BraveNewCode Inc. is run by two Canadian gentlemen, who define themselves as “not only good looking folks, but with skills and abilities too”. However, do not allow yourself to be misguided by the sight of their pictures. They actually do have skills and abilities, apart from a great sense of humor. What began in...
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The Y2K38 Bug (also known as the Unix Millennium Bug), affects PHP and several other languages, such as Perl, Ruby or Python, and systems, such as those running on Unix and Macintosh computers, which use a signed 32-bit integer to represent dates as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970....
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With the advent of broadband, video has become mainstream. The appeal of video among Internet users is undeniable. Video portals like You Tube (#3 in the world) are among the most popular websites globally and with the expansion of broadband in every continent, the trend can only go upwards. Add to that the fact...
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When America’s largest online retailer, Amazon.com applied in 1998 for a Canadian patent of its online shopping “method and system”, Canada’s Commissioner of Patents eventually rejected the application on the grounds that it didn’t comply with the definition of “invention” as found in s. 2 of Canada’s Patent Act, although she did acknowledge that...
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