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3 Tips For Treating Your Business Data With The Respect It Deserves

YoungUpstarts

If necessary, ask the IT staff to send a few rows with column names and metadata information intact to see what is stored vs. what data you are routinely accessing. You may want to hire an outside source to review security and, if you believe necessary, hire a professional hacker to look for holes in your systems.

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The Best Programming Languages for Digital Marketers

ConversionXL

Other use cases include diverse, data-heavy tasks such as querying the metadata from 1 billion taxi rides or back-end monitoring of analytics for real-time fraud detection. At a larger company, we used Python to estimate the expected increase in support tickets and planned our quarterly hiring on those numbers.

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How to Think Like a Hacker, Even if You Can’t Code

David Teten

An example of documentation is the use of metadata, defined by Frank Dilorio’s guide as “data about data and the processes that support the creation of data and related output.” Dilorio notes that designing metadata is “part fine art” and “part black art,” meaning that programmers need both an aesthetic sense and programmer intuition.

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What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO?

Duct Tape Marketing

But when it comes to actually optimizing content with those keywords, this means selecting a focus keyword and including it in all the key areas of your content: metadata, header tags, URL slug, and image alt tags. Enterprises can afford to hire in-house designers and coders to take care of this for them.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. With this round, Backupify is going to be able to sharpen its product and business focus, and make some much needed engineering hires.

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What Are Important Components of Technical SEO?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you want your site to get more traffic, rank higher, and net more conversions, it’s important to understand technical SEO or hire website design services to help. With the word “technical” thrown in front of it, technical SEO might sound challenging, but it’s really not too difficult once you get the basics.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Rubygems used YAML to hold metadata about each gem submitted to it. An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure. Hacker for Hire, Hire a Hacker, Hack Facebook -. January 31, 2013. [.]

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