How My Phone Became My Door Key
The Internet of Things trend sees appliances, home entertainment devices, vehicles, and many more things being connected to the Internet. A related trend replaces even more mundane things with Internet...
View ArticleBeware the Trojans
When I taught computer programming classes in the 1980s, many first=time C programmers would write a Trojan login program for fun. They’d simulate the login prompt (no Windows back then). I gave a bit...
View ArticleWhat Volkswagens, Air Gap Messages, and Androids Have in Common
This week I’d like to revisit three topics from previous posts. These are all three cases of “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” or “the more things change, the more they remain the same”. 100...
View ArticleFlutter: Your New Friend for Mobile App Development
The situation for mobile development has been painful. The two major platforms don’t support any common conventional programming language. Mind you, this is an improvement from several years ago when...
View ArticleDevelopers: Get Good with your IDE for Productivity
I’ve watched many beginning developers learn the bare minimum about their IDE, and then… stop. Just enough to edit, compile, and run. This is not enough. No matter what language you code in, and no...
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