Hello again, As you might remember, last week I completed Listing hardcoded playlists with hardcoded songs. See the last week's progress here [0]. This week's task was to fetch those lists from the database. For that, I...

You may have missed it, but a few weeks ago a small cyber war played out in just 72 hours. Just after 6pm (PDT) on Sunday, May 18th, the first moves were made. The whole event was over by Wednesday evening.While not an...

Acoustic rock-musician Wolf Critton started playing the guitar as a soldier in Iraq. He tells us, “It was a way to deal with my emotions in a controlled fashion.” We came across his music earlier this week when he...

Craftsman 40V Cordless Push Mower Ease of Use4 Build Quality3 Maneuverability5 Cutting Performance2 Battery Life2 Total Rating:16/25 Craftsman has come out with a new cordless 40-volt...

Just in case you’ve not come across QuickSprout before, it’s an excellent blog by Neil Patel (founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics). Neil’s posts are generally in-depth and very useful, but with his series of...

This is the first article in the miniseries that deals with macros. I originally planned on treating this topic in my upcoming Elixir in Action book, but decided against it because the subject somehow doesn't fit into...

Firms like HfS Research, Constellation and GigaOm have built their brands very quickly, in just a few years, and are now more visible than more established firms. –Duncan Chapple, Influencer Relations, June, 2014 As...

Vassar College is ranked #35 among the Veritas Prep Elite College Rankings. This liberal arts college is located in Poughkeepsie, New York in the picturesque Hudson Valley north of New York City. The Vassar campus has...

This week, Cardinal Path announced its partnership with Digital Academy, one of India’s leading digital marketing training and consulting firms, to expand its training footprint into one of the industry’s fastest...

You are in a large crowd of hundreds of thousands of people. You’re given a super-powered megaphone and an abnormally large soap box. You are limited to a few seconds and a few sentences maximum. What do you say? Over...

Lately, the talk of the town has been the Sprint/T-Mobile proposed merger. There are plenty for the merger and plenty against, as well as plenty that aren’t sure about it just yet. But so far we have nothing set in...

We used to program software. Now it's programming us. This is more than a new spin on Marc Andreessen's "Software is eating the world" argument. Andreessen is right, but the shift, as O'Reilly's Mike Loukides...

The post A Quick Primer on Google’s Panda 4.0 Update appeared first on HostGator Blog | Gator Crossing. In Chinese culture, the panda bear is considered be a symbol of peace. So why did Google name one of their best...

Alert Design Alert design is not a solved problem. And it interests me greatly. What makes for a good alert? Which information is most relevant when a host or service is unavailable? While the answer to those, and...

i haven’t rounded up some of my instant inspiration in a couple of weeks, but that doesn’t mean i’m not continually inspired by the images out there on instagram. from great recipes, to ideas for travel, to...

From the bookshelf: A new book from William Bernstein, Rational Expectations: Asset Allocation for Investing Adults, is always worthy of note. Quote of the day Tom Brakke, “An investment committee or board member...