Alexa is a web information company promoted by Amazon. It provides traffic, page views, reach, etc for the web sites.Alexa ranking is widely used to rate the web site. Ranking is in increasing order. High traffic sites has lesser the rank value and poor traffic web sites will have higher the rank value. Google is ranked 1. Follow our steps, how we increased the rank from 3 million to 300,000.

How to increase Alexa rank for the website

I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.

How to contribute to open source

Many startups are entering in to the business due to open source. Open source acts as a back bone / pillar for their business. It reduces the cost of production, Generates revenue from consulting and support. This article describes about the startups which flourished because of open source. Sun acquired MySQL for $1Bn is the biggest achievement for open source startups.

Open source is the backbone for Startups

React libraries from Facebook is one of the most used UI libraries. It is competitive to AngularJS. There are many open source UI components or frameworks available but mostly people narrow down to two choices Angular / React. Recently Facebook has updated React license and added a patent clause which makes companies to worry and rethink whether to use React or not.

React Patent Clause Licensing issue. Is it something to worry?

LogicalDOC is both a document management and a collaboration system. The software is loaded with many functions and allows organizing, indexing, retrieving, controlling and distributing important business documents securely and safely for any organization and individual.

LogicalDOC - Open Source DMS

PrestaShop is an Open Source eCommerce Solution. It comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners in increasing sales with virtually little effort. It is being used in more than 150,000 online stores.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

What the benefit will i get, if i contribute to Open Source? This is the frequently asked question by many people. I just want to pen down the benefits which i know and i hope you will agree with it.

Benefits in contributing to Open Source

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

There are couple of sites which indexes the open source code and provides support to search code. Recently Google announced that they removed code search support from Google code. This article provides pointer for code search engine sites.

Free Open Source Code Search Engines

What if you could reliably run PHP without Nginx or Apache, but also without relying on its internal server? What if you could do async operations in PHP with true multi threading, fully taking advantage of multi core processors without hacks or a jungle of callbacks? What if you had drag and drop installation support for your PHAR packaged web apps in an environment identical to its production counterpart? Welcome to appserver.io – the worlds first open source application server for PHP.

Appserver.io – The First Multithreaded Application Server for PHP written in PHP

Bitcoin is an open source digital currency which could be transferred in a P2P payment network. It is decentralized and it is not controlled by any central authority or banks. It is transferred from person to person and no authority will be aware of your transaction. Its quite different from PayPal or Banks.

How Bitcoin works? A simple introduction.

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

You may require GBs of data to do performance or load testing. How your app behaves when there is loads of data.  You need to know the capacity of your application. This is the frequently asked question from the sales team "The customer is having 100GB of data and he wants to know whether our product will handle this? If so how much RAM / Disk storage required?". This article has pointers to the large data corpus.

10 sites to get the large data set or data corpus for free

In this article we will have a look at CLI Tools for Minio and AWS S3

CLI Tools for Minio and AWS S3

Introduction to Spring Shell

fd is a fast, simple, and user-friendly tool that simply performs faster than find. It isn't meant to be a replacement for find, but rather a slightly faster alternative that is easier to use. Let us explore fd command completely in this article.

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

Building CRUD REST API using Go

Building a CRUD To-Do List App in React Native with Expo: A Step-by-Step Guide

Cassandra is a highly scalable and distributed NoSQL database known for its ability to handle large volumes of data across multiple nodes. It is designed to provide high availability and fault tolerance, making it a popular choice for applications that require real-time data processing and high read and write throughput. In this article, we will explore some common use cases for Cassandra and learn how to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations in Python using the Cassandra driver.

Cassandra: Use Cases and Python CRUD Operations

In this article we will learn how to send emails using jakarta mail

How To Send Email using Jakarta Mail

Most of the projects will have a requirement of sending and receiving mails. We have mentioned about GreenMail - Email Test Framework, in our previous article about API based SMTP testing. In this article, we discuss about MailHog - Web and API based SMTP testing. You send out a mail from your code and you can check it via web visually and also via API. Those who do API testing can check via API. Developers may want to visually verify the format of the mail. MailHog is a best bet for SMTP testing.

MailHog - Web and API based SMTP testing

In any project there will be a need to send mail out to users. It could be an alert mail, forget password or authentication related mail. Mail is the default communication between the software and the users. As a developer, we can write code, to send out a mail but we need to make sure whether it got successfully received and how the body of mail, Is it the same like what we have sent. GreenMail is a Email test framework which helps to send and receive mails. It is a test framework which supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP including SSL. 

GreenMail - Email Test Framework in Java

This guide walks you through the process of installing and configuring Minio on your system, ensuring you can quickly get up and running with this robust storage solution.

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Install and Configure Minio

How to install and configure Apache Kafka

How to Install and Configure Apache Kafka

How to install and self host Supabase

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