Mastodon: The Long Way Back to Medium Bryan Ruby Sun, 03/12/2023 - 10:44 At the risk of dating myself, I’ve been writing and posting articles online since the 1980s. Back then we didn’t have the Internet but we did have dial-up modems and bulletin board systems (BBS) hosted by computer enthusiasts. When the Internet, blogging, and self-hosted websites became popular in the late 1990's and early 2000’s I was also there. For awhile I hosted a website focused on content management systems that in its peak easily received over 100,000 unique visitors a month ..read more

Blind marketing: 64% of eCommerce marketers fail to measure customer engagement Real Wire Mon, 02/13/2023 - 05:05 Over half of marketers say measuring customer engagement metrics are important, but marketers lack resources to measure them regularly SALESmanago CMO calls for marketers to show customers some love this Valentine’s Day Kraków, Poland; 13th February 2023: 64% of eCommerce marketers haven’t measured their customer engagement processes in the past month, and nearly one fifth (17%) have never measured them at all ..read more

Report Reveals Over 61% of PHP Teams Using Unsupported PHP Versions Real Wire Tue, 02/07/2023 - 08:45 MINNEAPOLIS, February 7, 2023 - Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, today announced the results of their annual survey of the PHP ecosystem, the Zend 2023 PHP Landscape Report ..read more

OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative Release 2023 State of Open Source Report Real Wire Wed, 01/25/2023 - 08:17 MINNEAPOLIS, January 25, 2023 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle; and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a non-profit that raises awareness and adoption of open source software (OSS), today unveiled the results of their annual open source survey — the 2023 State of Open Source Report ..read more

Inflation hits Cyber Weekend 2022 with goods rising and sales slipping Real Wire Thu, 12/01/2022 - 11:50 New York, December 1, 2022 - Nosto, the leading Commerce Experience Platform (CXP), has released its annual Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) 2022 data ..read more

Unique Landing Pages All Web Designers Can Learn From Eleanor Hecks Tue, 11/22/2022 - 08:01 After a time, all landing pages start to take on a similar look and feel. You see a beautiful headline, sharp layout, some descriptive content and a call to action (CTA) button. In fact, many designers use css frames that make designs look even more familiar due to layout and features. A unique landing page can help users sit up and take notice. They see something is different about this page and wonder what they can learn that’s new. One of the best ways to figure out how to create a page that is diff ..read more

Perforce Research: 68% of Online Shoppers Have Felt Like Throwing Their Phone Against the Wall Real Wire Thu, 11/10/2022 - 09:13 Minneapolis, MN., November 10, 2022 - Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development cycle, released its Black Friday Consumer Report, revealing that 85% of consumers shop online or via a mobile app, with 59% using these digital channels as their primary holiday shopping channel. The study targeted U.S. consumers to better understand their holiday shopping habits and expectations of ..read more

socPub: Relaunching CMS Report and having fun at the After Work Pub Bryan Ruby Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:50 It make take awhile but when I make a mistake I will eventually admit and correct the error of my ways. Half a decade ago, I turned my back on supporting niche websites and focused all my effort in creating a new multi-topic website which you now know as socPub. As counter-intuitive that it sounds, the more diverse and interesting topics we published under this website, our number of loyal visitors to the website decreased in numbers. I found this analysis to be ..read more

The Rise of a New Analytics Hero in 2022 Guest Author Mon, 01/10/2022 - 11:15 Every year industry pundits predict data and analytics becoming more valuable the following year. But this doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict. There’s actually something much more interesting happening that’s going to change everything in the analytics world: the rise of a new hero, the software developer. If the past is any indication of the future, then what we are seeing is a major transformation unfolding across every industry: a changing of the guard, so to speak, of the ones who are creating value from dat ..read more

What's new in Drupal 9.3.0? Bryan Ruby Mon, 12/13/2021 - 06:46 The third feature release of Drupal 9 recently became available. New features and improvements in Drupal 9.3.0 include ..read more