Six Advantages of Developing Cross-Platform HTML5-based Financial Apps With the advent of smartphones and tablets, there has been a marked change in how people connect to the Internet. Consumers can now connect to the Internet, anytime, anywhere. As a consequence, many new mobile apps are being developed, while a number of traditional desktop/laptop-based apps are [...]

Today, the majority of mobile devices have the ability to track rotation by use of the accelerometer. You might want to develop a racing game, where the steering is handled by rotating the device to control the car from side to side, or you might want to rotate the interface of your application. The possibilities [...]

Everything starts with: “I need to do that; how can I do it?” That’s why HTML5 promises to alter Internet-browsing experience. For many it will be a consciousness-expanding experience that radically changes how we experience the Internet.

Like so many things, security is not just about deciding what can be done to make your data more secure, it is also about deciding which security features provide the most value given the limited time and resources you have to implement them. Thus any organization that is serious about increasing security should begin by [...]

In order to begin programming in ActionScript you need to have a suitable editor or an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). I will assume that you will be using an IDE such as Adobe’s Flash CS5 or Flash Builder or SapphireSteel Software’s Amethyst.

What is a metadata-driven solution? It’s essentially a solution in which processing is dynamically directed based on metadata stored somewhere, like in a SQL table. The keys to enterprise class metadata-driven solutions in T-SQL are proper use of dynamic SQL and taking full advantage of SQL Server set-based processing.

As software developers, we seek to design software that gets people’s attention. Software that meets the needs of the user, performs well, and pleases the eye is sure to get users’ attention. The security model of an application, on the other hand, gets very little attention from the average user – that is until something [...]

The Boost.MPL is an open-source, general-purpose, high-level C++ template metaprogramming framework. It’s also known as a library that makes template metaprogramming fun, understandable, and practical for realworld use. This article was conceived as a gentle, lightweight introduction to both the domain (C++ template metaprogramming) and the library, and is intended to be more a „food [...]