I searched and looked for this but didn’t find a good solution online: I need to come up with a random alphanumeric string of arbitrary length fast and using least memory. How do you do this in PHP? Most solutions I saw posted would define a set of allowed characters, then iterate arbitrary number of […]

Nokia “picking” Windows Phone for their future is not a surprise. It wasn’t to me, anyway. You don’t pick a former Microsoft big head, Stephen Elop, to lead you anywhere else besides Microsoft. In other words, you don’t buy a screwdriver and expect it to hammer nails. On a side note, that billion dollar cash […]

Amazon it planning to launch an Android tablet device. There is no other way around it. Why? Because there is no reason for Amazon to launch their Android app store otherwise. There is no incentive for them to do favors to Google, or to any of Android tablet manufacturers, which are also Amazon’s competitors, by […]