Encyclopedia

Source code explained: Definition & Examples
Source code: What exactly is it?
  • Web development

Programs and websites are based on comprehensive documents without which nothing would work: the source code. In this code, programmers and web designers determine how their application should function. So that you, too, can understand what exactly a source code is, we explain simply and clearly how it’s structured. Find out more about programming languages, compilers, and the framework of a...

Source code: What exactly is it?
What is artificial intelligence?
The fascination with AI: what is artificial intelligence?
  • Online sales

Artificial intelligence is one of the most fascinating fields of research in the world today. It will undoubtedly alter our future like no other technology ever has before — this is one thing that all AI researchers agree on. The technology is already present in so many areas of our life. We discuss some of the secrets that surround artificial intelligence, the prospects, and risks involved in...

The fascination with AI: what is artificial intelligence?
Instagram alternatives
The best Instagram alternatives: Social networks for hobby photographers
  • Social media

Instagram alternatives don’t have it easy: Ello’s hype, for example, has faded, and Pixlr is a photo editing app at best. A “real” alternative to Instagram should have its own community and, like the market leader, should be available free of charge for Android and iOS and as a web application. We’ve picked the best ones for you.

The best Instagram alternatives: Social networks for hobby photographers
Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming: Software development to the extreme
  • Web development

Programming has been dominated by agile software development in recent decades, and with good reason. Agile software development owes much of this success to the extreme programming (XP) methodology. It doesn’t get any more agile than XP! This methodology emphasizes the people involved and requires thinking in very small steps. How does extreme programming work?

Extreme Programming: Software development to the extreme
The basics for modern web development
Modern web development: the basics
  • Web development

Der Trend in der Webentwicklung führt weg von statischen Webangeboten hin zu interaktiven Inhalten. Auch wenn HTML und CSS nach wie vor das Grundgerüst einer jeden Website darstellen, greifen Webentwickler immer öfter auf serverseitige Programmiersprachen wie PHP zurück, um dynamische Webauftritte zu realisieren. Zudem bieten clientseitige Skriptsprachen wie JavaScript die Möglichkeit, eine...

Modern web development: the basics
Bootstrap alternatives
Bootstrap alternatives: the best front end frameworks at a glance
  • Web development

Bootstrap is the most popular framework solution for designing and creating high-performance web interfaces. It consists of a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components that Twitter released under the MIT free license in 2011, as well as a variety of extensions, interfaces for content management systems, and pre-built themes. There are also worthwhile alternatives to Bootstrap, which are...

Bootstrap alternatives: the best front end frameworks at a glance
Regular expression tutorial
Regular expressions (regex): The easy way to describe strings
  • Website creation

Searching text and code for specific strings on your own can be extremely tedious, especially if your document is large. Since the beginning of the computer age, there have been useful tools or functions that feature regular expression capabilities, also known as regex, to automate this search process to the greatest extent possible.

Regular expressions (regex): The easy way to describe strings
Display calendar week in Outlook
How to display calendar weeks in Outlook
  • Technical matters

Week numbering is deactivated in the Outlook calendar by default. Follow our illustrated, step-by-step instructions for how to display the calendar week in Outlook, and find out how to show week numbers in monthly view. This allows you to see at a glance which calendar week your appointments fall into.

How to display calendar weeks in Outlook
URL hijacking: What is it really?
URL hijacking
  • Domain administration

If well-ranked sites suddenly disappear from the search machine index, it can be for a number of different reasons: In one case, the crawler could no longer check the pages in question, or in another case it could have identified duplicate content and removed one of the pages from the search results. Another reason, often unknown to the external developer, is so-called URL hijacking – a process in...

URL hijacking
Outlook archive
Archiving Emails with Outlook – Here's How it Works
  • Technical matters

Old emails, past appointments, and completed tasks are automatically archived by Outlook after a preconfigured period. AutoArchive can be configured individually, if required. Outlook also provides the ability to manually archive selected folders. We’ll show you how to do it.

Archiving Emails with Outlook – Here's How it Works