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Headless Browser and scraping – solutions – Stack Overflow

I’m trying to put list of possible solutions for browser automatic tests suits and headless browser platforms capable of scraping. BROWSER TESTING / SCRAPING: Selenium – polyglot flagship in browser automation, bindings for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Haskell and more, IDE for Firefox (as an

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Introducing Agile Earned Value Metrics

Introducing Agile Earned Value Metrics By Sally Tait, www.aspenware.com View Original March 12th, 2014 We use a few metrics and charts that are familiar to anyone who has worked in Scrum projects – burn down, velocity and cumulative flow. These help expose problems early on. And because

Smart Transitions In User Experience Design – Smashing Magazine

Some websites outperform others, whether in their content, usability, design, features, etc. Details of interaction design and animation make a fundamental difference on modern websites. We’ll share some lessons drawn from various models and analyze why these simple patterns work so well. When we design

How Do You Design Interaction? – Smashing Magazine

If you have to design an interface it’s almost obvious to think to begin the process by drawing. But is this the best way? I once casually started by writing an imagined human-computer conversation, and only afterwards I continued by drawing. This changed my way

The ultimate guide to Web animation | Webdesigner Depot

Animation is one of humanity’s life-long dreams (if some historians are to be believed). The theory begins with cave paintings: In some cave paintings, it’s common to see creatures drawn with far too many limbs. There are a couple of theories behind this. Some suggest

Business Analysis Guidebook/Facilitation and Elicitation Techniques – Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Facilitation and Elicitation Techniques Introduction Requirements elicitation and facilitation skills are the cornerstone of the business analysis practice. Having accurate requirements is critical to effectively manage application development, business improvements or responses to current (changing) business conditions. As described in Section X of the guidebook,

61 Key Social Media Metrics, Defined

This post originally appeared on the Buffer Blog. Of all the hundreds of social media acronyms and abbreviations out there, I think “KPI” has confounded me the most. I think it’s because the phrase “key performance indicator” always sounds like something you need to be

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Make Your Waterfall More Agile

March 30, 2015 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Agile Project Management Make Your Waterfall More Agile By Deepali Bhadade Lately there has been huge discussions around waterfall vs agile for software development and which is the best way. While the answer to this

Creating Style Guides · An A List Apart Article

Several years ago, I was working on a large, complex application. It was a bit of a legacy project: many different designers and front-end developers had come and gone, each appending a new portion to the sprawling application. By the time I arrived, the CSS

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WhatTheFont! « MyFonts

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Go here:  https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in their database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in the WhatTheFont Forum Submit your image here   PNG, GIF,

I Love Typography » Blog Archive Who shot the serif?

Typography Terms One of the reasons for starting this site was that I felt there just wasn’t enough being said about the topic. Secondly, and more significantly, I always found it difficult to quickly locate typographic resources. The long-term aim of this blog is to

6 apps to supercharge your prototyping | Webdesigner Depot

6 apps to supercharge your prototyping newsignle-twrap Being a user centered designer means a significant portion of my responsibility involves prototyping concepts to gain feedback for various designs that solve actual business problems. That means iteratively sketching or wireframing ideas early and often in the

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PasswordPusher – secure password transmission

Get passwords securely from clients All passwords are encrypted prior to storage and are available to only those with the direct link. Once expired, encrypted passwords are unequivocally deleted from the database. About PasswordPusher Find us on: @Twitter, @Github & @Tumblr   PasswordPusher.

One-page web design patterns

Back in the early years of the web, one of the most recurring usability mantras was that users don’t scroll past the fold. As a consequence, web designers were encouraged not to make pages that were too “scroll-intensive”: instead, they should leverage on granular and

Using CSS flexible boxes

The CSS3 Flexible Box, or flexbox, is a layout mode providing for the arrangement of elements on a page such that the elements behave predictably when the page layout must accommodate different screen sizes and different display devices. For many applications, the flexible box model

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