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Minus the Header-Only Dogma
I've been working on the C++ Network Library for a few years already total but have been on-and-off with it until recently. One of the first decisions that I made in implementing the library was to try and do a header-only approach to implementing a network library implementation. At first it made perfect sense - you get the compiler to optimize as much of the code as it can while being able to expose a very friendly and expressive interface. When it was merely a handful of header files and there was just the notion of a message and the HTTP client, all was fine. I was perfectly happy showing off really simple but powerful use-cases where you'd want a C++ application to be able to make HTTP calls and get the contents without having any knowledge of how networks worked or how to program sockets on either Windows or UNIX-like systems. Until I got ambitious and it became a real project that people wanted to use - then reality became real.
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Date: 2011-08-30
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Google Releases The AdWords Editor Version 9.5
Google has announced the release of version 9.5 of its free desktop software for managing AdWords campaigns. This new version "supports Campaign Experiments, Location Extensions, and plenty of other features to boost your productivity while managing your AdWords campaigns."
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Date: 2011-08-30
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How To Get Links From Authority Sites?
External Links are one of the major contributors towards getting a better placement in the search engine results. Link Building with major industry associations will go a long way to improve search engine rankings. But more often than not, a simple link exchange program with a leading website of your niche will not work. They are already the industry leader, hence, they really don't need a link from you. So what can you do in this case? It is to understand and then implement these steps.
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Date: 2011-08-29
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Why Are Links From Authority Sites Important?
External Links are one of the major contributors towards getting a better placement in the search engine results. Link Building with major industry associations will go a long way to improve search engine rankings. But more often than not, a simple link exchange program with a leading website of your niche will not work. They are already the industry leader, hence, they really don't need a link from you. So what can you do in this case? It is to understand and then implement these steps.
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Date: 2011-08-29
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The Art of Referral Conversion
If you provide a product or service that delivers value and customers find the experience of obtaining those products or services is at least satisfactory, there's a good chance you are receiving some quantity of leads by way of referral or word of mouth.
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Date: 2011-08-29
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Is Google Plus Helping You Be Personal?
As most of you folks know already, over the next few days, I will be on holidays visiting my family in mainland Spain and while it's supposed to be a time where I will be doing plenty of disconnecting and unwinding from the Social Web, as I get to do some serious catch up with real life, and with the little things that matter, I just can't help dropping by on this blog every now and then, and over the next few days, and share with folks some further thoughts and insights that have been in my mind for a little while now. And lately, my mind has been buzzing with how my overall experience with the external Social Web has changed rather dramatically thanks to Google Plus. Over two months on it and I am still having a blast. This time around though for business, too!
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Date: 2011-08-25
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Google+ and the Potential Impact on SEO
Although you can only join by invitation at this point, you've no doubt heard of Google+, Google's latest attempt to join (or, in time perhaps, completely overtake?) Facebook and Twitter as a must have social networking tool. In the months before Google+ was launched, Google also began implementing the "+1" button as a usable option for users to signify that they enjoy a particular site or page in an attempt to gather as much raw data as possible about the popularity and social value of sites and content before Google+ was rolled out for the masses. Preceding the Google+ and +1 button was the introduction of real time search, which was able to incorporate search results from Twitter, blogs and Facebook. Google, it would appear, is realizing the immense value of social media and the impact of social media on web search.
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Date: 2011-08-25
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The Impact Of Google+ On SEO
Although you can only join by invitation at this point, you've no doubt heard of Google+, Google's latest attempt to join (or, in time perhaps, completely overtake?) Facebook and Twitter as a must have social networking tool. In the months before Google+ was launched, Google also began implementing the "+1" button as a usable option for users to signify that they enjoy a particular site or page in an attempt to gather as much raw data as possible about the popularity and social value of sites and content before Google+ was rolled out for the masses. Preceding the Google+ and +1 button was the introduction of real time search, which was able to incorporate search results from Twitter, blogs and Facebook. Google, it would appear, is realizing the immense value of social media and the impact of social media on web search.
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Date: 2011-08-25
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MicroStrategy CRM
Sonic Automotive announced that they will be using MicroStrategy's iPad app. Sonic's dealerships will be using the app for financial, marketing, and operations information. As a Heath Byrd, a VP at Sonic, states, "Mobility and business intelligence are two of our top strategic priorities."
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Date: 2011-08-24
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Creating a Google Friendly URL Structure
When creating a new site, it's important to consider how your URLs will be structured. Making the right decision before your site is created means you won't have to go back and implement a bunch of redirects to repair any dodgy URLs on the site.
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Date: 2011-08-24
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The Importance of a Natural Link Profile
Anyone who understands how valuable link building is also understands how important it is to have a natural (organic) link profile. It's no secret that this takes time. The amount of time needed to get the results wanted can seem never-ending. It helps to stay focused and keep eyes on the bigger picture and primary goals.
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Date: 2011-08-24
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The Relevance Of The '+1' Button
The last session of the SES San Francisco day 3 was titled- 'Getting More from Google+ and the +1 Button'. It was aimed at the latest on Google+ features and the recent works of +1 button. The eminent speakers on the panel were:
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Date: 2011-08-22
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How Fresh are your Cookies?
As a result of changes to the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, it is now unlawful to use cookies to collect user data without first obtaining explicit consent. In the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which is responsible for ensuring that websites comply with the new cookie law, has implemented a technical solution on its own website with the result that traffic to it plummeted.
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Date: 2011-08-22
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Social Media Solutions On A Budget
Social Media is very effective when it comes to building your brand and promoting it. However, it seems pricey to many organizations. At the SES San Francisco 2011, the panel discussion on- Social Media Solutions On A Budget focused on the free to low cost tools and strategies that can help companies take up social media.
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Date: 2011-08-19
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CIOs Are Getting Serious About Business Rules And Decision Management
My friends at Corticon had an interesting press release today about a survey they just conducted - More Than 40 Percent of CIOs and CTOs Surveyed Plan to Automate Decision Management Processes. There were some interesting results in this. First, as their headline notes, we are starting to get some serious consideration of automated decision-making, decision management, among CIOs/CTOs. 40% is a lot higher than you would have got even a few years ago and the 36% that indicated they plan to deploy a business rules management system for decision management was also a strong result. Clearly the message is starting to get through to folks that using a BRMS to automate and manage decisions improves agility and helps you build a new class of systems - decision management systems. The survey also asked what their priorities were and it is interesting to note how decision management systems could really help in these areas:
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Date: 2011-08-19
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An Overview of Transactions
Databases are becoming more complex and as this evolution is taking place there is much discussion about SQL and noSQL, ACID and BASE, and almost everything else related to databases. Central to this debate and commonly misunderstood are transactions.
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Date: 2011-08-19
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Advanced Link Building, Panda Solutions, SEO Tools
On the first day of the SES San Francisco, Jim Boykin, CEO and Link Building Ninja, We Build Pages Internet Marketing Services- discussed the much feared Panda. He began his session by pointing out the dark day for many websites- February 24th, when the Panda was rolled out by Google. He then explored everything about the algorithm update:
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Date: 2011-08-18
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SES: Advanced Link Building, Panda Solutions, SEO Tools
On the first day of the SES San Francisco, Jim Boykin, CEO and Link Building Ninja, We Build Pages Internet Marketing Services- discussed the much feared Panda. He began his session by pointing out the dark day for many websites- February 24th, when the Panda was rolled out by Google. He then explored everything about the algorithm update:
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Date: 2011-08-18
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Eclim Brings Eclipse Power to Vim
Whether you develop in Ada, C/C++, COBOL, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, or write HTML, XML and produce DTDs or XSDs, Eclipse can benefit you. Originally designed as a Java integrated development environment, Eclipse brings code completion and validation to other languages as well. For complex applications, and especially verbose languages, an integrated development environment is a savior. Unfortunately IDEs are naturally mouse-heavy with GUIs. Many developers, myself included, use the Vim editor because of the power of the command mode; however, even using plugins to extend Vim will never bring it up to parity with the features of Eclipse. Enter Eclim, a headless Eclipse instance that acts as a server to process your code in Eclipse and return the data to Vim. You get the best of Eclipse and Vim together.
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Date: 2011-08-18
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Cryptoprocessors as a Viable Security Solution
Encryption is computationally very expensive, but the growing threat of data loss is putting pressure on companies to implement greater security. When it comes to internet security, most corporations don't think to look to cryptoprocessors. New chips like Cavium's NITROX III have overcome barriers that will make cryptoprocessors a viable security solution.
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Date: 2011-08-17
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Focusing On Both Short & Long Term Content Marketing
The number of inquiries we get at our Online Marketing Agency has stayed pretty steady over the past few years but there's been a notable shift in interest specifically towards social & content marketing. What's interesting is the focus on leveraging social media marketing solely for direct consumer acquisition. What's the problem with that? Nothing. But there's a lot of missed opportunity by focusing only on the short term benefits of social media & content.
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Date: 2011-08-16
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How to Choose a CMS Provider for SEO
Having recently assisted a client during a CMS (content management system) pitch selection process, I thought it would be useful to look at the type of features and capabilities I felt were important - or essential - from an SEO perspective.
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Date: 2011-08-16
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How to Create a Screen Shot in Windows
There may be some cases where you will need to create a screen shot of the window(s) that you currently have open, whether it is for a customer support representative to better diagnose a technical problem with your computer or to create a snapshot of what is happening on your computer just in case the situation you are in does not happen again. All of the common versions of Microsoft Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7) provide ways to easily capture and save a screen shot so that you have a visual document of the current state of your operating system.
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Date: 2011-08-16
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Chromebooks Making Inroads With Enterprises
Google announced Chromebooks just three months ago to wildly positive and equally negative punditry. Evaluating recent product announcements and business growth for Chromebooks, it's becoming increasingly clear that Google has a winner with Chromebooks. If you haven't been following Chromebooks closely, you'd better start.
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Date: 2011-08-15
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A Hot Commodity, Sysadmins with a Knowledge of Puppet
Any systems administrator that has had to configure, manage, and maintain more than a handful of machines has sought out and appreciated software that helps out that endeavor. Because maintaining various machines, platforms, and environments can become strenuous when the systems administrator has to visit one and configure it. Even managing multiple scripts that automate the process can become cumbersome when there is not any framework to base the scripts on. In the end, most systems administrators will finding themselves reaching for configuration management software, and typically, more specifically, a highly-involved open source solution. Once in place, configuration management software makes the systems administrators job much easier, though by no means easy.
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Date: 2011-08-12
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The Rise of the Connected Customer and the New Era of Relevance
It's not a widely kept secret, but customers do indeed keep companies in business. While businesses have long invested in improving customer relationships, the time has come to think beyond efficiencies and automation and examine new opportunities to rethink customer experiences overall. Why? Customers are more connected than ever before. The role they play has exploded beyond transactions and is now influencing the transactions of others as well as contributing to the brand experience at levels never before seen.
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Date: 2011-08-11
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How To Make Money From Your Website
One of the questions that I get asked just about every day is ‘How do I make money from my website?‘ and it's the sort of question I could spend about a week trying to answer. Just like some of my other favorites like 'how do I get to the top of Google?' or ‘how do I use social media to market my business'. So sticking with ‘the make money from website' question for now, this post attempts to explore this subject in some detail.
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Date: 2011-08-09
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How Do I Make Money From My Website?
One of the questions that I get asked just about every day is ‘How do I make money from my website?‘ and it's the sort of question I could spend about a week trying to answer. Just like some of my other favorites like 'how do I get to the top of Google?' or ‘how do I use social media to market my business'. So sticking with ‘the make money from website' question for now, this post attempts to explore this subject in some detail.
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Date: 2011-08-09
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Using Q&A Sites For SEO Results
Taking an active part in Q&A sites is very smart SEO. You not only get targeted traffic, but also build quality links. Search engines include Q and A sites as an attempt to offer diverse search results. You must have noticed that often the Q and A sites are on the first page of search results. This is because search engines know that these sites have the relevant answer to the search term keyed. Read on to know how Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers, Quora, Answerbag, Mahalo, Wikihow, etc. can get you relevant traffic.
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Date: 2011-08-08
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Understanding the Inode in Linux
Every day users would not have a clue as to what an inode is. However, when it comes to understanding data storage and use it is a core concept. Even those highly involved with data storage may not be extremely familiar with the topic. Let's take a look at what an inode is in Linux.
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Date: 2011-08-08
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VMware Backs Down On Licensing Changes
VMware's vSphere 5 new licensing model raised eyebrows and tempers across the industry just three weeks ago. Bowing to the negative response, VMware has announced three changes that should appease customers - but will still likely lead to higher virtualization costs for VMware customers.
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Date: 2011-08-05
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Helpful Windows Shortcuts For InfoTech Admins
The Windows operating system is a clean and easy system to navigate around in. Menus at the top of your application windows, icons to folders and applications on the Desktop, and smaller icons within the System Tray make accessing your programs easier and give Windows a more user-friendly experience. Along with these easy-to-use shortcuts that can be performed with your mouse, I would like to highlight some of the commonly used keyboard shortcuts that can better your Windows experience.
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Date: 2011-08-04
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The ROI of Enterprise 2.0 and the Value of Intangible Assets
I want to dispel a myth that I keep hearing and that myth is about the ROI of emergent collaboration technologies. We keep hearing about the challenges with measuring and showing ROI and how that is a sticking point for executives and decision makers at companies. The problem with this is that there will never be an ROI from an emergent collaboration technology precisely because technology is just that…technology. We are talking about tools that enable us to collaborate and do "things." The ROI or the value comes from the activity and from the actual collaboration, not from the technologies themselves.
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Date: 2011-08-04
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Living "A World Without Email" … in Google Plus
In the last few weeks a lot has been written about whether Google Plus is the ultimate killer social networking site of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or several others, you name it. Perhaps we have seen far too many articles and blog posts on the topic and while I do think it's just a bit too early to make such kind of statements, even if Google Plus has just reached over 25 million users already. I still think it's a bit too early to be announcing the painful death of each of those social networking environments. Let's not forget how long it took both Facebook and Twitter to become mainstream and reach that tipping point of no return, of rampant progress, of gaining enough relevance and importance to stick around for a while, in short, of having enough global impact that almost everyone has heard, or knows about them. G+ still needs to reach that level. I do know though it will reach it eventually, perhaps even sooner than anyone else!, but what I am rather surprised about is the fact that hardly anyone has talked or blogged about the fact that Plus does present a real threat to the king of communications, collaboration and knowledge sharing: email! And here is why.
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Date: 2011-08-04
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Establishing Site-to-Local Listing Relevancy
So, you want to start kicking tail and taking names in the local search world? However, you just realized that you don't have a resource for the needed management of local social review properties, you don't have a dedicated local PPC pro and you don't know a link-building professional to help you acquire the right kind of locally relevant links. Time to give up, right? No, while you build your local search strategy and find your resources, you need to ensure that you button down the first step of Local Search that most don't pay attention to, establishing local search relevancy.
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Date: 2011-08-03
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Building Your Local Search Strategy
So, you want to start kicking tail and taking names in the local search world? However, you just realized that you don't have a resource for the needed management of local social review properties, you don't have a dedicated local PPC pro and you don't know a link-building professional to help you acquire the right kind of locally relevant links. Time to give up, right? No, while you build your local search strategy and find your resources, you need to ensure that you button down the first step of Local Search that most don't pay attention to, establishing local search relevancy.
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Date: 2011-08-03
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A Simple Introduction To HTML5
At this point, you are probably tired of hearing how HTML5 is changing everything. Everything in web applications and even mobile applications are changing. HTML5 even lets you create a web application that works almost like a desktop application. Yes, there is a lot of hype about HTML5, especially when you consider that the specification is not entirely complete. However, there is a lot of information that is fairly stable, and this is driving much of the hype.
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Date: 2011-08-02
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What Is HTML5?
At this point, you are probably tired of hearing how HTML5 is changing everything. Everything in web applications and even mobile applications are changing. HTML5 even lets you create a web application that works almost like a desktop application. Yes, there is a lot of hype about HTML5, especially when you consider that the specification is not entirely complete. However, there is a lot of information that is fairly stable, and this is driving much of the hype.
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Date: 2011-08-02
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Adobe Releases Edge Preview
Adobe has released a preview of its new design tool, Edge, that takes advantage of the new features of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. The new tool could become a big hit given the great features and flexibility it has.
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Date: 2011-08-02
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British Court Rules for ISP to Block Site
A British court ruled that the biggest British Internet Service Provider, British Telecom, to block access to Usenet binary downloading advocate site, NewzBin2. This ruling should come as no surprise for the NewsBin2 site as the British courts have been considering drastic action against them for over a year. For the courts to rule against a data aggregation service, it is an unprecedented move which puts the onus of responsibility for users' third-party actions on the web site owners. In many earlier copyright situations, for example, The Pirate Bay, have always maintained that because of the nature of Peer-to-Peer technology, the site never hosts the copyrighted files themselves. This ruling puts such sites in jeopardy.
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Date: 2011-08-01
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