Blog – Webwayz

18 Jul

MicroFocus COBOL Fundamentals Course (OpenText)

Was looking at some COBOL code, and decided to refresh my memory and do an online course, its been a while, so I did the OpenText/MicroFocus COBOL Fundamentals course and got the snazzy badge

28 Apr

Seasonal Changes for Summer

Summer season content changes

Add new summer schedule and pricings with links to Revolut for payments
Add new activities with photos
Remove oboslete content

WordPress housekeeping

Update WordPress Version
Update PHP version
Update Theme
Update Plugins

10 Mar

WP Updates and Housekeeping

Update WP version
Update WP Theme
Update WP Plugins
Add SSL to site

28 Feb

Easing Restrictions Updates

Following the relaxation of COVID rules on 28/2/2022 a number of edits were required to remove and modify specific posts on websites.

Brighter days are ahead hopefully!

21 May

Machine Learning and Deep Learning Onramp

Continuing on from MathWorks MATLAB Onramp course, I completed the Machine Learning and Deep Learning courses. They are interesting and the software for the courses is very good while it is a little different from the desktop or online version of MATLAB that is not an issue.

05 May

MATHLAB Onramp

I have bing pivoting towards more data science technologies of late, with a history of using tools like Perl and AWK for some manipulation of data, and using PHP and javascript-based technologies like Google Charts etc. to generate graphs, moving to Python, R and MATHLAB interested me.

I suppose python has occupied me a lot in recent times, I like Anaconda, and Juypter, as well as a lightweight editor call thonny which I would recommend to anyone dabbling in python.

And so MATHLAB confronted me, it seems powerful, and the Onramp course is very straightforward to navigate over a couple of hours. Anyways you get a snazzy certification of completion as you commence your MATHLAB Journey

14 Jan

Attributes of the Messaging Apps

A lot of noise has been online about the various messaging applications, Elon Musk announced he was using Signal instead of WhatsApp etc. for security reasons and impending changes – here is a breakdown of the attributes of various messaging apps.

Secure Messaging Apps Comparison

14 Nov

Security online and What Google Knows

Some interesting links for those concerned about what google has stored on you and how to improve your privacy.

Interesting item from Life Hacker how to delete your google data – https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/08/how-to-automatically-delete-your-google-data-and-why-you-should/
What data Google and Facebook have stored about you – Guardian Article (2018) – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy

25 Feb

Anti Spam Measures

Installed anti-spam measures on the online presence of a client.
Security Updates.
Housekeeping on the website, update filters for contact forms.
Interaction with Client’s Social Media Call to Action.

17 Feb

Website Metrics

Website metrics/analytics are essential for you to be aware and informed as to how your website is performing. There are a number of ways to glean how your website is performing, from the “free” services from the Big Internet companies such as Google Analytics, Bing Analytics and Yandex Metrica, paid metrics from a third party vendor, to self hosted metrics software like Piwik/Matomo, and log file analytics from Webalizer or awstats.

My advice is always to use a couple of these, most hosting packages provide a log file analyser as part of the service so you may as well have this configured, however you really need more deep analysis also provided in a graphical format which you can do comparisons etc. and Google Analytics is the monolith in this, if you are using Microsoft products/services a lot or Yandex then their Metrics could be a benefit, or if you even want to compare or proof the results found by the other metric provider.

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