SMS'ing is a easy, (fairly) reliable way to get messages to people quickly. Now having a computer program send an SMS could be very handy. Based on the number of "How can I send an SMS from program XYZ..." questions asked in forums, lots of people think so. So I've been thinking of building a set of reusable classes for use in future projects of mine to enable me to inform an admin user when a problem has arisen or send a user information. In spite of lots of people asking these questions, it took me a while to find my answer,...
I've been hearing a bit about mashups and seen a few products out there. For those who don't know, mashups are built by combining various sources of data and producing a new product from them. They are often web service driven. E.g. Combining Google map data, listed shops combined with pricing and a delivery service to provide a totally new shopping product. OK maybe not the best example but you get the idea. The big thing is that there are products available to enable end users with no programming experience build these applications...
I previously mentioned advertising on websites. I checked out Google AdSense since I use many of Google's products including Gmail, iGoogle, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs etc. Safe to say that they've got my life in their hands. (Scary to think...)Anyway I digress - I registered and set up ads. The process was honestly more complex than I realised but then again I had a simplistic understanding to start with. It wasn't difficult but it was a bit time consuming because I wanted to understand everything and yes, I...
I'm finally finished exams and have got two months of "free" time to complete all the things I've been playing with. I was checking out some security/ hacking stuff a few days ago (I suppose your terminology depends on which side you sit) I've been trying to learn a few things on security seeing that I don't want to compromise my system. I came upon a few articles of "Google hacking" which made me realize a few things. From what I can see, there are two approaches to hacking. The first is what I'd call a shotgun approach - basically...
Hmmmm. looking back now, there's been quite a gap between the last post. Not that there were that many though... I just haven't had time to work on this. I haven't been able to decide the nature of my blog and without some sort of guidelines, I suppose this is just a random collection of stuff. Probably not too interesting then. And at the end of the day it would be pretty pointless if there was no interest in it. I've decided to focus on technologies and tech-related news, probably including some of the stuff I'm working on....
