What is Abstraction Layer? You might have noticed the usage of this terminology in various technical article but ever wondered what this Abstraction Layer is? An abstraction layer or level of abstraction is a way to hide the way the things are running behind certain functionalities. The best known example of Abstraction Layer can be the OSI model for network protocols. Basic Examples … [Read more...]
Base64 Encoding and Font CSS
Base64 Encoding Data URI can be used for Font Face in CSS Files, this is basically a good practice as we are decreasing four HTTP requests per font face. Redmond's Browser (read Internet Explorer, if you never heard the terminology) can not be taken as a standard web browser, unfortunately. More unfortunately, it is still used and we still need to add the CSS, Javascript etc. fix for each … [Read more...]
Installing New Relic on Heroku Cloud
Installing New Relic on Heroku Cloud is quite easy with Heroku Apps. With New Relic you can monitor the performance of your web app or website on Heroku PaaS. A reader has requested to write some easy way for his WordPress on Heroku Cloud for W3 Total Cache's configuration. Actually the request was for video, we will go for video later, as we always do. Installing New Relic on Heroku Cloud … [Read more...]
What is PaaS (Platform as a Service) : Video Guide
What is PaaS or Platform as a Service has been explained through this video guide in simple English to make it easier to any level of reader. We have discussed about Platform as a Service or PaaS either as a model of Cloud Computing or as guides for service provider specific guides for setup numerous time. But, we think this explained easy video tutorial on What is PaaS or Platform as a Service … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Buys Media Temple : Thoughts and Ideas
GoDaddy Buys Media Temple - four days has been passed since we all know about the acquisition. Thoughts and Helps for the old Clients and technical notes. Hosting business is changing scenario quite faster. Regular readers are quite aware that we have an inclination towards Rackspace. Beside Rackspace, we often mentioned Media Template. Usually the serious webmasters, rather a bit techy webmasters … [Read more...]
What Cloud Users Need to Know
What Cloud users need to know are legal aspects of the concept, Security and Privacy and Copyright and Licenses. We have answered the most important questions. Cloud computing demands input not only from the IT professionals and users, but also from the lawyers on the planning aspect - is not surprising. But, it is interesting that the legal arguments not primarily serve as limitations of the new … [Read more...]
Metal Detector : How it Works
Metal Detector is a device to locate hidden metal parts, pipes and electrical conductors on land and under water, usually has a electronic circuit and a coil. Previously we wrote about Radio-frequency Identification or RFID which uses the electromagnetic waves the allows automatic identification and localization of objects and living beings. RFID uses complex, targeted technology but per se Metal … [Read more...]
WordPress Optimization Tricks : The PHP Files
WordPress optimization tricks offers you some uncommon and common hacks to optimize the Page Loading speed specific to WordPress files only. As basically only few (versus the need) are interested and fully active in WordPress core development, some features actually reflects the need of one developer as a human plus some are not possible to deliver as customized version for your website or domain, … [Read more...]
Food Photography Tips to Get Professional Shots
Food Photography Tips to make the viewer mouth-watering by viewing the photos to convince a person at the restaurant, to sell a lot of cookbooks is important. This is an article on Food Photography Tips - because like Portrait Photography, there are some points which are specific for this genre. Knowing how to photograph the food to get great results requires a specific knowledge of what works and … [Read more...]
How To Use Any Web Font From Own Hosted Library
How to use any web font from own hosted library describes the ways any web font can be used from either CDN or Server. This guide has good potential for F/OSS developers. Knowledge should be free - it is fully immoral to make the way of procuring knowledge very costly affair. If knowledge was not Free, we would never get many great artists, inventors - because most of them had no money. The only … [Read more...]
Google App Engine and PHP : Beginners Guide
Google App Engine now supports PHP. There is separate Plugin for WordPress. Support for phpMyAdmin and all PHP-MySQL web softwares and frameworks is available. This is not a to do guide for Google App Engine - this is a brief up with link towards all the needed resources. That simply means - who has very less idea about PaaS model, can start from here. Google App Engine and PHP : … [Read more...]