Pakistan’s Pride: Arfa Karim, World’s Youngest MCP! Arfa Karim, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, is losing her battle with life. She has been on a ventilator since December 22, 2011 and doctors have given up on her. Arfa got an epileptic attack which damaged her heart and brain and since then, she is[.....]

One thing you have to keep in mind while updating any aspect of your WordPress installation, be it a plugin, a theme or anything else, is not to forget about backing up your database. It is a very important thing to do, as I recently learned. I found a plugin online whose compatibility with[.....]

We lost two revolutionaries last month, Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. The former was mourned worldwide and got a huge media coverage while the latter could hardly manage to find a place in newspapers and the blogosphere. Only few geeks and programmers were found paying tributes to Dennis Ritchie. The simultaneous deaths sprung a[.....]

Google is all set with a new programming language ‘Dart’ for structured web programming, initially called Dash. Dart intends to replace JavaScript which has some basic flaws that according to Google engineers cannot be resolved by just evolving the language.

What is the simplest way to validate an integer? Without using Regular Expressions, that is. They usually give me a big headache! I needed to do perform this for a project and while searching on google, I came upon the following technique. It’s so simple that it blew my mind and here I will[.....]

New to programming? Have difficulties understand programming concepts? Fear no more. A new site called Codecademy has been launched to enable people who want to learn programming to grasp the concepts in an easy and interactive way. And not just that. Codecademy adds a social touch to this. You can compete with your friends[.....]

Web Applications: Web applications are software applications stored on a server and delivered to users over the internet. Web applications usually consist of a service layer, a logic layer and a database layer. All clients access the web servers, which in turn accesses the common database. Popular web applications usually have a huge amount[.....]

cURL stands for ‘Client for URLs‘. It is a command line tool for transferring files using URL syntax and supports many internet transfer protocols. It uses a portable library called ‘libcurl’ which is compatible with many platforms. PHP provides native support for ‘libcurl’ and many functions were added to PHP 4.0.2 for this purpose.[.....]

The fourth variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker.D, failed to show up on April 1 putting a stop to the speculation that April Fool’s Day would prove to be some sort of Cyber Doomsday. However, 7 days later on April 8, another variant Conficker.E has risen. The Conficker worm started updating via p2p between[.....]