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See whos not following me on Twitter (using Javascript)

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Recently I was looking for a way to see whos not following me on Twitter ( who I was following on Twitter that wasn’t following me back).

There seem to be a few websites that do this but you need to sign up for an account and so on. I just wanted something I could quickly type in the browser and be done (I’m rather impatient sometimes).

So a quick search of the web threw up some code that I could copy and paste to let me see whos not following me on Twitter. I’m going to run through how to use this.

1. Goto twitter and login to your account

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Speed Up WordPress

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speed up wordpress by analysing firebug

Recently I’ve been looking at ways to make my website load more quickly (its a WordPress website so i needed to speed up WordPress). I’ll talk generally about some of the main ways to increase the download speed of websites and how I applied this to WordPress (the specific plugins and so on that I used to achieve the speed increases).

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What makes a good website

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In this article I’m going to focus on what makes a good business website. The kind of website local businesses need (but many of the features described are relevant to most websites).

The aim of asking ‘What makes a good website’ is highlight some of the features that can help local business websites to generate more sales , a good website makes this as easy as possible for a potential customer to see the information they need (be it products, phone number , location , type of service etc ) , to make a purchase.

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Installing ChromeDriver for WebDriver – For the Techies (Java)

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If your using Webdriver to automate your web testing you’ll already know what a great tool it is. This is a quick note on installing ChromeDriver for WebDriver (to test using the Chrome Browser). 1. get the latest version of chrome driver from this url http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html 2. unzip this and place it whenever you want 3. … Read more

How to SEO your website

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In this series of articles I’m going to tell you how to SEO your website.  There are 2 parts to SEO (onsite and offsite), this article discusses onsite SEO.

Onsite Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Keyword Analysis

 

The first thing we need to do is decide on which keywords to target for this its useful to do some keyword research. There are tools to do (such as good adwords tool) but another good way to do this is to look at what your competition is doing. For example if your a plumber in London google plumber london and then use a website such as this  to analyse the break down of keywords.

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Java Generics (2008)

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Notes on SCJP I did in 2008 Generics   Straight forward Type Safe Collections   List<Animal> myList = new ArrayList<Animal>();   the generic type in the declaration must match on both side of = , in this case <String> (unless a wildcard is used to the left of the equals OR the ref has no gen … Read more