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  Why is Great Design so Hard?

I want to take a slight detour from usable privacy and security and discuss issues of design. I was recently at the Microsoft Faculty Summit, an annual event where Microsoft discusses some of the big issues and directions they are headed. In one of the talks, a designer at Microsoft mentioned two data points I've informally heard before but had never confirmed. First, the ratio of developers to user interface designers at Microsoft was 50:1. Second, this ratio was better than any other company out there. As someone who teaches human-computer interaction, I wanted to push on this poin...

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  SSL in PHP for WAMP

Sometimes when we need to use email service provided by WAMP, we need to use some remote mail server such as Gmail. In Gmail, if we want to use the SMTP server to send email and want to use port 465, then the SSL connection should be setup. But by default in WAMP, the ssl is not usable. So to allow use SSL, what we should do is go to system tray and click PHP->PHP Extensions->php_openssl. Then now you can use Gmail to send email easily....

45,676 1       PHP EMAIL GMAIL SSL WAMP SMTP


  A return to good code

Stop doing this:public boolean foo() { if (true) {   return true;   }  else {   return false;   }}It always amazes me when I dig into an open source project, and I see code written by supposed experts, and reviewed by seasoned professionals, and nobody slaps the wrists of the developer who shoves return statements right in the middle of a method.Tell me, how hard is it to do this:public boolean foo() {   boolean flag = true;   if (true) {    flag=true; }   else {   flag=...

2,332 0       JAVA CODE METHOD RETURN CONDITION


  How Google Tests Software - Part Three

Lots of questions in the comments to the last two posts. I am not ignoring them. Hopefully many of them will be answered here and in following posts. I am just getting started on this topic.At Google, quality is not equal to test. Yes I am sure that is true elsewhere too. “Quality cannot be tested in” is so cliché it has to be true. From automobiles to software if it isn’t built right in the first place then it is never going to be right. Ask any car company that has ever had to do a mass recall how expensive it is to bolt on quality after-the-fact. However, this is ...

2,379 0       GOOGLE SOFTWARE TESTING QUALITY FIDELITY


  Interaction between JavaScript and Frameset

ou want to change more than one frame at a time? OK, well here is how to do make the trick work for you!The first thing you will need is a frameset to get you started. Again, I will use a frameset with two frames. Here is the code for the frameset page:<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Frames Example 5</TITLE></HEAD><FRAMESET cols=\"20%,80%\"><FRAME SRC=\"page1.htm\" name=\"left_frame\"><FRAME SRC=\"page2.htm\" name=\"right_frame\"></FRAMESET></HTML>Be sure you give each frame a name using the name=\" \" attribute. I named the frames above \"left_fr...

4,136 0       JAVASCRIPT INTERACTION HTML FRAMESET FRA


  Square bracket in checkbox name

0down votefavoritei have a form with checkboxes like this:    <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"type[]\" value=\"1\" />Fast Food<br>    <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"type[]\" value=\"2\" />Table Service<br>    <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"type[]\" value=\"3\" />Cafeteria<br>when i use the brackets in the name (type[]), my php works:    $type=$_POST[\'type\'];    echo \"types are:\";for ( $counter = 0; $counter < sizeof($type); $counter += 1) {    echo \"<br>\".$type[$counter];}but my jav...

5,565 0       PHP SQUARE BRACKET JAVASCRIPT ARRAY OF N


  An example of SQL outer join

SELECT MEMBER.Name, MEMBER.Address, ORGANIZER.phoneNo, TRAVEL.Tour_Name, TRAVEL.Start_Date, TRAVEL.End_DateFROM TRAVEL RIGHT JOIN ((MEMBER LEFT JOIN ORGANIZER ON MEMBER.Member_ID=ORGANIZER.memberID) LEFT JOIN PARTICIPATION ON MEMBER.Member_ID=PARTICIPATION.MemberID) ON TRAVEL.TravelID=PARTICIPATION.TravelID;...

3,045 0       ACCESS SQL OUTER JOIN


  Converting Decimal Fractions to Binary

Converting Decimal Fractions to BinaryIn the text proper, we saw how to convert the decimal number 14.75 to a binary representation. In this instance, we \"eyeballed\" the fractional part of the binary expansion; 3/4 is obviously 1/2 + 1/4. While this worked for this particular example, we\'ll need a more systematic approach for less obvious cases.In fact, there is a simple, step-by-step method for computing the binary expansion on the right-hand side of the point. We will illustrate the method by converting the decimal value .625 to a binary representation..Step 1: Begin with the decimal frac...

4,638 0       DECIMAL FRACTIONAL BINARY