Want some practice in assembler? Today, I will show step-by-step how to write a BASIC interpreter and run it from the boot sector of your PC. My interpreter includes overlapping subprograms with branching recursion – otherwise, BASIC won’t fit in 512 bytes. It’s quite…
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Homemade keylogger. Writing an undetectable keylogger in C#
Commercial keyloggers supporting numerous functions and protected against detection may cost dozens and even hundreds of dollars. However, it is not that difficult to create a homemade keylogger and avoid antivirus alerts. In this article, I will…
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Android 6.0 permissions in protection and attack
Everyday, new vulnerabilities are discovered in mobile devices that can be exploited by intruders. They can send an SMS to a pay-per-call number, they can collect and sell a large database of contact details, and they can…
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Learning heterogeneous parallelism in C++ with AMP
When it became physically impossible to further increase the number of transistors in a single microprocessor core, the manufacturers started to put several cores on a chip. This was accompanied by the emergence of such frameworks, that…
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Welcome, Sails.js! The Missing Rails for Node.js
Let me tell you the truth. There is a true secret lodge of JavaScript fans in our magazine. As soon as we, including the chief editor, the managing editor, and yours truly, catch the sight of one…
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Building weather station with STM32F3DISCOVERY and WizFi220 Wi-Fi module
Recently people have been using Arduino in their projects with increasing frequency, since it contains e.g. Ethernet or Wi-Fi shield. An entire computer is usually altogether superfluous in this context. In this article I will show how…
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Mobile backend for mobile hacker
Modern cloud services offer hackers potentially unlimited resources. For example, Amazon often uses WPA-brute-force for hacking. In 2011, a German expert Thomas Roth could already search half a million passwords per second paying 28 cents per minute.…
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Let’s learn the basics of build automation with the help…
Any software development project is always associated with the automation of related routine tasks. Initially, IDE and a pair of manual operations will be enough for you. Then, the number of body movements begins to grow: you…
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Everything-you-need-to-know about python interpreters
Python itself is, of course, a programming language. But many people mistakenly believe that Python is the very thing that comes with most of the *nix systems and can be launched by typing "python" in the console.…
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Automation for OS X: the JavaScript way
JavaScript has steadily been among the most popular programming languages in the recent years. Numerous frameworks and development for popular platforms have secured the success and erased the memories of the nasty clichés of the past. The…
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Let’s learn the programming language respected by Boeing
For many years, I have been a fan of development for Windows and wrote pretty much about it to this best computer magazine ever. I switched to Mac OS and UNIX with time. Working in Mac OS,…
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Let’s tame data streams with Python
Information is currently gradually becoming "new oil" in terms of value. The only problem is that the volumes of data to be processed are growing by leaps and bounds. The sizes of files are sometimes larger than…
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Prepare for Vaadin, an extremely powerful Java framework for enterprise…
In a client-server architecture, Java applications are most often located on the server side, and web interfaces are created by separate groups of front-end developers using JavaScript. Java does not provide any useful tools to develop modern…
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Manipulating clouds
If I started the article with describing all the advantages of cloud storage of data, you would think that I had been just thawed after twenty years of anabiosis, or that I use overdoses of hypnotics :).…
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Let’s code for Leap Motion!
Leap Motion Controller was listed among the top ten devices according to the Time magazine. This device belongs to the nice little family of wireless controllers of the new generation such as Wii Remote, PlayStation Move; its…
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