Search engine optimization is big business; both SEO experts and their customers want to track the effectiveness of their keywords, campaigns, and competition. To get and measure those results, however, you need the right tooling monitor those results. SEObase is an awesome tool for doing just that — monitoring keywords and results across search engines! […] The post Monitor Your SEO Placement with SEObase (Sponsored) appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

It feels like the whole buzz around cryptocurrency has calmed down a little. In comparison to the previous year, when the cost of Bitcoin reached unprecedented heights having cost... The post 15 Free Crypto UIs and Icons Packs appeared first on Onextrapixel.

Over the past two years, I've gotten back into playing Dungeons & Dragons, the famous tabletop fantasy role-playing game. As a software developer and musician, one of my favorite character classes to play is the bard, a magical and inspiring performer or wordsmith. The list of basic bardic spells includes Vicious Mockery, enchanting verbal barbs that have the power to psychically damage and disadvantage an opponent even if they don't understand the words. (Can you see why this is so appealing to a coder?) Mocking has a role to play in software testing as well, in the form of mock objects that simulate parts of a system that are too brittle, too slow, too complicated, or otherwise too finicky to use in reality. They enable discrete unit testing without relying on dependencies external to the code being tested. Mocks are great for databases, web services, or other network resources where the goal is to test what you wrote, not what's out in "the cloud" somewhere.

Veracode launched an advanced scanning tool that enables organizations to find and fix vulnerabilities in APIs. The new capability leverages Veracode's Dynamic Analysis (DAST) scanning engine to provide comprehensive security insights and remediation guidance for APIs. "The explosion of APIs means that application development is becoming more fragmented and decentralized in nature, so the attack … continue reading The post Veracode launches scanning tool to find API vulnerabilities appeared first on SD Times.

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a vertical slide-out menu using CSS3 transitions. The menus will be place on the left-side of the screen with the main links hiding... The post Learn How to Create a Vertical Slide-Out Menu with CSS Transitions appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The two small tips that we’ll give you today will make your WordPress better and more fair. The first tip deals with the NoFollow HTML attribute in the comments that automatically considers every person that comments a spammer. The second tip turns off the Pingbacks generated by your own WordPress. This way your WordPress won’t annoy you whenever you link to an internal article. But more importantly; the people that comment on your article will be valued a bit more, which they will surely appreciate. Tip No. 1: Remove the NoFollow Attribute NoFollow is colloquial for the HTML attribute rel=”nofollow”, which can be used to mark links. It makes sure that Google doesn’t use these links to calculate the linked website’s link popularity. This label for hyperlinks was created by Google in cooperation with MSN and Yahoo, on the 18th of January 2005. Even today, it’s still the cause of controversial debates among webmasters. The Function of the NoFollow Attribute This attribute was created to gain control over comment spam on weblogs and forums. Spammers tried over and over to increase their link popularity and page rank with links that are automatically posted in the comments. This was supposed to […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesTwo Fresh Solutions for Code Display in WordPressIntegrating Social Media into WordPress: Plugins You Cannot Live…Fit for Google Search: Using Rich Snippets in WordPressWordPress 4.1 for Theme Developers: Life Became EasierHow To Improve Your Ranking: 5 Quick SEO TipsInside WordPress: An Introduction to Custom Post Types

UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and product teams they work with. This final article in a three-part series presents two additional tactics that are critical for achieving and maintaining higher levels of UX maturity: education of UX staff and education of non-UX staff on UX principles and processes.

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Julia Computing raised $24 million in a Series A fundraising round and stated it will use the funding to further develop and advance its secure, high-performance JuliaHub cloud platform. JuliaHub makes it easy to develop, deploy and scale Julia programs and is a platform for other applications such as JuliaSim for multi-physics simulation, JuliaSPICE for … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: Julia Computing Series A, Windows Terminal preview 1.10 released, Kdan Mobile raises $16 million in Series B funding appeared first on SD Times.

Be honest. Have you ever created something that was just bad? Now, have you ever designed something bad on purpose? It’s a strange concept, but one that we’re going to be exploring more today. Sometimes designing something bad can actually yield a positive result. Not sure about that idea? Read on and you just might […]