Building A Profitable Blog

Niche Blogging Profits

Starting out in 2005, Codrut Turcanu had little knowledge of blogging, let alone making fortunes off it. However, as the time passed, he gained an immense experience. He learned what the so-called gurus don't talk about much. He applied that knowledge and is now raking some $35000 from his 5 blogs as a result. This story is of the author of what is going to change your life in just one read the Niche Blogging Profits. A complete guide on the secrets of what really makes blogging so worth it. This guide has helped many of his clients and now, it could be your chance to climb up the success ladder and level up with the gurus who have been inspiring you. But unlike the guides or the internet-derived information you've been reading, the Niche Blogging Profits have 7 secrets that really work. And the best part about these secrets is that the author has dug them out himself. How's this for credibility? The guide is available in downloadable PDF, all too well organized and simply put for someone who has been envisaging his career as a blogger a fruitful one like yourself. It is for the newbies who have been working hard to get around the corner of nothing to the road leading to treasures. Continue reading...

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Highly Recommended

I usually find books written on this category hard to understand and full of jargon. But the writer was capable of presenting advanced techniques in an extremely easy to understand language.

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It Pays to Blog

The ultimate guide to making an income from blogging is an online program designed to help you create a revenue-generating blog. Every person has a dream to live a comfortable life. For instance, drive the right car, live in a spacious house, and have a balanced diet. However, there has been curbed by the various uncertainties occurring in our communities. Probably, these have been brought by the current situation that is hitting the world. The author of this program is known as Jake Falkinder. He resides on the sunny Gold coast of Australia, where he has been working as a blogger for a couple of years. He has achieved success as a blogger on the international level and worked with the leading blogging industries globally. The program captures 8 techniques, which include: Identifying your niche, revenue models, domain names, why use WordPress, web host, blog configuration, writing content, and analyze and refine. Furthermore, the program has several significances. It is well recommended, well designed, certified, language used is friendly, business motivator, and affordable. However, it is disadvantageous in some ways. For instance, the language barrier makes it difficult for different communities to understand, and some people may not access it due to a lack of modern devices. Continue reading...

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Blogs, Wikis, and IM: Communication Tools for Subject Specialists

Many academic libraries employ the use of subject specialists that serve as library subject experts in a particular field or discipline. These subject specialists, also called subject bibliographers or subject liaisons, often work very closely with the students and faculty of the academic community they serve. This close interaction with the library constituents can be very rewarding and challenging at the same time. Instant messaging, blogs, and wikis can help to make the subject librarian's job easier and more effective, as these technologies allow for increased communication with the academic community. At Ohio University Libraries, each professional librarian serves as a subject bibliographer for one or more academic departments or colleges. As the subject bibliographer for the College of Business, I am fortunate to serve 1700 students and over seventy faculty members from the college.

How Much Money Can a Blog Earn?

ProBlogger has a very good article on how much money a blog can earn. He gives examples of three blogs he is sort of involved with without revealing any names Blog C Our last example is a blog that had around 160,000 page views over the month from around 80,000 visitors. It earned 515.12 from contextual ads and somewhere in the vicinity of 2,500 from affiliate programs. He then goes on to say factors that contribute to a Blog s earnings Very interesting read for newbie bloggers. ProBlogger

Indian Bloggers Facing Legal Problems

Indian bloggers are getting in legal tangle. Bloggers have already faced legal threats from the mainstream media. But, because of the lack of laws, an individual usually chooses to back off and retract his her opinions. In this case, the court has ruled that site owners will have to own responsibility of comments made by their readers, and that a disclaimer cannot be used to avoid it. However, I am still unclear about its scope. Will this apply to all sites - including the ones owned by the mainstream media Will it apply to other media In this specific case, will Orkut will be considered a partner in the crime Bloggers will have to continue to tread in dangerous waters if we do not treat the problem as a whole. In the end, either free speech will get hurt or opinions will lose their face, and both are equally bad for a democratic country like ours.

Want To Learn Web Programming? Write A Blog Engine

What is the best way learning any kind of programming Write programs I sincerely believe that a blog engine is one of the rare pieces which employs all the basics of Web programming but can be simple enough to understand. More importantly you can even choose to learn more than programming - about the concepts, modern technologies and architecture of the Web. At this point you can start thinking about various readers as well. A blog can have one author, but can have readers in a wide range of environments. Focusing on the display system, you can get exposed to standards and best practices of Web design. The beauty of a blog engine is that you can use it to understand various concepts. As you continue learning, you can use your knowledge to extend the concept of your blog engine. It is one of the best applications to employ concepts of REST and URL design. You can improve your design knowledge by exploring usability and applying it in your application.

Bloggers No Good

Another of those mainstream articles (via India Uncut) in The Times Of India by Shobhan Saxena dismissing the bloggers. Not deviating from the usual complaints the article bashes bloggers because there are too many of us doing too many of personal opinions. For some reason, blogging is compared to journalism, probably because sometimes the markets and business models overlap. I have also realised most of the times it is started by someone from the traditional media. Otherwise blogging is too personal and opinionated to be in the same league as journalism to compete. Mind you, none is higher, but they are just different animals. I wonder if it is not blogging itself, but the economic effects of blogging that pits the journalists against bloggers. The article seems to be too critical of us Indian bloggers. In the West, blogs have become an outlet for the rage that people are no longer allowed to express in the actual world.

On Blogging, Again

It seems like a periodic ritual that more than a couple of articles come out on blogging. Not the ones with advices, but which look at the phenomenon of blogging, as good or bad. I cannot help but submit to the temptation of talking about them, probably repeating some things along with these periodic rituals. It is in fact one of the best ways for me to reconsider blogging and its importance, sometimes I get vindicated, sometimes challenged and sometimes confused. Here it goes. Tony Hung writes about blogging ignorance, even within the tech community. He mentions an article by Mr. Binstock where he criticizes blogging because majority of the blogs are silly and personal. I think there are a couple of things to consider here. One is that there is no system to blogging. Blogging is one of the activities with least restrictions, so that anyone can start with it, including kids. Blogging is not about any subject, it is up to the blogger whether it is focused on any subject or not.

Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries

There are numerous blogs and RSS feeds available from a variety of scientific databases, electronic journals and electronic books still not well-utilized by many academic libraries supporting scientific disciplines. Since one of the important roles of academic libraries is to promote and provide instruction in the use of electronic resources, it is evident that the libraries need to play a pivotal role in developing awareness about the evolving applications of scientific blogs and RSS feeds. Various course offerings such as those in biomedical engineering, chemistry and engineering management can effectively make use of such blogs and RSS feeds to support both face-to-face and distance learning. Their applications may include current awareness services to keep up with new information, RSS feeds of new journal article citations, RSS feeds of research queries in electronic databases, and news alerts from different subject areas.

Know Enough to be Dangerous: Tools for taking control of HTML and CSS

Blogs have been hyped as push-button publishing indeed, it is fairly simple for an educator, librarian, administrator or the like to set up his or her own blog with almost no knowledge of HTML , CSS , or JavaScript. But for those who do so, this lack of knowledge can quickly become limiting and frustrating when they want to customize their blog. This session is designed to help you learn enough about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to feel comfortable making changes to your blogs and other web pages. It will work like a case study we'll start with a blog right out of the box, and use free tools like the Firefox Web Developer extension to customize and personalize the blog. In the process, you will gain confidence in making small changes to existing templates, preparing you for more extensive, adventurous changes in the future.

Simple Spark: Online catalog of Mobile/Web Applications/Services with intelligent search, RSS tracking, screenshots,

Techcrunch reports about a new online service called Simple Spark that makes it easier for users to search for & track mobile and web applications and services through an extensive catalog of more than 3000 items. Each service application is categorized in 7 main categories like Media, Living, Office, Organization, Travel, Marketplace and Finance, further sub divided into sub-categories like mobile, spreadsheets, blogs, photos, widgets, news, maps, directions, file sharing, storage, etc. I am surpised at the number of listings available in the Mobile category itself.

Google Finance Beta launched

When a user searches for a stock, it will display the latest news related to the stock on the right hand side. The Company Summary is shown at the top followed by Company facts beloew that. Blog Posts about the company are shown on the bottom right hand corner. Google Finance displays information for companies listed on worldwide stock exchanges including India but quotes are only for some American European stock exchanges.

Dependency injection vs. Cake pattern

You would typically use the Cake Pattern to achieve something akin to dependency injection. Jonas Boner explained the Cake Pattern in one of his infamous Real-World Scala Series blog post. What we would try here is to use the Cake pattern to implement the same DI scenario in Scala and then compare that with its corresponding Spring implementation. In doing that we would hope to clear out some of the misty clouds over Scala and DI.

Comparison of Apache Stream Processing Frameworks: Part

In this short blog post series, we went through popular streaming frameworks from Apache landscape and discussed their similarities, differences, the trade-offs they have made and also their fitting use cases. I hope it was interesting for you and I believe it will be helpful when designing your own streaming solution. There's definitely a couple of interesting frameworks which were not discussed here, but I plan to address them in separate posts. Also if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me as I'm always happy to discus the topic.

Cake pattern in depth

The Cake pattern can be (loosly) considered as Scalas answer to dependency injection (DI), you can see a comparison between Java Spring and the Cake Pattern in Jan's earlier blog post here. The basic application of DI and the Cake pattern solve the same thing dependencies between components. There are subtle differences, but let's discuss the mechanism of the Cake pattern rather than getting into the nitty gritty.

Using Spark to analyse Akka persistence journal in Cassandra

In this post we will discuss how we can store and further use these data by connecting Akka, Cassandra and Spark, focusing mostly on the configuration, Akka serialization and Akka-analytics project. Later I will follow up with another blog post building on top of this with an example of using machine learning techniques to obtain some insights to help optimize future decisions and application workflow. Event sourcing approach is an exceptionally good source of data for further analysis using batch processing capabilities of Apache Spark 7 . Apache Spark is a distributed data processing engine for large scale distributed data processing providing both batch and stream processing capabilities as well as machine learning library MLlib and other tools 7 . We had a closer look at it in our previous blog posts 8 and 9 . For both persistence and remoting 13 (communication between remote actors) Akka uses its serialization module to serialize messages.

Enforcing invariants in Scala datatypes

In his Strategic Scala Style blog post series, Li Haoyi explores patterns for enforcing invariants in datatypes using techniques such as self-checks and structural enforcement. Some of the techniques described in the blog post rely on runtime assertions. Thus, while they prevent invalid data from appearing in your datatypes, the datatype construction is not fully represented in the type system. In this blog post, I'll expand the techniques by demonstrating ways to enforce invariants using type-safe, compile-time techniques. First, I'll demonstrate how the runtime assertion style works using an example datatype. I'll then show how we can enforce invariants in the example datatype in a type-safe style. Finally, I'll briefly cover the pitfalls of using case classes for datatypes with type-safe invariant validation, and how we can regain the case class features using tricks in the class inheritance system and ScalaMeta macros.

Chaos Experiment: Split Braining Akka Clusters

As part of a series of blog posts on Chaos engineering, this blog post introduces the open source library docker-compose-toolkit. Here, we use this library to define a Chaos experiment (using extensible effects) that illustrates the impact that auto-downing can have when an Akka cluster is subjected to network partitioning. The previous post Can Real World Distributed Systems be Proven Correct motivates and explains the need for performing fault injection on distributed applications. In future posts, we will consider more realistic use cases than considered here - so please stay tuned

Evaluation strategies in Scala

Evaluation strategies are one of the most important traits of programming languages. Hence, I chose this topic for the current blog post. We are going to have a quick introduction to evaluation strategies and then look at the evaluation strategies supported by Scala. We are not going name all of the evaluation strategies (which by the way can be found here) but rather focus on the ones supported by Scala. Scala supports two evaluation strategies out-of-the-box call by value and call by name . Also, we are going to have a look at call by need as it can be achieved simulated with a small workaround and it will also be the subject of my next blog post.

Go Reactive Activator Contest: Reactive Orientation

As part of Scala Days 2014 in Berlin, the Go Reactive Activator Contest was announced. The aim was to demonstrate a Reactive Application using the Typesafe Activator. We decided to participate, because it was an interesting opportunity to learn, have fun and the possibility of winning a prize helped too Our Reactive Orientation Activator template was awarded with the first prize in the contest and the intention of this blog post is to discuss what we built.The template contains a thorough tutorial so we encourage you to have a look, try the application and also read the code. We will split the solution into multiple blog posts so that we can introduce the technologies in sufficient detail. We'll also describe and discuss the concepts, technologies, various alternatives that are provided to programmer to meet the goals. It should provide resources for further education and help even beginners to start with building Reactive Applications.

How to prepare a programming job interview

Visit their website. Usually, at the beginning of the interview, you are given the chance to explain what you know about the company. Use this opportunity to show that you have some interest in them, and that you have done some research. For instance, if you know the names of the people who are interviewing you, google their names, many times you can find valuable information about them in sites linkedin or their personal blogs.

Introduction Into Distributed Real-Time Stream Processing

In this blog post series I'm going to describe various state of the art open-source distributed streaming frameworks, their similarities and differences, implementation trade-offs and their intended use-cases. Apart from that, I'm going to describe Fast Data, theory of streaming, framework evaluation and so on. My goal is to provide comprehensive overview about modern streaming frameworks and to help fellow developers with picking the correct one for their use-cases.

Using Shapeless to Validate Typesafe Configuration Data

In this blog post we explain how Typesafe configuration data may be validated. To avoid unnecessary boilerplate code, we use Shapeless to aid the creation of a lightweight validation DSL. We finish off the post by showing how the use of sealed abstract classes can be leveraged to enforce validation constraints to be invariant. Whilst the code for buildUnsafe is relatively simple, we loose some type safety in its implementation (hence its name ). If the developer were to specify the use of (say) validate Double ( , )( ) , but that parameter of our validated case class actually had type Int , then we would get a runtime class cast exception. This is clearly the sort of error that we would ideally like to catch at compile time In the next blog post, we will examine how we may use polymorphic functions to avoid these types of issues. In this blog post we have seen how we may use the open source library validated-config to build validated case classes from Typesafe configuration data.

Protocol Buffers and Scala microservices

When implementing a microservices-based system, it is important to clearly specify the services' APIs. In this blog post, I will describe the way to clearly describe the protocols, and to use this description to generate the microservice-specific code (in this particular example, the case class es and the Protocol Buffers serialisation). It is important to keep the microservices completely separated from each other in this example, this means no common code . It is tempting to have a module (think JAR) that defines the protocols as case class es, and to share this module between the microservices. This is the first step on the road to ruin the next step usually is to include the marshallers. It makes sense to have code that marshals and unmarshals these case class es in a single module everyone who uses this is probably going to do some marshalling, anyway.

Distributed Machine Learning Pipelines in Apache Spark

The machine learning pipelining API for Apache Spark was released in December 2014 in version 1.2 1 . The available present the same simple examples. But how does it work in practice, what are the strengths and weaknesses and is ready for production use This blog post will try to answer these questions. Consider the Spark example below. It uses Spark's RDDs 17 . RDDs are strongly statically typed and are therefore compile time type checked. The code reads a file, splits each line to three numbers (representing features (here represented by a matrix) and uses that as an input to a machine learning model (in this case a Neural Network)) and applies forwardRun() function that runs input through a trained Neural Network and produces result - I may discuss this code in more depth sometimes in another blog post - but for purpose of this one, let's just assume it is a function from some parameters to Double. We are building an R&D project called Muvr 20 .

Top dos and don'ts of Word Press SEO

When it comes to the question of which blogging system to use, WordPress leads the pack. Its functionalities relating to the diverse range of templates, architecture, and plug-in facilities provide users with an incredible amount of tools and pathways of creating content from websites to sharing pictures and video. The SQL and PHP programming and interface systems provide a user-friendly approach to open source blogging and surpass any other blogging site in that regard. As with any online content, WordPress allows users to optimize on their SEM efforts to reach a wider target audience. However, given the vast range of tools and functionality in WordPress, users have yet to learn the basics of SEO techniques and methods to make the best out of their blogs and website. Images are just as important as text in your content.

Adding support for call-by-need aka lazy arguments using scalameta

In my previous blog post we have discussed the evaluation strategies in Scala and the difference between call-by-value, call-by-name and call-by-need. Also, I have shown a small workaround for evaluating the arguments lazily (aka call-by-need). As previously presented, the workaround for call-by-need arguments consists of local lazy values which are initialised with the call-by-name arguments we want to be evaluated at most once In this blog post I have presented a relatively simple solution for adding support for call-by-need arguments without boilerplate. It is implemented using scalameta macro annotations. Hopefully, the support for lazy keyword will be extended so we can apply it on method parameters as well. The full code is available on github.

Distributed Computing Optimisations and Apache Spark

Many algorithms, especially those with high computational complexity or those working with large amounts of data may take a long time to complete. Many different ways to express algorithms exist in different environments - single threaded, parallel and concurrent and distributed. In this blog post I will focus on the relationship between them and the advantages and disadvantages that the distributed environment provides. The main focus will be on Apache Spark and the optimisation techniques it applies to computations defined by its users in distributed environment. Quite a few very good publications and blog posts were published around Spark's optimisations including improvements in last year 18 or analysis of Spark's performance bottlenecks 19 . In my last blog post about Spark 2 I slightly criticised the DataFrame abstraction used for machine learning pipelines and SparkSQL for their absence of compile time type checks.

Get Started with AdSense, How to Create an AdSense Account

Google AdSense is one of the best Contextual Advertisement available on earth. As a blogger, you have surely heard about Adsense. In this article, I will demonstrate how you can create an Adsense account for the first time. If you have already started a blog, you can check my guide on how to apply Adsense to a WordPress website for the first time . Before you enroll for the AdSense, you must have a website, preferably a blog. Never put AdSense into your mind, until you have a self-hosted website with content, we recommend 20 to 30 detailed posts (for blogs). This means it should take you a month or two after starting a blog before you can apply to join the AdSense Program.

FIXED! Mobile Usability Issues on the Google Search Console

Mobile Usability Issues is a dangerous killer disease that has not only blackmailed bloggers and website owners, but also causes a huge loss of revenue. Once Google detects mobile usability issues on your website, you will be eliminated from SERP . This gives you another hard work, to understand the rending CSS for your blog. To understand the rendering CSS for your website, we're going to use two methods.

Move a Cube With Your Head or Head-Tracking With WebGL

He wrote it as a demo for opera 12 release which contained getUserMedia. For more info on the library, auduno blogged about internals of his library. You can find details in his blog post. Additionnal info are available in the reference documentation. Some examples are already in three.js, like targets or facekat.

Lets Make a 3D Game: Make It Fullscreen

For more details on THREEx.FullScreen, see its annoted source. It is a simple to add in your game. It provides a more immersive experience to your players. On a related subject, we will soon likely do a post about embedding your game in another page. It is usefull when you want to include it in a blog, in facebook or other game plateforms.

Word Press Makes Sense For Many Non-Blog Websites

A friend wants to develop a corporate web site and wanted to get my advice on what CMS he should use. As usual I asked him what did he want to do with it and got a judgement about his technical skill. The website he envisoned was one of the simple ones, with basic information and he was not exposed to any web site management before or to managing raw HTML. I advised him to use WordPress for it. However, he knew that WordPress was a blogging engine and felt that I was trying to tackle him cheaply. The recent versions of WordPress also lets you set one of the pages as the homepage. You can do away with the blog and archives look and create a corporate user interface. In a blog the posts take over the entire web site, whereas in a non-blog web site the pages get more dominant. Comments is something I believe all web sites should borrow from blogging. Comments can be used to interact with the readers and customers.

Partial Feeds v/s Full Feeds

Partial feeds might work in the second case, but they might in fact be harmful in the first case. Using feed readers is convenient if full feeds are provided, and might help your blog to stay in a reader's radar instead of getting dropped. As a reader, I use feed readers and visit the site if I find the post interesting or if I want to comment on it. Sometimes I click through if it is about the site's design or if I feel that the design is as much a part of the content. What I hate is if people send out partial feeds just for the sake for me to click through and increase page views and hits, it is anti-blogging.

Wordpress Categories In Permalink Structure Behavior

To further complicate this, Wordpress 2.2 had a problem with category sorting (has been fixed) - they were being sorted in the opposite order. So, the category with the highest category ID was being selected to form the permalink. My blogger friend had this fatal combination, while it was fun to investigate it, it did cause some anxiety. I am not sure how many of us use the category in the permalink. However, I came across at least two of such cases where the blogger was lost. I think Wordpress behaves correctly, it is flexibility of the category structure that can overshadow this fact. Maybe something like a main category or something can be used to explicitly specify which category to use for a post.

To Move Or Not To Move

I will definitely continue with Wordpress. It has achieved the privileged milestone of one million downloads and is coming up with some dynamic features. Wordpress.com too has seen massive growth, it hosts 310 thousand blogs on its first birthday. Wordpress.com has time and again shown that it is one of the highest quality blogging sites, with lot of high traffic and slashdottable blogs.

Deciding On Programming Languages

We cannot ignore the open source pool of software available. Sometimes the sheer presence of huge community and required features can drive selection of the framework tool and hence the language. What would you do if your client wants a blog Would you choose Wordpress, Movable Type or one of the other thousands of existing blogging engines Whichever you choose will dictate the ecosystem and the programming language along with it.

Lets Make a 3D Game: Make It Embedded

This post is part of the Let's make a 3D game series. The previous post was on fullscreen API. Here is another one on resizing the display area. This post is about embedding your game in another page. It is usefull to include it in a blog, in facebook, iGoogle or other game plateforms.

Vim For Development

I use vim for almost all my typing tasks, from code to emails and to blog posts. If you want to use vim as more than just an editor, you can turn it into an IDE as well. vim has a busy environment of scripts that you can plug into your environment and make it suitable for your programming needs. Every vim user seems to have his her must-have scripts. And there is also the project script which lets you organize your files into a project. Choose your scripts and give it a try if you are tired with your current editor.

Out Of Job Thinking

As I kept trying to get a clearer vision, I realised that it was one of the most effective and strong changes that has impacted my outlook. Most of my thinking, before blogging, about software and related has been from the point of use in my job or career. Or sometimes the topics and depth of research has been limited by it. But blogging, being independent of any of my professional aspirations, gives me a chance to look at software and peripheral topics from a neutral perspective. The best thing to happen was the realisation that I really loved doing it. Which was followed by the feeling of power and independence that I was free out of my job's constraints and parameters to try, evaluate and analyze a technology. I started seeing technology purely by its merit without considering its use in my restricted work circle. Some of you probably already do it. But believe me it is very easy to get limited by what you do most of the time of your day - your job.