The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Most smart phones on the market have at least one camera if not two. You may want to leverage these cameras to make the next Instagram or SnapChat type application. Lucky for us, the native Android and iOS camera can be easily accessed using Ionic Framework and the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova. The following will help you add camera functionality into your latest creation.

Development 52

Development 52

Wayfair Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here's our Frontline team at work, in our spiffy network operations center: [caption id="attachment_2043" align="alignleft" width="584"] Wayfair network operations center[/caption] Selling home goods on the internet isn't rocket science, but if you actually wanted to send a couch to the moon, you'd want to plan for and monitor. Read more.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Network Monitoring 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. The research of the time supported this. The Profit Impact of Market Strategy database produced by the Strategic Planning institute concluded that diverse & vertically integrated businesses were significantly more profitable than narrow and focused businesses (PIMS 1977, slide 67).

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Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 1, 2014

When you have a website that transmits information from a user to your server it is very important to encrypt it. The last thing you want is someones password being sniffed by a malicious user when they register or sign in. By using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) , data is encrypted between client and server preventing any malicious users from sniffing your password in plain text.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization Website Servers Development 40

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

If you’re using a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, chances are you’re going to be using phpMyAdmin. By default, your phpMyAdmin installation is not very secure and chances are your MySQL database has a treasure trove of excellent information for a malicious user. By following these steps, you can make it significantly tougher for your phpMyAdmin installation to be exploited.

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Database Development 40