Want to go to PyCon this year but can't afford it? The Python Software Foundation is providing financial aid for those who otherwise would not able to attend. ... Read More

Connecting to an SQL database need not be complicated. (Image courtesy of About.com's SQL site) How easy or efficient the development process is impacted greatly by the tools you use. ... Read More

The last section in the web app security series is now posted. As a matter of completeness, this last post addresses the subject of buffer overflows. In the ... Read More

Picking upon Dewar and Schonberg's recent article on the decline of computer science education, InfoWorld's editors characterised the discussion as a spat between vested interests: those who make their ... Read More

Resolver Systems, a London-based software company, has recently released v.1 of Resolver One, a web-enabled spreadsheet program. The base package allows beginning users to use it like a common ... Read More

The recent article by Dewar and Schonberg gave me cause to pause and reflect. What the article effectively underscores is that most degree programs are tailored for popularity and ... Read More

Redmondmag.com has a good article on Google's extensive use of Python as part of its larger user of open source systems in general. As Jim Zemlin of the Linux ... Read More

Managing user session security can be a real bear in web development. How long is too long for a session ID to remain valid? Cookies are not good ... Read More

An article in this month's edition of CrossTalk, the military computing journal, the two authors, both of AdaCore and both former lecturers at NYU, contend that computer science curricula are ... Read More

One of the hardest web-based attacks to defend against is a denial-of-service (DOS) attack. It is a simple matter of overwhelming a server with requests such that it cannot ... Read More

Pirates of the 18th century exploited the mariners' inability to calculate longitude by lying in wait just east of Barbados (the main navigation point of the Caribbean at the time). ... Read More

If you plan to begin this new year with a change of jobs, you should try About's job search engine at Indeed.com. Here are a few of the 2,000+ ... Read More

If you purchased an XO laptop from OLPC for yourself or for someone dear, you will probably have figured out how to view the Python code underlying many of the ... Read More

As more and more data centres are collocated, thieves are increasingly focusing on stealing hardware instead of trying to circumvent HTTPS/SSL encryption. Whether your data is stored at C ... Read More