Month: October 2020

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Oracle v. Google Isn't That Complicated, The Supreme Court Is

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Last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments regarding Oracle v. Google were the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two tech giants. Frustratingly, for all of the anticipation leading up to these hearings, only questions remain as the oral arguments were dominated by the usual search for a legal precedent, which requires tossing analogies back and forth. To the unaware, the banter at times felt overly simplistic and occasionally nonsensical. This is, however, all a part of the process.

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Keep the selected treeview row fixed

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The selected row keeps on deselect when the new value is updated in that position. Can we just keep the selection fixed even when the row value changes. Please have a look at the sample code given below, where a treeview row are getting updated every second but as the value gets updated, the row automatically deselects. Please help me with the idea to get the selection fixed even when the value changes. Thank you.

from tkinter import ttk
import tkinter
import threading

def main():
    root = tkinter.Tk()

    ccols = ('num1','num2')
    treeview = ttk.Treeview(root, columns=ccols)
    for col in ccols:
        treeview.heading(col, text=col)
    treeview.grid(row=8, column=0)

    def sample():
       for i in range(100):
           treeview.delete(*treeview.get_children()) 
           treeview.insert("","end",values=(i,0))

       threading.Timer(1.0, sample).start()

    sample()
    root.mainloop()


if __name__ == '__main__':

main()
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Wix vs Shopify Compared: Which Is Better for eCommerce Websites in 2020?

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When pitting Wix vs Shopify, it’s important to focus on your individual needs and what’s best for the project you’re working on. In certain scenarios, one platform will be a clear winner over the other, but things are not that simple for every scenario and every user. Most of the time, you’ll need a deeper look to make a good decision between these two.
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How to Boost WordPress Site Dwell Time

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How to Boost WordPress Site Dwell TimeApart from making billions of dollars, Google’s most important goal is to serve highly relevant search results to searchers. Thus, if searchers spend less than five seconds on a page before returning to the SERP, it’s a significant negative signal. However, for specific topics or keywords, searchers want instant answers to a chronic problem that […]

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Privacy-Conscious WordPress Plugin Caches and Serves Gravatar Images Locally

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Ari Stathopoulos released his new Local Gravatars plugin last week. The goal of the plugin is to allow site owners to take advantage of the benefits of a global avatar system while mitigating privacy concerns by hosting the images locally.

In essence, it is a caching system that stores the images on the site owner’s server. It is an idea that Peter Shaw proposed in the comments on an earlier Tavern article covering local avatar upload. It is a middle ground that may satisfy some users’ issues with how avatars currently work in WordPress.

“I am one of the people that blocks analytics, uses private sessions when visiting social sites, I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, and I don’t like the ‘implied’ consents,” said Stathopoulos. “I built the plugin for my own use because I don’t know what Gravatar does, I don’t understand the privacy policies, and I am too lazy to spend two hours analyzing them. It’s faster for me to build something that is safe and doesn’t leave any room for misunderstandings.”

He is referring to Automattic’s extensive Privacy Policy. He said it looks benign. However, he does not like the idea of any company being able to track what sites he visits without explicit consent.

“And when I visit a site that uses Gravatar, some information is exposed to the site that serves them — including my IP,” said Stathopoulos. “Even if it’s just for analytics purposes, I don’t think the company should know that page A on site B got 1,000 visitors today with these IPs from these countries. There is absolutely no reason why any company not related to the page I’m actually visiting should have any kind of information about my visit.”

The Local Gravatars plugin must still connect to the Gravatar service. However, the connection is made on the server rather than the client. Stathopoulos explained that the only information exposed in this case is the server’s IP and nothing from the client, which eliminates any potential privacy concerns.

The Latest Plugin Update

Stathopoulos updated the plugin earlier today to address some performance concerns for pages that have hundreds or more Gravatar images. In the version 1.0.1 update, he added a maximum processing time of five seconds and changed the cache cleanup process from daily to weekly. Both of these are filterable via code.

“Now, if there are Gravatars missing in a page request, it will get as many as it can, and, after five seconds, it will stop,” said Stathopoulos. “So if there are 100 Gravatars missing and it gets the first 20, the rest will be blank (can be filtered to use a fallback URL, or even fall back to the remote URL, though that would defeat the privacy improvement). The next page request will get the next 20, and so on. At some point, all will be there, and there will be no more delays.”

He did point out that performance could temporarily suffer when installing it on a site that has individual posts with 1,000s of comments and a lot of traffic. However, nothing would crash on the site, and the plugin should eventually lead to a performance boost in this scenario. For such large sites, owners could use the existing filter hooks to tweak the settings.

Right now, the plugin is primarily an itch he wanted to scratch for his own purposes. However, if given enough usage and feedback, he may include a settings screen to allow users to control some of the currently-filterable defaults, such as the cleanup timeframe and the maximum process time allowed.

The Growing List of Alternatives

With growing concerns around privacy in the modern world, Local Gravatars is another tool that end-users can employ if they have any concerns around the Gravatar service. For those who are OK with an auto-generated avatar, Pixel Avatars may be a solution.

“I’ve seen some of them, and they are wonderful!” Stathopoulos said of alternatives for serving avatars. “However, this plugin is slightly different in that the avatars the user already has on Gravatar.com are actually used. They can see the image they have uploaded. The user doesn’t need to upload a separate avatar, and an automatic one is not used by default.”

He would not mind using an auto-generated avatar when commenting on blogs or news sites at times. However, Stathopoulos prefers Gravatar for community-oriented sites.

“My Gravatar is part of my online identity, and when I see, for example, a comment from someone on WordPress.org, I know who they are by their Gravatar,” he said.

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WP Agency Summit Begins Its Second Annual Virtual Event October 12

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Jan Koch, the founder and host of WP Agency Summit, is kicking off his second annual event on October 12. The five-day event will feature 37 speakers from a wide range of backgrounds across the WordPress industry. It is a free virtual event that anyone can attend.

“The focus for the 2020 WP Agency Summit is showing attendees how to bring back the fun into scaling their agencies,” said Koch. “It is all about reducing the daily hustle by teaching how to successfully build and manage teams, how to work with enterprises (allowing for fewer customers but bigger projects), how to build sustainable recurring revenue, and how to position your agency to dominate your niche.”

This year’s event includes three major changes to make the content more accessible to a larger group of people. Each session will be available between October 12 – 16 instead of the previous 48-hour window that attendees had to find time for in 2019.

After the event has concluded, access to the content will be behind a paywall. Koch reduced the price to $77 for lifetime access for those who purchase pre-launch, which will increase to $127 during the event. Last year’s prices ballooned to $497, which meant that it was simply not affordable for many who found it too late.

Some of the proceeds this year are going toward transcribing all the videos so that hearing-impaired users can enjoy the content.

This year’s event will also focus on a virtual networking lounge for attendees. “I’ve seen how well it worked at the WP FeedBack Summit — we even had BobWP record a podcast episode on the fly in that lounge!” said Koch. “I’ve seen many new friendships develop, people connecting with new suppliers or getting themselves booked on podcasts, and sharing experiences about their businesses.”

The lounge will be open during the entirety of the summit, which will allow attendees to jump into the conversation on their own time.

A More Diverse Speaker Lineup

Koch received some backlash for the lack of gender diversity last year. The 2019 event had over 20 speakers from a diverse male lineup. However, only four women from our industry led sessions.

When asked about this issue in 2019, Koch responded, “I recognize this as a problem with my event. The reason I have so much more male than female speakers is quite simple, the current speaker line-up is purely based on connections I had when I started planning for the event. It was a relatively short amount of time for me, so I wasn’t able to build relationships with more female WP experts beforehand.”

The host said he paid attention to the feedback he received. While not hitting the 50/50 split goal he had for 2020’s event, 16 of the 37 speakers are women.

Koch said he strived to get speakers from a wider range of backgrounds. He wanted to bring in both freelancers and multi-million dollar agency owners. He also focused on getting people from multiple countries to represent WordPress agencies.

“I did reach out to around 130 people four months before the event to make new connections,” he said. “The community around the Big Orange Heart (a non-profit for mental well-being) also helped a lot with introducing me to new members of the WP community.”

Koch said he learned two valuable lessons when branching out beyond his existing connections for this year’s event:

Firstly, don’t hesitate to reach out to people you think will never talk to you because they’re running such big companies. For example, I immediately got confirmations from Mario Peshev from Devrix, Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains, or Marieke van de Rakt from Yoast. When first messaging them, I had little hope they’d set aside time to jump on an interview with me – but they were super supportive and accommodating! The WordPress community really is a welcoming environment if you approach people in a humble way.

Secondly, build connections with sincerity. Do not just focus on what you can get from that connection but how you can help the other person. I know this sounds cheesy and you’ve heard this quite often — but it is true. Once I got the first response from new contacts and explained my goal of connecting fellow WordPress community members virtually, most immediately agreed because they also benefit from new connections and being positioned as a thought-leader in this event.

WP Agency Summit? WP FeedBack Summit?

For readers who recall the Tavern’s coverage of the WP FeedBack Summit earlier this year, the article specifically stated that the WP FeedBack Summit was a continuation of 2019’s WP Agency Summit. The official word at the time from WP FeedBack’s public relations team was the following:

Last year’s event, the WP Agency Summit has been rebranded under the umbrella of WP FeedBack’s brand when Jan Koch the host of last’s year WP Agency Summit joined WP FeedBack as CTO.

Koch said that it was a standalone event and not directly connected to WP Agency Summit but had the same target audience. However, the WP FeedBack Summit did use the previous WP Agency Summit’s stats and data to promote the event.

“The WP FeedBack Summit was hosted under the WP FeedBack brand because I joined their team as CTO in March this year,” he said. “Vito [Peleg] and I had the idea to host a virtual conference around WordPress because of WordCamp Asia being canceled — we wanted to help connect the community online through our summit.

Koch left WP FeedBack soon after the summit ended and is currently back on his own and has a goal of making WP Agency Summit a yearly event.

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Parse text file line by line and split each line and store in matrix form.

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data1,true,2000,422
data2,false,2001,421
data3,true,2050,427
data4,true,2004,432
the above data is in sample.txt. I want to write a program using a for loop and any filereader class or by any means, such that my output will be stored in as follows:

My_Data[1]= data1,true,2000,422
My_Data[1][0]= data1
My_Data[1][1]= true
My_Data[1][2]= 2000

My_Data[2]= data2,false,2001,421
My_Data[2][0]= data2
My_Data[2][1]= false
I want to access each My_Data[i] individually and under that My_Data[i][0] ,My_Data[i][1] and so on .

Can anyone please help writing this type of code ?

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Identifying a Target Audience for Your WordPress Blog

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Identifying a Target Audience for Your WordPress BlogWhether you’re just starting a new blog or you’re working on your regular weekly content, it’s important to have a clear understanding of who your target audience is. So yes, even if you’ve been writing blog posts up until this point without an audience in mind, there’s no time like the present to figure it […]

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IMB Bank Announces Open Banking Platform

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IMB Bank, an Australian bank, recently announced its Open Banking platform. The first release of the platform shares data related to deposits and transactions. More specifically, that data includes relevant features, rates, and fees. The platform shares such information through an API.   

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After watching “The Social Dilemma” it appears to be successful you must..

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Watched most of The Social Dilemma ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/ ) it appears to me to be successful you must learn certain, let's say, deep physcology and think about how to sway your followers using all the tools noted in the movie. This is a drama documentary but what you see there does remind me of what methods I've seen before.

Yes, they do paint a dim picture but if you don't, your site and presence on the web appears to be diminishing.

Worth a watch.

Comment if you feel that pull to "The Dark Side."