Silex $app['autoloader']->registerNamespace() deprecated

The past few days I’ve been playing around with Silex, a micro PHP Framework. At a certain point I got stuck in the process when using a custom controller: the darn class just wouldn’t load and the (otherwise excellent) documentation on the Silex site has not mention on how to load it. Most of the …

Evasi0n iOS6 Jailbreak Explained

Evasi0n’s userland component is very unique, because it is entirely filesystem-based. It doesn’t require memory corruption to escalate privileges from mobile to root. Perhaps it was named evasi0n because it evades all the userland exploit defenses instead of attacking them head-on. Evasi0n Jailbreak’s Userland Component →

WebRTC RTCPeerConnection interoperability between Firefox and Chrome

RTCPeerConnection (also known simply as PeerConnection or PC) interoperability means that developers can now create Firefox WebRTC applications that make direct audio/video calls to Chrome WebRTC applications without having to install a third-party plugin. Because the functionality is now baked into the browser, users can avoid problems with first-time installs and buggy plugins, and developers …

Dear Other Parents At The Park: Please don’t help my kids

They’re not here to be at the top of the ladder; they are here to learn to climb. If they can’t do it on their own, they will survive the disappointment. What’s more, they will have a goal and the incentive to work to achieve it. It is not my job — and it is …

Bang With Friends

Sometime last week BangWithFriends started going round. The app lets you (anonymously) mark Facebook friends you are sexually interested in. If the interest is mutual, you’ll both be notified. Brilliant app I must say (it makes our promiscue youth even more introvert)! It gets really interesting when combined with Graph Search: Looks like I don’t …

GravitySpace

GravitySpace is a new approach to tracking people and objects indoors. Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor is limited to sensing objects in direct contact with the ground, GravitySpace reconstructs contents above the ground by first identifying objects based on their texture and then …