How to become a programmer with less pain?

It is a well-known fact that programmers are in great demand on the market because the life flow requires new technological goods which define every sphere of our everyday existence. Such products can be created by programmers only.

People say that to become a programmer you have to study hard and to finish at least a university or college IT Degree Program. They say that it is a long and hard way which takes at least 6 years.

Well, if you are not eager to spend so long time, there are variants which take less time, but they are worse to some extent and not always reliable.

The first one is to choose numerous online courses where you are likely to learn everything starting with Diesel Mechanic Training and finishing with creating cloud computing software. The only trouble is to choose a reliable source with good theoretical and practical base, where they are really going to teach you. You can spend hours and several attempts trying this or that course, but nobody can guarantee that your knowledge is right.

The second thing is to get as much experience as you can only do. Doing any types of projects that can teach something new; this is a great option which will lead you to a successful career in the future. Do not get upset if you are not lucky at first, and your codes look stupid and sites don’t start. You are training, and you have to learn all types of failures and mistakes.

The third point what you have to consider is to decide what you want from the IT career. Deciding the future specialization is also necessary. As soon as you know what you want in the niche, your learning process will get easier and less painful.

The fourth step is to create a portfolio of everything you have ever designed and coded. Even the smallest project can benefit you in the future. Potential employers are usually keen of seeing the portfolio of works done.

The last, but not the least, learn all the time. Being a programmer means that you should be ready to have ongoing education, as the sphere is changing all the time, and you have to be up with it, but not lagging behind.

In spite all the given advice, the best option to succeed in IT sphere is to get a decent education and complete one of the college programs e.g. at Western Technical College.

Mobile Application Promotion

Today I’m going to speak about another variant of promoting your mobile application for Android or iOS which was offered by Florida mobile developers. It should be noted that this way is free. ‘Tap For Tap’ is a special network for exchanging advertising banners.

This networks works in the following way: you register at the site and build in your application.  You can build in your app directly or you can use the mediation AdMob – this variant is preferable since you can manage your banner’s show remotely, via the AdMob console. At the ‘Tap for Tap’ website there are detailed instructions and examples of customization.

The working principle is simple – you show someone else's adverts, earn credits (that’s internal virtual currency), then spend them on displaying your ads in someone else's applications. It can be called a natural banner exchange. After launching the application, it is automatically registered at the ‘Tap for Tap’ website. You can automatically generate advertising banners for your app which will be visible in other applications or you can add your own banners having drawn them in advance, or order it with Florida Android Developers. 

At the ‘Tap for Tap’ website you can also customize the countries where you would like to advertise your application. Also you can switch from getting credits to getting profits if at some moment further application promotion of your app is not necessary.

Good luck in iPhone apps development and high profits!

The basics of the cloud-based site monitoring

Sooner or later everyone faces the necessity of using website monitoring software, because the modern world is full of various technologies which can spoil, slow down or even destroy your competitors’ sites. Cyber crimes have become wide-spread in the present society.

As we can see, the need to monitor a company site is vitally necessary, so that it enables the firm to work stable and with profits.

With the development of the technology we have an opportunity to track our websites even from distant locations.

Remote monitoring is quite popular in various spheres of life e.g. in transport, utility, cell phone companies.

But, as soon as, cloud technologies have appeared, things have become even easier. Cloud services let you forget about lots of hardware. They save a great deal of money for companies.

Firms, which produce monitoring software of all types, started to create cloud-based monitoring tools for customers.

The main advantage of cloud-based monitoring services is the ability to perform monitoring any time of the day and any place you wish where the Internet is available.

To install cloud-based monitoring solution you don’t need to invest in any additional hardware and software. Besides, it doesn’t require any IT infrastructure at all.

Such type of services let you focus only on the particular issues that you would like to see and control.

At the same time, when you buy such a solution, you pay money for the service which really works only for you and for your personal needs.

All in all, cloud-based tools save our precious time, giving us a chance to spend it on the most important things, for instance, improving the business itself by attracting new customers.

No wonder, that cloud-based services are becoming more and more important in the IT sphere with every passing year.

How much does it cost to live in London while studying?

You have been rather lucky, and they enrolled in one of many prestigious universities of London.
You are eager to start a new life and to get fresh knowledge as soon as it is possible.

Before settling in a new place, you have to solve certain problems. For example, you have to decide about accommodation in London for students, as this is going to be the most important thing for any person who comes to study to London.

When we speak about housing in London we have a clear image that everything is not cheap there.

To some extent it is true, and in comparison with other cities, London is expensive to find student accommodation London. Alongside with it, there are too many options to find a cheap place of living.

If you examine carefully the Internet, you can get many sites which offer London student residence where the price of renting is much lower. The second way is to find some other students and share a flat or a studio together in order to save some money.

At the same time London authorities try to support students and make their lives easier, offering free things for them.  You are able to choose free lectures and courses at universities, get discount cards to eat out and to travel. You can also take a part-time work and earn some money for a living.
If you have a purpose to get a reliable and good education, London welcomes you!

Online Store Development on Magento: Is It Worth It?

Nowadays most top web design companies offer three main solutions for developing online stores:
• own content management systems (CMS)
• customized commercial solutions
• free solutions

Let’s have a look at Magento. It is a free solution with an open source-code but, in contrast to other free solutions, you will need good programmers with enough experience for customizing it and adding the required functional. Magento is considered to be a rather complicated system containing more than 200 tables in the database in its basic version.

Magento System Requirements
Magento can be launched at the dedicated server or VPS with any operating system (such as Windows or UNIX, where the performance is likely to be higher). As a web-server, one can use any: apache, nginx or lighttpd. Moreover, you’ll need PHP 5.2+ with the mcrypt and mhash extension and MySQL 4.1.20+ in the InnoDB mode.

What concerns the server configuration, our experience says that for effective performance of your Magento store you need as much internal memory as possible (4Gb+) so that all the modules of the system work steadily and your store can cope with thousands of visitors a day.

Magento Options
Magento allows changing the description of goods and categories at the HTML level. You can prepare and include your own template for each item or category, which gives an advantage in persuading a customer to buy certain goods.

You can set individual meta-tags, descriptions and keywords. Moreover, Magento can automatically create the sitemap.xml file. Although recently the given file has had little practical application, its presence can speed up the process of finding the pages by search engines which are difficult to get through using only navigation.

Functional, usability and search optimization
These are three components which can lead your online store to success. Functional mainly depends on the platform used for developing the store. Usability depends on a software development company whom you trusted the process of development. Search engine optimization will depend on a SEO specialist who will deal with promoting your store online and attracting visitors to your site.

Famous Magento Online Stores
It should be noted that many famous and well-known brands, including Nestle, Samsung, Skype, Nokia, Lenovo, have chosen these platform for their online catalogues and stores.

Conclusion
If we summarize everything mentioned above, developing an online store on Magento requires good server resources and deep programming knowledge. If the cost of these resources doesn’t scare you, creating an Internet store on this platform is worth doing. Trust your future online store to a reliable company, like Florida Magento website development company, and become successful and profitable at Internet business!

Free messaging mobile applications are killing SMS

Free messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Kik, Viber, WeChat and Kakao Talk are becoming so popular with users around the world that they are receiving a great part of the telecom operators’ revenues from SMS. This trend is not a surprise anymore: Nokia creates smartphones with an especially dedicated button for WhatsApp application.

According to the data of telecom and media consultancy firm Informia which has collected some information for the Financial Times show that the messaging mobile applications listed above and their analogues like Apple’s iMessage, Samsung’s ChatON, BlackBerry Messenger have overtaken SMS as the preferred and more required way to exchange text messages.

The research company informs that in 2012 year almost nineteen billion text messages were sent each day with the help of free messaging mobile applications for different mobile devices. It is also predicted that the current year this number is going to more than double to forty one billion messages each day. So it means that the mobile applications are killing SMS though the process is still very very slow.

Informia expects fifty billion messages to be sent with the help of WhatsApp, Kik and other messaging applications by 2014 year compared to only twenty one billion traditional SMS messages. However it also means that the number of SMS messages will also keep growing according to Informia. In other words it means that it may be still too early to speak about the quick death of SMS right now. It will happen one day eventually but not until the most part of the world’s population uses smartphones together with a mobile data plan from their carriers. In fact, Informia told BBC that the SMS revenue is expected to grow to $127 billion by 2016. So for now no dancing on the grave of SMS yet.

Few words about the author of the article: Karol McMill, professional copywriter publishing articles on different IT topics - software and hardware for business and entertainment, mobile applications for iPhone and Android, gadgets and widgets to improve the efficiency. Prefers Prada shoes and likes cooking with wine.

LinkedIn has launched mobile application for daily consumption

LinkedIn - the social network for professionals – has radically changed the mobile experience to attract users to a personalized stream of business content.

LinkedIn has recently released completely renewed versions of its mobile applications for iPhone and Android as part of ongoing effort to turn the social network into a rich, daily destination for consuming content and connecting with other people.

These fresh applications have a little resemblance to their former versions. But they differ in a crisp design, a reworked navigation and personalization features aimed to make LinkedIn for iPhone and Android a vehicle for rabid consumption. The mobile applications for iPhone and Android are now available for fifteen different languages.

LinkedIn’s senior product manager and mobile phone lead told CNET that the underlying design principle behind the new mobile applications is that everything users need and care about should be just single tap away. He added that they were eager to bring everything to users instead of the users having to search for information. The company has created mobile applications with a cleaner and customizable navigation menu that slides from the left-hand side of the screen. It really efficiently directs users’ attention to whatever they are interested in. it also slides out to reveal a dynamic stream experience.

Stories include status and connection updates, news, posts from the influencers that user follows, job changes etc. in case in user is a big content reader he will find more content than other users. In case if users seeks for a new job, the stream will provide more recommended jobs.

LinkedIn has done a really great job and it has done it successfully. The new mobile applications will provide users with an extremely detailed environment and will serve the 27 per cent of users who prefer using the professional service on mobile.

Unpredictable twists make you hot!

What can be more boring than predictable garments? You buy attire and it seems that there is everything you need in it: it’s comfortable, high-quality and modern. But still there is something that the item misses. It lacks some special thrill and when you go out you just enter the crowd and dissolves in it. Nothing makes you different in it. You become one of the many! What can be worse than that? Every person, following fashion trends and buying designer clothes from the famous fashion designers will consider it complete failure. Something extraordinary adds special appeal to the clothing. Having felt keen desire of people to look unique and unpredictable against the background of urbanization and city boring architecture, John Richmond creates one magnificent clothing line after another which meets the demands of people belonging to absolutely different groups. So what is that in his garments that makes you feel special and behave the way you are?

With diversity of fashion accessories you manage to look glamorous wearing street style trendy clothes. No wonder that trademark is rising in popularity though famous rock stars have long made this designer a favorite. Mick Jagger, David Bowie and other stars of show business appreciated it highly. Richmond clothing ruins the expectations and destroys traditional set of things. Sharp tailoring with elements of astonishing twists will not let the surrounding be bored when looking at you.

The chic of the glam rock star is almost in every item of Richmond designer collections. Denim, lycra reigns in trendy clothes from Richmond but sudden sprinkles of leather make it look like clubwear.

There are collections to every taste and budget. Discount designer clothes are quite affordable to fashionistas who are not able to afford expensive luxury garments. Want to look hot? Choose Richmond clothes to look fabulous and unique!

IT exists outside California

If you are asked to name the most IT-oriented state of the USA probably you'll name California thinking about Silicon Valley, And all the IT brands like Apple, Microsoft and HP. And maybe you will be right.

But what to do if someone lives not in California but let's say Florida and needs a piece of custom software development. Let's say he or she needs an iPhone apps development somewhere near Miami or Florida Magento website development. Fortunately living in not the top IT state doesn't mean that you'll face a problem to find a software development company. There are at least 2 great options to get your IT project live.

On the one hand, you may search Google entering for example " Florida software company". You'll be surprised how many different search results there would be there. You have the opportunity to choose from the list of small companies specializing on specific technologies like mobile applications development for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, custom programming for eCommerce shops, Real Estate sites, corporate sites, and so on. Or you may find a dedicated team of software developers who will work for you on a time & material basis. In this case you need to be a project manager and business analyst for them. Or you may choose a big company with a wide range of different IT services including not just software development but also maintenance and promotion. On the other hand, there always is another variant. Nowadays the whole world is like one economy. So, you may choose a software development company from any country and outsource your software development project to India or Philippines, Romania or Belarus, Mexico or Brazil. And if you decide to use this variant the list of your choices will increase by a thousand or even more.

As for me I prefer to hire the company from my city or at list from my state. This helps to avoid cultural and time-zone differences, so as problems with language communication. Unfortunately, the opportunity cost of my choice is higher cost of programming in comparison with an outsourcing my project. So, this is a trade-off.

GLIMPSE OF A FASHION WEEK

Such fashion industry event as fashion week is a great promotion opportunity for fashion designers and fashion houses. Setting the latest trends such events are held throughout the world, but certainly the most notable are the ones held in the centers of world fashion – New York, Paris, Milan and London.

The goal of fashion week is not just to demonstrate what is in fashion, but to prepare the audience for the approaching trend. Therefore fashion weeks are held in advance every six months and buyers with mass media are given information on fashion in the coming season. New York is always the first in the schedule with London following it and Milan, while Paris completes the list.

The fashion week in London this year was the tribute to the recently deceased fashion designer McQueen. One of the most spectacular shows was arranged by Burberry with the help of digital innovation effects. The show was streamed live on the Internet.

There is a trend of bigger popularity of such shows all over the world with extended reflection in mass media. Microblogging seems to be very popular in fashion and there is no need any longer to wait for some reports concerning fashion events from central channels. Any person is able to make it. This new trend was especially strong in the context of current fashion week in New York.

Real time media were able to give a review of everything happening on the catwalk and anywhere else. About 50% of all those who came to Fashion week used Twitter and discussed all events online. The coverage of the events in 53 % of the cases was via unofficial sources, such as blogs. The news were published and republished, pictures were sent and linked. All this had a great impact upon the event. It is also noted that many non-professional reviews are rather interesting and not worse than reviews of professional fashion experts.