Google Hackathon was hacked

Two days ago, the first Israeli Google Developer Day was held. It was a colorful and interesting event, to the best of google tradition. Yesterday, all attendees got an email saying that an unauthorized network activity was detected. “We identified unauthorised activity on the public wired Ethernet network which was »

A nice SilverLight showoff by Microsoft

Microsoft recently released the SilverLight version of their Download Center. Its a nice demonstration of the SilverLight technology. But, looking under the hood reveals the huge amount of Javascript used to run this website. I can’t see the benefit this has over DHTML if all the logic is anyway »