en-us Free Feed Filter http://www.freefeedfilter.com/LuCuS/Prodigy%20Productions%20LLC en-us http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/rtc-platform-update/ Recently, I’ve received several emails asking about the status of my real-time collaboration platform project. So, I decided to  take a few minutes to address this with a quick blog post. In case you aren’t familiar with my RTC platform, you can get an  idea of it here. Basically, I am working  on building a [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/javascript/avoid-using-eventsource-server-sent-events/ Earlier this month, I told you about a new project I’m working on for a real-time collaboration platform. During the early stages of development, I tested several technologies to use for communicating with the platform from a web browser. Well, today I want to talk about one of those technologies and the reason it wasn’t [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/general/i-couldnt-agree-more/ I just read this on Slashdot and wanted to re-post it as I am totally 100% on board with the original author: “Obama’s State of the Union focused on the return of manufacturing jobs to America. This New Yorker story makes the case that the manufacturing jobs aren’t going to come back, and he should [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/c-woot-off-notifier/ Yesterday, I showed you how to create a Woot! Off notifier using Python. As promised, I’m now going to show you how to create a Woot! Off notifier using C#. In case you didn’t read yesterday’s article, it basically told how I love Woot! Off’s, but hate having to constantly refresh my browser to check [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/python-woot-off-notifier/ If you’re like me, you enjoy the occasional Woot! Off. If you aren’t like me, there’s a good chance you don’t even know what a Woot! Off is. Hell, you probably don’t even know what Woot! is. If you aren’t familiar with Woot!, you should checkout an article I wrote a while back called “woot! woot! woot! [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/strong-typing-vs-loose-typing/ A few days ago, I told you about a conversation I had with some co-workers about the future of programming. One of the questions that was brought up in that conversation was should the “next programming language” be strong typed or loose typed? One of the others in the conversation completely believes that strong typing [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/whats-next-for-software-development/ Some co-workers and I recently had a conversation about programming and the question was asked, “what’s next?” The conversation started after reading an article about how Oracle is making a lot of changes that are effecting a huge crowd of developers and companies. I’ve said plenty of times before that i think Oracle will be [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/general/real-time-collaboration-server/ As most of you have pointed out, I haven’t been actively posting articles on this site like I use to. You may also have read that’s because I am currently working on yet another startup. I can’t go into details about that startup just yet. But, I can tell you about one small piece of [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/reviews/droid-motorola-razr-review/ I know that the 2 remaining Research In Motion customers are going to be pissed when they read this article. But, I’m writing it anyways. Yes, it is true. I have finally retired my Blackberry and moved over to the Droid side of the force. Being a (very very very) long time Blackberry user, it [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/books/book-builder/ A while back, I mentioned that I was starting work on a new book called “Computer vision with OpenCV & C#”. Since that announcement, I have received a lot of feedback from readers interested in the book. At the same time, I have also received almost as much interest in the tool I’m using to [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/ceylon-gets-a-site/ Back in April, we mentioned an upcoming programming language called “Ceylon”. Ceylon is suppose to be the new “Java killer” combining some of the best things from both Java and C#. Until now, there hasn’t been much more said about the Ceylon project. However, the project now has an official website which you can find [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/misc/why-do-i-do/ I started this blog just over a year ago. Since then, I have received hundreds of emails, each of which have always contained the same stuff. The emails usually start out with something like the sender had a project they were working on and my site had the final answer they needed; the so called [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/security/web-server-surveillance-using-backtrack/ A couple of days ago, I posted an article showing you how to exploit PHP using BackTrack and backdoors from weevely. Today, I want to show you another cool trick in BackTrack. This time, I want to show you how to analyze any webserver to look for known vulnerabilities and other unknown server issues. This [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/speech-recognition-with-c-and-xml-grammars/ By request from a couple of my readers, I am back to show more speech recognition using C#. In my first speech recognition article “Simple Speech Recognition Using C#“, I introduced you to the Speech Recognition Engine provided by the .NET framework. In that article, I showed you how to setup a new SRE and [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/php/exploit-php-with-backtrack-5-and-backdoors/ One of my biggest pet peeves in life is having some non-techie ask me a question about how to do something the right way, then spend the next three hours justifying to me why they did it the wrong way and will continue doing it wrong. I’m not saying that I’m the best at what [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/misc/goodbye-netflix/ For those of you that know me, you know that I’m a huge movie buff. As you can imagine, I was like a little kid in a candy store when I first signed up with Netflix years ago. Every time I opened the mailbox and found that little red envelope waiting on me, it was [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/augmented-reality-using-c-and-opencv/ As I’ve mentioned before, my articles about using OpenCV and C# are the most viewed articles on this site. Among those articles, I get more emails asking about using OpenCV and C# for augmented reality applications than I do anything else. It appears that AR is a pretty big topic these days and everyone looking [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/misc/back-from-las-vegas/ For the last week, I’ve been in Las Vegas for a software conference called TUCON (Tibco User Conference). Thankfully, I am now home where I belong. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Las Vegas as much as the next person. But, when you’re there for business, it isn’t as fun as it is when you’re [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/reviews/entourage-pocket-edge-dual-ereader-tablet-review/ A few times now, my favorite daily deals site Woot.com has had this little gizmo called the enTourage Pocket eDGe Dual eReader Tablet. It’s basically an eReader attached to a tablet. At first glance, this little guy didn’t look like anything I would be interested in having for myself. However, I did think it would [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/misc/parrot-ar-drone-meet-skynet-skynet-meet-parrot-ar-drone/ A while back, I told you about my new toy called the AR.Drone by Parrot. It’s basically an inexpensive quadcopter that includes 2 cameras, can fly indoors & outdoors, and can be controlled from your cellphone or  tablet. Well, in my case, I can now control my drone from my computer as well using a [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/misc/recovering-from-being-hacked/ As many of you have pointed out, one of our servers had been performing extremely slow for about the last month. I’m happy to say that the issue has been found and resolved. For those of you that have been asking what the issue was, I want to take a few minutes to address your [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/c/operating-system-written-entirely-in-c/ Holy c-sharp, Batman! As you already know, I’m a huge fan of C#. So, you can probably imagine what happened when I found out someone actually wrote an entire operating system in C#. It’s called “Cosmos” (http://cosmos.codeplex.com/). Short for “C# Open Source Managed Operating System”, Cosmos is an operating system that runs on x86 and [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/misc/using-third-party-frameworks-for-startups/ Throughout my programming career, I’ve been involved in lots and lots of startups. Many of the startups were my own. Of the startups that weren’t mine, I was brought on board for all kinds of reasons and at different points during their life cycles. Some times, I was brought in from day one for things [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/learn-to-code-with-codecademy/ If I had to choose one word to best describe the visitors of this site it would have to be “lazy”. Yep, I said it. Lazy! About 95% of the visitors to this site would rather ask for an entire working application than to go create it on their own. They don’t want to spend [...] http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/the-future-of-programming/ As a professional geek, I’m constantly finding myself being pulled into discussions and debates about all-things-technology. For example, some guys from work and I have been engaged in an ongoing debate about the future of programming and what we should be focusing on. Even though most technologies are growing every day at a tremendous rate, [...]