Popular social networking sites like Twitter have a character limit for user posts. Due to the popularity of Twitter, domains like TinyURL and Is.Gd -- sites that abbreviate URLs -- began to pop up.

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, a tool used to find webpages. A URL is composed of a protocol, a domain name, a path to the webpage, and a webpage name. Here's a brief introduction to URLs and ...

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won't all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A Git repository is of very little use if it resides entirely on your remote GitHub or GitLab ...