice numerous fluff apps that degrade further the average usefulness of applications with in the store.
99% of what's in Google and Apple's stores is crap; number of useless apps is a marketing game all of them play. If this nets an extra 10k apps it'll be a better return than $1m spent on their normal marketing would have been.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm off to write a version of tic-tac-toe for win phone right now!
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Why not write an app that reverses a given string or sums up to integers?
Seriously though, those are apps that actually exist for WP7...
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With the increased prominence of Data Scientists, should there be a code of conduct? Michael Walker from Rose Business Technologies has proposed Data Science Code of Professional Conduct.... Typically, the codes of conduct are long and bureaucratic, but perhaps one can formulate a short "Golden Rule of Data Science" which would encapsulate the essence of ethical data science. If so, here is my nomination... If you're going to call them scientists, then shouldn't the rules of science prevail?
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Over the weekend, I was thinking about the wonderful psexec capabilities of tools like Metasploit, the Nmap Scripting engine smb-psexec script, and the psexec tool itself from Microsoft Sysinternals. It's my go-to exploit on Windows targets, once I have gained SMB access and admin credentials (username and password, or username and hash for pass-the-hash attacks). It works on a fully patched Windows environment, giving you code execution with local system privileges of a program or Metasploit payload of your choice. That's especially helpful in a penetration test once you gain access to an internal network that is relatively well patched. An ethical hacker doesn't crash the system? I hope the ethics go a little farther than that.
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Samsung’s disclosure comes after people familiar with Apple’s plans said last month the U.S. company has about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform similar functions to the iPhone and iPad. The global watch industry will generate more than $60 billion in sales this year, and the first companies to sell devices that multitask could lock customers into their platform, boosting sales of phones, tablets and TVs. I'm going to assume this is an elaborate troll... even if the watches turn out to be real.
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While playing around with the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) we discovered an amazing number of open embedded devices on the Internet. Many of them are based on Linux and allow login to standard BusyBox with empty or default credentials. We used these devices to build a distributed port scanner to scan all IPv4 addresses. These scans include service probes for the most common ports, ICMP ping, reverse DNS and SYN scans. We analyzed some of the data to get an estimation of the IP address usage. All data gathered during our research is released into the public domain for further study. Mapping the internet with a botnet using unsecured devices on the internet.
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"A direct result of the whole race-to-the-bottom in prices is the prevalence of free-to-play on iOS - it seems to be a safer bet. But since its almost impossible to do free-to-play in a non-evil way and without sacrificing the elegance of your game design, we'll prefer to charge $3".... The comments have been seized upon as part of a wider debate on free-to-play (F2P for short) that's currently raging within the games industry. It's a debate where many participants seem to have picked a side and drawn up battle-lines. A debate where F2P is "evil", or where F2P doubters are dinosaurs. Freemium isn't evil. Making money isn't evil, either.
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