Mon.Oct 08, 2018

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How to Get and Set CSS Variable Values with JavaScript

David Walsh

CSS variables are a very welcome addition to the language, despite them being incredibly basic. Sure we could use SASS or stylus but languages should never count on developers relying on frameworks and toolkits to accomplish what we know we need. And just like every other part of a webpage, you can get and manipulate CSS variable values — let’s check out how!

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6 Tips to Make Your Business Data Backups Secure

The Crazy Programmer

Today’s enterprises are heavily dependent on technology and data to facilitate routine operations. The loss of systems and data can cripple an organization for days and in the worst case, run it out of business. That’s why data backups are so essential. But not just any backup will do. Many business leaders and IT executives believe that the very existence of a process for replicating and storing business data is more than enough to keep the organization’s data secure.

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7 Steps to Stop the Drama – a Leader’s Ultimate Guide

Let's Grow Leaders

Life is crazy; work doesn’t have to be. Stop the drama and get back to work. Do you work with a drama addict? Are you desperate to stop the drama and focus on real work? Maybe you have a boss who thrives […]. The post 7 Steps to Stop the Drama – a Leader’s Ultimate Guide appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Hold the Framework – Exploring Dependency Injection Patterns

Toptal

There are two dominant patterns of implementation for inversion of control. Which one is better, and is there a middle path to be found between them? How should you approach IoC to get the most out of your code? Join Toptal Java Developer Martin Coll in exploring the familiar and unknown landscape of IoC development.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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IoT analytics guide: What to expect from Internet of Things data

CTOvision

Read Bob Violino explain how companies will face challenges like data capture, data governance, and availability of services while creating an IoT analytics environment on Network World : The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is having a big impact on lots of areas within enterprise IT, and data analytics is one of them. Companies […].

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Why Now Is The Best Time To Embrace Blockchain Technology

CTOvision

We have been tracking blockchain since almost the beginning, and are still tracking developments and innovations in this space. As technologists we see the reason for experimenting with use cases across multiple sectors of the economy and are pleased to see serious professionals continuing to move towards blockchain technologies. Read why Stephen Brett says that now […].

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Don’t Age Out: Adopt Modular Servers for Transformational Workloads

Dell EMC

In today’s age of digital disruption, one of the greatest challenges that companies face is the need to keep up with evolving technology. Speed and agility are key to a successful IT transformation, and organizations that can handle transformational workloads, such as AI and cloud-native applications, have a significant advantage over those that can’t.

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Intel Announces Xeon W-3175X: 28-Core Processor for Extreme Workstations

CTOvision

Intel on Monday officially introduced its 28-core processor for extreme workstations that it teased first back in June. The new chip comes with unlocked multiplier and can run at up to 4.3 GHz in burst mode. The Intel Xeon W-3175X CPU is based on the Skylake/Cascade Lake microarchitecture and is compatible with motherboards featuring Intel’s LGA3647 […].

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Baker’s Half Dozen – Episode 1: Is Cloud a Place? Or Are We All Missing the Premise?

Dell EMC

It seems like there’s a new trend every day in the technology industry leaving us with loads of questions around what comes next. Not surprisingly, many of those thoughts end up on social media just waiting to be addressed. Well, we decided it’s time for someone to address them…or at least attempt to anyways. Introducing Baker’s Half Dozen, a monthly video series starring Matt Baker.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Slack readies team analytics – and a faster desktop client

CTOvision

We use Slack for internal communications and to keep up with information from trusted sources, so were glad to read of these coming improvements. Data analytics is very important for businesses to gain insight into their customers behaviour. Analytics firm Slack is building a new analytics tool to offer businesses greater insights into how their […].

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A Story of Allyship: It’s Amazing What Encouragement Can Do To One’s Confidence

Symantec

Is equal-opportunity-employment really equal? Sandeep K. shares his experience and how he and his fellow SymABLED leaders created a group that aims to help all employees gain truly equal access to opportunities.

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Chinese investment into computer vision technology and AR surges as U.S. funding dries up

CTOvision

Chinese investments in artificial intelligence seems to get all the headlines, but these are not the only tech areas where investments are on the rise. In the year 2017, virtual reality and augmented reality were the buzzwords attracting millions in investment in the U.S. Nintendo’s popular Go game powered by AR garnered huge popularity. However, […].

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Data Visualization Techniques

VironIT

Information analysis is a big part of day-to-day work, because reading, writing and understanding large documents tkes time. That is why it is better to reduce the textual component and add visuals to reports. Data visualization techniques are used to simplify complex or boring information and turn it into a graphical format that is easier […].

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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A Floating Date

The Daily WTF

Enterprise integration is its own torturous brand of software development. Imagine all the pain of inheriting someone else's code, but now that code is proprietary, you can't modify it, poorly documented, and exposes an API that might solve somebody's problem, but none of the problems you have, and did I say poorly documented? I meant "the documentation is completely inaccurate and it's possible that this was intentional" Michael was working on getting SAP integrated to t

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Heroes Exchanges Closes FY19H1 with a Bang in EMEA

Dell EMC

We are excited to close H1 here in EMEA with record numbers of partners attending Heroes Exchange events all over the region! Our Partner SEs have had the chance to expand their technical knowledge of Dell EMC products and solutions with a particular focus on Primary Storage, HyperConverged & Data Protection. Most attendees return to consecutive sessions in their respective cities because this helps them to keep up with the never-ending pace of technology evolution quarter over quarter and t

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Is Your Smart Home/ IoT Device the Weak Link in Your Security?

Arcserve

The ideal scenario of a smart home and other IoT devices actually sounds quite Utopian. Imagine coming home after a long day and being recognized by your front door. Your smart hub knows how to switch on the heat or AC, start boiling the water in your kettle for tea, and to flick the radio on. Read more » The post Is Your Smart Home/ IoT Device the Weak Link in Your Security?

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Announcing Fastly Real-Time Log Streaming to Honeycomb!

Honeycomb

There are two sides to the observability coin–instrumentation (creating the data) and observation (making sense of the data). Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Intercepting class method invocations using metaclass programming in Python

Federico Cargnelutti

In Ruby, objects have a handy method called method_missing which allows one to handle method calls for methods that have not been defined. Most examples out there explain how to implement this in Python using __getattr__, however, none of them (honestly, none) explain how to intercept class method (@classmethod) invocations using __metaclass__. And this is the reason why I created this post.

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Future With Cognitive Services in Azure

Zensar

Microsoft Cognitive Services empower developers to create intelligent apps which can understand Natural Language, identify image content, analyze text and recognize a voice. Cognitive services provide APIs which can be integrated through coding and based on that developers build high-quality vision, speech, language, knowledge and search technologies into their apps.

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Delivery (Key)Boy

AlienVault

Introduction. Below we’ve outlined the delivery phase of some recent attacks by KeyBoy, a group of attackers believed to operate out of China. They were first identified in 2013 targeting governments and NGOs in South East Asia. Their primary targeting continues to this day, though they have also been known to target more diverse victims such as the energy sector.

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O’Reilly Radar speaks with Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors

Honeycomb

Roger Magoulas speaks with Charity Majors at Velocity 2018 about observability and fueling system discovery. The post O’Reilly Radar speaks with Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Baker’s Half Dozen – Episode 1: Is Cloud a Place? Or Are We All Missing the Premise?

Dell EMC

It seems like there’s a new trend day in the technology industry leaving us with loads of questions around what comes next. Not surprisingly, many of those thoughts end up on social media just waiting to be addressed. Well, we decided it’s time for someone to address them…or at least attempt to anyways. Introducing Baker’s Half Dozen, a monthly video series starring Matt Baker.

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Announcing Fastly Real-Time Log Streaming to Honeycomb!

Honeycomb

There are two sides to the observability coin–instrumentation (creating the data) and observation (making sense of the data). Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

When boiled down to its essence, management is a system of managers, operating in concert, constantly adjusting resources based on new information coming in to keep the business on target. It involves coordinating complex efforts, enabling group work and constantly asking the question, “What’s the next most intelligent step from here?”. In other words, management is the feedback system of the organization.

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Security in a Multi-Cloud World

Netskope

The world is going multi-cloud. The first thing to understand about this emerging strategy is that it’s very popular. According to the 2018 Cloud Security Report, the growing trend is that organizations are leveraging more than one cloud provider for a multitude of reasons, ranging from high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) and multi-vendor sourcing strategy to name a few.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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6 Tips for New Managers

Career Advancement

“Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything—for better or for worse.”. ~Simon Sinek~. Client Julie says: I’ve just accepted a job as manager of my department. I want to successfully navigate this new leadership role. What mistakes should I make sure to avoid? Coach Joel answers: Becoming a manager probably marks a dramatic shift from your previous role.

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Intelligence at the Highest Levels: A Candid Conversation with Susan M. Gordon

The Cipher Brief

As the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence , Susan Gordon serves as DNI Dan Coats’ number two, helping to manage an Intelligence Community (IC) that includes 17 different agencies and organizations, if you include the ODNI itself. The IC’s central mission is to provide the President with the most relevant, timely and objective intelligence that the community has collected, analyzed and prioritized.