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How to Create Stylish CSS Buttons

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Get Source View Demo Out with the old, in with the new. We’re in a day and age where we need to simplify our stylesheets and lighten our page loads to be efficient across all devices on all connections. There’s a balance between simplicity and beauty though. We of course want to be functional and progressive, but also want to be aesthetically pleasing. There was once a time when graded images with shadows, hover states, and active states were used as buttons. It added some user-friendliness to our forms and whatnot. Nowadays, with CSS3 in the fold and a more compact, minimal style taking precedence, we can achieve stylish CSS buttons. The reason for switching to pure CSS is twofold – It’s a lighter …

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How to Create Stylish CSS Buttons

How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I was one of the tens of thousands of people who enjoyed reading a blog post on Priceonomics about “The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot”. It was an absolutely fascinating read because, being a total SEO geek, I rarely find information in this space that hasn’t been repeated 100 times before. I knew about the company already, but I had no idea about the scale in which they were absolutely annihilating their competitors. For the thousands of popular search terms that are out there in the coupon world, you’ll see RetailMeNot as the number one search result for the vast majority of them. The Priceonomics article was a great read, but it’s clear that a number of their readers were disappointed…

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How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire

Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

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I am a programmer over at Iron Galaxy Studios. I’ve been programming professionally in the games industry for nearly ten years now. My main focus is on graphics and optimizations. I’ve worked on diverse franchises like Madden and Tony Hawk, plus games such as Bioshock Infinite and Crimson Dragon. Find me: @sigmel Sigmel’s ThoughtsLinkedIn I post in: ProgrammingTechnology Instapaper Text Share: Twitter Facebook Reddit Google+ Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free Now I want to cover the basic terminology used when talking about concurrent algorithms. This will be helpful so that you are familiar with the available techniques you have when you have multiple threads operating together. The term concurrent itself refers to an algorithm that can scale from being synchronous…

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Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free

Google Updates its Terms of Service to Explicitly Say it’s Analyzing Your Emails for Tailored Ads

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Google has updated its terms of service to reflect its email scanning practices that are carried out to provide users with customized search results and tailored advertising, as Reuters first spotted. In the latest version of its terms of service, Google adds a paragraph explaining that email scanning is done automatically when the content is being delivered and when it finally sits within its servers: Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored. A Google spokesperson tells TNW that the rationale behind the update is to make it clearer for users:

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Google updates its terms of service to explicitly say itâ€™s analyzing your emails for tailored ads

Ten Dynamic WordPress Snippets for WP-Config.php

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Ten Dynamic WordPress Snippets for WP-Config.php By: Kevin Muldoon on April 15, 2014 0 4

WordPress Resources The wp-config.php file is arguably the most important file in the WordPress core as it contains the connection details for your database. Anyone who has installed WordPress manually will know that the file is also used to define your database prefix, your authentication keys, and WordPress’s default language. Wp-config.php can be used to modify WordPress in many more ways. By default, WordPress is configured to do things in a specific way. The wp-config.php file allows you to change these default settings so that your website is tailored to your own needs. In this article, I would like to share with you ten useful…

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Ten Dynamic WordPress Snippets for WP-Config.php