Friday, October 9, 2015

Le Mugs

Official website of Le Mugs, Flagrant délit de gourmandises, in Saint-Raphaël, 83700, France
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Thursday, October 8, 2015

jQuery Enhanced Splitter

jQuery Enhanced Splitter is a plugin to generate sliding splitters on your page. Useful for separating content, emulating the look of frames, collapsable tool windows, and more. Completely customizable look and feel, and touchscreen friendly.

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by Admin via jQuery Rain

Getting Started With Google Maps for Android: Intermediate

#SocialMedia Marketing For Your Company: Think Strategic, Not Scattered - #infographic

Social Media Marketing for Your Company: Think Strategic, Not Scattered

When social media platforms started coming on the scene over a decade ago, there was a novelty factor that caused marketers to get a bit overzealous. It didn’t hurt that most of the popular social networks were technically free (at least to join), and the idea of reaching the masses without having to sacrifice sacred budget made countless businesses jump on the bandwagon. But fast-forward a few years and there are new schools of thought about how to use social media to your brand’s best advantage. While it may have been the norm to spray the same content out through every social network you could, times have changed. Here are a few tips to bring you up to speed in the strategic social media era.

by Irfan Ahmad via Digital Information World

Caching a MongoDB Database with Redis

Today, performance is one of the most important metrics you need to evaluate when developing a web service. Keeping customers engaged is critical to any company, especially startups, and for this reason it is extremely important to improve the performances and reduce page load times.

When running a web server that interacts with a database, its operations may become a bottleneck. MongoDB is no exception here, and as your MongoDB database scales up, things can really slow down. This issue can even get worse if the database server is detached from the web server. In such systems, the communication with the database can cause a big overhead.

Luckily, you can use a method called caching to speed things up. In this tutorial we’ll introduce this method and see how you can use it to enhance the performance of your Node.js web service.

Background

Caching is a strategy aimed at tackling the main storage problem, which means: the bigger the storage is, the slower will be, and vice versa. In a computer, you have the hard drive which is big but also relatively slow. You then have the RAM which is faster but smaller in its storage capabilities, and lastly the CPU registers which are very fast but tiny.

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by Iddo Gino via SitePoint

Hypnosa

Hypnosa

'Hypnosa' is a One Page WordPress theme suited for portfolios. The Single Page template features a sticky header with a long page to scroll. Sections include intro slideshow, about, services, team, a lightbox portfolio gallery, testimonial slider and simple contact form. By the looks of things the whole site is editable in WordPress's theme customizer.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

Camp Quiet

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Minimal text-only responsive portfolio for Virginia based digital agency, 'Camp Quiet'. Simple and effective.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love