American Security Firms Collaborate on Chinese Olympics
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITA New York Times story at News.com notes the efforts of American security organizations to help the Chinese government prepare for the coming Olympic games. Critics argue this assistance violates the spirit of Congressional sanctions, and that the technology left behind after the games are over could be used to track dissident elements. “‘I don’t know of an intelligence-gathering operation in the world that, when given a new toy, doesn’t use it,’ said Steve Vickers, a former head of criminal intelligence for the Hong Kong police who now leads a consulting firm. Indeed, the autumn issue of the magazine of China’s public security ministry prominently listed places of religious worship and Internet cafes as locations to install new cameras. “
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
How To Launch A Successful Technology Start-Up
'Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, working through all the challenges associated with the market, dealing with investors and everything else.
PHPLogger
Package: PHPLogger Summary: Log errors to separate files according to severity Groups: Logging, PHP 5 Author: Gurdeep Singh Description: This class can be used to log application errors. It can open separate log files to write error log messages depending on the error severity levels.
Rich Internet Applications Vs AJAX: "2008 Will Be A Crucial Year"
While AJAX, as XML co-inventor Tim Bray puts it, 'tries to do everything in the browser using just what the browser ships with,' RIA frameworks like Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and JavaFX aim to take developers beyond the limitations of the browser.
XML
It turns the document tags into keys of a nested associative array. The resulting array is stored in a class variable. It can also take an array with the document structure and generate a XML document. The document XML is returned as a string.
Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality
Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February ISO vote. The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the 'leap year bug', VML, compatibility settings such as 'AutoSpaceLikeWord95' and others will be 'extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
More Articles:
Image Uploader
It takes an uploaded image and check whether the MIME type is of GIF, JPEG or PNG formats, if the file size does not exceed a given limit, or the image width and height is not smaller than a given size.
Data Theft Soars To Unprecedented Levels
A Wired article reports on data loss in 2007, and the numbers aren't good. Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security.
Community News: Latest PEAR Releases For 12.31.2007
Latest PEAR Releases:Net_Ping 2.4.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XLS 0.1.3Console_CommandLine 0.2.0
Zend Developer Zone: Zend_Controller_Action, Now With Parameters!
Basically, Zend_Controller_Action is the parent of all of the controllers in your application. This controller is what C stands for in MVC, a design pattern used lately in web application development, especially in RIA development. The post includes a tutorial on using the parameters in an example of a design pattern.
PHP-GTK Community Site: Gul 2.0 On The Way
2 years after begining, I'm happy to announce you the Beta release of the Gul 2.0 project, the XUL parser for PHP GTK (97% released). I have to do lot of things, but i think it looks like something.