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ML.NET
An open source and cross-platform machine learning framework Get started Explore samples Supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS View original article
Announcing .NET Core 3.0
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. View original article
Cascadia Code: new font for developers
IBM Plex Mono is much better in my opinion. These programmer font ligatures thing makes absolutely no sense, but anyway, here it is, the original article announcing Cascadia Code. Excerpt from the original article: Cascadia Code is finally here! You can install it...
Thousands of servers infected with new Lilocked (Lilu) ransomware
Thousands of web servers have been infected and had their files encrypted by a new strain of ransomware named Lilocked (or Lilu). Infections have been happening since mid-July, and have intensified in the past two weeks, ZDNet has learned. View...
Using Adaptive Cards in Flutter: Why we implemented a library with Microsoft
You may have read our last article on giving Flutter a serious try in our startup, which explains why we were so keen to use Flutter in the upcoming version of our product. This hasn’t changed: We’re still excited about Flutter and started rolling it out to some of...
A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18...
Announcing Flutter 1.7
Today we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Flutter 1.7, a smaller release after the major feature announcements at Google I/O. Flutter 1.
Announcing WSL 2
Today we’re unveiling the newest architecture for the Windows Subsystem for Linux: WSL 2! Changes in this new architecture will allow for: dramatic file system performance increases, and full system call compatibility, meaning you can run more Linux apps in WSL 2 such...
Samsung Investigates Massive Data Leak — What You Need To Know
A security researcher has revealed that a whole load of sensitive information has been inadvertently made accessible to the public on GitLab. Nothing so unusual about that you might think. However, the information concerned included source code, credentials and secret...
Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework, as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. View original article
Database to code with a Firebird database
Using example values. The data context class is generated for all Models of the database. View original article
Launching Flutter 1.2 at Mobile World Congress
The Flutter team is coming to you live this week from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the largest annual gathering of the mobile technology industry. One year ago, we announced the first beta of Flutter at this same event, and since then Flutter has grown faster...
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Architect your Flutter project using BLOC pattern
Hi Folks! I am back with another brand new article on Flutter. This time I will be talking and demonstrating you “how to architect your Flutter projects”. So that you can maintain, scale and test your Flutter projects easily. Before diving into the actual topic....
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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 here.
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...