Friday, February 22, 2008
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VB - Best tool to demolish one's programming skills..!!!
Learning and working now on VB.net, it's just fantastic to design using VB. I like VB because if you read it the other way, its BV - i.e. wife -. You start getting a feeling of a programmer while working with it, everything is ready for you. So far, I have designed a web browser with very minimal functionalities and a calculator with some insulting comments:D, in a span of less than three weeks, I reckon is not bad to achive in this period of time.
The topic was, VB - Best tool to demolish one's programming skills - while I started programming wth java having no background at all about programming, it was so difficult to pick up and understand the stuff, reason being, even to print a '.' on screen, you have to work out for a long time to get it right. I would do a lengthy paper work, sometimes just trial and error approach to get it the way i wanted. Not only myself, anyone spending long spans on a particular subject gets the skills polished, same happened to me. I was used to think for long periods specifically about the problems. Kevin Hely, one of the best teachers I ever had, was used to say - think hard about the problem specifically, you guys (future programmers) are going to be the professional thinkers - , and somehow I managed to think specifically, which I never was able to.
But now, I am programming in VB, lolz, you need a button, drag it from the toolbar and drop it to the form. you need a text box, no bothers, drag nd drop a textbox from the toolbar to the form, similary, you have everything you can think of that would you need to design an application. Now I wonder, where is the thinking part that is the spirit - or have been the spirit - of programming. After 5 weeks of taking my hand off from java, when i tried to help one of the juniors about making a function, I got stuck, and took the problem home and spent thrice more time that I usually take to solve some problem of that genre. Later on, I realised, it was VB that is wrecking whatever Skills I have for programming. and that is actually the driven force to write that article.
The topic was, VB - Best tool to demolish one's programming skills - while I started programming wth java having no background at all about programming, it was so difficult to pick up and understand the stuff, reason being, even to print a '.' on screen, you have to work out for a long time to get it right. I would do a lengthy paper work, sometimes just trial and error approach to get it the way i wanted. Not only myself, anyone spending long spans on a particular subject gets the skills polished, same happened to me. I was used to think for long periods specifically about the problems. Kevin Hely, one of the best teachers I ever had, was used to say - think hard about the problem specifically, you guys (future programmers) are going to be the professional thinkers - , and somehow I managed to think specifically, which I never was able to.
But now, I am programming in VB, lolz, you need a button, drag it from the toolbar and drop it to the form. you need a text box, no bothers, drag nd drop a textbox from the toolbar to the form, similary, you have everything you can think of that would you need to design an application. Now I wonder, where is the thinking part that is the spirit - or have been the spirit - of programming. After 5 weeks of taking my hand off from java, when i tried to help one of the juniors about making a function, I got stuck, and took the problem home and spent thrice more time that I usually take to solve some problem of that genre. Later on, I realised, it was VB that is wrecking whatever Skills I have for programming. and that is actually the driven force to write that article.
Beaware of VB.net!
Dont take your hands off from a low level language, that you started off with.Developers Heaven - Microsoft
As part of its interoperability announcement Microsoft has said it would work with open standards bodies to help developers support Microsoft extensions that affect interoperability with other implementations of these standards.
Microsoft said these actions would allow third-party developers implementing standards to understand how a standard is used in a Microsoft product and foster improved interoperability for customers. Microsoft said it would also make available a list of any of its patents that cover any of these extensions, and will make available patent licences on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
In response to user-concerns over document format incompatibility, the software giant said it would extend Office 2007 to provide greater flexibility of document formats. It plans to introduce new APIs for the Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications in Office 2007 to enable developers to plug in additional document formats and to enable users to set these formats as their default for saving documents.
Microsoft said these actions would allow third-party developers implementing standards to understand how a standard is used in a Microsoft product and foster improved interoperability for customers. Microsoft said it would also make available a list of any of its patents that cover any of these extensions, and will make available patent licences on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
In response to user-concerns over document format incompatibility, the software giant said it would extend Office 2007 to provide greater flexibility of document formats. It plans to introduce new APIs for the Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications in Office 2007 to enable developers to plug in additional document formats and to enable users to set these formats as their default for saving documents.
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Biometrics - Solution to Internet Fraud???
An internal investigation by French bank Societie Generale (SocGen) into the £3.6 Billion fraud that resulted after a rogue trader made unauthorised investments has recommended the use of biometric security to prevent a similar event happening again.
In January, the bank uncovered massive losses that were made as a result of a rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel, using his knowledge of back-office systems and built-in checks and balances to evade detection of unauthorised trading activities.
The report said that IT security should be tightened through the development of biometric security systems.
Among other things, the report said a priority should be strengthening IT security through the development of strong biometry.
In January, the bank uncovered massive losses that were made as a result of a rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel, using his knowledge of back-office systems and built-in checks and balances to evade detection of unauthorised trading activities.
The report said that IT security should be tightened through the development of biometric security systems.
Among other things, the report said a priority should be strengthening IT security through the development of strong biometry.
Faluty Vista Updates
Nick White, Windows Vista product manager, said on his blog, "We have heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287, the servicing stack update Immediately after receiving reports of this error, we made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update."
White said that this problem only affects a small number of customers in "unique circumstances" and the company is working on a solution.
White said that this problem only affects a small number of customers in "unique circumstances" and the company is working on a solution.
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