IT Security unclothed by “a nerdy hacker”

 
Robert Moore, a 23 year old hacker would be starting his imprisonment in federal prison today (Thursday, 27th Sep) for breaking into 15 telecommunications companies and hundreds of businesses (and individuals) worldwide. He spoke about “how easy it was”. Moore, who describes himself as a “mega geek” is more upset about being banned from [...]

to switch-case or not to !

A friend (and colleague) in an attempt to have a long discussion asked me about my preference between cascaded if-else and switch-case statements and which one is better. I could get away (because was caught into some work I didn’t want to lose attention from) by saying that I will certainly be getting back with [...]

Epigrams on Programming

Read the Epigrams on Programming. One big difference between an expert programmer (and designer) and a naive is the level of idiomization of experience. So my dear programmer – standardize, idiomize. As they say

The only difference (!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list – not the size of his vocabulary.