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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

WordPress, the ubiquitous publishing platform that launched millions of blogs and websites, turned 20 on May 27th. While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Users didn’t have to upend their daily driver operating system.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown

Smashing Magazine

It was created by John Gruber in 2004 with the goal of making writing formatted text in a plain text editor easier. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Certain websites and web apps that use Markdown input will also try to add alternate description text for you. Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown. Eric Bailey.

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Why Do Selenium Tests Fail? : Top Reasons

Testsigma

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. Let us look at a few reasons why Selenium tests fail: Asynchronous websites. Dynamic websites that change without refresh.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. Developers who are automating business systems have to determine where humans belong in the loop.

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