TechTalk

Learning to program can be a very abstract and frustrating affair, traditionally a very narrow link existed between programming and mathematics, at some universities programming courses fall under mathematics departments. It can be difficult for some people to learn to program. I have found that there is an instant when someone just “gets it”. To program a simple “hello world” program is easy it; it can be copied and pasted and it will work but to understand the underlying concepts and the inner workings is an entirely different mater. Concepts like Object Orientation are very difficult to grasp at first, because usually no frame of reference exists.

This all does not have to be true, you see there are many “Fun” ways you can learn to program, enter RoboCode…
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Lol seams like I was hacked, some fool deleted all my wordpress installs, lucky for me, I had backups and I could get everything back to normal within about 30mins after I discovered the problem!

A valuable lesson was learnt, update update update…. I upgraded to version 2.5 of wordpress and about a day after 2.5.1 was released I just didn’t feel like downloading and installing all over again, oh boy was I wrong… lol the “hacker” even had a sense of humour, after publishing my online banking phishing scam post, he deleted everything and replaced it with bank-of-america.com lure sites… hehe. He probably was using fresh, newly created email accounts but they will be unusable in a while, expect some very nice A-grade German porn to hit your mailbox very soon…. just as a thank you for waking me up….

The inventor of the junction transistor has died at age 91. This man was one of the many people responsible for giving us Processors and most electronic devices we use every single day!

Rest in peace Morgan, your Spark will remain to touch our lives forever.

Read more on Morgan. here and here

I recently obtained a brand new HTC Touch, and I have to say it rocks!
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The issue regarding Phishing and Online Banking is one that has been discussed allot in recent times. Banks in South Africa have been especially plagued by this, every once in a while I have heard from friends and family that they received strange email messages, instructing them to fill in their internet banking credentials, as far as I can I have evangelized the anti-Phishing gospel, and have had success, my mother recently received an email message instructing her to change her Online Banking Credentials, lucky for her I had been brain washing her to just ignore any email which asks any information with regards to Online Banking! She took a printed copy of the email to her bank branch and at enquirers the person told her: “The bank sometimes sends out emails like that and that she didn’t have to worry about it”, I was shocked beyond believe when I heard this, how could a employee of the bank who works at enquirers, not know that this was a scam? Are the banks people not educated in the matters at hand!!
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I have recently upgraded my cellphone contract and as such I received a new phone, the HTC Touch, which is really nice btw but more on this in a later post, It is loaded with windows mobile 6.0 Professional, so being a Software Developer by trade I wanted to jump in and get my hands dirty and develop some applications for it.
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You may have noticed the new trailer with the tag line “Scarlet hit new tv series” on tv’s everywhere, and you may be thinking cool any new show with hot babes is worth watching, or is it….
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Finally got my home automation / security project under way. Bought myself an IP Cam, and wrote a quick php frontend.Now I can monitor my house remotely from work!
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Probably not but this was so funny just had to share it, the ironic part just as I got it, we were victims of load shedding!
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Seeing as April fools is almost over, i thought i would share this, was brilliant…
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