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How to download any video from any website
If you have ever seen a video that you really liked and you would have liked to have it on your computer, but you didn't know how, from now on you will know it, since we are going to see which are the tools that allow us to do this…
Category : Technology 16-05-2023 by Janeth Kent
A Step-by-Step Process to Using Artificial Intelligence as a Startup
Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence is an industry buzzword that continues to grow in popularity as the months go by. The reason is there´s always an advancement in AI that company owners can use to elevate their business endeavors. One of the fantastic things about AI is its exponential growth, where each…
Category : Technology 14-03-2023 by Janeth Kent
Loading images by resolution with HTML5
Normally the way to load images in HTML is through the img element to which we pass as a parameter the URL of the image to load. But since HTML5 we have the picture element that helps us to make it more efficient and load images by resolution with HTML5. That…
Category : Web design 20-12-2022 by Janeth Kent
How to create PDF with JavaScript and jsPDF
Creating dynamic PDF files directly in the browser is possible thanks to the jsPDF JavaScript library. In the last part of this article we have prepared a practical tutorial where I show you how to implement the library. Below you can see the completed exercise. The client side is gaining ground over…
Category : Javascript 04-12-2022 by Janeth Kent
The history of video games: from entertainment to virtual reality
The release of Return to Monkey Island (September 2022) has jogged video game fans' memories back to 1990, when The Secret of Monkey Island debuted, a graphic adventure based on the vicissitudes of Guybrush Threepwood, a somewhat awkward would-be pirate whose story inspired the film Pirates of the Caribbean. While…
Category : Videogames 28-11-2022 by Janeth Kent
The first videogame tournaments: the origin of eSports
The first video videogame tournaments: the origin of "eSports". Electronic sports or "eSports" are video game competitions that have been increasing in popularity over the years, being a lucrative sector that currently moves hundreds of millions of euros. Its origins date back to the first video game tournaments in history, which were…
Category : Videogames 19-10-2022 by Janeth Kent
How to create a .onion domain for your website
The dark web, a hidden network accessed through the Tor browser, offers enhanced privacy and anonymity for websites. To establish a presence on the dark web, you can create a .onion domain for your website. A .onion domain is an address that can only be accessed through the Tor network.…
Category : Networking 06-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
How to Start a Web Design Agency in 2022
If the last two years have shown us anything, it’s that a good online presence is paramount to success in the modern world of business. Once they have a robust web-based reputation in place, companies have the capacity to disrupt their sectors in an engaging, intuitive, and ultimately profitable fashion.…
Category : Web marketing 25-01-2022 by Janeth Kent
JavaScript Programming Styles: Best Practices
When programming with JavaScript there are certain conventions that you should apply, especially when working in a team environment. In fact, it is common to have meetings to discuss standards to follow. The reason is that code is much more readable when certain standards are followed. We have already seen…
Category : Javascript 28-10-2021 by Janeth Kent
How to access webcam and grab an image using HTML5 and Javascript
We often use webcams to broadcast video in real time via our computer. This broadcast can be viewed, saved and even shared via the Internet. As a rule, we need software to access the webcam and stream video. But you can also stream video on websites without using third-party software. The…
Category : Javascript 20-05-2021 by Janeth Kent
Advanced Android tutorial: discover all your phone's secrets
It is highly probable that you are not taking advantage of even half of the potential that your Android device has to offer. These small pocket computers, which we call smartphones, have increasingly advanced and powerful hardware that, together with the possibilities offered by an operating system as flexible as…
Category : Mobile 06-05-2021 by Janeth Kent
Use the SRCSET attribute to improve your SEO
There is a new standard HTML attribute that can be used in conjunction with IMG called SRCSET. It is new and important as it allows webmasters to display different images based on the size of the device, and without using javascript or other special code. This means we can serve…
Category : Web design 30-04-2021 by Silvia Mazzetta
5 Terrific iOS-Friendly Canva Alternatives to Upgrade Your Marketing Visuals
Sometimes you want to use your iPhone to create compelling, engaging marketing visuals, and as awesome as Canva is, many of us are interested in seeing what other options are out there. As all marketers know, consistent branding is a must for any company (or even individual) who wants to stand…
Category : Web marketing 05-05-2021 by Janeth Kent
eSports streaming market breaks all records
If it was already very successful globally before, in the wake of the pandemic the online game streaming industry has managed to grow to totally unexpected levels. Its expansion is unstoppable and experts predict that its value will grow by 70% in the next four years and could reach some…
Category : Videogames 27-04-2021 by Janeth Kent
How To Use Varnish As A Highly Available Load Balancer On Ubuntu 20.04 With SSL
Load balancing with high availability can be tough to set up. Fortunately, Varnish HTTP Cache server provides a dead simple highly available load balancer that will also work as a caching server. The modern use of SSL/TLS for all traffic has made this a little harder as Vanish has to handle…
Category : Servers 25-04-2021 by Janeth Kent
Starting with Bootstrap-Vue step by step
Today we will show you how to use BootstrapVue, describe the installation process and show basic functionality. The project’s based on the world's most popular CSS framework - Bootstrap, for building responsive mobile-first landing page and combines it with Vue.js. Bootstrap-Vue does not yet support Vue 3. So if you want to…
Category : Javascript 13-04-2021 by
Graphic design and its impact on Web Development
In today's article we will explain the concept of graphic design, its fundamentals and what it brings into web development. Graphic design is applied to everything visual, believe or not, it can aid in selling a product or idea, it's applied company identity as logos, colors, typography of the company…
Category : Web design 05-04-2021 by
Creating simple CSS spinner-loader
In today's article we will show you how to animate a basic loader that spins when some predefined action is defined, such as loading an image. That can be used on a website for example when there is a request running and the result is not yet retrieved. What are they? Loading…
Category : Css 05-04-2021 by
Deepfakes Detection – An Emerging Technological Challenge
It is highly probable that while browsing the Internet, everyone of us has at some point stumbled upon a deepfake video. Deepfakes usually depict well-known people doing really improbable things – like the queen of England dancing on her table or Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreations starring as every…
Category : Technology 27-01-2021 by Iveta Karailievova
7 Astonishing New Uses of Machine Learning
Recently a strange video published on YouTube caused a controversy – it was a funny take on Queen Elizabeth’s traditional Christmas message created by Channel 4, a British public-service television broadcaster. They used AI to produce a fake video of the Queen making it look very realistic and if the message itself…
Category : Technology 31-12-2020 by Iveta Karailievova
How to use Parallax.js effect on your website
Today, we're going to write about the parallax effect, similar to parallax scrolling, and how to implement it to improve your landing page. In webdev, they say mobile first - well, this engine will react to the movement of a smart device, offsetting layers depending on their depth within a…
Category : Javascript 26-12-2020 by
Read comics online: best websites and apps to download and read digital comics
Comic book lovers (like us), today we're going to give you a special tribute: a small collection of websites and applications to download and read digital comics, both on your computer and on your mobile devices. You'll be able to access a wide collection of free and paid digital comics, and…
Category : News and events 26-05-2023 by Silvia Mazzetta
Cross cultural challenges in web design, an overview
The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user. - David Kadavy - The task of building a culturally appropriate website for a new market can be challenging: in this article we are going to talk about the impact of national…
Category : Web design 21-12-2020 by Maria Antonietta Marino
The easiest way to align items using flexbox
With the release of flexbox in CSS, it has become an essential tool when placing elements next to each other, since, by default, the children of a display: flexare stacked on the left side taking up the minimum space according to their content. If we want to modify the behavior of…
Category : Css 17-11-2020 by Janeth Kent
What's the Difference between Google TV and Android TV?
At the end of September, Google launched the renewal of its classic dongle. The new Google Chromecast didn't arrive alone, but added two very important innovations compared to the devices of previous generations that have been turning normal televisions into smart TVs since 2013. The first of these novelties is the…
Category : Software 27-10-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
Hashmap: hashing, collisions and first functions
Today we are going to study some concepts closely related to hashmaps. The concepts we are going to see are hashing and collisions. Hashing The idea of hashing with chaining is to create a sort of array of lists, into which the elements are somehow inserted. We need to map the keys to…
Category : C language 28-06-2020 by Alessio Mungelli
Javascript: what are callbacks and how to use them.
Today we are going to learn about a concept that is widely used in javascript and that is used quite a lot by today's frameworks, libraries, especially NodeJS. This is the use of Callbacks. What is a Callback? Simplifying, it is to pass a function as a parameter so that this function…
Category : Javascript 23-10-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
The new features coming to the Google search engine in autumn 2020
Google has included important improvements in its search engine, applying Artificial Intelligence, to make it easier for users to find what they are looking for. It has also announced new features in Google Lens and other search tools. The main novelties are the following: Many of the announced improvements involve the…
Category : Seo & sem 18-10-2020 by Luigi Nori
MAME Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator: How to download and configure this arcade emulator for Windows
Despite the fact that new state-of-the-art computer games are coming out every so often, the whole retro theme is very appealing to users who are looking to relive the long hours spent in front of a console, such as the NES or SNES, and even in arcades playing arcade machines.…
Category : Software 14-10-2020 by Luigi Nori
How to turn an Android device into a retro game console
If you like retro games and you want to set up your own system at home, a good way to do it is using Android. From emulators for Mega Drive, N64, GBA, PS1 or Super Nintendo, to other systems such as MAME, all of them are available in Android app…
Category : Software 14-10-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
HTTP Cookies: how they work and how to use them
Today we are going to write about the way to store data in a browser, why websites use cookies and how they work in detail. Continue reading to find out how to implement and manage them - if you're looking for code! Understanding HTTP COOKIES - What are they? Cookies and other types…
Category : Programming 27-11-2020 by
SEO in Google News: How to appear in Google News
Google News is a tool, from Google, that spreads current, reliable and truthful content from different websites or portals dedicated exclusively to news. The sites that appear in Google News have a great opportunity to increase traffic to your website and consequently the opportunity to increase your sales through it. If you…
Category : Seo & sem 26-06-2023 by Luigi Nori
Google Dorks: How to find interesting data and search like hacker
Go the words Google and Hacking together? Well if you thought that we will learn how to use hack Google, you might be wrong. But we can Use Google search engine to find interesting data accidentally exposed to the Internet. Such a simple search bar has the potential to help you also…
Category : Security 03-12-2021 by
Jennifer in Paradise: story of the first photo ever edited in Photoshop
A photograph with more than 30 years of history has become an icon in popular culture, or at least it remains in the memory of those who have ever used Adobe Photoshop, the well-known tool for photo retouching. Behind software like Photoshop there are dozens of stories. One of them…
Category : News and events 25-09-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
Mobile cryptophones on the market (legals)
As we have said, it is a market often at the borders of legality, also because these devices are particularly used by criminals. Some models, however, are also available through standard commercial channels, while others are sold through direct distributors and cash payment. We list some of them here, with the…
Category : Security 15-09-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to install a Linux partition on a Windows 10 PC
In spite of a past we could say almost confronted, the approach between Windows and Linux is accelerating more and more, drawing a story closer to love than to hate. So much so that Windows 10 already offers support for Linux natively. Creating a subsystem is no longer penalized. A…
Category : Operating systems 06-09-2020 by Luigi Nori
What cybersecurity professionals have learned from the lockdown experience
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the rules of the game for most companies and individuals in a very short time; it has also changed the international computing universe. Sudden changes in people's habits as well as in business operations have altered some of the elements that characterize cyber-risk. And…
Category : Security 26-08-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
Matrix. An open network for secure and decentralized communication that you can install in your Ubuntu server
Imagine to have an open platform that is as independent, vibrant and evolving as the Web itself, but for communication. As of June 2019, Matrix is out of beta, and the protocol is fully suitable for production usage. But, what is Matrix? Matrix is an open standard for real-time, interoperable and decentralized communication over…
Category : Networking 25-08-2020 by Luigi Nori
The concept of Model-View-Controller (MVC) explained
In software engineering, we use design patterns as reusable solutions to a commonly occurring problem, a pattern is like a template for how to solve a problem. Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a software design pattern that divides the related program or web application into three interconnected elements or components. Each of these…
Category : Programming 22-10-2020 by
How to integrate native images lazy loading in your web projects
Support for natively lazy-loading images is now supported on the web! Look at this demo of the feature From the version 76 of Chrome, you can use the loading attribute to lazy-load images without the need to write custom lazy-loading code or use a separate JavaScript library. Let's dive into the details. Browser compatibility is supported…
Category : Programming 03-04-2023 by Luigi Nori
What is the origin of the word SPAM?
It is 40 years since the first spam e-mail was sent. Surely most of the readers of this blog had not yet been born, as well as annoying mail with which we are bombarded in our emails, social networks, or mobiles already existed long before our existence. Have you ever wondered what the origin of the…
Category : Web marketing 03-08-2020 by Janeth Kent
Introduction to Network Theory
Modern network theory was introduced at the end of the nineties by the PhD student Reka Albert and then monopolized by her tutor L.A. Barabasi, who made an empire out of it. The idea was not new, network theory is based on graph theory and graph theory had been already introduced…
Category : Networking 03-08-2020 by
Smishing: risks, examples and how to avoid it
Do you know what smishing is, what risks it involves and how you can avoid it? The cyber-criminals are betting on the technique known as Smishing when it comes to defrauding users through text messages (SMS). The objective of Smishing is the same as that of other types of scams…
Category : Security 16-07-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
A collection of interesting networks and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet
The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work? Take a look at this collection of projects aimed to build a decentralized internet. Cloud BitDust - is decentralized, secure and anonymous on-line storage, where only…
Category : Networking 27-08-2020 by Janeth Kent
Why do you vote the way you do in the age of misinformation and fake news?
In this context of the electoral campaign in which we are immersed, the 'political hoaxes' are becoming more relevant and it is expected that attacks to destabilize the parties and candidates in order to influence the electorate will increase. As recent examples, let's remember that disinformation campaigns influenced Trump to win…
Category : News and events 11-06-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to turn your smartphone into a webcam for your pc
With the propagation of Covid-19 we all had to adapt to a new quarantine situation at home, and since the human being needs to communicate constantly, we used the internet channel to make group calls, be it between friends or business meetings. This has led to a rapid expansion of online…
Category : Multimedia 17-05-2020 by Luigi Nori
Easy Face and hand tracking browser detection with TensorFlow.js AI and MediaPipe
In March the TensorFlow team has released two new packages: facemesh and handpose for tracking key landmarks on faces and hands respectively. This release has been a collaborative effort between the MediaPipe and TensorFlow.js teams within Google Research. The facemesh package finds facial boundaries and landmarks within an image, and handpose…
Category : Programming 09-04-2020 by Luigi Nori
Best Free Image Optimization Tools for Image Compression
Our monitors are getting better and better and, of course, we want to make them profitable by enjoying images with an increasing resolution when we browse. The problem is that this only increases the weight of the web pages, slowing down their load (and thus degrading the user's experience). Something…
Category : Software 27-03-2020 by Janeth Kent
How to Improve Your Website to Attract Local Customers
If you run a small business, make no mistake: local search is imperative for your success. You might have lofty dreams of attracting the world to your website, but it’s those local visitors who will make the difference. This is because 80% of people will try and find local information with…
Category : Web marketing 18-03-2020 by
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and examples of XSS and CSRF
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) enables web clients to make HTTP requests to servers hosted on different origins. CORS is a unique web technology in that it has both a server-side and a client-side component. The server-side component configures which types of cross-origin requests are allowed, while the client-side component controls…
Category : Javascript 30-01-2020 by Luigi Nori
10 SEO trends for 2020
In "Ma-No" we have tried to make some predictions with our digital crystal ball and (knowing that we will be wrong about many things) about what will happen in SEO in the next months. These are the ten trends that could mark the evolution of web positioning in 2020. 1. More…
Category : Seo & sem 01-01-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
Java Design Pattern: Strategy Pattern
One of the most popular patterns is the Strategy Pattern. It is also one of the easiest patterns. It is a member of the behavioral patterns family, it has the duty of managing algorithms, relations and responsibility among classes. The GoF defines it as follow: It defines a series of encapsulated algorithms…
Category : Java 13-09-2019 by Alessio Mungelli
Java Sorting Algorithm: Selection Sort
Today we are going to analyze a sorting algorithm that is not very efficient but often used in various fields. We are talking abou the Selection Sort. Let's have a look. Intuition The idea behind it is to divide the array to sort into two sub-arrays: the first that contains the sorted data…
Category : Java 31-03-2023 by Alessio Mungelli
Java Sorting Algorithms: Quick Sort
Welcome back to this overview about the Java world! Today, we are going to talk about a renowned sorting algorithm: the Quick Sort. The Quick Sort is not very suitable for educational purposes because its implementation may not be trivial, but at the performance level it offers some advantages that are not indifferent, unlike…
Category : Java 14-12-2019 by Alessio Mungelli
Layouts with Bootstrap 4: how to create a responsive web
Responsive or adaptable web design is a design methodology in which the appearance of the web page adapts to the resolution of the device with which it is being viewed, so we can have a unique design for computers, tablets or mobiles. To implement a responsive design we can make use…
Category : Web design 23-11-2019 by Silvia Mazzetta
What is Webpack and how does it work
WebPack is basically a packer of modules or module bundler, but thanks to one of its components, the plugins, can be used as tasks runner, ie we can do tasks of all kinds, such as moving directories, clean up, etc... To understand what Webpack is, let's analyze this graph a bit. Webpack…
Category : Programming 23-11-2019 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to Gain an Edge and Improve Your Engagement Rate on Instagram
Image source: Unsplash.com Instagram has more than one billion active profiles every month and the platform continues to grow at a rapid speed. This is no surprise given just how popular it has become in recent times. Given the number of active users, it is no surprise that so many businesses and…
Category : Social networks 20-11-2019 by Silvia Mazzetta
DevOps, Agile Operations, and Continuous Delivery
Source: Pixabay Companies and enterprises across the globe have successfully implemented the Agile methodology of developing software and witnessed many benefits regarding smaller development times. Agile also helped to streamline the processes in various multilevel software development teams. The methodology creates feedback loops all while driving the peace that goes with…
Category : Programming 26-09-2019 by Silvia Mazzetta
Wi-Fi 6
In the second quarter of 2019, Wi-Fi Alliance decided to release the new version of Wi-Fi protocol, innovative already from the name. In fact, if the previous standards had incomprehensible names like IEEE 802.11a, IEEE802.11n and so on, the new protocol is called Wi-Fi 6. This standard introduces some new features.…
Category : Technology 12-09-2019 by Alessio Mungelli
10 libraries for machine learning in JavaScript
JavaScript is currently one of the most popular programming languages. Its main application is in web applications, used to give functionality to dynamic web pages. Another field in which it is gaining strength is for the creation of mobile applications. Being the language used in different hybrid development platforms such…
Category : Javascript 16-06-2020 by Luigi Nori
Vue.js 3.0: What are Hooks and how they work
This article introduces an experimental Vue feature called Hooks. Before you start This post is suited for developers of all stages including beginners. Here are a few things you should already have before going through this article. You will need the following in your pc: Node.js version 10.x and above installed. You can verify if…
Category : Javascript 06-09-2019 by Luigi Nori
The history of software development in two minutes: a century of logic, languages and code
The video shows the hyper-compressed history of software development and programming beginning in 1912 with Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead and their work on formal logic and type theory. Then came the first electromechanical calculators from IBM and others. Turing laid the foundations for programming in 1930 and by 1940…
Category : Programming 20-08-2019 by Janeth Kent
Google Search hacks to Use Google More Efficiently
Modern folks have grown up with having all the world's data at their fingertips with super mobile phones glued to our palms. Or it's what we've always believed. Sometimes the incredible amount of information in a Google search result can actually stop us from finding out what we need. We…
Category : Software 24-07-2019 by Janeth Kent
How to use to Chrome Lighthouse
How would you like to perform a fast SEO audit with a Chrome browser-based instrument? With the Lighthouse extension, you can do that. If you're not acquainted with Lighthouse, it's an open-source tool used by experts to verify their website's health. It analyzes everything from best practices to performance to accessibility. As…
Category : Seo & sem 14-06-2019 by Janeth Kent
Unlock Hidden SmartPhone Features with these Secret Codes
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), sometimes known as "quick codes" or "feature codes", is an extra-UI protocol, which allows people to access hidden features. This protocol was originally created for GSM phones, but can be found on CDMA devices as well (if that's a bunch of acronym gibberish to you,…
Category : Security 06-11-2022 by Janeth Kent
Rare earths: here is the 'endgame' threat of China that led to the immediate freezing of the U.S. ban in Huawei
The US move to put Huaweion its so-called Entity List — requiring American companies to obtain a government licence to sell to it — is a pivotal moment for the global technology industry. The action against the Chinese telecoms flagship has made global noise, monopolizing not only the political or economic news but…
Category : Technology 23-05-2019 by Janeth Kent
How to Successfully Promote Your Healthcare Business
When it comes to running a healthcare business, you have to find a way of making it stand out from the crowd if you want it to be successful. People often choose to go with recommendations when it comes to choosing a healthcare professional. However, more typically, they turn to…
Category : Web marketing 20-03-2019 by Janeth Kent
Highlights from the JavaScript Style Guide of Google
For anyone who is not already acquainted with it, Google provides a style guide for writing JavaScript that gives the best stylistic practices for writing clean, understandable code (what Google believes to be). The guide does not present difficult rules for writing valid JavaScript, but only tips to keep the source…
Category : Javascript 27-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
Top free JavaScript User Authentication Libraries
We are keen on security: authentication is an important issue when creating a dynamic web application Authentication is for identifying users and provide different access rights and content depending on their id. Since new tutorials appear on the web and more people try to understand the cost-benefit equation for implementing their…
Category : Javascript 29-01-2020 by Janeth Kent
Best 5 Frontend Development Topics in 2019
Ah, a new year. A time of positivity, a time to restart. For new objectives and proposals. And in the world of developers, to look at the scenery and decide what we need to learn to keep up. Because let's face it-web development is always changing, and we're falling behind…
Category : Programming 18-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
A roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
There are plenty of tutorials online, which won't cost you a cent. If you are sufficiently self-driven and interested, you have no difficulty training yourself. The point to learn coding I think is to read a lot of code of other developers, then typing code and testing to see what…
Category : Programming 30-05-2019 by Janeth Kent
Top Social Media Marketing Tools in 2019
Social media marketing is a baffling area. The social media has revolutionized and completely changed the way we send and receive information. It is more interactive, can be done in real time and uses a wide number of media like text, audio, video, pictures, graphics and more. Tools such as…
Category : Social networks 08-10-2019 by Janeth Kent
How to build a basic PWA with HTML and Javascript
Looking at the web for a basic PWA online training exercise, everything I found was just too confused or required libraries/system/stage or another. If we need to learn another innovation, we would preferably not get derailed with redundant subtleties ... We have indeed composed a basic introductory exercise to draw from different…
Category : Javascript 10-04-2020 by Janeth Kent
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Sass
You've probably heard about CSS preprocessors before, whether it's Sass, LESS or Stylus, and they're all great tools to maintain your CSS, especially when you work with large codebases. For "lay" (;-)) people: A CSS preprocessor is a program that allows you to generate CSS from the unique syntax of the…
Category : Css 05-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
UX-UI: How to design better forms
Whether it is a signup flow, a multi-view stepper, or a monotonous data entry interface, forms are one of the most important components of digital product design. This article focuses on the common dos and don’ts of form design. Keep in mind that these are general guideline and there are…
Category : Ui/ux design 02-05-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
80 Linux Network Monitor Software & Tools for Managing & Monitoring Unix/Linux Systems
It’s hard work monitoring and debugging Linux performance problems, but it’s easier with the right tools at the right time. Finding a Linux Network Monitor tool or Software package for your Critical servers and services that are running on those systems in one of the most (if not the most)…
Category : Security 23-10-2018 by Janeth Kent
How to install Letsencrypt Certificates with Certbot in Ubuntu
In this article we will explain how to install, manage and configure the SSL Security certificate, Let's Encypt in NGINX server used as proxy. This certificate is free but does not offer any guarantee and has to be renewed every 3 months. We recommend that users with shell access use the…
Category : Servers 09-05-2020 by Janeth Kent
JavaScript Manual for Beginners
The JavaScript Manual shows you how to use JavaScript and gives an overview of the language. I GETTING STARTED ABOUT Created by Netscape in 1995 as an extension of HTML for Netscape Navigator 2.0, JavaScript had as its main function the manipulation of HTML documents and form validation. Before winning this name so…
Category : Javascript 04-09-2018 by Janeth Kent
Best Development Posts Of August 2018
For this month, we ranked some Web Development articles to pick the Top 20 stories that can help advance your career. The Five Top Reasons to Use JavaScript by Richard Kenneth Eng I’m a Front-End Cheater by catrina Cool Javascript 9: Named arguments — Functions that get and return Objects by Adrià Fontcuberta Good Programmer vs Average Programmer by javinpaul Advanced Coding Skills, Techniques and…
Category : Programming 22-08-2018 by Janeth Kent
10 PHP code snippets to work with dates
Here we have some set of Useful PHP Snippets, which are useful for PHP Developers. In this tutorial we'll show you the 10 PHP date snippets you can use on your webpages by just cutting and pasting! Get current time, formatted Super basic function, takes no parameters and returns the current date.…
Category : Php 02-08-2018 by Janeth Kent
Best Websites to Learn Coding Online
You know and we know that it’s totally possible to learn to code for free... If you can teach yourself how to write code, you gain a competitive edge over your peers, you can think more algorithmically and thus can tackle problems more efficiently. But what are the best resources to achieve…
Category : Programming 19-06-2018 by Janeth Kent
GIMP 2.10 released: Features 32-bit support, new UI and A Ton Of Improvements
It's been over a half-decade since the GIMP 2.8 stable debut and today marks the long-awaited release of GIMP 2.10, its first major update in six years. And among other things, it brings basic support for HiDPI displays. Earlier versions of GIMP used icons that used the same number of pixels…
Category : Multimedia 07-06-2018 by Janeth Kent
Install macOS High Sierra in VirtualBox on Windows 10
Whether you want to occasionally test a website in Safari, or try out a little bit of software in the Mac environment, having access to the latest version of macOS in a virtual machine is useful. Unfortunately, you’re not really supposed to do this—so getting macOS running in VirtualBox is,…
Category : Operating systems 12-04-2021 by Janeth Kent
The Rise and Fall of Business-Related VoIP Platforms
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) was at one time ubiquitous within the office environment. It had been employed to make crystal-clear digital phone calls, to send large packets of proprietary information and to hold webinars with attendees from around the world. However, we have recently seen a shift in regards…
Category : Software 24-04-2020 by Janeth Kent
10 addictive retro video games recreated with HTML5, JS & CSS
Are you a video game player? Are you a child of the "80s"(or even 70s...;-) )? If yes, this post is for you. There was a time when building any type of video game required Flash. Nowadays the stage is set for powerful HTML5 and WebGL gaming! Here are 10 of our favorite games…
Category : Videogames 13-10-2017 by Janeth Kent
Top Ideas for Creating Website Content
Creating a fantastic website that impresses all of your visitors comes down to much more than choosing a WordPress (or alternative) theme template and uploading the best plugins. You can have all of the best features that are available, but if you are putting content onto your website that isn’t…
Category : Web design 18-05-2017 by Janeth Kent
Facebook Prepack, The Next Big Thing In The JavaScript World
In the last days, the social networks were crazy about Prepack. Probably you still haven’t heard about it. It’s reasonable! It has been an open source only a few days ago. Prepack has developed by Facebook and it is under active development. It’s experimental and still in very early stage,…
Category : Javascript 11-05-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure the Mod_Security Core Ruleset in Ubuntu
ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall, a program that can be used to inspect information as it passes through your web server, intercepting malicious requests before they are processed by your web application. This tutorial will show you how to install ModSecurity on Apache, and configure it with some sensible rules provided…
Category : Servers 04-03-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Install Syncthing on Ubuntu 16.04
This tutorial shows how to install Syncthing on Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop LTS Xenial Xerus. Syncthing is a free continuous file synchronization tool that lets you synchronize your files across desktops, tablets, mobile phones or even servers. It’s an open source alternative to the popular BitTorrent Sync (aka btsync) application. The creation,…
Category : Networking 17-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
PHP 7.2 will be the first Programming Language to add Modern Cryptography to its Standard Library
Last week, the voting phase closed on an RFC to add libsodium to PHP 7.2. The result was unanimous (37 in favor, 0 against). When version 7.2 releases at the end of the year, PHP will be the first programming language to adopt modern cryptography in its standard library. What is Modern…
Category : Php 14-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
CSS Media Queries for iPad and iPhones
Many times We have had to design responsive websites targeting specific devices with CSS media queries, and not just base the break points from the site's content. Because of this, We have ended up with a somewhat large list of CSS media queries for typical devices over the past year or two. here you…
Category : Css 09-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to install and setup Varnish in Ubuntu 16.04
One of the problems with running a site with many users is that the constant requests for dynamic content can really bog down a web server. In order to solve this problem, many big companies turn to a tool called Varnish. It’s an HTTP accelerator that caches both static and…
Category : Networking 02-01-2017 by Janeth Kent
Getting started with Node.Js
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment (hence its .js termination in reference to the JavaScript language). This real-time runtime environment includes everything you need to run a program written in JavaScript. It also brings many benefits and solves many problems, so it would be more than interesting to take our…
Category : Javascript 06-05-2020 by Janeth Kent
Install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 on Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus comes with PHP7 by default so you don’t have to rely on third-party PPA to get PHP7 installed. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 (LAMP stack) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus. Update: This tutorial is…
Category : Servers 18-11-2016 by Janeth Kent
How to force screen/s resolution in Ubuntu and make it permanent
Sometimes our ubuntu drivers don't work so well as we espect with our screens, most of the time we get a low resolution in our screens and cannot change it via GUI, fortunately using xrandr we can easily configure our screens to force them to a better resolution. First of all,…
Category : Software 09-11-2016 by Janeth Kent
How to send an e-mail in 1984 - Vintage overdose
How to send an e mail 1980's style. Electronic message writing down the phone line. First shown on Thames TV's computer programme 'Database' in 1984 07/06/1984 Database is an old British TV show, broadcasted in 1984, which explains how the networks work before the modern Internet, but also the futuristic concept…
Category : Technology 01-10-2016 by Janeth Kent
Ubuntu servers security: 25 security tools to armor your system
The Ubuntu repositories contain several useful tools for maintaining a secure network and network administration.This security tools include network scanning,attack detection,Virus Detection etc. 1) Wireshark -- network traffic analyzer Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer, or "sniffer", for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and…
Category : Servers 14-09-2016 by Janeth Kent
Install Syncthing on Ubuntu 16.04 using Debian Repository
Syncthing is a free continuous file synchronization tool that lets you synchronize your files across desktops, tablets, servers. It’s an open source alternative to the popular BitTorrent Sync (aka btsync) application. The creation, modification or deletion of files on one machine will automatically be replicated to your other devices. Syncthing…
Category : Servers 19-08-2016 by Janeth Kent
PHP Libraries For Summer 2016
Here are our picks for the 12 most useful and interesting open-source PHP libraries that you should check out this summer! Monolog With Monolog you can create advanced logging systems by sending your PHP logs to files, sockets, databases, inboxes or other web services. The library has over 50 handlers for various…
Category : Php 11-08-2016 by Janeth Kent
PHP7: Install PHP7 with NGINX and MEMCACHE in Ubuntu 14.04
Let's install PHP7 and Nginx on a new Ubuntu 14.04 server, and manually build the (not yet packaged) memcached module for PHP7. Command Rundown Update: It looks like the php-memcached package was built into ppa:ondrej/php-php7.0 for php7, so the manual build steps is probably not necessary any longer! Install it via the…
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