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Lunchtime Learning – UX is not just design, it’s the key to innovation and growth

June 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

About Damian Rees Damian has worked as a usability and user experience consultant for over 13 years. He has worked in senior roles within companies like the BBC and National Air Traffic Services where he has researched and designed for users in a variety of different contexts including web applications, voice recognition, and air traffic control interfaces. Follow Damian on twitter @damianrees

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Lunchtime Learning – UX is not just design, it’s the key to innovation and growth

Stress-test your PHP App with ApacheBench

June 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

This article was sponsored by New Relic. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make SitePoint possible! There’s no telling when your app might attract a throng of visitors at once – maybe it’s a Hacker News post that’s submitted at a specific second on a specific time of day (as posts there tend to work), maybe it was a particularly well placed Reddit post, and maybe it’s actually good and people noticed it, spreading it virally. Regardless of the reason, massive influxes of visitors are a double-edged sword: they get you what you always wanted – a chance to prove your worth to a large chunk of the internet’s population but also often bring with them what you always …

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Stress-test your PHP App with ApacheBench

Letter Fountain – A stunningly well-crafted bible…

June 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Letter Fountain – A stunningly well-crafted bible of typographyLetter Fountainby Joep PohlenTaschen2011

In one thick, magnificently printed volume we get a whole course on typography. The back of this 638-page book contains a roundup of the major font families and what makes them special with plenty of printed examples. The front of the book is the best orientation to the logic of fonts that I’ve seen. There may be better books about using the art of typography on a page, but this is the master on the subtleties and dynamics of different fonts. Watch how adding or subtracting serifs changes the emotion of the page. Why are some letters thinner or longer? This book’s knowledge…

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Letter Fountain – A stunningly well-crafted bible…

Bypassing Windows 8.1 Mitigations using Unsafe COM Objects

June 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

In October last year I was awarded the first $100,000 bounty for a Mitigation Bypass in Microsoft Windows. My original plan was to not discuss it in any depth until Microsoft had come up with a sufficient changes to reduce the impact of the bypass. However as other researchers have basically come up with variants of the same technique, some of which are publicly disclosed with proof-of-concept code it seemed silly to not discuss my winning entry. So what follows is some technical detail about the bypass itself. I am not usually known for finding memory corruption vulnerabilities, mainly because I don’t go looking for them. Still I know my way around and so I knew the challenges I would face trying to come …

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Bypassing Windows 8.1 Mitigations using Unsafe COM Objects

How to Add Social Buttons in WordPress RSS Feed

June 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

After our article that recommended users to stop using Feedburner, many users asked us how they can get the social sharing buttons like they had on their FeedBurner feeds. While most modern feed readers include social sharing capabilities, in this article, we will show you how to add social buttons in WordPress RSS feed. First thing you need to do is download the social buttons you would want to display in your feeds. There are several social media icon sets available for free. Choose one that best suits your needs. After that you need to go to Media – Add New and upload Facebook and Twitter icons to your media library. Once you have uploaded the icons, you need to copy their location URL. Simply go to …

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How to Add Social Buttons in WordPress RSS Feed

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