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An expanded PayPal - Facebook partnership could be a game changer. -marketwatch.com
Rumours of Facebook Inc. giving Whatsapp and Instagram payment capabilities- WeChat anyone?
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Announcing GitLab Serverless
The true value of serverless is best realized via a single-application DevOps experience – that's why we're launching GitLab Serverless.
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Gitlab
GitLab is a web-based Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc. From project planning and source code management to CI/CD and monitoring, GitLab is a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps to make the software lifecycle 200% faster.
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Google - Year In Search 2018
In a year of ups and downs, the world searched for "good" more than ever before — according to Google Trends. From the epic headlines to the everyday moments, here’s to all the good that people discovered in 2018. Explore more trends from the year at
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State of UX in 2019
We have seen quite a lot in 2018. After curating and sharing 2,239 links with 264,016 designers around the world, we have isolated a few trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about. Here’s what to expect for UX in 2019.
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How to Build Faster with Reusable UI Components in React
Components let you split the UI into independent, reusable pieces, and think about each piece in isolation.
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Incrementic
Save time and reduce risk by testing new projects and products using Design Sprints.
Read MoreEmbed Flickr Slideshow
A free generator tool for embedding Flickr photos on your website or blog.
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December 2018 Updates
After doing a shadow launch in September 2018 to gain some initial data, we at JaD have been customizing our website to meet the needs and wants of our prospective customers and users.
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The 10 most popular programming languages, according to the 'Facebook for programmers'
Thousands of programming languages exist, but there are some trusty ones that developers turn to again and again.
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Learn Java Programming - The Definitive Guide
This guide will provide everything you need to know about Java programming language before you learn it. More specifically, you will learn about features of Java programming, its applications, reasons to learn it, and how you can learn it the right way.
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Videos for Web Craft Conf 2018 is now available on Youtube
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ICT Pulse
ICE Pulse is a blog which gears toward discussing topical Information and Communications Technology (ICT) issues from a Caribbean perspective. ICTs are critical drivers of development in the world today and are shaping the future to be knowledge and information focussed. We have catchphrases such as “Information Society” and ‘knowledge-based society”, but many of us really do not know what they mean, how they affect the use of ICT, or what is required to realise them.
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Announcing GSoC 2019 - the 15th year of the program!
Google Summer of Code is an international annual program that focuses on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a three months programming project with an open source organization during their break from university.
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Plone Conf 2018 Talk - What are Jamaicans doing with Plone?
In this talk, I, Oshane Bailey demonstrates a suite of tools and techniques that simplify the process of moving from an idea to a deployed product. The presentation showcase how Alteroo, the only Plone development shop in Jamaica use their current stack to get things done quickly. The vision is to make it easier for future developers to start, build, update and deploy with little backend changes as possible while having the ability to do so if needed.
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Intro to CastleCMS by Kim Nguyen is a half-day session for content editors, decision makers, site owners. CastleCMS is an enhanced distribution of Plone. CastleCMS is explicitly designed for creating and maintaining websites with a large amount of content, allows many content editors to be working on different parts of the site simultaneously, moreover, ensures high-quality content with built-in checks for standard errors and accessibility compliance.
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Hacking Plone by Jean Jordaan, Mike Metcalfe, and Kim Nguyen is a one-day session for Web developers, power users and content management leads. Create custom content types, a design for a website, layouts for homepages and content types, custom application logic, and forms-with-workflow application logic. All in the browser!
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PEP Website for the Jamaican Education System
PEP stands for Primary Exit Profile, which is the replacement of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in Jamaica. The PEP Website aims to assist teachers, parents and students in preparation for the transition from GSAT to PEP.
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JMMB, Jamaica Money Market Brokers
JMMB is an integrated financial services provider who is committed to showing heart-to-heart connections and providing genuine, caring relationships, as we proactively deliver personalised financial plans that offer access to our wide range of financial solutions, including banking and investments.
Read MoreiFrame Generator
iFrame Generator is a Free Online iFrame Code Maker Tool
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U-Report Jamaica
U-Report is a FREE social messaging tool for community participation, designed to address issues that young people care about.
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Data Meet-Up Jamaica
Dr. Michele Roofe Senior Medical Officer in Health Informatics will be presenting on the work the Ministry of Health is doing to better manage and use health data. We will also have presentations from the eHealth group that has been working on ways to use health data to reduce wait times in emergency rooms.
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Data Meet-Up Jamaica
The SlashRoots Foundation is hosting a data meetup on October 25th. The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) will be joining us to talk about their datasets and API, while the group working on a smart grocery list application based on consumer data will present progress made on their prototype.
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5 Quick Ways to Build a Far-Reaching PR & Outreach Strategy on Social
Buffer webinar all about social media PR.
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The Palisadoes Foundation
The Palisadoes Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Cupertino, California, USA founded in 2016 by members of the Jamaican Diaspora and The Jamaica Diaspora Technology Taskforce to promote the use of information technology in Jamaica
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Keez Real Estate - Jamaican Homes for Rent & Sale
SiFi Studios recently released their new digital brand “Keez”. It is a digital real estate platform that allows you to find Jamaican real estate for sale & rent. Their technology allows you to view more properties and also provides more details about each property, including video walk-throughs and hi-resolution photos.
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Buffer, a Social Media Management Platform
Save time managing social media for your business. Buffer makes it easy for businesses and marketing teams to schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage all their accounts in one place
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Bitly, URL shortener
Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. It is a great replacement for Google URL Shortener, which will discontinue on March 30, 2019.
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Keez Real Estate - Jamaican Homes for Rent & Sale
SiFi Studios recently released their new digital brand “Keez”. It is a digital real estate platform that allows you to find Jamaican real estate for sale & rent. Their technology allows you to view more properties and also provides more details about each property, including video walk-throughs and hi-resolution photos.
Read MoreThe "S.O.L.I.D" Principles of UX Webinar
There are hundreds of UX principles, laws and rules. You don't have to be a usability expert to utilize them, you just need to know which ones to use.
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