Google Abuses Search Dominance in the European Union
The EU Commission found that Google has been favouring their very own shopping service while demoting those of their rivals as well as the placement …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Understanding the Risks of Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS)
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software can be an attractive buy in for many companies when it comes to:
Identifying Risks in Software Engineering
In Software Engineering it is absolutely paramount to identify all risks that may arise in a given project or grouping of tasks. Without doing the …
Read Article →Software engineering challenges in the 21st century
Software Engineering covers not only the technical aspects of building software systems, but also management issues, such as directing programming …
Read Article →Computer Memory – The Breakdown
Storage devices have come a long way in an extremely short amount of time; given how much they have changed from just my personal knowledge alone. I …
Read Article →Current Trends in Computing
The American multinational technology company Yahoo, which has been around since the mid nineties has once again been hacked. This time it is more …
Read Article →Academic integrity in a cultural context
In academia it is vitally important to backup your own thoughts and ideas by using previously written authoritative papers and articles in reference. …
Read Article →How to get more traffic to your blog
If there’s only one thing that keeps website owners up at night, it’s thinking about the next wave of traffic that they aren’t yet …
Read Article →How big is Amazon S3 really?
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, or simply S3 for short, is a product designed for storing objects (or files are most people know them) in their …
Read Article →3 Things you should be tracking with your analytics software
What should we be tracking?
This is a question we get asked quite a often – mainly by new customers as well as people who aren’t certain if what …
Read Article →11 of the Best Google Analytics Alternatives
So most webmasters know about Google Analytics and have probably used it to some degree, but did you know that there are some pretty good alternatives …
Read Article →503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity
The Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The …
Read Article →User Testing and Feedback?
So now you have a website, you use it and love it, but does everybody else?
There are many tools out there that allow you to do User Acceptance …
Read Article →Date ranges are the key to a better index
Since AO Analytics originally went live in February 2013, we have been doing focused around individual time based reporting, it worked well and we …
Read Article →Track your Alexa Rank History
The Alexa Rank is a way of determining a website’s popularity. ?Alexa.com are in the game of Internet popularity ranking and for quite a long time …
Read Article →SSL Encryption – Update
We have just rolled out SSL encrytion on Statvoo which means:
- Event data is saved over a secure channel
- Authentication is done automatically
- All our …
Why Website Analytics Is So Important These Days
The web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, “invented” the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989.
Above is …
Read Article →Create daterange array of missing dates
<?php
//fromDate
2014 - 01 - 22
//toDate
2014 - 02 - 20
//$arr
Array(
[0] = & gt;
Array(
[ISO_DATE] = & gt;
2014 - …Speedtest on Ubuntu Server (commandline)
If you’re managing a headless Ubuntu server and want to check the network speed, you can’t just open speedtest.net in a browser. The …
Read Article →URL GET vars to PHP Array
Sometimes you will need to retrieve the GET variables passed into the current page URI or you will have a URL string to work from which contains …
Read Article →python "AttributeError: ZipFile instance has no attribute ‘__exit__"
This is actually a very easy error to fix, eventhough off the bat it seems a lot more involved.
You probably have syntax something like this:
with …Remove specific HTML tags using PHP
There are times when you want to remove a specific HTML tag from an HTML block of text.
This could be an anchor(<a/>) or an image(<img/>) …
Keep Google Map v3 centered when browser is resized
Using Google Maps V3 Javascript API you can keep the map centered to the browser’s window by using the following trick when resizing the window. …
Read Article →Buy a Google Nexus 10 in the UK!
If you are looking to get a Google Nexus 10 inch tablet and are based in the UK you are in for a shocker!
The only place to buy it is at the Google …
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