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4 Ways to Avoid Website Crawlability Issues
Crawlability relates to how easily (and thoroughly) a search engine’s crawler, often referred to as a spider, can access all of your site’s content.
By Jonathan @ BOOM6 years ago in 01
How to Change the Look of Windows 10 Desktop
Windows operating system by Microsoft is one of the most popular and widely used OS around the world. With new versions and upgrades the OS gets better and more efficient. It is not only just the performance of the computer that matters, a lot of users also want to customize their computers and user interface according to their taste and hence they look for different options to modify it. Earlier the same was achieved with the use of custom theme packs which were widely available when the trendsetter Windows XP was ruling the market. As the new versions came out, new ways emerged for people to change the settings. Microsoft didn’t stay behind and also came out with lots of settings to make the user interface more customization. In this article I am going to share with you some of the tips and tricks in which you can change the look of your Windows operating system. Let’s get started.
By lucy taylor6 years ago in 01
Spring Boot Two-Factor Authentication
A few days ago I wrote a story on JWT and social authentication using Spring Boot, check it out if you haven't yet. This story is an extension to the above story, which, we will add a two-factor authentication.
By Amr Khaled6 years ago in 01
Microservices in Practice: Developing Instagram Clone
Token based authentication In Monolithic applications, a user provides username and password, the security module validates user credentials and create a session for the user. A session Id is returned to the client and the client stores the session Id in cookies and send it with each request as an identifier for the user.
By Amr Khaled6 years ago in 01
CI/CD Using GitHub Actions
GitHub Action is a task you want to achieve at a certain event. For example, on Push to a master event, you want to build, run tests, create a docker image, push to docker hub, and deploy to Kubernetes.
By Amr Khaled6 years ago in 01
JWT and Social Authentication
This article is a guide on how to implement JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication and integrate it with Facebook authentication using Spring Boot and Facebook Graph API.
By Amr Khaled6 years ago in 01
Building Scalable Facebook-Like Notifications
Sometimes we want the server to notify the client on changes. This is something that is not possible in traditional HTTP web applications. In traditional web applications, the client has to establish a connection with the server and then waits for the response from the server. This is the problem that server-sent event is solving. The Idea behind server-sent event (SEE) is the client subscribes to stream of updates generated by the server and, a notification is sent to the client, whenever a new event occurs.
By Amr Khaled6 years ago in 01
5 App Ideas to Build and Grow up your Coding skills
As a programmer, we know that it gets hard to find some great ideas that we can build to showcase in our portfolio and also growing up our coding skills. That's why I have got some ideas to help you make these great app projects.
By Tarun Singh6 years ago in 01
VoIP Phone Systems Brings in Noticeable Revolution for the SMEs
Recently, VoIP phone systems are gaining more and more popularity. It helps you get connected over the phone through the internet and there is no need to bring home the traditional landline. This system is designed to convert analogue voice signals into digital signals and hence becomes easy to establish a connection. The quality of this type of connection is far greater than over traditional landlines. It not only ensures a high-speed quality, but yields a more reliable, less staticy option for businesses to clearly communicate with their customers.
By Max Ruby6 years ago in 01
How to Get Tidal for Free – Best Way
There are different ways to get Tidal for free. After careful selections, I have picked out the best one for you to get Tidal Premium and Tidal HiFi for free. If you are interested in how to achieve this goal, check this article to know about the detailed steps.
By yang yunqi6 years ago in 01
Online Food Delivery App Using Blockchain Technology
First of all, good luck with your venture, starting and online food delivery business is a great idea. It’s one of the most fastest growing businesses right now and has a great scope for the coming years. It’s kind of like any new idea that comes along, at first, not everyone accepted it. People preferred going to restaurants and getting take outs. But now, a majority of the people all around the world prefer online food ordering and delivery platforms. It’s because of the convenience of course, and the wide variety of food items that are available on these platforms.
By Allen calvy6 years ago in 01
How to Upscale Images without Losing Quality using Waifu2x (Arch Linux/ Windows)
There are multiple way upscale images. You could Photoshop, GIMP or Krita to upscale images with their respective transformation tools but there will be loss in quality. Thanks to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), that problem is solved. You don't need to know any coding to use this tool either. That’s the best part.
By Siddhu6 years ago in 01