This Independence Day marks the fifth Fourth of July for The Thought Box. Here’s a look back at the other ones: July 4, 2009 – It’s the Fourth! July 4, 2010 – It’s the Fourth! July 4, 2011 – (no post) July 4, 2012 – (no post) July 4, 2013 – Happy Fourth! This year, we went to a friend’s …
The night before my first WordCamp event today, I looked at the attendees list and said, “this is gonna be good”. It was way more than just “good”. It was spectacular. Eye-opening. Not one word would be sufficient to describe it.
You may have heard the saying, “once you learn one programming language, every nth language is 1/2^n times as difficult”. Well, that’s only true if you’re learning from a good source. There are many places to learn how to code in Programming Language X, from YouTube to Khan Academy, to reading the raw documentation. However, the problem that I’ve found with …
I hate fingerprints on glass. So when it comes to fingerprint-free screens, I am an absolute stickler to what kind to purchase. When I got my new touchscreen laptop, I immediately bought a screen protector for it. No disgusting fingerprints this time! When it comes to screen protectors, most fall into two categories. The first and most common are plastic film …
Earlier today, a tweet caused significant trouble and ire among TweetDeck users. It didn’t look like your average tweet: <script class="xss">$('.xss').parents().eq(1).find('a').eq(1).click();$('[data-action=retweet]').click();alert('XSS in Tweetdeck')</script>♥ — *arrrrndy (@derGeruhn) June 11, 2014 Users didn’t even have to click on the tweet. Just the act of viewing the tweet would cause the user to automatically retweet it. As a result, the message was seen …