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Robert Kruger, a 17-year-old German student discovered some vulnerabilities in PayPal and contends that the company has denied him a reward for finding vulnerability in its website. According to a news report from PCWorld, Kruger notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19, but because he was still under the age of 18 he was not eligible for the program. The PayPal bug bounty program based upon

The official Android IDE was already released by the world's leading technology company, Google, during the Google I/O event. The release of the Android IDE is a welcome development especially for the programming community who are thinking of working with Android. Until recently it is very difficult for programmer who wanted to create an app. Before the release of Android IDE, you have to install

Google announcement recently some of the most useful enhancement to their Apps Script. The information was relayed according to Saurabh Gupta's post in the official Google Apps Developer Blog. There are five areas of enhancement in the Google Apps Script. Gupta summarized the five areas of enhancement which were enumerated below. ***Scripts in Google Docs The App Script team has added custom menus

The Version Control Systems are important tools that every developer should be using, especially for PHP programmers. There are instances that developers don't make part the version control systems on their development tool set. We are going to discuss the Version Control System, why they are so important to be used by all developers. Before discussing the importance of VCS let us first define the

One of the leading web services, the Amazon Web Service (AWS) has launched a certification program for developers and administrators who want to be able to show their competence in working with Amazon Web Services. The two most famous AWS are the Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The AWS Certification is built around three primary roles namely Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, and Developer. It

The word's leading file hosting service company, Dropbox, announced that they will be having their first-ever developer conference to be held this coming July 9, 2013 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California. According to Dropbox, adding another 100 million users means integrating with an ever-increasing number of devices and services. For that reason, it needs an army of willing developers. The

One of the most daring move by the original founders of MySQL, the open-source database program, is the merger between Monty Program and SkySQL. The newly-merged company will operate under the SkySQL name. The company will have the two main co-creators of the original MySQL, Monty Widenius, head of Monty Program AB, and David Axmark of SkySQL. They will pool both Monty Program and SkySQL's

The world's leading software company, Microsoft, has released the second update in one of their most popular product, the Visual Studio 2012. After just four months since the release of the previous update, the company release it's Visual Studio Update 2, as part of the their pledge to ship updates for Visual Studio in "a regular cadence." The VS Update 2 is mainly for bug fixes and performance

By default, Visual Studio doesn’t come with Crystal Reports. Microsoft has now its own reporting tool with an .rdlc extension. In order to use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, you need to download it from SAP’s website. Crystal Reports is now called "SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio";. You can also download it directly here: http://downloads.businessobjects.com

A recent survey conducted in March by a company named Electric Cloud released their findings on how software engineers, programmers and developers spend most of their time. The company surveyed around 443 software developers and they found out that programmers spend majority of their time not writing code. On general average, programmers just spend under half the hours in their week on "design and