Small Google Update Yesterday? Webmasters Reporting Positive Traffic Signals.

The last update we saw was around and this was not a confirmed Google update. Now I am seeing some chatter around a December 29th Google update. Here are some quotes from the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread:

from My Pocket https://www.seroundtable.com/google-update-december-29th-21409.html

3 Simple SEO Strategies That You Probably Forgot : SEJ

SEO has advanced light years in just a few years. With all the complexity and progress, it can be easy to forget some of the fundamentals.

from My Pocket https://www.searchenginejournal.com/3-super-simple-seo-strategies-you-probably-forgot-about/147279/

The Secret Formula For Irresistible LinkedIn Connection Requests

What are the most boring 11 words in the English language? OK, maybe that’s a bit of stretch, but not much.

from My Pocket http://feeds.marketingland.com/~r/mktingland/~3/5tFL2WdxFbY/secret-formula-irresistible-linkedin-connection-requests-157599

PHP Tutorial to Create Animated GIF from Online Video

Many users like to publish their videos online in many sites but some sites only allow them to publish pictures. In that case an alternative solution to publishing videos is to convert them to the animated GIF format.

from My Pocket http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/package/9527/post/1-PHP-Tutorial-to-Create-Animated-GIF-from-Online-Video.html

PHP News, Views and Community

On his Code in PHP site *Sarfraz Ahmed * has a post talking about coding to interfaces, how its done and why he thinks it's an essential part of any application. One of the nicest things you can add to your programming skills is coding to interface. One of the five principles of S.O.L.I.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23508

PHP News, Views and Community

On the Cloudways blog there's a new post spotlighting a well-known member of the PHP community, Michelangelo van Dam and talking with him about his experiences and involvement in the community.

from My Pocket http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/23510

Atlas: a persistence-model data mapper

Atlas is a data mapper implementation for your persistence model (not your domain model). As such, Atlas uses the term “record” to indicate that its objects are not domain entities. Note that an Atlas record is a passive record, not an active record; it is disconnected from the database.

from My Pocket http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/6210

Protecting your application with PropAuth (Property-based Policy evaluation)

I’ve been working on a library for a while now that kind of distills down some of the ideas of property-based authorization (like XACML) and makes it a bit more accessible to the average developer.

from My Pocket http://blog.phpdeveloper.org/2015/12/30/protecting-your-application-with-propauth-property-based-policy-evaluation/

The Science Behind Complex Content Retention : SEJ

Top that with Trends, Moments, and whatever other item Twitter is shoving down my throat this month and the information stream is overwhelming. Twitter is a singular platform in the tapestry that makes up my online life.

from My Pocket https://www.searchenginejournal.com/cognitive-science-behind-complex-content-retention/147504/

Reimagining Single-Page Applications With Progressive Enhancement – Smashing Magazine

What is the difference between a web page and a web application? Though we tend to identify documents with reading and applications with interaction, most web-based applications are of the blended variety: Users can consume information and perform tasks in the same place.

from My Pocket http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/reimagining-single-page-applications-progressive-enhancement/

10 Funniest cartoons on Programming

Do you have something funny to share with fellow programmers? Please take it to /r/ProgrammerHumor/.

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xpi39/10_funniest_cartoons_on_programming/

Let it snow

You might have seen John Scholes’ quietly famous implementation (in Dyalog APL) of Conway’s Game of Life. We’re going to explore just one of the array-language features in it, indexing one array with another. You can use TryAPL.org to experiment. The principle seems simple enough.

from My Pocket https://arraythinking.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/let-it-snow/

Red Programming Language - Q/A with the Community

Other languages are in progress! Can't say an exact date for Lua though. Recently we've added Erlang, btw.

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xpomh/we_made_a_game_for_coders_codebattle/

We're proud to announce Siphon today! Build and publish React Native apps without Xcode : programming

We're proud to announce Siphon today! Build and publish React Native apps without Xcode (getsiphon.com) Ah, Buzzword-Compliant PhoneGap.

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xpyvm/were_proud_to_announce_siphon_today_build_and/

api-api, an api for creating apis, coming to a conference near you ... blame amanda for this · GitHub

API API a docker-inspired heroku clone in 100 lines of php php supervisor.php php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 app.php git archive --format=zip master > api-api.zip curl -XPOST 127.0.0.1:8080/api/api -F file='@api-api.

from My Pocket https://gist.github.com/igorw/1d67f422689017e814a8

Oracle just bought a tiny, year-old cloud computing startup called StackEngine

StackEngine just publicly announced the purchase on its home page, too. The SEC filing doesn't say how much Oracle paid for the startup. It was founded in 2014 and had raised $4.5 million. The documents do indicate that Oracle has paid roughly $1.

from My Pocket http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-bought-stackengine-2015-12

Intelligence 'networks' discovered in brain for the first time

Scientists from Imperial College London have identified for the first time two clusters of genes linked to human intelligence. Called M1 and M3, these so-called gene networks appear to influence cognitive function - which includes memory, attention, processing speed and reasoning.

from My Pocket http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-intelligence-networks-brain.html

[astro-ph/0605709] How Many Universes Do There Need To Be?

Full-text links: Download: (license) Bookmark (what is this?) Title: How Many Universes Do There Need To Be? Authors: Douglas Scott, J.P.

from My Pocket http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605709

Ask HN: What does the future hold for developers?

Asking for a friend... 1. What will change most for developers in the next 2 years? 2. How will the tech sector change in the next 5 years? 3. How will the world of 2020 be different from today? 4.

from My Pocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10770946

Elasticsearch Data Engineering

Elasticsearch Data Engineering (blog.thehumangeo.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xp5d3/elasticsearch_data_engineering/

Mindfulness versus Concentration

Concentration and mindfulness are distinctly different functions. They each have their role to play in meditation, and the relationship between them is definite and delicate. Concentration is often called one-pointedness of mind. It consists of forcing the mind to remain on one static point.

from My Pocket https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/12/mindfulness-versus-concentration/

Bringing Jobs to Stack Overflow

We believe that all programmers need and deserve jobs they love. Last week, we added a Jobs tab to Stack Overflow in order to help you do just that. You’ll no longer need to login to a separate account on a separate site in order to use Stack Overflow Jobs.

from My Pocket http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/12/bringing-jobs-to-stack-overflow/

JetBrains to move to faster major release cycle

This sounds like a plan to make fallback license useless. It is much easier to justify breaking changes in "major" releases.

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xqesj/jetbrains_to_move_to_faster_major_release_cycle/

Introduction to DevOps

It is a challenge to describe the DevOps culture, but at a high level it involves people, processes, and products (in this order.) It requires development, testing, operations, business, and other teams to work together, efficiently, to deliver better and faster results to customers.

from My Pocket https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/DevOps-Fundamentals/Introduction-to-DevOps

from My Pocket https://blog.internavenue.com/data-insights/the-great-migration-south/

Kaiko organizes Bitcoin's information to help businesses succeed by providing data, insights and services.

from My Pocket https://kaiko.com/statistics/difficulty

What web developers should know about SSL but probably don't.

In 2015 web developers understand more about SSL than they ever have. If you read Hacker News you should know: What about the rest? Here are answers to the most common questions from our customers:

from My Pocket https://certsimple.com/blog/obsolete-cipher-suite-and-things-web-developers-should-know-about-ssl

Programming vs Mathematics

Hi All, Really excited to share my company with you. Makers around the world are using our platform and we have recently been featured on Product Hunt and Launching Next. Look forward to hearing your thoughts!

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xrh24/wia_full_stack_for_the_internet_of_things/

The Year We Started Buying Phones Like We Buy Cars

For years, the process of buying a phone remained largely the same. You paid $200 for a flagship, or nothing for a clunker, and in exchange agreed to ride out a two-year contract with the carrier offering the best deal (or service) at the time. All that went away in 2015.

from My Pocket http://www.wired.com/2015/12/the-year-we-started-buying-phones-like-cars/

I made a JS script to make apartment hunting easier! Feedback would be appreciated.

I made a JS script to make apartment hunting easier! Feedback would be appreciated. (greasyfork.org) The basic idea is that the apartment map, for example http://toronto.craigslist.ca/search/apa is useful since location is so important in real estate, but it isn't perfect.

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xshj7/i_made_a_js_script_to_make_apartment_hunting/

Programming vs Mathematics

Here's an elaboration of that last thought. Mathematicians are insane. Q.E.D. pic.twitter.com [Imgur]

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xsw71/programming_vs_mathematics/

3 Things Black Friday Taught Us About 2016

Black Friday weekend is a unique time for retailers: The holidays are approaching, the shoppers are swarming and the prices are slashed.

from My Pocket http://feeds.marketingland.com/~r/mktingland/~3/godFUOgzJnk/3-things-black-friday-taught-us-2016-156025

Better font events with the native font loading API

Typekit kits are now using the CSS font loading API, which is available in recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. The font loading API provides native functionality for loading and manipulating web fonts. It also provides font events that will tell you when a font loads or fails to load.

from My Pocket http://blog.typekit.com/2015/12/16/better-font-events-with-the-native-font-loading-api/

NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files (stratos.seas.harvard.edu)submitted 3 hours ago by loading...

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3x92a8/nodb_efficient_query_execution_on_raw_data_files/

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com:443/r/programming/comments/3x917f/6848_tb_of_data_is_up_for_grabs_due_to_publicly/

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com:443/r/programming/comments/3xa096/four_years_of_schemaorg_recent_progress_and/

Georgia Tech Researchers Demonstrate How the Brain Can Handle So Much Data

ATLANTA -- Dec. 15, 2015 -- Humans learn to very quickly identify complex objects and variations of them. We generally recognize an “A” no matter what the font, texture or background, for example, or the face of a coworker even if she puts on a hat or changes her hairstyle.

from My Pocket http://www.cc.gatech.edu/georgia-tech-researchers-demonstrate-how-brain-can-handle-so-much-data

Why Mars should be independent from Earth

The race to get humans on Mars has begun. SpaceX’s Elon Musk has said he thinks he can get humans to the Red Planet by 2026. Mars One says that its crew will land on Mars just a year later, in 2027. Nasa’s timeline has humans in Mars orbit by 2033, and on the surface of the planet by 2039.

from My Pocket http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151215-why-mars-should-be-independent-from-earth

A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding a Multicheck Type Option

The checkbox, radio, and select type options allow users to make a single choice out of a set of predefined choices. How about when you need to provide an end user with the ability to make more than one choice?  That's exactly what the multicheck type option does in Titan Framework.

from My Pocket http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-titan-framework-adding-a-multicheck-type-option--cms-24677

Down From the Trees, Humans Finally Got a Decent Night’s Sleep

Over the past few million years, the ancestors of modern humans became dramatically different from other primates. Our forebears began walking upright, and they lost much of their body hair; they gained precision-grip fingers and developed gigantic brains.

from My Pocket http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/science/down-from-the-trees-humans-finally-got-a-decent-nights-sleep.html

Programming with Rust

A scalable and convenient crawler framework based on C:) (github.com)submitted 1 day ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xcgnz/a_scalable_and_convenient_crawler_framework_based/

from My Pocket http://www.reddit.com:443/r/programming/comments/3xcsts/aframe_cool_mozilla_framework_for_easy_webgl_and/

Developing for simplicity and when cleverness is the enemy

Developing for simplicity and when cleverness is the enemy (medium.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading...

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Trending Repo I made for anyone trying to learn Swift

Trending Repo I made for anyone trying to learn Swift (github.com)submitted 2 days ago by loading...

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[Solve For] Be the Smart Mouse

[Solve For] Be the Smart Mouse (thinknation.ca)submitted 2 days ago by loading...

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File Upload Using Html5 File API & Ajax Post

Recently, I had a requirement to implement a file upload using only JavaScript and Ajax post, without using the RequestContext object or the FormData objects. The requirement was to post user uploaded file to a WebApi method. The posted file should not be obtained using Request.

from My Pocket http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1065501/File-Upload-Using-Html-File-API-Ajax-Post

A-Frame : cool Mozilla framework for easy WebGL and WebVR programming

rocked my world! productivity super hack (alfredapp.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xeo3k/rocked_my_world_productivity_super_hack/

Touchlogging attack using wearable shown to eavesdrop your password, ATM pin

Touchlogging attack using wearable shown to eavesdrop your password, ATM pin (blog.wikitract.com)submitted 10 hours ago by loading...

from My Pocket https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xf35g/touchlogging_attack_using_wearable_shown_to/

from My Pocket https://thepiratebay.se/

Demoralize Your Teams Quickly And Efficiently With Micromanagement

Apparently I’ve earned the dubious distinction of having become an expert in project failure.

from My Pocket http://www.stellman-greene.com/2010/11/29/demoralize-your-teams-quickly-and-efficiently-with-micromanagement/