SQL: a bunch of useful resources

databases evolving landscape

Although I barely write about SQL on this blog, Stephanie from the WhoIsHostingThis company draws my attention to a post where she offers a bunch of useful resources about SQL.

Have a look especially to the ‘SQL Language Reference’ and ‘Tutorials’ sections which are fundamentals to deal with databases management.

Br writing this, it reminds me that some month ago I gave a link to comparison between RDBMS and NoSQL. There is a scheme that worth reading it.

Weekly digital resources #27: Evernote, Google Drive, online courses

When two big firms of the Internet meet to make easier and faster users’ way of managing their content, it makes users… more lazy, true, but also it results to a bridge between Evernote and Google Drive. Content of the latter can now be embedded in any Evernote sheet.

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How to perform a search for photos free to reuse

Among all stock photos websites, how to perform quickly a search for photos or images that are free to reuse? As usual, Google helps us:

1) Go to Google Images

2) Enter your keyword(s)

3) Click on ‘Search Tools’, then ‘Usage rights’ and select ‘Labeled for noncommercial reuse’

Search for stock photos on Google

Weekly digital resources #14: Javascript, ebooks and online surveys

This week: front-end programming, online courses and reading, everything I enjoy! I hope you too, and you can send me your request for any help or question about digital stuff.

ECMAScript 6 – 10 Awesome New Features – Have a look in particular to the very useful for … of statement!

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Guide for students: How to survive in a digital environment

I am very enthusiast about “learning“: how we learn, how we learn while playing video games, how digital reshapes the way we learn. Moreover, I had opportunities to teach different people, and I met many different learning profiles. My favorite ones are students: their spontaneous questions, curiosity and inventiveness make me… learning a lot.

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3 ways to reduce image files size to speed up your website

As a short image files size is important when considering the loading speed of webpages, it exists free tools to reduce .png and .jpg files without loosing quality. Here are 3 of them: Tinypng, Kraken and Smush.

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Shortcut to empty Chrome cache and do hard reload

Here is a shortcut to empty Chrome cache and do hard reload:

  1. Open Chrome web tools with F12
  2. Right-clicking on the Reload button provides three abilities:
    • Normal reload
    • Hard reload
    • Empty cache and hard reload

Source:
http://www.mousewhisperer.co.uk/drivebunny/emptying-chromes-cache-with-a-hard-reload/

Thanks to Phil Ballard