By Shamly, on June 17th, 2010 Cloud computing is one of the latest computer industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of virtual computing, grid computing, and clustering, among others. The term cloud computing is sometimes ill-defined, which has led many IT professionals and management to make assumptions as to what cloud computing does and how their companies can best utilize it.
Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing, which uses shared resources, software and information. Cloud computing is the separation of the hardware and the software using virtualization software such as VMware’s vSphere. In general, cloud computing means customers do not own the physical infrastructure and avoids capital expenditure by renting usage from a third-party provider. They consume resources as a service and pay only for resources that they use, usually on per minute or per hour basis. Several of the major providers with cloud offerings include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), IBM Blue Cloud, Sun Cloud, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services, and Force.com.
Key features of Cloud Computing
By Shamly, on June 16th, 2010 Firefox has been the default browser on Ubuntu for a long time. But now it looks like Firefox may not be included as the default browser on Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10. Ubuntu Netbook Edition has been optimized for smaller screens enabling it to work better on netbooks with the Intel Atom computer processor.
The change has not been finalized yet but Chrome seems like a good choice for netbooks since it has a minimal design which takes up less space than any of the other browsers. It is also very fast.
By Shamly, on June 13th, 2010 
If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You’ll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You’ll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You’ll practice what you’ve learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book. This book will help you:Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming Master MySQL, from database stru (more…)
By Shamly, on June 3rd, 2010 Google has been released Chrome Browser version 5.0.375.55 to the Stable channel for Linux, Mac and Windows. Below are a list of major security issues fixed in the latest release.
Security Fixes:
- [7713] Medium Canonicalize URLs closer to the Safe Browsing specification. Credit to Brett Wilson of the Chromium development community.
- [16535] High Possible URL bar spoofing via unload event handlers. Credit to Michal Zalewski, Google Security Team.
- [30079] Medium Memory error in Safe Browsing interaction. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).
- [39740] Medium Bypass of whitelist-mode plugin blocker. Credit to Darin Fisher of the Chromium development community.
- [41469] Medium Memory error with drag + drop. Credit to kuzzcc.
- [42228] High Incorrect execution of Javascript in the extension context. Credit to Andrey Kosyakov of the Chromium development community.
Please check the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that certain bug related information may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix for Chrome 5. I have provided the link to download the Google Chrome Offline Installer in one of my previous posts. Click here to go now.
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