15 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs known as Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple inc was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. Without any doubt, Steve Jobs is known not only for running an astonishingly successful company but for being tremendously outspoken. Steve Jobs had an opinion on everything! Sometimes his thoughts worked as a medicine to boost…

Why did Bill Gates save Apple?

There were a lot of reasons. One reason was that it made Gates feel good to help his old friend. One reason is that Apple and Microsoft did a patent deal at the same time. One reason is that Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser on Mac OS. One reason was that…

What type of security does Mark Zuckerberg have?

I recently read an article that enlisted the expenditures on security for some top CEOs and Founders. The figures looked something like this- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook): $4.26mil Jeff Bezos (Amazon): $1.6mil Larry Ellison (Oracle): $1.53mil Marc Benioff (Salesforce): $1.45mil And I thought to myself “Wow! Maybe those are some figures that most of us will…

Russian Space Robot Bound For ISS Can Shoot Guns With Both Hands

Russia’s space humanoid is not a Terminator-like killing machine, insists deputy PM It looked like a scene straight out from the film ‘Terminator’ where a space robot was shown shooting guns from both of its hands and that too with accuracy!!! Apparently, Russia’s space-bound humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is being…

The History & Origin of Autocorrect

Autocorrect really is a technological advancement that almost every person uses daily and sometimes without even realizing it. I would estimate that during the average day of work I must have nearly 50 corrections in emails and documentation, be that spell-checking, automatic correction or grammar manipulation. However much we hate the process on occasion it…

25 Amazing Facts About Android

Ah the age old debate, Apple or Android. It does seem a little bit like David vs Goliath really doesn’t it? The heavy-hitter and global superpower; Apple, versus the widely used, customizable and in some weird way lesser; Android. Is this the case though? I myself have always been an avid fan and user of…

Performance

Profiling with Xdebug An extension to PHP called Xdebug is available to assist in profiling PHP applications, as well as runtime debugging. When running the profiler, the output is written to a file in a binary format called "cachegrind". Applications are available on each platform to analyze these files. To enable profiling, install the extension…

Generators

Examples The Yield Keyword A yield statement is similar to a return statement, except that instead of stopping execution of the function and returning, yield instead returns a Generator object and pauses execution of the generator function. Here is an example of the range function, written as a generator: function gen_one_to_three() { for ($i =…

PHP – Sending Emails using PHP

PHP must be configured correctly in the php.ini file with the details of how your system sends email. Open php.ini file available in /etc/ directory and find the section headed [mail function]. Windows users should ensure that two directives are supplied. The first is called SMTP that defines your email server address. The second is…

PHP – Sessions

An alternative way to make data accessible across the various pages of an entire website is to use a PHP Session. A session creates a file in a temporary directory on the server where registered session variables and their values are stored. This data will be available to all pages on the site during that…