Hands-On with WSL: Installing Other Linux Distros
The third article of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This article is part three of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). [mgamazon search="linux, windows,...
Hands-On with WSL: Installing Other Linux Distros
The third article of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This article is part three of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). [mgamazon search="linux, windows,...
Can Google make cross-platform mobile app development suck less?
Today, Google is holding a developer conference in London for Flutter, a new development environment for developing mobile apps for both Android and iOS. Google calls Flutter a “portable UI toolkit,” and Paul Miller has called it “a Frankenstein’s monster of various...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft: How do their free machine-learning courses compare?
Machine-learning engineer was the fastest growing job category in the five years to 2017, according to LinkedIn. But tech's hottest role isn't a simple field to break into, requiring at least high school math and some programming knowledge, even to get started....
Apktool : A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps.
A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications. View original...
Writing Your First Electron App | Electron
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The Electron Open Framework and Why It’s Awesome for Apps Development
These days, there are many types of desktop devices, along with the many different operating systems that run on them. As such, getting programs that work on all of them can be a bit of a challenge. And that’s where Electron open framework comes in, as a way of...
Push data into a Power BI dataset from PHP and Laravel Application
I had a request to Integrate Microsoft Power BI Reporting tool to a custom Developed ERP Product which is based on PHP Laravel Frame Work and My SQL Database... After several hours of research and studies through the documentation, I end up with a successful effort....
Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground. <a...
Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground. <a...
Google open-sources AI that can distinguish between voices with 92 percent accuracy
Diarization — the process of partitioning out a speech sample into distinctive, homogeneous segments according to who said what — doesn’t come as easy to machines as it does to humans, and training machine learning algorithm to perform it is tougher than it sounds....
Flutter for Desktops, Windows or Mac?
Has anyone tried this? https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 (Rundown of PHP 7 Features) – Part 2
TL;DR: Many PHP applications are still running on PHP 5.x, not ready to take full advantage of the awesome features that PHP 7 offers. View original...
Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 (Development Environment) – Part 1
TL;DR: Many PHP applications are still running on PHP 5.x, not ready to take full advantage of the awesome features that PHP 7 offers. View original...
How to use an old iPad as a secondary screen for Windows 10
I have an old iPad 2 lying around. This iPad is getting useless as time goes by, and my 2 monitor setup at home is, sometimes, just not enough. Recently i've found a handy piece of software called Wired XDisplay. The setup is pretty straightforward: Install XDisplay...
Forms in Flutter beta 2 – important limitations
After trying to get Flutter forms to work, mixed with learning Dart and all the Flutter's intricacies, i came to the conclusion that Form support in Flutter is, at best, sub-par. Namely, there seems to be no support to sequence the inputs (e.g. when you insert text in...
Installing .net core runtime 2.0 on CentOS (or RHEL) + Apache reverse proxy for Kestrel asp.net systemd quick start
CentOS 7.x is required, this won't work older versions. First, enable the dotnet repository for yum: yum install centos-release-dotnet Next, install the runtime package: yum info rh-dontnet20 rh-dotnet20-runtime The following packages will be installed:...
Display all glyphs in a WOFF, TTF or OpenType font
Very useful online tool i've found: http://torinak.com/font/lsfont.html - it displays all the font glyphs in a nice, convenient, table.
Meltdown and Spectre in 15 minutes (or less)
Explained by the folks at Computherphile, in some detail in less than 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5mRwzVvFGE&t=297s
ISO 8601 Week number in PHP, MySQL and MSSQL
The following methods calculate the ISO 8601 Week number in PHP, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, with the same exact results. All the examples below are using the same week criteria: week stars on Monday. MySQL is easy, as it supports this directly: SELECT...
Centos 6, running PHP7 alongside stock PHP5
I have a couple of servers running PHP 5.x.x on CentOS 6 and i want to migrate some to PHP7, without worrying about the older stuff. So, i could compile PHP7 from source, setup FPM and Opcache for it, etc, etc, but i found out that REMI as a solution for this...
One Keyboard+Mouse, multiple computers, the Microsoft way
From Microsoft Garage, the new "Mouse without Borders" - it supports also keyboard, clipboard and file drag and drop. Its an alternative to Synergy, Input Director and similar solutions. I'll give it a try later. Download it...
Setup Lighthouse, CentOS, 3 simple steps
Lighthouse analyzes web apps and web pages, collecting modern performance metrics and insights on developer best practices. Here is a simple 3 step setup guide for CentOS: Setup the EPEL yum repository install nodejs and npm using YUM Run npm install -g lighthouse And...
MySQL replication: How to recover from “Event too small corruption” or “Slave SQL: Relay log read failure”
The basic principle is, just restart where the slave left off. The problem arises if a binary log, on the slave side, remains corrupt. The recovery is relatively simple, just follow the recipe: STOP SLAVE SHOW SLAVE STATUS Note down 'Relay_Master_Log_File' and...
SystemD quick cheat sheet
A small collection of Systemd commands, along with the Sysvinit counterparts. Sysvinit Command Systemd Command Notes service frobozz start systemctl start frobozz Used to start a service (not reboot persistent) service frobozz stop systemctl stop frobozz Used to stop...
NativeScript example, step by step, Windows 10
A tiny, 5 minute, tutorial on creating a new empty project using NativeScript + TypeScript, compiling it and running in Android. First of all, install NativeScript (NodeJS v4.6.0 x64)plus the latest NativeScript. Check if the installation is OK: tns...
tip: Volley comm library for android, available via Gradle
Previously, in order to use Volley, the only way was to add the "jar" file to the project - not anymore - official volley is now available, just change the app.gradle file: [mgamazon...
Converting multi-page PDF to PNG using ImageMagick
Quick tutorial on converting PDF files to PNG using ImageMagick in CentOS. Foreplay: install ImageMagick First, install ImageMagick using yum. As ImageMagick is not available, you need to activate the EPEL repository in your CentOS installation. wget...
Download Android Apps with Source Code
Available at f-droid is a directory of open source android apps (full with source code). A great learning resource for beginners.