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Website Performance: Avoiding DNS Lookups

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips introduced a classification scheme to help us organize the many performance tips found on the Internet.  Today’s article continues the discussion of the journey-from-the-client-to-the-servercategory by examining what DNS lookups do to that journey. DNS Lookups Are Automatic When the user’s browser requests a web page from the server, it first […]

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How Does Big Data Affect Our Daily Lives?

They say that knowledge is power. Whoever the proverbial “they” are that dispensed this fine wisdom were more accurate than they probably could have ever imagined. With each passing year, technology, and our ability to collect massive amounts of data, continues to rapidly advance. These changes are spurning huge paradigm shifts in many industries around […]

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Taking Control – 4 Tips and 7 Tools for an Effective Online Marketing Strategy

For independent business owners, having an effective online marketing strategy is an absolute necessity if you want to grow and stay ahead of the competition.  The Internet has changed the way we build relationships with potential clients. It’s now possible for SMBs to advertise on a global scale – something that was once only financially […]

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17 Command Line Tools to Monitor Linux Performance

we’ve compiled the list of Top 17 frequently used command line monitoring tools that might be useful for every Linux/Unix System Administrator. See on www.tecmint.com

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Are These 5 Mobile Apps in Your Web Development ToolKit?

Web development today is more complex than ever with so many resources and options available on the market. The landscape is confusing and must be carefully navigated in order to apply the right solution to your business needs. Whether your objective is to build a mobile website, a hybrid or native application, or a standard […]

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Empty Src and Href Attributes

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips intro­duced a clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme to help us or­ga­nize the many per­for­mance tips found on the In­ter­net.  Since Yahoo’s five most highly-weighted tips fall in­to the jour­ney from the ser­ver to the cli­entca­te­go­ry, we might ex­pect this ca­te­go­ry to of­fer the best im­prove­ment in web ap­pli­ca­tion per­for­mance.  This and my next […]

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Using AppFog with PHP

AppFog is the new baby in cloud computing town. With this said, it has been doing very well for quite a while, with its sleek UI, simple deploying tools and a super fast cloud infrastructure. So what is AppFog, as you might be already wondering? In a nutshell, AppFog is the best PaaS (Platform as […]

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Why it’s time for small business to get onboard with machine learning

There’s never been a more exciting time than the present to be involved in technology. We’ve said this time and again, but it bears repeating . . .  the convergence of mobile, cloud, collaboration, and information technologies over the past 5 years have created unheard of opportunities to drive new dimensions of innovation and creativity. […]

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