Recent downtimes could have been somehow connected to the problems that Cyprus Electricity authority is having. Yesterday, for example, there was a massive blackout that left one third of the island without power. Fortunately, my place was not among the cut off houses. Check this article from Cyprus Mail (thanks to Hazard for the link).
An Introduction to HTTP fingerprinting is an excellent article by Saumil Shah that demonstrates several techniques of identifying the web server software.
There are so many computer programming languages that newcomers and around-IT people get confused very often. Which language should I learn? What is better C or Perl? What is SQL? These are the questions posted forums and newsgroups where programmers hang out.
The Language Guide website attempts to tell the difference between 40 or so most popular programming languages. It provides a brief history of each language, key features listings, sample programs, and links to other resources about each language.
Here is a nice (as in short and simple) tutorial on object-oriented programming concepts. It touches only briefly and a few concepts: objects, class, message, inheritance, and interface. There is a practical part based on Java. And that’s about it. Studying this tutorial will not make you an OOP expert (I doubt that anything will), but it will provide with the general direction to dig in.
As I am getting more and more interested in photography, I get more and more practice. At first, having albums dedicated to certain events was very convenient for me. These days, I always carry a camera with me and sometimes I have just one or two shots which don’t fit into the album vision. For that reason, I have decided to create a special album for such shots – ‘Picture of the day’ (or POTD).
Many books and websites recommend beginning photographers to shoot at least one picture every day. This helps to develop an eye for opportunities. I think that now I am ready to try this project. I hope that I will have at least one picture every day. Sometimes it will be more. Today, for example, I have three.
Let’s see how long I will last. :)