Codeless / low-code programming came started gaining market currency around 2013-14. No code / low code is a way to create applications that allows developers to quickly develop applications with minimal coding knowledge. Developers assemble and configure applications through a graphical interface and visual modeling. In this way, the developer skips all the middle layer directly, the visual code block already contains 90% of the functions required by most applications, and the developer only focuses on the remaining 10% of the code logic.

As a result, some developers inevitably have a new sense of crisis: With the advent of codeless / low-code programming, are programmers going to lose their jobs? So what are we talking about when we talk about codeless / low-code programming?

Low code programming accelerates digital transformation of enterprises

At the beginning, everyone may think that the low-code development platform is similar to an IDE and integrates some tools to improve research and development efficiency. In fact, low-code platforms provide more capabilities than IDEs. Low-code development turns programming into “building blocks” and modularizes common code. Developers can drag and drop through graphical interfaces to complete application development.

This Saves time for developers to write code by hand and control application construction flexibly. In this way, developers can complete application development with very little code. Low-code platforms can not only integrate software development into other fields, but also allow enterprises in other fields to enter software development, accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises.

Low code has the following advantages:

First, quickly complete steps from demand to application . Developers can build applications for multiple platforms at the same time. Demos can be completed within days or even hours, saving development costs.

Second, reduce the complexity of research and development, and reduce the difficulty of building large-scale systems. The low-code platform framework itself handles a certain complexity, and has built-in security processes, data integration, and support for cross-platform, reducing the need for developers to manually write code repeatedly. Developers can focus on the implementation of key business logic.

Third, the low-code platform integrates the mainstream architecture, which helps accomplish rapid deployment , and also accomplish secondary software development configuration and multiple configuration development.

what are names of some of low code platforms?

As early as 1982, in James Martin’s published paper “APP Development Without Program”, he proposed the idea of ​​building applications without writing programs. Today, many IT companies are competing for the low-code market, making the above assumptions possible: such as Jinyun, a strategic investment in China, H3 BPM launched by Orzhe in 2010, and Nine Chapters Fully Collaborative Cloud with Cloud, and Google Apps abroad Companies such as Maker, Microsoft’s Power Platform, Mendix, Salesforce, etc., have laid out the low-code market.

According to a Forrester Research report, the low-code development platform market will reach $ 15.5 billion by 2020 , showing that the low-code development market is hot. In another report by Forrester Research, about 100 vendors are grabbing the market, of which Microsoft ranked first in the statistics of “who is your low-code vendor” in 2018 and 2019.

YouTube is ready to delegate the right to sell more ads to more video authors.

In January, Tom Leung, director of product management for YouTube, announced the plan. Specifically, this plan will allow video authors to independently select the advertising content inserted in front of the video content, and even sell ads directly to brands to negotiate their own prices.

At present, almost all YouTube ads are uniformly distributed by a set of algorithmic systems. This system will automatically recognize the interaction between video content and viewers, and then distribute the ads without human intervention. Compared to it, allowing video authors to choose their own advertising content is a more “intensive cultivation” approach.

Self-selected advertising

In fact, as early as 10 years ago, YouTube started an attempt to “let authors sell their own ads.”

At that time, YouTube’s video advertising business was only launched, and the entire ad distribution system was very immature. So for those media organizations that already have advertising sales experience, such as NBC TV, YouTube launched a business called “partner-sold ads.” These mature media companies that have produced and distributed content on multiple platforms can directly port their advertising partnerships to YouTube.

Compared with algorithm-distributed ads, “self-operated” ads have three main advantages.

The first point is more precise audience matching. The algorithm mechanism may be able to recognize that the audience of a sports review channel is mainly adult men, and then push car advertisements to these viewers, but its understanding of users is still difficult to compare with the content creator himself. For example, bloggers on digital channels will know more about whether their fans are mainly iPhone or Samsung fans, they can make more matching choices when advertising, and advertisers often get better advertising results.

The second point is a more flexible bargaining mechanism. With better advertising results, advertisers will naturally be willing to invest more in advertising budget. YouTube ’s advertising system has a self-contained cost settlement method, but in general it is centered around CPM (average impact cost). YouTube ’s average CPM rate is currently around $ 18 per thousand ad views, which is not a high price for many top creators. If creators can reach more precise cooperation with advertisers, this price will increase exponentially.

The third point is to avoid market risks. YouTube does not allow all video content to access the advertising system. One of the important reasons is that a few extreme, controversial content may bring negative effects to advertisers. For example, in 2018, YouTube’s advertising system broke out and put more than 300 companies’ ads in front of some white extremism, conspiracy theories, and even suspected pedophile-related topics.

YouTube has since strengthened related ad review, but the related risks still cannot be completely circumvented by the algorithm system. Moreover, some content channels in question are not “unqualified to advertise”, but their content is different from the demands of most mainstream advertisers. If they are allowed to sell their own advertising, they may still find suitable advertising cooperation. For example, some guns or political content that is legal in the United States.

All in all, creators ’“ self-employed ”advertising is more like a“ intensive farming ”operation method, which is more detailed, more precise, lower risk, and can bring greater benefits.

So why did YouTube wait 10 years before starting to promote this approach?

Higher thresholds, more complex mechanisms

The biggest problem is the threshold.

Although YouTube ’s advertising distribution system puts forward a series of requirements for content, only channels with broadcast volume and subscriptions that meet certain criteria, and the content does not involve some extremely controversial topics, can apply to access the advertising system and earn revenue. But the truth is, this system has already made most of the video content on YouTube, including a large number of independent video creators.

These creators do not have the ability to sell ads themselves, and can only rely on YouTube’s advertising system to earn revenue. This approach may seem a bit “rough,” but it does give most creators the possibility to make money from videos.

But as YouTube grows and users grow, this is changing.

Many “Personal Channels” of that year have grown to tens of millions of subscriptions, attracting even more viewers than TV stations. For example, YouTuber PewDiePie, the most popular game on YouTube, has 103 million followers. Many of these people have registered their own companies or joined other media alliance companies to operate their YouTube channels in a more professional manner.

In fact, even if YouTube does n’t delegate the right to sell ads to video authors, they have already started their own “ad sales”. Most of the well-known YouTubers have tried to add some of their own business cooperation to the video, some of which will be inserted in the video content in the form of hard and wide, while others appear in the form of product, equipment sponsorship, prize sponsorship, etc.

For YouTube, the problem is becoming more and more complicated, because the business cooperation that creators talk about is embedded in the video content, and YouTube can not get a penny. The more mature this type of business cooperation mechanism, the stronger the media alliance of creators, the more hidden dangers YouTube will have for its own advertising business.

For the ads distributed by the algorithm system, the ratio of YouTube to creators is 45:55. With this 45%, YouTube has grown into one of the most profitable media platforms in the world. Google has just announced the results of YouTube’s business for the first time. In 2019, YouTube’s advertising sales revenue reached 15.15 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 10% of Alphabet’s total revenue.

YouTube must make its advertising system more flexible, meet the growing needs of creators and advertisers, and ensure that it can continue to be the “dominant” of the game.

 Now you might find many applications on both android as well as iOS platform which are able to edit Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint. But many of them are paid and expensive like OfficeSuite Pro 7.

Kingsoft office

If not paid then do not offer the editing facility. The ones like Kingsoft Office which do offer some editing facility are not that much capable and do not offer varied capabilities. So I thought that I should write an article on Google’s Quickoffice which is both free an extremely capable application.
You can gauge the capability of Quickoffice from this fact that this entire article has been written in Quickoffice word processor.

Although it is connected to Google drive, there is no need to you have Internet connected to use Quickoffice. You can save the documents to your Google drive or to the phone memory or your SD card. There are many options to format the text and to create great documents, spreadsheets, presentations.
In the word processor you have an option of inserting the images from the gallery or camera, Quickoffice word processor has facility to insert tables.

In spreadsheets it allows you to insert charts and links. Also in spreadsheets and word and presentation you have the ability for changing font properties, alignment, border and cell properties.
The Quickoffice presentation application helps you in creating presentations on the go. It allows you to insert images from gallery, images from camera,and also the shapes. The shapes include basic shapes, equations, flowcharts etc.

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I hope this article helps you motivate to try Quickoffice for yourself and decide whether it will help you in improving your productivity or not. I hope that Google comes up with an windows phone version of Google Quickoffice so that the users of all platforms can have benefit of this amazing service. I also forgot to mention that the documents which are saved on Google Quickoffice can be accessed anywhere in the world and you can edit them on your desktop browser . We at tech impressions will try to find more search applications wish will help the readers of our blog how to improve the productivity, reduce the hassles and stress, and make best use of their time .

So I am enclosing link of quick office for both android and apple IOS platform . If you come across any problem accessing this service and need any help using this app you can definitely write to us or comment below in the comments section.

 Diff helps you in staying up-to-date with out having to go through the entire document .

 You can check the introduction to Quip and find out the amazing features offered by Quip. Hope this article help you in getting an overview of Quip so i am enclosing the links of Google Android Play store and Apple store. If you come across any problems can definitely write to me: techimpressions2@gmail.com

Quip Google Play | Quip Apple app store
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Many Universities still teach C Programming language as a part of curriculum as it helps students understand the basic concepts of programming. The tools used in university computer labs are turbo c++. But if you try running Turbo c++ on windows 7 or windows 8 it shows a smaller window. Altough there is a way to run these legacy programs in full screen using DOSbox but we will see a simple method to do so. It can be done by using codeblocks. Code::Blocks is a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

Here is the process to get Codeblocks.
Step 1 : Head to Codeblocks Website

Step 2: Select  Download the Binary Release.

Step 3: Select Codeblocks mingw-setup.exe 

Step 4: Open the Downloaded file and Install it.

 Step 5: Open the CodeBlock IDE and Select Create new project

Step 6: In New form Template window Select Console Application 

Step 6 : On the next Screen Select the language which you want to do program c or c++.

Step 7: Select the project location click next and select the compiler to use . In our case we are going to use GNU GCC Compiler

 http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads

Tweet

1)Sendible
2)SocialOomph

Following is the processes of configuring these services

1)Sendible
Sign in to your Sendible account. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for a free trial at http://sendible.com/signup.
Click on Add/Edit Services and under Add Services, select the Automation tab.
Next to the Twitter Auto Responder, click Add.
On the settings page, complete the details:
Description:
Twitter account: Select the Twitter account that will send the messages to new followers.
Message: Enter the message that will be sent out to new followers. You can also add multiple messages, with one message per line.
Message Type: Select the type of message that should be sent out. This can be a DM (private message) or Tweet.
Auto Follow: If you would like to automatically follow people back.
Frequency: How often Sendible should check for new followers and send out messages.
Maximum messages to send out: Select the maximum number of DM’s/Tweets to send out every time Sendible checks for new followers.

2) SocialOomph
Login to SocialOomph.com.
Add your Twitter account with “Networks, Connect Social Account, Twitter” in the menu.
Click “Following, Follow-Back & Auto-Welcome” in the menu and click the Configure button of your Twitter account.
You will then be taken to a form with a link where you can activate the Follow-Back & Auto DM subscription.
Select “Following, Follow-Back & Auto-Welcome” in the menu.
Locate your Twitter account and click the Configure button.
That takes you to the page where you can change your automation settings and welcome message.

Following are the links to this services
https://www.socialoomph.com/help/?s=help_autodmfollow

http://sendible.com/insights/how-to-automatically-welcome-new-followers-on-twitter/

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Protection Against Web Bugs

Many spammers (people who send unsolicited email) use web beacons to validate email addresses .The spammers send HTML-based email messages that contain links to external content on a website (the web bug), and when the recipient’s email client displays the remote content, the site validates the email address .The spammer then knows that the address is a valid one and continues to send messages to it.

Outlook 2010 blocks web beacons, displaying a red X instead of the external image .You can view blocked content selectively, on a per-message basis, or you can configure Outlook 2010 to view all content but control access to HTML content in other ways .You can also turn off web beacon blocking, if you want, and control external HTML content in other ways.

Attachment and Virus Security

Now!! You probably are aware that a virus is malicious code that infects your system and typically causes some type of damage .The action caused by a virus can be as innocuous as displaying a message or as damaging as deleting data from your hard disk .One especially insidious form of virus, called a worm, spreads itself automatically, often by mailing itself to every contact in the infected system’s address book .Because of the potential damage that can be caused by viruses and worms, it is critically important to guard against malicious code entering your system .

There are multiple possible points of defence against viruses and worms .For example, you might deploy perimeter protection in the form of one or more firewalls that scan traffic coming into your network and leaving it .Also you might have virus protection at the server level .You probably have a local antivirus client that checks the files on your computer and potentially also checks attachments that come into your Inbox . All of these are important options for protecting your network and your computer from infection .
An additional security feature that is new in Office 2010 is Protected View .When you open an attachment that is an Office file type (a Microsoft Word document, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, etc), the document opens in a separate sandbox instance of the application . For example, assume that you have Word open and are working on a document that you created .Then, you switch over to Outlook and open a Word document that arrived as an attachment to an email .Word opens a separate version to display that attachment, but this sandbox version of Word operates with greater restrictions and fewer rights and privileges than the version that you are using to modify your own document .You can’t save the file or edit it while it is running in this version, so the application displays a banner across the top labelled Protected View , and provides a button labelled Enable Editing that, when clicked, enables you to edit the document, save it, and so on

The combination of attachment blocking and Protected View will protect your computer from a wide variety of potential threats, but that combination can’t protect against all threats .For that reason, you should ensure that you have an updated antivirus client running on your computer as well as at your mail server .Adding protection at the perimeter of the network is a good idea as well .

Digital Signatures

Outlook 2010 allows you to add a certificate-based digital signature to a message to validate your identity to the message recipient .Because the signature is derived from a certificate that is issued to you and that you share with the recipient, the recipient can be guaranteed that the message originated with you, rather than with someone trying to impersonate your identity .

In addition to signing your outgoing messages, you can use secure message receipts that notify you that your message has been verified by the recipient’s system .The lack of a return receipt indicates that the recipient’s system did not validate your identity .In such a case, you can contact the recipient to make sure that he or she has a copy of your digital signature .

Message Encryption

Where the possibility of interception exists (whether someone intercepts your message before it reaches the intended recipient or someone else at the recipient’s end tries to read the message), Outlook 2010 message encryption can help you keep prying eyes away from sensitive messages .This feature also relies on your digital signature to encrypt the message and to allow the recipient to decrypt and read the message .Someone who receives the message without first having the appropriate encryption key from your certificate installed on his or her system sees a garbled message .

Message: Although you can configure Outlook 2010 to send a digital signature to a recipient, there is no guarantee that the recipient will add the digital signature to his or her contacts list. Until the recipient adds the signature, digitally signed messages are not validated, and the recipient cannot read encrypted messages from you.