Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror wrote some months back on the fake user interface, and its ability to trick innocent users into running malicious software. It was on my to-do list for a while, but now I noticed a link to another post from three years ago, discussing the “dancing bunnies” problem (aka the “dancing pigs” problem), as formulated by Larry Osterman: It’s a description of what happens when a user receives an email message that says “click here to
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By Ran Arad | November 12th, 2008 | Filed under Development
The access architecture of an SDK refers to the types of events generated by it (synchronous, asynchronous), the way it handles API calls (blocking, non-blocking), and the way it processes events (on event, on poll). Different paradigms fit different needs. I usually divide these architectures to 4 main types: Asynchronous events, non-blocking API calls Synchronous events, blocking API calls Event queue, API calls queue Polling for events Each of these has its advantages and drawbacks, and most importantly,
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By Ran Arad | September 3rd, 2008 | Filed under Development, SDKs
