Microsoft Research made some pretty "cool"/"wow" stuff – in many products you can find some of there research concepts/ideas/technologies (eg. Surface or Deepzoom). Today I found an very intresting video about Photosynth on Tim Heuers Blog: Another impressiv project is called "Unwrap Mosaics". Just have a look at the video on the project site
Redis belongs to the NoSQL data banks and you will find it in the group of Key-Value Stores. Redis is often named “Blazing Fast” and according to the Stackoverflow Thread it is used to be two time (while writing) and three times (while reading) quicker than MongoDB. Even if the comparison is a little ...
Evil Hackers are lurking everywhere and many Web-applications are delicately and share “too much” with the attacker. A quick (first!) overview offers the Tool “ASafaWeb”. All the website does is making a few requests and writing an Analyses including problem solving’s. There are no permanent disadvantages (bad requests/ DoS attacks and so on). Example: KnowYourStack.com ...
“Sign in with Twitter” is a popular practice to authenticate the users on your website. One advantage compared to an own registration is the lower inhibition for the user. But on the other hand Twitter doesn’t fess up with all the information’s and you will get into a kind of addiction. At the end ...
CodePlex the Microsoft Open Source Project Hosting Plattform hasn’t changed that much in the last few years and for a few times I thought Microsoft stopped the whole developing process. But now I found out that there is still life in the project. Maybe it is because of the success of GitHub or because ...
Adobe is well known for Photoshop and Flash but of course there is a lot more. According to the “Future Post” from Google Adobe declared one of their big subjects on a Blogpost. I’m talking about the W3C Working Draft to CSS Regions. Adobe cooperates with the WebKit Team and W3C on this. What ...
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