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How to protect your privacy in Windows 10
September 25, 2020
How to protect your privacy in Windows 10
There has been some concern that Windows 10 gathers too much private information from users. Whether you think Microsoft’s operating…
Google updates Android Jetpack, unveils Jetpack Compose
May 10, 2019
Google updates Android Jetpack, unveils Jetpack Compose
Google has updated Android Jetpack, the suite of libraries and tools for Android mobile development. The update includes a series…
Turn an R Markdown document into an interactive experience
May 10, 2019
Turn an R Markdown document into an interactive experience
R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R…
Cloud for healthcare: Avoid these 2 pain points
May 10, 2019
Cloud for healthcare: Avoid these 2 pain points
The global healthcare cloud computing market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate around 14 % from…
Microsoft: Just one .Net going forward
May 10, 2019
Microsoft: Just one .Net going forward
Microsoft’s next version of the .Net software development framework will be .Net 5, and it will be the only branch…
JavaScript tutorial: Easy data visualizations with React-vis
May 9, 2019
JavaScript tutorial: Easy data visualizations with React-vis
Data visualization is an important part of telling stories, but you can get lost in the weeds with D3.js for…
Oracle steers GraalVM to the enterprise
May 8, 2019
Oracle steers GraalVM to the enterprise
Oracle is offering an enterprise edition of its GraalVM multi-language virtual machine. A shared runtime for applications written in Java,…
10 Visual Studio Code extensions for every developer
May 8, 2019
10 Visual Studio Code extensions for every developer
Visual Studio Code isn’t just a text editor. It’s an IDE, a project organizer, a data workbench, and countless other…
3 JavaScript libraries to replace jQuery
May 8, 2019
3 JavaScript libraries to replace jQuery
Simplifying tasks such as HTML document traversal, animation, and event handling, the stalwart jQuery JavaScript library changed the face of…
For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
May 8, 2019
For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
For all the criticism that Amazon Web Services has received for allegedly stripmining open source software for corporate gain, the…
Google: Use Kotlin for new Android apps
May 8, 2019
Google: Use Kotlin for new Android apps
Google is doubling down on its support of the Kotlin language for Android mobile development, with the recommendation that all…
Do we need to care about cloud performance?
May 7, 2019
Do we need to care about cloud performance?
Performance issues went away after we migrated our applications and data sets to the cloud, right? That has not been…
Java proposal addresses scarcity of keywords for new features
May 7, 2019
Java proposal addresses scarcity of keywords for new features
A JDK enhancement proposal suggests the use of hyphenated keywords to denote new features in the Java language, with the…
A new wave of Azure services lifts Kubernetes and Cosmos DB
May 7, 2019
A new wave of Azure services lifts Kubernetes and Cosmos DB
Microsoft has starting referring to itself as a three-cloud company. There’s the Xbox gaming cloud, Microsoft 365 productivity services, and,…
Microsoft Fluid Framework rethinks collaborative web apps
May 6, 2019
Microsoft Fluid Framework rethinks collaborative web apps
Microsoft has unveiled an application development framework, called Fluid Framework, designed for building web-based, collaborative applications. Due to arrive later…