February 2012
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Google Panda Strike Again! →
Once again it looks like Google are refining it’s search algorithm with no less than 40 changes this February. If you aren’t seeing the effects yet I’m sure they will be filtered in over the coming weeks so pop over to the official Google blog and check out what’s changing. I’ve not yet read the full list but I can guess what it’s going to say so my advice...
Feb 28th
13 'Pinteresting' Facts About Pinterest Users... →
It’s no secret that the Internet loves Pinterest. Now, most users are even spending more time, on average, pinning than they are on hanging out on Facebook. Here’s what you need to know about Pinterest user demographics. With an average of 1.36 million users daily, the social photo pinboard ha… So it looks like the cool kids are all on ‘Pinterest’ now, so I might...
Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
This is data mining to perfection! Find out how Target was able to work out that one girl was pregnant simply based on a change in buying habit. What this article explains is a statisticians wet dream, identifying buying trends and using them to calculate a pregnancy probability. It gets better, the article then explains how Target use mailshots to send offers on certain baby products but so they...
Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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PDO vs. MySQLi: Which Should You Use? →
Thinking about moving away from the native mysql wrappers in PHP? There are many reasons why you should, security being one of the top ones, but which alternative should you choose? This article shows you code examples of PDO and mysqli (in both procedural and OO modes) and once you get the gist of it transitioning from mysql doesn’t seem daunting at all. Now all I need to do is convince...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 18th
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Feb 16th
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The hollow emptiness in social media numbers -... →
zdnet.com The num­bers of users report­ed by Face­book, Twit­ter, Google, and many other sites, are close­ly watched. They reveal trends in adop­tion and they are one of the few pub­lic met­rics avail­able to ana­lysts try­ing to assign value to com­pa­nies… With up to 50% of all Twitter accounts being either spam or fake, should we still be measuring the success of social networks based on...
Feb 15th
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Feb 10th
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New Programming Jargon →
Funny post of commonly used terms to describe those programming moments where things aren’t exactly right.
Feb 9th
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“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
– Albert Einstein
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Speed up page loads with head.js →
Last year Google made some changes to it’s algorithm that meant that page load speed was becoming a contributing factor in it’s search engine ranking algorithm. This means that if your website loads slowly you could be suffering in the SERPs. One way to streamline the loading of your site is to parallel load your JS files, and you can further improve load time by placing those...
Feb 6th
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
Feb 5th
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“The more you know, the more you realise you know nothing.”
– Socrates
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein
Feb 2nd
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It's OK to cheat with CSS3 Generator →
As a web developer some people think that you need to know everything off the top of your head and that knowing it makes you good at your job. This isn’t the case, you don’t need to know it all, you just need to know where to find the information when you need it. I haven’t learnt all the possible combinations of features for CSS3, why should I need to? In most cases when you...
Feb 1st