Category: Internet

Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Take a guy who literally wrote the book on Python programming tools and add some of venture capitals’ top investors and you have the recipe for DataPad, a new data discovery technology vendor that just raised $1.7 million. DataPad was founded in 2013 by Wes McKinney, who wrote “Python for Data Analysis” (believe me, it’s apparently a big deal among Python programmers) and creator of Pandas, and Chang She, who was a core developer of Pandas and a former data science instructor at Columbia University. Since its launch the two have managed to wrangle $1.7 million in very early stage funding from big name investors including Accel Partners, Google Ventures, a16z Seed Fund, SV Angel, Ludlow Ventures, and angel investors including Jeff Hammerbacher, Tom …

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Cms Security Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide For WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, And Plone

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Protect your business. Protect your customers. Here’s how: websites built on open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) are uniquely vulnerable. If you are responsible for maintaining one, or if you are the executive or business owner in charge of approving IT budgets, you need to know what’s in this book. Here’s the lowdown on very real security threats, how attacks are carried out, what security measures you need to take, and how to compile a disaster recovery plan. Don’t wait. Your business may depend on the action you take. 2011 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0470916214 | EPUB | 14 MB DOWNLOAD

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Website

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Building a website can be easy but the real challenge lies in making it usable. People often mistake a website’s role. They often forget that the website is their face to the world. In reality, website should not be the only way for people to find about you, but it is the way your customers, fans or your donors interact with you. It is surprising that we see little attention paid to getting web design right. I have seen that sites which are often visually attractive lack focus, or it is embedded with too many different fonts. Avoiding a few simple mistakes can help you establish a grand website. But I am sure many of the readers are wondering what mistakes have they done while designing…

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Ideas Behind Responsive Emails

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Say you’ve designed an HTML email with 3 columns. Because of limited and weird CSS support in email clients, email design is done with tables. That 3 column design looks great on large-ish screens, but it squishes awkwardly on small screens. Theoretically a media query would save us here, but as we can’t even count on floats we sure can’t count on those. There is still a way though. In this article, I’m just going to poke at some ideas around responsive email. These are not robust, production-ready ideas, I just thought it was fun to think about. It was inspired by listening to Fabio Carneiro speak recently. Fabio works for MailChimp doing all this hardcore email layout wrangling and shared some of the ideas behind responsive …

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