It’s time to welcome HISAAB, a simple online speech recognition app, for tracking your expenses with your voice i.e. no need to type. It will help you to note your expenses and calculate the total amount quickly. It allows you to Copy, Email, Save or Print the data. It supports English and Hindi languages.
HTTP to HTTPS Migration, WordPress and SEO
Before I start this article, I would like to ask one question to you, How many HTTPS links do you see in first page of Google search result? Generally, I get more than 50% for my search queries and major top links belong to HTTPS. It is self explanatory how important HTTPS and SSL is. As SSL is mandatory for safely processing transaction e-commerce website, but here I am not going to talk about security and safety, my concern is SEO. The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default and it is encouraged by Google with announcement HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014. Chrome and Firefox browsers started to display warning for HTTP (Non secure) websites. So you decided to move on HTTPS. Hold a minute and see the challenges. you will get many examples on Google saying huge drop in traffic after moving HTTPS if not implemented properly. So you must aware of the challenges. In this post, we will move a WordPress website to HTTPS, Setup free SSL and update dependencies to meet SEO guidelines. It is assumed Apache server is used in Ubuntu server.
Azure Functions + Cognitive Services: Automate Image Moderation
Generally, User submitted images (profile pictures, social media posts, and business documents) are needed to be moderated to protect business and quality. If a large number of images are submitted in an application then manual moderation is time consuming and is not instantaneous. This post explains how to automate image moderation using Azure functions and Cognitive Services. Automated moderation applies machine learning and AI to cost-effectively moderate at scale, without human involvement.
Install Free SSL from Let’s Encrypt with Apache on Ubuntu
In this tutorial, we will setup HTTPS with Apache on Ubuntu server and generate free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. It is a free certificate authority which can issue free certificates with a valid duration of 90 days and the certificates cost nothing to implement. It is assumed you know the basics and importance of HTTPS and SSL in terms of safety and security.
Read Also: Install or Upgrade to PHP 7.X on Ubuntu
Install or Upgrade to PHP 7.X on Ubuntu
This post explains how to install or upgrade to PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu. It is assumed PHP 5.x is running on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine in case of upgrade.
Note: This new version brings with it a number of new features and a few incompatibilities that should be tested for before switching PHP versions in production environments.
Read Also: Installing Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) Stack on Ubuntu 14.04
Deploying a MEAN App to Azure App Services via GitHub
Do you want to setup your MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js) application on Azure App Services with Continuous Integration and Delivery? Here are step by step videos to deploy a MEAN application to Azure Web Apps via GitHub and store the app’s data inside Cosmos DB (a drop-in replacement for MongoDB).
How to Load Disqus Comments on Click
On searching Google, I got many articles on this but didn’t find any way to do if official Disqus comment system WordPress plugin is used. So, decided to write on it. This post explains how to setup Disqus on your website to load on-demand (on click on any button or link) and not automatically. It is assumed you’ve registered your website with Disqus before get started.
Chrome Developer Tools: Inspect JSON path and extract data quickly
Do you want to query JSON document, extract data, select sub sections or testing a query quickly? This articles explains to do it using Chrome Developer tools. I am using Google Chrome Version 60.0.3112.113. But it should work for all recent versions.
Read Also: Copy DropDownList Data from a Website: Chrome Developer Tools
A Better Way to Add Google Custom Search to WordPress/PHP Site
ASP.NET Core with PostgreSQL and Dapper – CRUD Operations Example
This article shows how to use PostgreSQL with ASP.NET Core 1.0 using Dapper ORM. We will implement CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations in ASP.NET MVC step by step.
Generalize a method to read any master table with C# and Dapper
On a web page or application form, it is common to have different master data like Country, State…etc. available in dropdownlist, listbox or any other control. It is needed to read all master data from database and bind to proper controls. This post explains different ways to read master tables with C# and Dapper.
ASP.NET Core Identity: Allow Login with either Email or Username
Do you want to allow user to login with either Username or Email address? ASP.NET Identity uses Username for Signin verification and In default Core template, Email is used as Username. In this post, we will change ASP.NET Core Identity setup to allow both Username and Email on login.
Assumptions:
1. Username is unique for each user. It is either input by user or generated by application on registration.
2. No @ symbol allowed in Username.
ASP.NET Core Identity and Role based Security
In previous post, we created enum for different roles and added them in database on application startup. In this post, we will implement role based security.
It uses following environment:
ASP.NET Core MVC: Enums with Select TagHelper
In this post, we will see how to use select tag helper in ASP.NET Core MVC and how to bind select tag helper to model data or enum values. The following environment is used for this post:
ASP.NET Core 1.0.1
Dapper 1.50.2
Visual Studio 2015 update 3
For the demo, let us assume we have following Department enum
Node.js: Simple TCP Server & Client and Promisify the Client
In this post, you will see an example of simple TCP server and client in traditional javascript way and in ES6 way. Node.js has net module which provides an asynchronous network API for creating stream-based TCP or IPC servers and clients. We are going to use it to implement TCP server and client. This post is updated with Node v6.11.2.