Web applications often make use of dynamic views. These require some JavaScript skills usually and I think that one of the most common use of JavaScript for web apps with dynamic views is the AJAX asynchronous call. With AJAX one is able to load data within a page without having to reload the whole page...
Facebook ads performance is not what you would expect
Online marketing is essential to getting your products out there. In this post we will take a look at Facebook ads performance or more specifically the lack thereof. I decided to run a test campaign via Facebook ads and after seeing the results I thought it would be a good idea to share the results....
NTW: Instagram and Facebook copy SnapChat’s Stories, macOS Sierra beta available, Pokemon Go update
NTW = New This Week Tech news that happened this week and caught my eye and interest. Hopefully you also find it interesting too. This week Instagram added a new feature that has an eerily resemblance to Snapchat, macOS Sierra beta is out and so is a Pokemon Go update. Instagram and Facebook rip off...
NTW: 1 billion iPhones sold, Microsoft smartphones step back, VR industry grows and more
New This Week: pretty big changes for Microsoft as they fire yet another batch of employees from their smartphone division. Not totally unrelated, iPhone number 1 billion got sold. Microsoft cuts another 3000 jobs in its smartphone division Microsoft plans to lay off nearly 3,000 more jobs over the next year across its smartphone hardware business...
New This Week: No more Flash on Firefox, KickassTorrents goes offline, iPhone 7 announced for September
Let’s take a quick look at what this week has brought new on the tech scene. So, we’re looking at Mozilla that announced they are planning to eliminate Flash support, the iPhone 7 is announced for September 12 for this year and another big hit to online torrents as KickassTorrents alleged founder gets arrested resulting...
New This Week: Pokemon Go Crazy, Google Play Indie Game Fest, Cloud9 IDE is now Amazon
Not too much happening on the tech scene, probably also due to summer holidays in. Still, there are a few things that caught my eye. Pokemon Go is setting new usage records, coming up is the Android Indie Games Festival held by Google and Amazon acquired Cloud9 IDE. Pokemon Go – more daily users than Twitter,...
Solving OWASP Liferay Vulnerabilities And Security Exploits For Version 6.0.x
Big clients ask about Liferay vulnerabilities and security exploits. In this post I will explain how to identify and fix these security issues in Liferay 6.0.x. Please note that some of these Liferay exploits and their fixes might apply to newer versions of the Liferay Portal like 6.1.x to even 7.0. I have worked with...
4th of July WordPress developer coding treasure chest roundup
In this short post I will list some proposals for best commercial WordPress coding items published lately on the Envato’s market places. I called it a developer coding treasure chest. I really think that they are very valuable for programmers considering that you can spend 10-50$ and include in projects for hundreds or thousands of dollars....
New this week: Android Nougat, the future of VR, the future of Java and more
Android Nougat is delicious Google announced on June 30th that the name of Android 6 N is officially Nougat, in line with the naming tradition using deserts. So, it’s not Nutella and it’s not Namey McNameface like mentioned humorously 2 weeks ago. A lot of people were rooting for Nutella, however probably there would have...
New this week: YouTube down, Huawei homegrown OS, iPhone stylus and one handed sensor
Here are the latest and greatest things that happened this week. Users reported YouTube down for a few hours, Huawei builds its own OS and iPhone registers a few new patents. YouTube down It doesn’t happen too often, actually it hasn’t happened for a really long time, but on June 22nd 2016 YouTube website went down. It...