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Compliance Project Management Best Practices - Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) The importance of planning and PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) in modern Project Management

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According to Roger Saillant, you can get high performance from any position in your organization if you appreciate small achievements and never get bothered with who gets the credit. This …

Compliance Project Management Best Practices - Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) The importance of planning and PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) in modern Project Management Read More
Android / Cyber Security / Tools & Utilities / Web

Android Hacking Warning: 10 Dangerous Apps You Should Be Aware Of A journey into the most dangerous Android apps that could threat your smartphone, cripple your mobile experience and/or steal your data

- by Veronica Hanks - 2 Comments.

Well, it is 2018 and the Android community is developing at a faster pace. Each day there is the upbringing of newer apps with some exciting features and latest updates. …

Android Hacking Warning: 10 Dangerous Apps You Should Be Aware Of A journey into the most dangerous Android apps that could threat your smartphone, cripple your mobile experience and/or steal your data Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

ASP.NET MVC - Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature

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As you might already know if you're using ASP.NET MVC, routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an Action within a Controller. In the unlikely case you don't know …

ASP.NET MVC - Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature Read More
Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / SQL

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact

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It has been a while since MariaDB 10.3 has been out, bringing its stunning pack of changes, improvements and new features - most notably, System-versioned tables and Sequences. If you found this …

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact Read More
Coding / Servers & Services / SQL

Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line

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If you like playing with MySQL or MariaDB servers, you most likely know that both of these great open-source DBMS come with mysqldump, a neat command-line utility that can be used to …

Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line Read More
Coding / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB

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The "Error establishing a database connection" WordPress error is a rather common one. You can either get it upon each request, meaning that you WordPress site is entirely down, or intermittently (randomly …

WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB Read More
Applications / Servers & Services / Web

How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL A short tutorial explaining how to clear Chrome's sticky memory for redirects without clearing all your browsing data

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As you most likely known since you found this post, Google Chrome - just like most other browsers - implements the 301 redirect caching, meaning that it will often locally cache …

How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL A short tutorial explaining how to clear Chrome's sticky memory for redirects without clearing all your browsing data Read More
SEO & Marketing / Web

Website Performance Optimization - How to Do It Right? Some useful suggestions and insights to improve your website overall performance and speed to grant your customers a better experience

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The website is the basis for business promotion through online means, and this is the primary factor that every business has. There are different types of site, and it is …

Website Performance Optimization - How to Do It Right? Some useful suggestions and insights to improve your website overall performance and speed to grant your customers a better experience Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities

ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files

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A few months ago I've written a post here explaining how to programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# using the Microsoft Office primary interop …

ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files Read More
Cyber Security / Tools & Utilities / Web

How to prevent a Data Breach: Malwares, Viruses, Hackers, Phishing, Identity Theft & more A list of things to know (and do) to help reduce the chance of a Data Breach from the most common exploits: Viruses, Malware, Hackers, Phishing, Identity Thefts and spying techniques

- by Mohammad Ali - 1 Comment

Sadly, common sense is not very common these days. The other day my friend called me asking how to transfer money in South Africa? I said why? He said, ‘I …

How to prevent a Data Breach: Malwares, Viruses, Hackers, Phishing, Identity Theft & more A list of things to know (and do) to help reduce the chance of a Data Breach from the most common exploits: Viruses, Malware, Hackers, Phishing, Identity Thefts and spying techniques Read More