MongoDB - a database solution for the future?
MongoDB is touted as the future of big data, but is what is it, and how does it compare to traditional relational databases?
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MongoDB is touted as the future of big data, but is what is it, and how does it compare to traditional relational databases?
Read moreWe take a brief look at this methodology for naming and structuring your HTML and CSS, the problems it fixes, and the pros and cons of incorporating BEM into your next project.
Read moreCyber Essentials is a government-backed cyber security certification scheme that sets out a good baseline of cyber security suitable for all organisations in all sectors. If you haven’t taken steps to protect your business from cyber criminals, have a look at cyber essentials.
Read moreWhy data encryption and other measures are now a 'must'. Read what GDPR has to say about data encryption.
Read moreWe recently implemented Examine.PDF search feature in one of our Umbraco based web applications. Examine.PDF uses Lucene for indexing and searching. Here we shared our experience of understanding what and why of Lucene scoring.
Read moreThere are many Content Management Systems available, but in this article Robin compares two popular open-source CMS's - Umbraco and WordPress.
Read moreIf you have ever worked with CSS float, I am absolutely sure you have experienced the interesting and sometimes strange effects it has on the content that follows. In this post I have summarised different ways to clear CSS floats along with some helpful tips for older versions of IE.
Read moreCircular Reference issues when serializing more complicated data objects is commonplace. A typical way of dealing with this is to add DataContract...
Read moreIn one of our latest projects there was a need to implement a full-text search engine. We had several search requirements such as filtering by categories, searching near a given location and, of course, searching for a specific keyword. We already had experience using Lucene.Net so we chose to use Apache Solr, which uses the Lucene library to provide fast searches and full-text indexation to give better performance.
Read moreOver the years we have written a number of secure web systems for clients that require client user authentication. The technically ideal pattern for this is a "Multi Factor Authentication" (MFA) model.
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