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Data is the new oil and data security is the most crucial part of any software programming. If data is lost, everything is lost. Programmers always make sure that the data is properly encrypted and secured before launching or releasing any web application. If you want to create any robust application then the security of your data is very important. This post will explain how to secure your data in 2023 by using various programming [...]

Customer support is very important and we all love to be treated like a valued customer. However, sometime when we are requesting support to solve complex technical issues, the process may take a lot of time. But the good news is that if we (customers) can provide a bit more details about the issue then customer support specialists may directly forward it to the technical department. And then the whole process will be much faster. [...]

Ah, SEO. Being ranked high in search engines' results is important for many website authors as - if SEO is done right - search engines generally drive visitors interested in your content to your website. But people think that SEO is only related to how you manage your content and which keywords you put on your pages. In reality, SEO is really broader than that. Don't forget that search engines are powered by bots - [...]

What is SEO? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is the process by which a website gets in the first pages of Google search results. SEO is relatively simple but requires background knowledge on certain technical features, such as URLs and how a search engine runs. It is important to understand the basic mechanics of the technique before attempting to make a website SEO friendly. What are the benefits of an SEO-competitive site? [...]

What are cookies? We see the term often, cookies, but the first thought for many is a delicious treat instead of a tiny file. Internet cookies or HTTP cookies are sent from websites to your computer and archived on your browser(s). They store a variety of information, such as advertising preferences and login status, which will give you faster loading of websites frequently visited. This data allows web searches and general internet browsing to be [...]

So, you want to create a catchy button using only HTML and CSS. As you will see in this article this is very achievable using these tools. In earlier days developers used to achieve such a style using other components like Flash which was proprietary and involved enabling a plugin at the client, besides that it was much slower while displaying. The main idea behind these new CSS styles is the latest updates to CSS [...]

Web-safe fonts give you total control and certainty that your web app - and now your WPF desktop app - will visually render exactly according to your design specifications. Now that AngularJS and Node.js and other tools are making it possible to create Single Page Applications which function like desktop apps, the distinction between desktop apps and web apps is blurred in a positive way, especially from the user’s point of view. In fact, as [...]

The importance of pop-ups for websites is constantly on the rise. A pop up is basically a display area that appears on the website or visual interface. In simple words, pop-ups are dialogue boxes that appear anywhere on your website depending upon the code behind. One of the most common examples of a pop-up is a dialogue box asking you to confirm whether you want to close a tab or not. However, websites use these [...]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the largest and most well-known on-demand cloud computing platforms available. Part of the reason for their popularity is that they have an easily scalable set of web hosting platforms, including storage, networking, database services, among many others. Typically these services are not visible to end-users but can provide a framework for hosting dynamic processing tools that you need for your site, and these services can be connected to many [...]

To find an item in an unknown list, a human would probably go from the beginning to the end of it, checking every item he finds one by one. What about computers? Nowadays, programs have a large arsenal of search algorithms at their disposal, and today we will briefly describe the most common ones. Naïve way The first thing that comes to mind is to sequentially go through all possible elements in some array and [...]