Posts Tagged ‘programming’
Clickjacking – The Next Internet Threat
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
The days of SQL injections, XSS, XSRF and all of those browsing security threats will be made obsolete as soon as a new flaw in all major browser will be disclosed. Apparently, this is a very concerning issue. The flaw was to be revealed on Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Conference this end of September, but at the request of major vendors it was delayed. Little details is currently given by what this flaw truly means, but it is known to the public that: it’s not JavaScript related, so turning it off won’t help at all both Microsoft and Mozilla admitted that this [...] Read more
Stanford Online Courses
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
About two weeks ago, I’ve found out about Stanford new initiative of offering free online courses in engineering. The new project is called Stanford Engineering Everywhere and it currently offers 10 online courses, spread in three categories: Introduction to Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Linear Systems and Optimization. I’m particularly interested in the first category and I’ve started watching the videos from these classes. At first, I thought I’ll be going through all of them, but then I’ve found out some are way basic stuff. However, I [...] Read more
Python – String Interpolation
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
As I stated in my previous article, I’ve started a new Internship where the scripting language of choice is Python. The learning curve for this scripting language is very lean if you have in background at least one dynamic typed language (as Perl, PHP, etc.) and if not, you will be amazed how fast things can be done in one of these languages. Everything can be done very easy in Python, but I have to admit that the string interpolation part can suffer minor modification in order to improve it: Currently, you can either do string interpolation like in printf family style: name = [...] Read more