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I have often encountered code littered with lots of nested if and else statements. I consider it a serious code smell. Deeply nested code, especially if the nesting is due to conditionals,
Google Cloud Platform has unveiled beta releases for two new machine learning APIs. The Natural Language API offers sentiment analysis, entity recognition and syntax analysis in English, Japanese and Spanish.
The good news from Microsoft’s most recent earnings report was that its revenue from its Azure cloud computing division doubled year-over-year. On the other hand, the company’s phone revenue declined
You can use the PIVOT SQL command to transpose Row data into Column data. This means that you can take a set of rows and make fields out of them!
IBM has released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2016. Overall, the company had $20.2 billion in revenue, a 2.6 percent year-over-year decrease. However, company executives pointed out
Blueprint has released a new agile software development tool called Storyteller. It can auto-generate user stories and acceptance criteria, both of which help agile teams understand project requirements. ?Poor-quality user
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released Prometheus 1.0, an open source tool for monitoring cloud computing and containerized IT environments. The new tool is part of the CNCF’s
A new report from Gartner says that the IT job market is changing significantly, and cloud computing will eliminate some positions and create others within the next 18 months. “Emerging
A new survey conducted by Softchoice reports that a majority of enterprises (52 percent) do not have a formal cloud computing strategy. That’s significant because while only 22 percent of
IBM and AT&T have announced plans to work together on tools for Internet of Things (IoT) development. The deal will bring together IBM’s Watson IoT platform and Bluemix cloud development
Cisco wants more enterprise application development teams to build chat bots on its Spark collaboration program. In order to accomplish that goal it has announced new partnerships with chat bot
At its ChefConf event, Chef unveiled a new DevOps tool called Automate. It brings together Chef’s InSpec compliance tool, the Habitat application automation tool, and the traditional Chef provisioning automation
The T-shaped employee is a management and hiring concept regarding the skills of an employee. The vertical of the T represents skills with which the employee has deep expertise and
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in Toronto, GE announced that its Predix industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform will be coming to the Azure cloud computing service. “Connecting industrial
It’s become accepted wisdom that the cloud computing market is a three-way race among Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, but a new report from IDC
A SynchronizationContext allows one thread to communicate with another thread. For example, to update the User Interface thread (UI Thread) from an outside thread you could do something like the
The augmented reality (AR) mobile game Pokemon Go has quickly shot to the top of the charts, becoming a pop culture phenomenon. ZDNet’s Larry Dignan argues that the hit game
Set-based solutions are always faster than loops in SQL, right? Usually?that is true but not always. A good example would be if you wanted to create a running total of
A lot of focus on C# version 6.0 has been towards enhancing the productivity of developers. Attention has been paid to areas where the same functionality can be attained by
In recent months, Oracle has come under increasing criticism for its handling of Java, specifically its lack of development work on Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 8. Community members lodged protests,
The Tsuru project has released the 1.0 version of its open source platform as a service (PaaS). The tool aims to make application deployment as easy as submitting a Git
Evans Data has released its “Big Data and Advanced Analytics 2016” report, which surveyed 500 developers who are working on big data projects. One of the more interesting findings from
Google has released Kubernetes 1.3, an updated version of its open source container orchestration solution. The update is more scalable and robust than previous versions. It also offers support for
The large tech companies are continuing to gobble up startups focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Google has purchased Moodstocks, a Paris-based startup that offers image recognition APIs and
Installing SSL certificates on your server can be a complex and time-consuming task. Let’s Encrypt simplifies this process and allows you to set up a free SSL certificate on your
Frustrated with Oracle’s slow pace of work on Java EE, two outside groups?Java EE Guardians and MicroProfile.io?say they are working on enhancements for the open source platform on their own.
At the AWS Public Sector Summit, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassey told the story of how the cloud computing service came into existence. He traced the origins of
LINQ?is?very?good?and?efficient?when?it?comes?to?handling?data?coming?from?a?datasource.?This?little?example?creates?a?Table?object.?Then?creates?a?DataContext?to?interpret?the?Table?data,?and?finally?does?a?query?to?extract?the?wanted?data. ????????[Table(Name?=?”Courses”)] ????????public?class?Courses?//Create?Courses?Table ????????{ ????????????[Column(IsPrimaryKey?=?true,?DbType?=?”BIGINT?NOT?NULL?IDENTITY”,?IsDbGenerated?=?true)] ????????????public?Int32?CourseID;?//Field ????????????[Column] ????????????public?string?CourseDesc;?//Field ????????} ????????????????using?(DataContext?dcCourses?=?new?DataContext(“CONNECTION_STRING))?//Connect?to?DB ????????????????{ ????????????????????var?data?=?(from?c?in?_Courses ????????????????????????????????where?c.CourseID?==?ComboBox1.SelectedIndex ????????????????????????????????select?new?{?c.CourseDesc?} ????????????????????).FirstOrDefault();?//Select?CourseID?That?Corresponds?to?ComboBox?Selection ????????????????????TextBox1.Text?=?data.Name;?//Display ?????????????????}
A jury has reached a verdict in a long-running lawsuit between HPE and Oracle concerning support for devices with Intel’s Itanium processors. The jury ruled that Oracle violated its contract
Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced that its Elastic File System (EFS) is now available for production use in its US East (N. Virginia) and West
