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Quick Monitor Buying Guide
Deciding the screen size You ought to consider the right physical size in inches with the screen resolution — deviating too much from the following chart would either make the screen too pixelated or you might find the default font size to be too small.
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Essential Tips for WordPress Admins and Editors
(This post supposes that you have a working WordPress site already and now want to improve the content and design for the site.) You’ll first need a login for your WordPress site. The login is most probably at example.com/wp-login. Most articles on “Getting started with WordPress” begin with setting up WordPress on a server, or…
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Git — Getting Started
Using Git is simple and so I’m keeping this very short. 1. Github.com is not git 2. You only need to learn these six commands to get started: add commit push pull clone status 3. push is akin to uploading your files to the server (for safe-keeping). Before pushing you’ve to write a comment about…
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Designing the Apple Watch UI – a quick guide
The Apple Watch is releasing in a month! Here’s a list of important things you need to know, if you’re interested in designing or developing an Apple Watch App: 1. Layout and Screen Sizes 38mm: 340 pixels x 272 pixels 42mm: 390 pixels x 312 pixels That’s an aspect ratio of 4:5. 2. Icon…
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Php’s performance improvements — HHVM, JIT, and ‘Hack’
Facebook deprecated HipHop for PHP, a PHP to C++ translator (trans-compiler) which they had been using since Feb 2010 in favour of HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), in 2013. HHVM is a PHP interpreter that uses just-in-time(JIT) compilation techniques. Or to put it another way, HHVM is a virtual machine that compiles PHP bytecode to native instructions at runtime. HHVM now…
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Native Vs Hybrid Mobile Apps
I was recently checking how the Hybrid App frameworks compare to Native iOS or Android Apps. Here are my observations on few Phonegap Apps that I tried on my phone: The size of Phonegap Apps is big: an app that should have been less than 10MB has a 40-50MB installer. The Apps take longer to…
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github is not git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system that can handle small to very large projects. It’s mostly used to keep the history of your source code. Github is a company that provides an online git hosting service, used by some projects to keep their source code. There are several companies like…
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Analytics for Product Managers
Product Managers at growing startups need to define clear targets that relate to the product vision. Data-driven decision making has worked well for Amazon, Facebook, Google, et al., so there’s little doubt about its effectiveness at least at certain points in a project lifecycle. It’s easy to feel over-whelmed by the task of analyzing scattered…
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Navigating large codebases and contributing to Open Source
(I wrote the following as an email to a someone who asked me for advice. So it’s verbose and written with a personal tone.) I. Setup your system and build the project code Pick any good Integrated Development Environment (IDE). I like VS Code. You can work on any langauge in VSCode be it C++,…