Last week, I said I’d give a concrete example of how a new C++11 feature changes teaching strategy. The first such example that comes to mind is teaching how to write copy constructors. C++11 makes copy constructors harder to teach because it makes them unnecessary in many contexts in which […]
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By Ted Mann Associated Press In this 2010 photo, then New York Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo, right, conducts an inspection tour of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Just days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s staff defended raising tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge to as much as $14 to pay for […]
SheerID announced today the integration of its instant-verification technology with e-commerce platform Magento, making it easier for online retailers to verify special offers such as military or student discounts. The SheerID plug-in helps combat fraud by cross-referencing shoppers’ personal information with rosters of student enrollment, military status, or other member […]
Although it is coming from behind when it comes to connecting cars to a cellular network, Sprint is looking to speed past its competitors. With a deal announced Monday, Sprint will not only be the network provider for Chrysler’s Uconnect system, but also the system integrator that puts the pieces […]
By Ted Mann Subway cables burning near the DeKalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn have disrupted rush-hour service, emergency officials said Tuesday afternoon. The two-alarm fire in a tunnel just north of the station temporarily blocked service between Manhattan to Brooklyn on five subway lines, including the heavily traveled Q, […]
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15, 2012 – Philadelphia e-commerce provider SUMO Heavy Industries, which handles all the heavy lifting of its customers’ online sales initiatives, has been designated by e-commerce platform Magento as a Magento Silver Solution Partner. This partnership recognizes that SUMO Heavy is an experienced leader in providing successful e-commerce […]
Deutsche Telekom’s colorfully named Developer Garden platform has opened a new M2M Developer Community for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication solutions developers. The community offers developers access to APIs, discussion forums, programming guidelines, and SDKs to develop and sell applications for the M2M space, or — as it is increasingly being referred […]
A critical vulnerability in the Zend Framework can be exploited by remote attackers to access arbitrary files from online shops using the eBay-owned Magento eCommerce platform. This is because the Zend XML-RPC component used by Magento is vulnerable to XML eXternal Entity (XXE) injection attacks; successfully exploiting the hole can […]
$isMobile = false; $isBot = false; $op = strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_OPERAMINI_PHONE’]); $ua = strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]); $ac = strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTP_ACCEPT’]); $ip = $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]; $isMobile = strpos($ac, ‘application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml’) !== false || $op != ” || strpos($ua, ‘sony’) !== false || strpos($ua, ‘symbian’) !== false || strpos($ua, ‘nokia’) !== false || strpos($ua, ‘samsung’) !== false || strpos($ua, […]