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RainyMood.com: Rain makes everything better. An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7. Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn’t make it this far. Everyone else, brace yourselves. Com: Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series) (9781449305178): Ash Maurya. India Railways, and the Indian Train - everything you want to know, from the Indian Railways section on IndiaMike.com - The India Travel Forum. By ranjan154 Let's share practical knowledge about the India railway system, the Indian train, and Indian travel ‘culture’.

India Railways, and the Indian Train - everything you want to know, from the Indian Railways section on IndiaMike.com - The India Travel Forum

The information in this article tries to cover what to expect when travelling on the India Railway system (as well as what not to expect), types of Indian train classes, railway facilities, cost of travel, and an introduction to making reservations. It is practically impossible to fully explain the Indian railway system in one article. Even for an experienced traveller, there are many unknown though useful aspects of train travel in India. Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It's .Seizable. When U.S. authorities shuttered sports-wagering site Bodog.com last week, it raised eyebrows across the net because the domain name was registered with a Canadian company, ostensibly putting it beyond the reach of the U.S. government.

Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It's .Seizable

Working around that, the feds went directly to VeriSign, a U.S. -based internet backbone company that has the contract to manage the coveted .com and other “generic” top-level domains. EasyDNS, an internet infrastructure company, protested that the “ramifications of this are no less than chilling and every single organization branded or operating under .com, .net, .org, .biz etc. needs to ask themselves about their vulnerability to the whims of U.S. federal and state lawmakers.”

But despite EasyDNS and others’ outrage, the U.S. government says it’s gone that route hundreds of times. Such seizures are becoming commonplace under the Obama administration. Programming Languages Weblog. Hacker News. Suspicious. JSONP. JSONP or "JSON with padding" is a communication technique used in JavaScript programs running in web browsers to request data from a server in a different domain, something prohibited by typical web browsers because of the same-origin policy.

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JSONP takes advantage of the fact that browsers do not enforce the same-origin policy on <script> tags. Note that for JSONP to work, a server must know how to reply with JSONP-formatted results. JSONP does not work with JSON-formatted results. The JSONP parameters passed as arguments to a script are defined by the server.

A typical JSONP request is similar to the following sample code: <! How it works[edit] To see how this technique works, first consider a URL request that returns JSON data. This JSON data could be dynamically generated, according to the query parameters passed in the URL. Here, a HTML <script> element specifies for its src attribute a URL that returns JSON: Opensocial setprefs. Getting Started: gadgets.* API - Gadgets API. Welcome to the gadgets API!

Getting Started: gadgets.* API - Gadgets API

To learn more about different types of gadgets and where they run, see the gadgets API Overview. This developers guide is intended for people who want to use the gadgets API to write gadgets. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (0600835090681): David Deida. Eight golden rules of interface design. As we dedicate an increasing fraction of our time interacting with software — from airport check-in terminals and parking meters, to desktop and mobile applications — digital interface design is becoming as important as physical architecture in improving our experience of the world.

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How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History. Albert Spaggiari. Albert Spaggiari (December 14, 1932 – June 8, 1989), nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976.

Albert Spaggiari

Earlier life[edit] Project Euler. Dojo: The Definitive Guide » Blog Archive » iGoogle-like drag-and-drop for Shindig (ala Dojo) How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface. Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+.

How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a customizable interface with widgets. The finished product will be a sleek and unobtrusively coded iGoogle-like interface, which has plenty of potential applications! First, let's list exactly what we'll be creating here and what features it'll have: This interface will contain several widgets.Each widget can be collapsed, removed and edited.The widgets can be sorted into the three seperate columns by the user (using a drag and drop technique).The user will be able to edit the color and title of each widget.Each widget can contain any amount of regular HTML content, text, images, flash etc. Please note that we will only be covering the front-end aspect of the project in this tutorial. Shindig_sample.JPG. Prometheus.pdf (application/pdf Object) Yandex, Facebook Strike A Deal For Status Updates. Lindner - On Vox: Windows Live API, better than page scraping.

So we use this toolkit from Octazen to scrape contact lists off of various sites.

lindner - On Vox: Windows Live API, better than page scraping

Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why? Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions.

Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?

Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm.

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