10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now

Among thousands, 10 programming languages stand out for their job marketability and wide use. If you're looking to boost your career or learn something new, start here.
  
Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are.
Yet, there is beauty in numbers. While there may be developers who have had riches heaped on them by knowing the right programming language at the right time in the right place, most longtime coders will tell you that periodically learning a new language is an essential part of being a good and successful Web developer.
"One of my mentors once told me that a programming language is just a programming language. It doesnt matter if youre a good programmer, its the syntax that matters," Tim Huckaby, CEO of San Diego-based software engineering company CEO Interknowlogy.com, told eWEEK.

However, Huckaby said that while his company is "swimming" in work, hes having a nearly impossible time finding recruits, even on the entry level, that know specific programming languages.

"Were hiring like crazy, but were not having an easy time. Were just looking for attitude and aptitude, kids right out of school that know .Net, or even Java, because with that we can train them on .Net," said Huckaby.

"Dont get fixated on one or two languages. When I started in 1969, FORTRAN, COBOL and S/360 Assembler were the big tickets. Today, Java, C and Visual Basic are. In 10 years time, some new set of languages will be the in thing. …At last count, I knew/have learned over 24 different languages in over 30 years," Wayne Duqaine, director of Software Development at Grandview Systems, of Sebastopol, Calif., told eWEEK.
By picking the brains of Web developers and IT recruiters, eWEEK selected 10 programming languages that are a bonus for developers to add to their resumes. Even better, theyre great jumping-off points, with loads of job opportunities for younger recruits.

1. PHP

What it is: An open-source, interpretive, server-side, cross-platform, HTML scripting language, especially well-suited for Web development as it can be embedded into HTML pages.

Why you should learn it: Its particularly widely used. "High-speed scripting with caching, augmented with compiled code plug-ins (such as can be done with Perl and PHP) is where the future is. Building Web apps from scratch using C or COBOL is going the way of the dinosaur," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 1,152*

2. C#

What it is: A general-purpose, compiled, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of its .NET initiative, it evolved from C and C++

Why you should learn it: Its an essential part of the .Net framework. "Learning C#, which is just Java with a different name plate, is critical if you heavily use Microsoft," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 5,111

3. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

What it is: Though technically not a programming language, AJAX uses XHTML or HTML, JavaScript and XML to create interactive Web applications.

Why you should learn it: Ever since Google Maps put AJAX, well, on the map, the requests for AJAX-knowledgeable pros went through the roof. "The demand for AJAX knowledge is huge because its so damned hard to learn," said Huckaby. Of note, Microsoft announced recently plans to release a tool named Atlas that will make AJAX easier to implement. "If Microsofts Atlas tool is successful, it would bring the extreme complexity and annoyance of AJAX to the average worker," said Huckaby.

Job availabilities : 1,106

4. JavaScript

What it is: Not to be confused with Java, JavaScript is a an object-oriented, scripting programming language that runs in the Web browser on the client side. Its smaller than Java, with a simplified set of commands, easier to code and doesnt have to be compiled.

Why you should learn it: Embedded into HTML, its used in millions of Web pages to validate forms, create cookies, detect browsers and improve the design. With its simplicity to learn as well as wide use, its considered a great bang for your educational buck.

Job availabilities: 4,406

5. Perl

What it is: Perl is an open-source, cross-platform, server-side interpretive programming language used extensively to process text through CGI programs.

Why you should learn it: Perls power in processing of piles of text has made it very popular and widely used to write Web server programs for a range of tasks. "Learning some form of scripting language, such as Perl or PHP is critical if you are doing Web apps," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 4,810

6. C

What it is: A standardized, general-purpose programming language, its one of the most pervasive languages and the basis for several others (such as C++).

Why you should learn it: "Learning C is crucial. Once you learn C, making the jump to Java or C# is fairly easy, because a lot of the syntax is common. Also, a lot of C syntax is used in scripting languages," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 6,164, including all derivatives

7. Ruby and Ruby on Rails

What they are: Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented, open-source programming language; Ruby on Rails is an open-source Web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.

Why you should learn it: With a focus on simplicity, productivity and letting the computers do the work, in a few years, its usage has spread quickly. As a bonus, many find it easy to learn.

Job availabilities : 210 and 54, respectively

8. Java

What it is: An object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s.

Why you should learn it: Hailed by many developers as a "beautiful" language, it is central to the non-.Net programming experience. "Learning Java is critical if you are non-Microsoft," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 14,408

9. Python

What it is: An interpreted, dynamically object-oriented, open-source programming language that utilizes automatic memory management.

Why you should learn it: Designed to be a highly readable, minimalist language, many say it has a sense of humor (spam and eggs, rather than foo and bar), Python is used extensively by Google as well as in academia because of its syntactic simplicity.

Job availabilities: 811

10. VB.Net (Visual Basic .Net)

What it is: An object-oriented language implemented on Microsofts .Net framework.

Why you should learn it: Most argue that VB.Net is currently more popular than ever and one of the only "must-learns." "It is currently dominating in adoption and that is where all the work is," said Huckaby.

Job availabilities: 2,090

* All numbers on job availability were pulled from nationwide queries on Dice.com, a job site for technology professionals.

F-Secure Internet Security 2010 v10.00.246

F-Secure® Internet Security™ 2010 offers better security online without slowing down your computer. The completely redesigned new version offers significantly improved performance, including 70 % less memory consumption and 60 % faster scanning. It also provides enhanced protection against viruses, malware, spam e-mail, and cyber criminals. Automatic updates and advanced cloud computing technology ensure the fastest protection against new threats. The new Browsing Protection feature tells you which websites are safe to enter and which you should avoid.

Features:

* Easy to install and use
* Real-time blocking of viruses, spyware and other malware
* Instant protection against new threats (DeepGuard)
* Firewall for protection against hackers
* Browsing Protection identifies dangerous websites and protects your identity online
* Protects children from inappropriate web content
* Spam & phishing e-mail filtering

DownLoad:

Rapidshare:
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Protecting Yourself When Downloading Using µTorrent

If you've been using BitTorrent to download any of the more popular files, such as the latest episode of some major TV show, you may have found yourself receiving lots of "Wasted" data. This is data that has been discarded after being deemed corrupt or invalid by your BitTorrent client. Every so often, you will have received more wasted data than the size of the files you are downloading!


This is happening because Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, which send out fake or corrupt data in order to waste bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading major copyrighted torrents, as much as a fourth of the peers you are connected to can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this. Once you've established a connection to one of these fake "peers", your IP has been logged and will most likely be sent to the RIAA/MPAA!
But there is a way to fight back! If you are using the latest µTorrent (1.5), you can employ a little known feature called IP filtering. The author of µTorrent has gone out of his way to hide it, but it's there nonetheless.

But before we can activate this filter, we need to retrieve a list of currently known Anti-P2P organization IPs.
This is most easily done by downloading the latest blacklist from Bluetack (the same people who wrote SafePeer for the Azureus BT client) at http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz This list is updated daily, and contains all known Anti-P2P organizations, trackers and peers, aswell as all known Goverment/Military IP addresses as collected by the Bluetack team. Once downloaded, extract and rename the file original filename "ipfilter.dat" to "ipfilter.dat" in preparation for the final step.


EDIT ADD: FOR EVEN HIGHER SECURITY
Paranoid pipfilter.dat.gz
Description: This list is all the blacklists bluetack makes put into a .dat.gz file for emule, now this will block some isp and also alot of things one may not think needed. Use at your own risk. This will have to be unzipped and then replace the .dat file manualy, in the config folder.
Version: Filesize: 0 bytes
Added on: 29-Apr-2005 Downloads: 39034
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=68
rename to "ipfilter.dat"
security related:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=2



To make the list available to µTorrent, you need to place the renamed ipfilter.dat file in %AppData%\uTorrent. Go to Start -> Run and type %AppData%\uTorrent at the box. Click Ok button and a folder will appear.



After placing the ipfilter.dat in this folder, start µTorrent and go into preferences (Ctrl+P), then click on "Advanced". In the right hand pane, make sure that "ipfilter.enable" is set to true, and then close the dialog. That's it for the configuration.



You can verify that the list has been loaded by looking under the "Logging" tab of µTorrent, where you should see the line "Loaded ipfilter.dat (X entries)".



Congratulations! You are now protected against most of the garbage-distributing peers; and the likelyhood of the RIAA or MPAA knocking at your door has been substantially reduced! I'd go as far as to say that you shouldn't be using µTorrent at all without this feature turned on! And even if the law enforcement side of it doesn't bother you, you should still be interested in reducing the amount of garbage data that gets sent your way, which in turn leads to quicker downloads, and isn't that something everybody should strive for?

Making Your Website Into a Business Opportunity

How is internet marketing business helping people earn great income and take it as their primary business? Today people are interested in making fast and easy money which is not impossible. If you can put in some effort in the start then your internet marketing business can help you earn money easily and quickly.

Online business is a new form of conducting business, in this business a person cannot actually see or talk to his customers but has to convince him through written words only. Therefore having a website to promote your business online is indispensible. With so many website development companies available online it is very difficult to predict which one of them will satisfy your needs. Every company has its own way of creating a website design and uses its own special technique to promote your website against masses.

With a proper website design you can approach your customers professionally. Many people today create blogs to spread awareness about their brand amongst people but it is not enough. You audience must know where they can read more detail about your product and where it can be purchased. Sometimes an interested customer may not be able to purchase things without proper knowledge of the sales page. A web designing company offers you a base which is similar to an offline office and lets your customer reach you easily.

So when creating your website, it is important that you know your needs beforehand. There are some companies that provide great shopping offers to customers. They sell products of various brands due to which they require website with 70-80 pages. This is not required by every company. If you have just started your online business then you must choose a simple website, a website with essential links and pages. When you approach a web development company, they make sure that your products are described in a convincing way to excite the customer to purchase them. Having a sales page in your website is must. With the help of a sales page your customers can purchase the products anytime of the day or night.

A novice internet marketer may not have much knowledge as what to include in his website and what not. You do not have to fill your website with web pages but must use minimal amount of pictures to accentuate your product. A good website is one that details all positives and benefits of a product, a website that describes the product decently without exaggerating it. It is very important that you promise your customer only as much you can deliver. Fake promises can bring you more customers for some time but will not be profitable in the long run.

Web development companies offer you a great start by creating a website which is unique and easy to use and lets you achieve the kind of profit you dream of attaining from it. There are many website design Sydney companies that are known for its wonderful design and development services.

Five Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Search Engine Optimization

The phrase Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gets passed around like a worn one-dollar note in the competitive Internet marketplace. Gurus will be quick to point a finger at you as a nobody if you are not ranking for high valued keywords. While that last statement is not entirely true, it is feasible to be earning money by other means and SEO is among the most essential parts of an online campaign. Without SEO you will be throwing considerable amounts of cash down a rat hole. It's important that you do not become the marketer that's always chasing what "could have been." Instead, apply SEO disciplines and principles to your online business and see the profits roll in. By applying the following five principles to your online business will help you attain a top ranking in Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. This will save you time and create a massive amount of marketing muscle to expand your online income.

1. Choose keywords prudently
Become the master online marketer you want to be by picking the correct niche and it will pay off handsomely once you begin marketing. It is a waste of time to compete in a crowded and non-lucrative niche. The old adage says "crowds go where the money is" but this is not always true. People are sometimes too slow to see their advertising dollars going down the drain because big dumb money may rests in a specific niche. Conduct a complete investigation when deciding upon which niche to enter. Time spent here will benefit you later.

2. Start your own email list and stay in contact
The greatest asset online is a customer list. You may have heard it before that the money is in the list. It is the list that will sustain your future enterprise. All to often, list building gets passed over by amateur marketers. Building a massive list is common sense for major online marketers. You should build your list through opt-in forms located on your website. At the very least, get their first name and good email address so you can personalize your email communication. Use this list to introduce your products. Stay in constant contact with your list but never abuse your list with spammy offers. Create real value and a positive relationship by sending news worthy content to your customer list as often as possible. Treat your customers the way you would want to be treated. Do this and you will build a loyal following and will generate back links to your website through word-of-mouth which will increase your search engine rankings.

3. Add your keywords in post-writing
Nothing is more challenging than trying to create article content for SEO right from the start. It's not something you want to spend a lot of time doing. Using that method will ultimately compromise the quality of your labor. Never impede your creative writing ability by thinking only in terms of SEO content. Instead, write an article with a broad topic in mind and later add keywords to it where appropriate. You will produce high quality SEO content by using this method.

4. Pick your products carefully
Not all that glitters is gold. Weight the good with the bad when deciding which affiliate program to promote. Some affiliate content maybe outdated or may have never worked when it was released to the public. Be carefull and only pick affiliate products that have obvious and proven benefits that can be demonstrated how well they work. Go beyond the earnings screenshots for evidence that it works. Since your name and reputation are at stake, proper due diligence is advised when selecting an affiliate program to promote.

5. Give it enough time to work
You will not attain a top search engine ranking in one week. Don't attempt to hurry things along but do give your SEO efforts the time and consideration it deserves to achieve maximum success. Build your SEO strategy and always use quality content. Do not compromise your long-term strategy by experimenting with untested marketing strategies. In order to accomplish your goal of online success you must stay on course.

How To Recover Sql Data From Corrupt Mdf

SQL Server, a Microsoft product, is an extensively used database management application which is used in small as well large set ups because of its stable, efficient, dependable, strong, consistent and safe database management features. This Server stores information in .MDF files, which like other computer files are susceptible to corruption. Many unwanted reasons can cause corruption in MDF files of SQL Server like hasty improper system shut down, cache problem, hard disk failure, invalid database file header, internal program errors and other such unexpected reasons. Whatever be the cause of damage of MDF file, it leaves the users in tough and awful situation where the only though that comes to their mind is of data loss.

When such damage occurs, a large amount of data like clients"�� information, inventory details and other such important information can become inaccessible, which will be a great cause of concern for the SQL users. Damage of these mission-critical MDF files can completely halt many working processes in the organizations. And if this data is not recovered urgently, then it can result in an immense loss for the organization.

Most of the SQL database recovery tools available in the online marketplace that communicate with corrupt MDF files for data recovery are not that high performing. But, a software tool that can really perform phenomenally will save the organizations from going into the pit loss. Today, MDF file recovery is not a big deal if the user can fetch the right software at the right time to extract SQL data. Today, most of the data recovery software companies have the Demo versions of their tools, which is a great way of choosing the perfect tool. Users can try these Demos and see which MS SQL Recovery software is efficient enough for their need. The choice should be of such SQL data retrieval tool that can recover SQL data within minutes and which is easy to use, efficient in performance and cost-effective to buy. Just a scroll through the search engine like Google, would make you come across SysTools SQL Recovery Tool, which is exactly the software for SQL data restore you might be looking for! It is an appropriate and cost-effective SQL recovery software solution.

How To Safely Pay Online With Credit Card

Vulnerability of Internet surfers to online fraud is caused mostly by their lack of knowledge of this subject. There is no need to refrain from using credit cards online in order to be safe. If one follows a few very simple rules, one can reduce the risk of being caught by online fraud almost to zero.

Credit card numbers and other data are transmitted using secure SSL technology which is practically impossible to break. But fraudsters find different ways to steal information. They either make a fake web site which looks identical to an authentic site (this method is called phishing) or they use spyware to get information from a user's computer. Let us see how that is done and how one can protect oneself from such frauds.

Phishing. In order to steal credit card data, a fraudster creates a fake web site which looks exactly like some authentic site. A visitor, who suspects nothing, enters credit card information which then gets intercepted by those who created the fake site. In fact, it is very easy to avoid being captured by such kind of tricks. Even if the site is an identical copy of the original one, its URL will be different. Thus it is sufficient to check carefully the site's URL in the browser address string. For example, the URL of all Skype pages starts with http://www.skype.com... except for the secure payment pages, which look like https://secure.skype.com... or https://pay.skype.com... One should check the URL very carefully because a fraudster may use a very similar URL with just one different letter, so one may easily miss it. In some cases, however, phishers may be able to change the site's URL in the browser address string. Therefore, the most reliable and simple way to avoid phishing sites is not to click on the links that come in an e-mail from a source you are not absolutely sure about or are contained in a site that may be not trustworthy. In such cases it is better to type the URL manually in the browser address string. That will ensure complete guarantee from getting to a phishing site.

Spyware. There are two main types of spyware programs, keyloggers and screen loggers. Keylogger intercepts everything that is typed on keyboard, while screen logger takes snapshots of a small screen area around the place where one clicks with the mouse. Information thus obtained is sent to the attacker. To make oneself secure against such attacks, one should not type credit card numbers using keyboard and should not click in the card number field on the Web page. One may then ask, but how are we going to enter credit card information in that case? That is in fact quite simple, just follow the steps below.

1. Open Notepad (or Word or any other text editor) and type numbers from 0 to 9 randomly, each number can be typed several times.
2. Open the Web page where you are going to make payment (enter the credit card data) and enter only your name and expiry date of the card (at this stage you can safely click anywhere within that window as it does not yet contain any sensitive information).
3. Click once in the empty field for the card number to place the cursor in that field. To make the process even safer, you can hide now the card number field behind the screen edge by dragging the browser window towards a side of the screen.
4. Switch to Notepad (or your text editor). But this time do not click in the Notepad window, because now it contains information, instead click on the respective button at the bottom of the screen.
5. Bring the cursor to the first digit to be entered (first digit in your credit card number) using left or right arrow keys. Press Shift+(Left Arrow) or Shift+(Right Arrow) to highlight it. Then copy the digit to Clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C. Now you can shift the cursor with left or right arrow keys, so that there is no highlighted digit which could be seen by screen logger when you make next click.
6. Switch to the browser window. Again do not click in the window itself, click instead on the respective button at the bottom of the screen.
7. Press Ctrl+V to paste the copied digit into the card number field.
8. Repeat steps 4-7 for each digit in the credit card number, thus you will enter the whole number.
9. While still in the browser window, press Tab one or several times until the cursor comes to the security code entry field (security code is the three digit number on the back of the card).
10. Enter the security code by following steps 4-7 above.

Thus you will enter the credit card information without typing it on the keyboard or clicking into respective fields in the form. This will secure you from any spyware attacks. Of course, in principle, one can create spyware that would track all the steps above. However, that is quite difficult. Especially, taking into account that you may modify those steps in many different ways (for example, you may use your e-mail client instead of Notepad to type a sequence of digits, or in between those steps you may do something else), it becomes practically impossible to create a program that would be able to track them.

Keep Your Site Still Maintained

All too often, people let their well designed website slide into disrepair because they don't invest the money needed to maintain it properly. You can avoid that problem by being prepared to hire a professional team to keep your site plugging right along without incident. It's money well spent, indeed.

Some of these options however, do not always ensure the long-term viability and integrity of your site. It is of the utmost importance to remember that your Web site is a 24-hour per day, 7-day per week advertisement available to millions of viewers around the globe. It is for this reason that you should ensure that your site is hosted by professionals who not only understand how your site functions, but who can also provide the maximum amount of guaranteed uptime of their servers and long-term support of your site.

Familiarity Breeds Benefits -

Many people have heard the old saying that familiarity breeds contempt. However, in the world of web development, this is certainly not the case. In fact, it is incredibly important for a hosting company to be intimately familiar with the design of your Web site, its content management system and the associated functions. This is why it is essential that you consider having your site hosted by the company that provides the design and development.

If the company hosting your site is familiar with the structure and inner working of site, they will simply be able make sure that the hosting platform is sufficient and that any updates and amendments to the site can be handled in an efficient manner. You might be thinking that you can get what you need from any number of companies out there that offer cheap hosting plans. Please keep in mind that you get what you pay for.

Generally, hosting companies offering the so-called benefits of inexpensive hosting plans are not responsible for any updated that your site may require. The general assumption is that you are going to take care of any updates or fixes that are necessary. In short, they offer only a basic hosting platform, which may or may not be able to support a small Web site effectively.

These low-pay plans also offer no real help in maintaining your site. If you have to rely on a programmer, a designer and a separate hosting firm, then you are in the hands of three points of contact. This can result with three potential areas for error and three times the cost when the site requires attention. If you're using the same company that helped you develop your site in the first place, you'll receive the benefit of one point of contact and less opportunity for errors to occur.

But I can save money with entry level hosting plans...

Entry level hosting solutions at times may appear to be an inexpensive alternative to full-service hosting companies. When you investigate further than the price, though, you may find that this isn't really the case. With a full service hosting plan through a reputable company, the first thing you receive is experience. Providing long-term care for your Web site requires the knowledge that only years of development experience can provide. Using a full service company also provides you with designers who know the structure of your Web site - this alone is invaluable. For instance, if you try calling up an entry level only hosting service and asking them to update a particular area of your site you may run into strive as most likely they will not even have a listed contact number.

This leads us to the third point: support. Companies providing entry level hosting services generally do not offer any form of customer support. When you add in the time and money it takes to hire a designer to update your site and provide maintenance and support, your entry level monthly hosting plan has just turned into a much higher priced service. The bottom line is that working with a web development and hosting service providing one point of contact may have initial costs that are a bit higher, but over time, those costs are defrayed by the high level of service and experience that you just can't find in the pay-by-the-month plans.