Programming Tips For Versatile Coders

One of the very important things that Python offers to programmers, is the great lists handling functions. Lists are one great data type that you can utilize for lots of different tasks. Since Python is a high level language, it makes our handling lists a real breeze.

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This one is another tutorial that i’ve written for Krobar’s website and that you can find here. I believe that it has some good value, especially if you are into reverse engineering cd protections.

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More than 6-7 years ago, i’ve written a small tutorial for the great and well known Krobar’s website that featured thousands of reverse engineering tutorials at the time. This essay was about diffing, a technique that, among other things, can be used to make cheats for games. Unluckily, in today’s games there is a high chance that this one will not work, due to serialization, encryption or compression.

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In an not so old tutorial, i’ve described how one can use urllib in Python to fetch url data and write cunning little scripts that automate online works. Sometimes, especially when you need to server some content to other users via a website, you will need to write such programs in php. Learning how to use curl is a pretty nice idea overall, since there are wrappers for the famous libcurl library at almost every language you can imagine. Therefore, you will sooner or later be using that.

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This is a guest post by a good personal friend of mine under the name Black Shadow.

Whenever we need to fill in an array, multiply a variable against a value multiple times or generally want to do the same stuff over and over, we use the C++ looping structures. They help us repeat the commands that we want to execute. We specify a set of commands to be executed according to a certain condition that we also define. While this condition is evaluated as true, the set of commands keeps executing, while when it becomes false, the looping structure ends. In general, the checking condition of a looping structure consists of a counter, that counts the number of times that the set of commands was executed. There are 3 different looping structures :

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Few people really mind security matters before anything bad happens to them. Once they get to feel how it is to lose data or give away precious information due to security faults, they begin to get more concerned over protecting their data. When it comes to websites, SQL security is one of the most important thing that haunts them. Of course, the most important one, is the php/asp or whatever code it uses.

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