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Blog, Web Design, WordPress

How to Create a Separate Page for Blog Posts in WordPress

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We just added a separate page for our Blog Posts using this guideline found here :

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-a-separate-page-for-blog-posts-in-wordpress/

Most important step is to create two pages, one called ‘Home’ as entry for your static Homepage and one called  ‘Blog’ for listing all your blog posts.

Then set the two pages under  > Settings > Readings in your Dashboard:

  • Enable Frontpage displays ‘A static page (select below)’
  • Set Front Page to ‘Home’
  • Set Posts Page to ‘Blog’

 

Android, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio, Software development

Top 10 reasons to use Visual Studio for C++ Android Development!

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Visual Studio: C++ cross-platform mobile solution

Visual Studio (download here) is fast becoming a cross-platform C++ IDE. Our vision is for Visual Studio to become the IDE of choice for your cross-platform C++ code whether you are targeting, Windows (UWP), Android, iOS, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation, Marmalade or more. In the past year or so, we have enabled support for Android, iOS (in preview) targeting, improved integration with the popular cross-platform game engine Marmalade, introduced a new compiler toolset (Clang/C2) for improving code portability between Windows and non-Windows platforms. If you talk about the Android platform specifically which is what this post is really about, typically the use of C++ is common for applications which are computationally intensive such as games and physics simulations but many applications today are using C++ for its cross-platform nature to author a part or entirety of their application.

Read more here: blogs.msdn.microsoft.com.

Android, C#, iPhone, Microsoft Visual Studio, Software development

Visual Studio 2015 Community

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For Individuals

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

For Organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

For more information, see the Visual Studio Community license terms.

For Windows Desktop, Universal Windows Platform, iOS, and Android

Learn more about Universal Windows Platform development

Learn more about cross-platform mobile development

Bluetooth, C#

Bluetooth Device Development using C#

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Fortunately it is very simple to interact with Bluetooth radio and devices on the phone using Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology. This download contains a bunch of C# files which you can directly use in your code. You will get classes such as BluetoothDevice and BluetoothRadio which allow you to control the device and paired devices.

read more: blogs.msdn.com – bluetooth-device-control-development-using-c#

WordPress

WordPress Plugin Duplicator

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We started to use the WordPress Plugin Duplicator and it looks very good! 🙂

“The Duplicator gives WordPress administrators the ability to migrate, copy or clone a site from one location to another.
The plugin also serves as a simple backup utility.
The Duplicator supports both serialized and base64 serialized string replacement.
If you need to move WordPress or backup WordPress this plugin can help simplify the process.
For complete details visit lifeinthegrid.com.”

see also: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

Microsoft Visual Studio, Software development

Visual Studio 2013 Community edition – Free, Unrestricted Version Of Visual Studio For Small Teams

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Microsoft launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has been offering for a few years now.

There is a huge difference between Visual Studio Express and the aptly named Visual Studio 2013 Community edition, though: The new version is extensible, so get access to the over 5,100 extensions now in the Visual Studio ecosystem. It’s basically a full version of Visual Studio with no restrictions, except that you can’t use it in an enterprise setting and for teams with more than five people (you can, however, use it for any other kind of commercial and non-commercial project).

“The simple way to think about this is that we are broadening up access to Visual Studio,” Microsoft’s corporate VP of its Developer Division S. “Soma” Somasegar told me in an interview late last month. Somasegar told me that the Community Edition will allow you to build any kind of application for the Web, mobile devices, desktop and the cloud. “It’s a full features version of Visual Studio,” he noted. “It includes the full richness of the Visual Studio extensions and ecosystem.”
more info, here:
Installing Visual Studio Versions Side-by-Side:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609.aspx

Visual Studio 2013 Compatibility:
How to make Visual Studio 2010 + 2012 + 2013 coexist together?
http://stackoverflow atorvastatin 20 mg.com/questions/22876932/how-to-make-visual-studio-2010-2012-2013-coexist-together

Android, Apple, Web Design

Responsive Web Design – Test if your page is mobile friendly

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There are several tools, you may find, to test if your page is mobile friendly but I think it’s also very important to get a good ranking at Google and maybe not yet but for sure in the future mobile friendliness will also be a big criteria ….

So I recommend using Google’s mobile friendliness test:

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly