Philip 4G

I am a full-time software engineer with an interest in gadgets and the many technologies making them possible. I also enjoy investing and swing trading. I write for my friends: fellow programmers, IT administrators, and those wise ones who learned to benefit from technology without dedicating their life to it.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Book review: Programming the Mobile Web

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"Mobile web" is vast landscape. It has always been fragmented, with standards bodies pulling one way and browser developers tryi...
Friday, May 3, 2013

O'Reilly's one-day massive sale

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As you may know, I am a big fan of O'Reilly Media, a premier publisher for technical literature. I am a member of their Bloggers program...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Mac or Windows?

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My new employer wants me to choose between a 13" MacBook Pro and a Lenovo machine running Windows. (That's all the specs I have.) ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Browsers should open the .md file extension

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Inspired by this comment , I propose that web browsers should open and render the md ( Markdown ) file extension the same way browsers alre...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Book review: Vintage Tomorrows

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You may have heard that any movie based on a novel is forced to gut the novel to the bone in order to fit within the allotted time. You may ...

Preventing filesystem traversal attacks

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I am implementing a software feature that takes a filename from a client and accesses it on the server. The filename is supposed to be a sim...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

720p is irrelevant for Microsoft?

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I have a laptop running Windows 8. It has an HDMI port. I've used this laptop to watch Netflix content using the Silverlight plugin and ...
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