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The 20 most downloaded mobile apps of 2019

Prathap Rathod — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 03:43:42 +0000

Visual Capitalist has compiled statistics on unique application downloads through the App Store and Google Play from January 1 to December 31, 2019. Pre-installed apps for Apple and Google were not counted.

Mobile apps are one of the reasons why smartphones are so much popular today. These apps are what make your phones and tablets smart, in terms of functionality and features. The app market is going through a positive revolution with hundreds of new applications being introduced every day.

From 2016 to 2019

List of Country Top Downloads

6 websites to get Better Free Backlinks your site

Prathap Rathod — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:38:48 +0000

If you have ever tried to promote your site yourself, you probably know that it is, to put it mildly, difficult.

But the site is needed in order to be seen.

Therefore, SEO optimization is something you can not do without if you want your site to be visited.

In addition, in order to remain at the top of the search results, you need to carry out this work consistently, carefully analyzing and choosing optimization methods.

In this article, I can not tell you about all the subtleties of SEO.

Rather, my goal is to share information about several SEO tools that seriously facilitate the process of ensuring your site with decent positions and traffic.

Today, we will talk about external links, or rather how to get really high-quality links to your site.

There are many possible sources and ways of getting backlinks, but not all are equally useful, and some are useless or even harmful.

If earlier, the decisive role was played by the number of links, now it is mainly their quality.

That is, it makes no sense to place links everywhere, where possible, it is a waste of time and effort.

I offer you an overview of resources, links from which will be most useful for promoting your resources.

Social resources are a great tool for link building.

For example, Pinterest, known to many people today, is the most popular social bookmarking site.

When you share your content on Pinterest, it not only generates a reciprocal link but also shows your bookmark to multiple users, thereby generating some amount of relevant traffic back to your site.

Sites like Pinterest and some others that we discuss here can really help you create high-quality backlinks that increase the status of your site in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, and others.

Remember that search engines pay more attention to the quality of placement than to the link signals themselves.

Which social bookmarking sites are better?

Since the beginning of 2019, our agency experts have analyzed a variety of sites that allow the publication of content and links, and have compiled a working list of truly powerful donors.

1. Mix.com

Mix is relatively young, but already one of the most popular bookmarking sites.

Previously, until June 2018, it was the now not working StumbleUpon service.

It is so simple and intuitive to use that almost everyone likes.

2. Pocket.com

Pocket is another smart platform for getting backlinks to your site.

Registered Pocket users save links in bookmarks, which remain on the site forever and allow you to return to them at any time.

3. Pinterest.com

Pinterest - 175 million average monthly attendance, approximately 80 percent of female users.

At the moment, Pinterest published more than 50 billion pins.

4. Twitter.com

Twitter, with its 335 million active users per month, is amazing.

Perhaps this is not the most convenient site for posting content, but having a huge user base, Twitter is a great place to publish announcements and links to attract traffic.

5. Dribble.com

Dribble is a great place to get backlink SEO for your site.

Dribble is made for creative people.

If you are interested in graphic and visual design, then it suits you even more.

6. Reddit.com

Reddit is without a doubt one of the oldest and best social bookmarking sites.

Here, each user creates his own list of bookmarks, which can comment, increase or decrease the rating of publications.

Reddit is an indispensable tool for quickly promoting your own website.

Do not forget to share your links to Reddit.

Google announced Kotlin priority programming language for developing Android applications

Prathap Rathod — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:26:25 +0000

At the I / O 2019 Developer Conference, Google announced that the Kotlin programming language is now the preferred language for Android application developers — the new Jetpack APIs and libraries will be published first to Kotlin.

“If you start a new project, you should write it in Kotlin: the code written in Kotlin most often means for you (the developers) much less code — less code for typing, testing and maintenance,” Google says. According to the company, development for Android will increasingly become development on Kotlin.

Kotlin is a language created in 2010 by the international company JetBrains, which was founded by Petersburg programmers. For the first time, Google announced support for Kotlin in the Android Studio IDE in 2017.

According to Google, in two years the popularity of this programming language has grown significantly: more than 50% of professional Android developers use Kotlin in their projects. Kotlin became the fourth most popular programming language according to the latest survey of developers at Stack Overflow.

GitHub will add a “sponsor” button for donations to developers

Prathap Rathod — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:09:29 +0000

GitHub announced a test version of the Sponsors tool. It will allow financial support for developers, according to the project website.

Any user with an account on GitHub can become a sponsor. In the first year of operation, the Sponsors service will not charge a percentage for accepting payments - developers will be able to receive the full amount of money sent to them.

The company also launched a fund from which in the first year it will double the amount of each donation. The volume of the fund is $ 5,000 per developer.

Users can choose an attraction model: a one-time donation or subscription through services like Patreon, Tidelift, Ko-fi and Open Collective. Not only developers but also other members of the community, such as mentors, will be able to attract money.

GitHub also announced the purchase of the Dependabot service, which updates the project's dependencies and helps to keep track of library updates. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed.

Microsoft bought GitHub for $ 7.5 billion in the summer of 2018. The company promised to empower users throughout all development cycles and keep the platform open.

How many levels are the developers in the team

Prathap Rathod — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:59:46 +0000

The Finch team decided to stay on four levels: junior, middle, middle + and senior. The company has a lot of developers who are at the junction of two levels - middle and senior. Therefore, they decided to introduce an additional grade. To make more grades with a staff of 55 people guys consider superfluous. Perhaps over time, the stairs will be more.

In DD Planet, as in most IT companies, all developers are divided into four levels: junior, middle, senior, team leader (team leader).

Formally, graduate students who are just starting their careers can be formally referred to the junior level. Preference is given to serious technical universities, for example, Moscow State University (faculties of the VIC, mekhmat), MSTU, MIEM, HSE.

A more advanced level of development specialist - middle. The employee still does not make independent decisions, but behind him, there is no need to double-check the correctness of the tasks implemented. The head says how and what to do, the programmer performs everything on time and efficiently.

The next grade is senior or lead programmer. The specialist can independently make decisions and is responsible for their implementation. He is also able to oversee one or more junior or middle programmers.

The highest level of professional development in tmlid. At this stage, the person not only makes the right decisions but also controls the team. He can distribute tasks so that they are optimally implemented by a team of five to six people.

DigitalWand has six levels of developers: junior, junior +, middle, middle +, middle ++, senior.

Junior knows the basics of his technology, can perform simple tasks but is not yet ready to work independently.
Junior + works independently on simple tasks. Able to apply typical operations with Git.
Middle completely solves typical problems, however, he may need help in designing, review of the code.
Middle + knows the framework on which it works, begins to master other frameworks, it can already help junior programmers.
Middle ++ can be trusted to work on production, release management. Ready to do not too complex systems design. Can, if necessary, communicate with the customer.
Senior has several frameworks in his arsenal, he has experience in designing and developing complex systems.
In "Netologiya" now there is a division into three standard levels: junior, middle and senior. Each level involves a new level of professional growth. Roughly speaking, the higher the position, the more the developer assumes responsibility, understands different products and can help colleagues.

Senior-level specialists, for example, in a company not only are directly involved in the development, but their task is also to be mentors for new team members.

In Oneway Studios, a record number of levels is eleven.

MediaSoft works according to the model of providing specialists to the customer, so it is logical to determine the programmer’s salary not according to the static grade system but depending on the market value of his work, which depends on the complexity of the tasks to be solved.

It works like this: the management looks at what the salary would be for a specialist if the client hired him to the in-house team. And here it is very important not to miss the developer level. If his expertise is lower than the client needs, he will simply not cope with his duties, if he is higher, he will lack motivation.

Key indicators in the formation of grades web developers

Prathap Rathod — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:37:40 +0000

Oneway takes into account the total amount of closed tasks in hours, the courses completed and the exams passed (“Bitrix24”), a certain set of skills and experience in certain tasks (competence matrix).

MediaSoft does not use the grading system in the usual sense and, in general, there is no traditional division of developers into junior, middle and senior classes.

This classification is rather arbitrary: as practice shows, senior is often called the steepest specialist in a company, and this does not reflect anything but the level of the company itself. If you try to get a big and serious organization like “Yandex”, such a senior may not even qualify for a junior position.

DigitalWand creates a number of technical requirements, based on the technology stack, as well as identifying supporting skills. The grade is assigned when hiring and then may change as part of the certification.

In Finch, the list of indicators is quite large: code quality, autonomy, project diversity, professional growth, the amount of time worked at the company and initiative.

Briefly, both technical and near-technical human competencies are assessed. On each grade, there is a certain set of these competencies.

In “Netologiya” there is no system of grades for developers: in the working conditions of the team, it was not possible to determine clear measurable requirements for the transition between levels. Surely there are successful examples of the implementation of the grading system, but this does not mean that they should work for everyone. Nevertheless, there is a certain division by levels in the team.

For DD Planet, it is crucial that the programmer is able to make the right decisions on his own. This is the key criterion by which the company assesses the level of a specialist because to make independent correct decisions a high level of knowledge and sufficient experience in the profession is necessary.

No less important indicators such as the adequacy of the timing of the executor, timely and accurate execution of tasks.

Check out good Web Development Communities

Prathap Rathod — Tue, 28 May 2019 03:51:14 +0000

Web Development Communities

Every web developer has been there. They have a problem and what do they do? Well, they go to Google to find a quick answer. The web offers so much content right at our fingertips that it makes it easy to diagnose and troubleshoot problems when they arise. Check out a few good web development communities below.

Stack Overflow: Community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other.
Dev Community: A Place Where Developers Share There Intresting articles here, just like you, helping each other.
Front-end Front: A place where front-end developers can ask questions, share interesting links, and show their work to the rest of the community.
Hashnode: Global community for software developers to connect and learn to program from each other.
Refind: Community of founders, hackers, and designers who collect and share the best links on the web.
Google+ Web Developers Group: Web developers, web designers, and web coding.
Google+ Web Developers Group: Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, and Python Resources
Facebook WordPress Front-end Developers Group: WordPress Front End Developers is a group for devs to ask questions, share their work, discuss emerging trends, and collaborate.
LinkedIn Web Design and Development Professionals Group: Networking and information sharing a resource for professional Web Designers, Web Developers, and Web Masters.
LinkedIn Web Site Development Group: Website design & programming.
LinkedIn PHP Developer Group: PHP, Mysql, Drupal, Joomla, Zend, Cake, MVC.
LinkedIn WordPress Developers Group: WordPress Codex. Using WP as CMS and CMF.
Webdeveloper.com: Where web developers and designers learn how to build web sites, a program in HTML, Java, and JavaScript.
Sitepoint Forums: Web development discussion.
/r/perfmatters: The #1 subreddit about web performance and web development.
/r/webdev: What's new for web developers.

Best Top 12 Text Editors for Programmers

Prathap Rathod — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:38:20 +0000

Code Editors/Text Editors

Whether you're taking notes, coding, or writing markdown, a good text editor is a part of our daily lives!

Atom: A text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core. One of our favorites!
Sublime Text: A sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose with great performance.
Notepad++: A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Visual Studio Code: Code editing redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
TextMate: A code and markup editor for OS X.
Coda 2: A fast, clean, and powerful text editor for OS X.
WebStorm: Lightweight yet powerful IDE, perfectly equipped for complex client-side development and server-side development with Node.js.
Vim: A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
Brackets: A lightweight and powerful modern text editor; written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Emacs: An extensible, customizable text editor with built-in functions to aid in quick modifications of text and code.
Dreamweaver: Not your typical code editor, however, Dreamweaver can be used to write code and build websites through a visual interface. Learn more in this simple Dreamweaver tutorial.
SpaceMacs: A text editor design to operate in both Emacs and Vim editor modes.

Web Application Frameworks

Prathap Rathod — Mon, 27 May 2019 08:09:21 +0000

A web application framework is a software framework designed to aid and alleviate some of the headache involved in the development of web applications and services.

Ruby: Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications, with the MVC pattern.
AngularJS: Lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your web application. AngularJS is a framework, even though it's much more lightweight and sometimes referred to as a library.
Ember.js: A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
Express: Fast and minimalist web framework for Node.js.
Meteor: Full-stack JavaScript app platform that assembles all the pieces you need to build modern web and mobile apps, with a single JavaScript codebase.
Django: High-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
ASP.net: Free, fully supported Web application framework that helps you create standards-based Web solutions.
Laravel: A free, open source PHP web application framework to build web applications on MVC pattern.
Zend Framework 2: An open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP.
Phalcon: A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension.
Symfony: A set of reusable PHP components and a web application framework.
CakePHP: A popular PHP framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code.
Flask: A microframework for Python based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2.
CodeIgniter: Powerful and lightweight PHP framework built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

If I anything forgot to add in this list just comment below.

Best Dev Blogs on the Internet

Prathap Rathod — Mon, 27 May 2019 07:17:37 +0000

Web design development is most of the bloggers are constantly developing. Every minute there are new ideas, trends, buzz, and modern designers are creating new things

In This post, I will share some top most blogs and freebies pages.

1. Smashing Magazine

2. Speckyboy

3. Design Shack

4. DesignModo

5. Superhero.js

6. Codepen Blog

7. CSS Author

8. Creative Bloq

9. Github Blog

10. Dzone

11. Pttrns

12. Webdesigner News

13. Oneextrapixel

14. Scotch.io

15. Tuts+

16. Sidebar

17. Javascript Weekly

18. SitePoint

19. Pixelhint

20. Echo JS

These are the dev blogs and counting
If I have missed any blogs please comment below.

A New Theme For Dev.to

Prathap Rathod — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:01:30 +0000

I have Created a Theme for Dev.to

For Dev to I Have changed the Some dev.to display like

Font - Comic Sans MS
Primary Sticky Nav Disabled
Header Color Changed
Post View Middle
Comments Color Changed

I hope this Theme Will Like
I have Published This theme here Userstyles

Please Comment Below

Address Bar Spoofing in Microsoft Edge and Safari

Prathap Rathod — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:54:20 +0000

The second location bar ridiculing occurrence was found by Pakistani scientist Rafay Baloch, who addresses at different meetings, for example, Blackhat, on his exploration of program security. The location mocking method he found influenced Microsoft Edge and Safari programs.

While a site diverted its guest to another site with a shut port, the assailant could intercede and change the substance of the present website page any way they enjoyed.

Since the URL bar previously demonstrated the location of the area with the shut port, clients were persuaded that they were perusing a real site rather than an aggressor controlled one and are persuaded to enter their accreditations.

In his evidence of-idea, before diverting the client to the site with the shut port, Baloch decoded the base64 encoded rendition of Gmail login page and after that adding it to the DOM. Hence the location in the URL (http://gmail.com:8080) and the phishing page looked exceptionally persuading. Baloch figured out how to keep the parodied location stable by utilizing the setinterval() work that attempted to divert the client like clockwork.

The Code Used to Spoof the Web Browser Address Bar

Baloch used the following code for the aforementioned exploit.

function spoof()
{
var gmail = 'PCFET0NC8+KArOK.........ZHk+PC9odG1sPg=='; // The base64 encoded version of the Gmail page
x=document.body.innerHTML=atob(gmail);
document.write("Gmail");
document.write("x");
window.location.assign("https://www.Gmail.com:8080");
}
setInterval(spoof(),100000);

The proof-of-concept above was the one working on the Microsoft Edge browsers.