Building a social network isn't an easy task, let alone a successful one. As developers our job is to create, build, and bring to life the gears and functions of a social network. When it comes to marketing, well that's a different department in most cases. We build then later deploy, and in order to develop a highly efficient and functional social network we'll need to use a few tools.Most developers are switching from building networks from scratch using PHP to highly-customizable social network platforms that give way to flexibility. Below we're going to cover several of the most sought after open-source platforms that allow you create your very own social network and run it on a server of your choice. These networks will give you a hyphened control over the front/back end design along with a social networks most valuable asset; the database.
As I explained in my last piece, skilled immigrants are leaving the U.S. in droves. This is because of economic opportunities in countries like India and China, a desire to be closer to family and friends, and a deeply flawed U.S immigration system. It doesn't matter whether we call this "brain drain" or "brain circulation"- it is a loss for America. Innovation that would otherwise be happening here is going abroad.
With all the stories we read about weak infrastructure in India, authoritarianism in China, and corruption and red tape in both countries, the perception is that these entrepreneurs are facing major handicaps back home. They have no chance of competing with us, so we have nothing to worry about, right?
CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Here is how it works: choose a file, drag it to the menubar and let us take care of the rest. We provide you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends.
The rich media presentation tool
Tell your story anyway you like. Add photos, music, video, and audio, and share it publicly or privately in an instant.
Whether you want to have students turn in homework via an online form or simply take a quiz or test, online quiz tools are critical to having a connected classroom. Most tools are free, all are robust, and they're quite easy to use. What could be better than that? You can use any of these below tools to get feedback from parents, students, colleagues, and more.
ImageQuiz, a website that uses the power of images (1 image = 1000 words) to help you learn. The website contains a variety of quizzes, that you can try out. It is really easy to make a quiz with an uploaded image of your choice from clip art or your computer. Be creative and use power point to make an image and develop a quiz. It worked on the android tablet and is free.
Create apps everywhere! TouchDevelop is a programming environment that runs on your mobile devices. TouchDevelop runs on iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac, Windows Phone.
This document requires that you've got a signed server.crt and a server.key file available. You may have just gone through my page Creating Certificate Authorities and self-signed SSL certificates. If not, go there first and follow the instructions.
The remaining steps involve Apache and other tweaks detailed step-by-step below. This file was originally written for Ubuntu 6.06, but has been kept current and verified with 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It should work with most/all releases in between -- and probably Debian-based distros in general, with little or no modification.