snackable content
Snackable content – bite-sized web content
  • Online sales

Snackable content has become an online marketing buzzword. The term refers to content on the web that can be taken in quickly and easily. Examples of snackable content include posts and tweets, pictures or memes, and short videos. Snackable content is designed to suit the average attention span of web surfers, and is usually sensationalist or emotional, designed to pique a reader’s interest...

Snackable content – bite-sized web content
SSL stripping – how to protect your web project
SSL stripping: Basics and protection options
  • Technical matters

Data transmission via SSL/TLS is one of the most effective means to give a web project more security. Even before packets are sent, powerful algorithms ensure the encryption of the information. If third parties capture the data on the transmission path, the true content remains hidden from them. However, it becomes problematic if attackers are active with their tools, even before the encryption...

SSL stripping: Basics and protection options
HPKP: The security feature for SSL/TLS certification
HPKP: What is behind the public-key pinning extension for HTTP
  • Security

SSL/TLS certificates play an increasingly important role in the transmission of sensitive data. They guarantee that data packets reach the desired addressee without any detours. Problems only arise when internet users are deliberately redirected by invalid certificates from dubious certification bodies – a scenario that can be prevented using so-called HTTP public key pinning (HPKP).

HPKP: What is behind the public-key pinning extension for HTTP
Deep Learning
Deep Learning: When the human brain becomes a model
  • Search engine marketing

Deep learning, along with machine learning and artificial intelligence, is one of the main buzzwords in information technology. In discourse, though, the terms often get mixed up. What are the differences? What is the relationship between the methods? We provide you with an overview, show you how deep learning works, and what practical applications are possible.

Deep Learning: When the human brain becomes a model
Startup folder in Windows 10
How to change startup programs in Windows 10
  • Configuration

Like all modern Microsoft operating systems, Windows 10 has a built-in feature that allows you to automatically run system programs, user-defined programs, service applications and processes. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how the startup folder works in Windows 10 and how to add or remove specific applications.

How to change startup programs in Windows 10
How to calculate time in Excel
How to calculate time in Excel quickly and easily
  • Online sales

You can use the SUM function to quickly add up several values. But if you want to calculate hours in Excel, you first have to adjust the format of the cells. The format has to be correct, otherwise you’ll encounter problems when you add up more than 24 hours. In that case, your total could be missing an entire day. We’ll teach you how to add hours in Excel and avoid common mistakes.

How to calculate time in Excel quickly and easily
Programming paradigms
Programming paradigms: What are the principles of programming?
  • Web development

The two elementary programming paradigms – imperative and declarative – can best be described as fundamental programming styles. Thus, they are not the “programming styles” of individual programmers, but fundamentally different technical approaches for programming software code. In this article, we examine the programming language paradigms including their subsidiary forms.

Programming paradigms: What are the principles of programming?
Web Services
Web Services: Services from Machine to Machine
  • Web development

Many applications that run on your home PC or smartphone rely on data from the Internet—more precisely, from servers. One way for devices to communicate with each other is through web services. The technology is based on standardized formats such as HTTP, SOAP and XML. But how does it work?

Web Services: Services from Machine to Machine
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP: The network protocol explained
  • Web development

Online banking, ecommerce, search engines: In order for a client to access a web service, all communication users must comply with a set of rules. With SOAP you are using a highly standardized solution recommended by the W3C. The network protocol stands for high security and solid performance. How does SOAP work with web services?

SOAP: The network protocol explained
OTT
OTT Means the Next Step Forward in Television
  • Online sales

The emergence of over-the-top content (OTT) has long-term implications for the future of television. As a direct alternative to the likewise internet-based IPTV, OTT is independent of internet providers. OTT doesn’t require its own infrastructure and enables users to freely choose when they use which digital content. Video on-demand, live streaming and Internet cable television with OTT content...

OTT Means the Next Step Forward in Television