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Manage Your Stress Levels at Workplace

Career related stress not only affects your productivity but it also affect your physical and mental well being. Every person takes stress on it own way. But it is very important for everyone to curb it at a very early stage before it starts affecting your emotional intelligence.

Identify signs and symptoms

A sailor can control the ship but certainly have no control over tides. In the same way, your body is like a ship which you can control but you definitely cannot control everything that is happening around you. Everytime something unusual happens, your body responds to it in its own way. And, when it comes to career related stress, symptoms are very evident. At the beginning, we often tend to ignore all the signs, which we should not. If you think you have sleepless nights, apathy or even stomach problem… you must be alarmed, these could be symptoms of stress. Here I am listing some common signs;

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Big Data : Predictive Analysis for Successful Internet Marketing

In the past few years internet industry has seen an exponential growth, in terms of usage and penetration. The average time spent by a user in a week on internet has increased from 5.2 hours to 19.6 hours. And, this happened in the period of just 10 years. And, these figures are expected to grow in coming years as telecom industry is deploying infrastructure to enhance the usage and reach. And leveraging the fast penetration of WWW into our lives, real life businesses are going digital. Say, you need a box of cookies? Go, shop online. You need a tutorial for learning PHP? Go, sign up for webinar online. Music? register online. We eat, sleep and almost do everything online. And, this is from where digital agencies make money. Everybody knows that Internet Marketing in not a new thing anymore. But yes, the way it is evolving is worth keeping an eye.

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5 Steps Towards Developing a Secure Web Application

Developing a web application is no more a tricky task but developing a secure application has become a cumbersome task. Yes, you have to be very very paranoid if you want to develop a safe and secure channel for your clients. No information entered by the user can be trusted. I am not saying that all your visitors are dubious but to maintain the security of your users you have to doubt each and everyone. Especially with ecommerce stores, where a visitor trust you and provide his personal information including his banking details. You cannot break their trust, so let’s talk about a few measures that can be easily adopted for safe platform.

Transaction Security

Every transaction that is taking place on the server pose the risk of the threat. So you must use single encoding scheme to interpret every request made by client to the server. You must make sure that every encoded request is understood without any ambiguity. Second thing, obscurity is always important when it comes to the security of the system. So try to conceal things, e.g. you can use POST method instead of GET method. Always remember that an attacker is much smarter than we think and can easily manipulate the parameters. So, it has become mandatory to check the maximum number of characters on the server side before using any parameter. As far as parameters in dynamic websites are concerned, no parameters should be passed using client’s input. The input should be verified to be script free by removing any suspicious characters.

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