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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

November 29, 2017

Peterson Practice TOEFL PBT with Full Answer Key


Here is the book that can help you to prepare your TOEFL test especially in PBT test. this book can be used to practice your skills and measure your English ability in doing the TOEFL materials. this book is published by Peterson and has been used to boost the TOEFL Score. you can download Peterson Practice TOEFL PBT for free with audio mp3 by visiting the link I put on my website.
There are five tests including listening scripts and answer keys. so easy for you to make your TOEFL Score higher than before.
Now you can Download Peterson's Practice for the TOEFL PBT test. Audio mp3 includes in each test.
Please check playlists:

Full Toefl PBT Listening Test with Full Answer key 1 : https://youtu.be/fIj2zL2zqq0

Full Toefl PBT Listening Test with Full Answer key 2 :  https://youtu.be/JmeAIC-UfF0

Full Toefl PBT Listening Test with Full Answer key 3 :  https://youtu.be/1KZpEedHYDM

Full Toefl PBT Listening Test with Full Answer key 4 :  https://youtu.be/HAxhX6_n0Zo

Full Toefl PBT Listening Test with Full Answer key 5 :  https://youtu.be/UfWh0FJZVkU



Disclaimer: The audio track is not in my authoring. The purpose of this video is for students to test their listening skills for the Toefl.


November 29, 2017

Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)







Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know. The fundamental assumption is that before students of English for academic purposes can begin to successfully produce academic writing, they must have the foundations of language in place--the language tools (grammar and vocabulary) they need to build a text. This text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and lexis to second-language learners that will help teachers effectively target specific problem areas of students' writing. 


Based on the findings of current research, including a large-scale study of close to 1,500 non-native speakers' essays, this book works with several sets of simple rules that collectively can make a noticeable and important difference in the quality of ESL students' writing. The teaching strategies and techniques are based on a highly practical principle for efficiently and successfully maximizing learners' language gains. 



Part I provides the background for the text and a sample of course curriculum guidelines to meet the learning needs of second-language teachers of writing and second-language writers. Parts II and III include the key elements of classroom teaching: what to teach and why, possible ways to teach the material in the classroom, common errors found in student prose and ways to teach students to avoid them, teaching activities and suggestions, and questions for discussion in a teacher-training course. Appendices to chapters provide supplementary word and phrase lists, collocations, sentence chunks, and diagrams that teachers can use as needed. 



The book is designed as a text for courses that prepare teachers to work with post-secondary EAP students and as a professional resource for teachers of students in EAP courses.






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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

November 28, 2017

Top 20: Great Grammar for Great Writing 2nd Edition (100% Free Download)




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Monday, November 27, 2017

November 27, 2017

Laravel 5.5 with Boostrap 4.0.0-beta.2 (100% work)




To use Bootstrap 4, which is in beta at the moment of writing, you will need to take the following steps:
  1. run npm install bootstrap@4.0.0-beta.2 --save-dev to install/overwrite the latest version
  2. change require('bootstrap-sass') to require('bootstrap') in your bootstrap.js file
  3. change @import "~bootstrapsass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap"; to
    @import"~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap"; in your app.scss file. Also make sure to remove the reference to variables since these will not work with BS4
  4. run npm run dev in the command line to generate the .css and .js file
Please be aware that the scaffolded auth templates will break due to new class names in BS4.
November 27, 2017

Exploring Laravel 5.5 structure





I assume that you've installed Laravel at ~/Code/Laravel. Let's go there and open the Laravel directory.
Laravel structure

To build applications using Laravel, you will need to understand truly Laravel.
Laravel follows MVC (Model View Controller) pattern, so if you've already known about MVC, everything will be simple. Don't worry if you don't know what MVC is, you will get to know soon.
As you may have seen, every time you visit a Laravel app, you'll see these folders.
  1. app
  2. bootstrap
  3. config
  4. database
  5. public
  6. resources
  7. routes
  8. storage
  9. tests
  10. vendor
I'm not going to tell you everything about them right now because I know that it's boring.
Trust me.
But we have to take a quick look at them to know what they are, anyway.
App
This directory holds all our application's logic. We will put our controllers, services, filters, commands and many other custom classes here.
Bootstrap
This folder has some files that are used to bootstrap Laravel. The cache folder is also placed here.
Config
When we want to configure our application, check out this folder. We will configure database, mail, session, etc. here.
Database
As the name implies, this folder contains our database migrations and database seeders.
Public
The public folder contains the application's images, CSS, JS and other public files.
Resources
We should put our views (.blade.php files), raw files and other localization files here.
Routes
All our route files will be stored here.
We'll learn about this routes directory in the next section.
Storage
Laravel will use this folder to store sessions, caches, templates, logs, etc.
Tests
This folder contains the test files, such as PHPUnit files.
Vendor
Composer dependencies (such as Symfony classes, PHPUnit classes, etc.) are placed here.
To understand more about Laravel structure, you can read the official documentation here:

Sunday, November 26, 2017

November 26, 2017

Sample Essays for the TOEFL® Writing Test (TWE®) Answers to All TOEFL Essay Questions







ETS - TOEFL publishes its official list of TOEFL essay topics on its website. All essays assigned on the actual TOEFL test come from this list. This eBook has 450 sample essays with scores of 6.0. Each essay was written on one of the topics from the ETS official list. The eBook covers 100% of these topics. Each ETS TOEFL writing topic has at least one sample answer of 6.0 score in this eBook. 


Students who take the Computer-Based Test of English as a Foreign Language must also compose a written essay that counts towards approximately 50% of their structure score. This eBook contains a total of 450 sample TOEFL essays, offering an intensive preparation for this part of the test.



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Saturday, November 25, 2017

November 25, 2017

Linus Torvalds: 'I don't trust security people to do sane things'

Linus Torvalds has offered his thoughts on Linux security approaches, branding some security professionals as "f*cking morons" for focusing on process-killing rather than debugging. 

Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, does not often pull his punches when it comes to the kernel's behaviors and security.
The engineer carried on the tradition over the weekend, as Google Pixel developer Kees Cook submitted a pull request for hardened usercopy changes for v4.15-rc1, which according to Cook, narrows areas of memory "that can be copied to/from userspace in the face of usercopy bugs by adding explicit whitelisting for slab cache regions."
This has lived in -next for quite some time without major problems, but there were some late-discovered missing whitelists, so a fallback mode was added just to make sure we don't break anything," Cook said. "I expect to remove the fallback mode in a release or two."
In response, Torvalds said these kinds of pull requests "can be very painful" as time must be spent examining them as they touch core elements.
"When I pull 20+ other pull requests a day, I don't have _time_ to spend time on them," the engineer added. "They are scary because: they touch core stuff, [and] I don't trust security people to do sane things."
While Torvalds also cast doubt on the validity of the request, others urged for the suggestion to be considered.
This, in turn, prompted Cook to offer more information on the request, saying:
"This is why I introduced the fallback mode: with both kvm and sctp (ipv6) not noticed until late in the development cycle, I became much less satisfied it had gotten sufficient testing.
With the fallback mode, missed whitelists generate a WARN and are allowed, so this series effectively only introduces tight controls on the places where a whitelist is specifically introduced. And I went to great lengths to document each whitelist usage in the commit logs.
I would agree it would be nice to get at least a subset of this in, though. Linus, what would make you most comfortable?"
The question was not met lightly. Torvalds then made his position clear with some rather colorful language.
"So honestly, this is the kind of completely unacceptable "security person" behavior that we had with the original user access hardening too, and made that much more painful than it ever should have been," Torvalds said. "IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE when security people set magical new rules, and then make the kernel panic when those new rules are violated."
"That is pure and utter bullsh*t," the engineer added. "We've had more than a quarter century _without_ those rules, you don't then suddenly waltz in and say "oh, everybody must do this, and if you haven't, we will kill the kernel."
The engineer continued, saying that the series was "incredibly broken" at the start, and security professionals need to realize that patches introduced for things such as hardening primarily serve as a debugging tool rather than anything else.
Should this be ignored and security developers see their hardening efforts primarily as a "let me kill the machine/process on bad behavior," Torvalds said he will "stop taking those sh*t patches" altogether.
"Some security people have scoffed at me when I say that security problems are primarily "just bugs," Torvalds added. "Those security people are f*cking morons."
The Linux kernel creator continued, suggesting that the primary focus should be on debugging and making sure that the version of the kernel released in the future is better than the one in use today.
However, in the engineer's view, the focus today is actually "let's kill things for bugs."
Torvalds said:
"The hardening efforts should instead _start_ from the standpoint of "let's warn about what looks dangerous, and maybe in a _year_ when we've warned for a long time, and we are confident that we've actually caught all the normal cases, _then_ we can start taking more drastic measures".
Stop this idiotic "kill on sight, ask questions later." Because it's wrong.
Right now, the biggest problem for me is that the whole thing makes me uncomfortable, because I think the people involved are coming from a completely unacceptable model to begin with."
Rather than retaliate in the same frustrated language, Cook acknowledged the commentary, saying that his "main flaw" was thinking that patches and changes could be fully tested during a single development series.
However, the developer said over the course of the latest cycle he realized this was a challenge, and made adjustments as a result.
"Well, I'd like to think I did learn something since I fixed up this series _before_ you yelled at me. :)," Cook concluded. "I'll make further adjustments and try again for v4.16."
No matter the language, however, it is good to see passionate people in both the Linux and security domains as a whole -- especially in a world where so many businesses consider security and user protection as an afterthought.

Copyright: original text from zdnet.com
November 25, 2017

Linus Torvalds: This is what drives me nuts about IT security




Developers are often accused of not thinking about security, but Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds has had enough of security people who don't think about developers and end-users.

After blasting some kernel developers last week for killing processes in the name of hardening the kernel, Torvalds has offered a more measured explanation for his frustration with security myopia.

While he agrees that having multiple layers of security in the kernel is a good idea, certain ways of implementing it are not, in particular if it annoys users and developers by killing processes that break users' machines and wreck core kernel code. Because ultimately, if there are no users, there's not much point in having a supremely secure kernel, Torvalds contends.

"'Do no harm' should be your mantra for any new hardening work," Torvalds instructed security developers, reminding them to see the bigger picture.

"Keep your eye on the endpoint, and that this is just the first step. You need to not p**s off users, and you need to not p**s off developers," he said.

"Because in the end, those users really do matter. Without those users, your system may be 'secure', but all your security work was still just masturbation. You didn't do anything useful at all in the end."

In last week's message regarding a Google Pixel developer's hardening-focused pull request, he was annoyed that it wasn't tested properly, which he guessed was due to the attitude that "security is so important that nothing else matters".

He offered a reminder of what it means from different perspectives when a security person has found an invalid access. For the security person, the job's done, but for the developer "the bad access was just a symptom, and it needs to be reported, and debugged, and fixed, so that the bug actually gets corrected".

Torvalds' advice to security-focused contributors is to just report the bug rather than killing a process.

"As a developer, I do want the report. But if you killed the user program in the process, I'm actually _less_ likely to get the report, because the latent access was most likely in some really rare and nasty case, or we would have found it already. In the kernel, there's a high likelihood that it was in a driver, for example," Torvalds explained.

"Because it's the kernel, and because it's a driver, it's quite likely that killing the offender will do bad things to various random locks that were held, or maybe it happens in an interrupt and the whole machine is now dead if we're unlucky because there really were some very core locks being held."

Source: zdnet 

Thursday, November 23, 2017

November 23, 2017

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street




Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened.

Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. Longtime New Yorker contributor John Brooks’s insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself.

Five additional stories on equally fascinating subjects round out this wonderful collection that will both entertain and inform readers . . . Business Adventures is truly financial journalism at its liveliest and best.



Tuesday, November 21, 2017

November 21, 2017

HTML DOM setAttribute() Method

The setAttribute() method adds the specified attribute to an element and gives it the specified value.




If the specified attribute already exists, only the value is set/changed.

Note: Although it is possible to add the style attribute with a value to an element with this method, it is recommended that you use properties of the Style object instead for inline styling because this will not overwrite other CSS properties that may be specified in the style attribute:

Here an example: 
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Monday, November 20, 2017

November 20, 2017

Laravel 5 New Feature: Laravel Frontend Presets



As many of you probably know, Laravel 5.4 ships with an Example.vuecomponent in the resources/assets/js/components directory. In addition, Laravel Mix supports compiling single-file Vue components out of the box. This gives developers a quick, convenient starting point for building modern, robust JavaScript components for their applications.
For Laravel 5.5, this scaffolding is still in place, but we’re introducing some additional options for frontend scaffolding via a new artisan presetcommand.

React
If you love React, you will love Laravel 5.5. Simply run the php artisan preset react command to swap out the Vue scaffolding with React scaffolding. The default Mix configuration, components, and all other related files will be updated accordingly:

Now, instead of an Example.vue component, your application will contain an Example.js React component:




Bootstrap

Some users may not want any JavaScript scaffolding at all, but don’t want to lose the basic Bootstrap CSS scaffolding. If that’s you, you can use the artisan preset bootstrap to only remove the Vue scaffolding:

Remove All Scaffolding


Some users may even want to remove all frontend scaffoldingThe artisan preset none will remove all frontend scaffolding:



I hope you enjoy these new options!


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