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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
Microsoft has officially released .NET Core 1.0, which the company describes as “a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern Web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.”
In First Steps with Vagrant, you learned how to install Vagrant, set up and run a basic virtual machine. Now, we will cover a few more complex features, such as
With most of the SharePoint development now focusing around leveraging the Client Side Object Model (CSOM), guidance was long due from the community to write down the best practices to
At its MongoDB World conference, MongoDB unveiled a new database-as-a-service product called Atlas. For now, the service is available only on Amazon Web Services, but it plans to expand to
At its annual Red Hat Summit, Red Hat made a slew of announcements related to containers. They included the following: The Red Hat Container Developer Kit now includes Red Hat
Xamarin creates mobile app development tools that are built on top of the Mono Project. Xamarin always provided, arguably, the most polished cross-platform development environment, but, it was pretty pricey.
Google has made good on a promise it made at the I/O development conference, rolling out two new Awareness APIs for Android devices: Snapshot and Fence. The tools make it
There are umpteen ways to determine whether or not a TextBox in a group of TextBoxes is empty. Usually whilst doing Form validation, you need to ensure all data has
Media outlets are reporting that Google is considering commercializing its Spanner distributed database technology. The company uses Spanner internally to run many of its core services, and now engineers from
The recent U.K. referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have some major implications for the cloud computing market. EU privacy laws and other regulations require that cloud
The traditional view of productivity and how to improve it is completely backwards. Most people think of productivity as a personal attribute of themselves (or their subordinates). X does twice
Market research firm Gartner is reporting that enterprises are spending only 10 percent of their development budgets on mobile development. That’s a 2 percent decrease since last year. “Demand for
