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....
Managing Flutter Application State With InheritedWidgets
Everyone has heard that interactive applications can be decomposed into three parts: model, view, and controller. Anyone who has given Flutter a test drive will be familiar with its react-style support for building view/controllers with widgets and callbacks....
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....
Cloud only MS RemoteApp inside VNET
This scenario is not (yet) supported in Microsoft Azure as it requires Active Directory. So, the obvious solution is the solution.
Project Islandwood: Objective-C for Windows?
Project Islandwood is now open source (MIT license), with all the code residing at github. This project includes and Objective-C compiler (sadly no Swift for us Objective-C haters), Objective-C runtime, iOS headers (this is the "bridge" bit that translates iOS calls...
Publish your own apps to Azure RemoteApp
A small collection of useful bookmarks on how to publish your own apps to Azure RemoteApp (or your own Windows Server 2012 R2). How To Publish an Internal Windows App on Azure Remote App (creating VHD in your PC and uploading it later to azure) Same as above, but...
Android Lollipop Showcase, by Mike Penz
A good example of CardViews, RecyclerViews and other Lollipop goodies by Mike Penz. The example is available at Goolge Play, source code at Github.
Free online ebook: iOS 8 App Development Essentials
The index: Start Here For New iOS Developers For iOS 7 Developers Source Code Download Joining the Apple iOS 8 Developer Program Registered Apple Developer Downloading Xcode 6 and the iOS 8 SDK iOS Developer Program When to Enroll in the iOS Developer Program?...
Cocoa Realm: Perth iOS Meetup 20th November
Android: detecting the current caller
@Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { TelephonyManager telephony = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE); PhoneCallStateListener customPhoneListener = new PhoneCallStateListener(context);...
Android Studio 1.0 RC2 error: “Gradle DSL method not found: ‘runProguard()'”
After installing the RC2 upgrade (in my case i've upgraded directly from 0.8.something to 1.0 rc2) the following error could appear when reimporting/resyncing projects created with previous versions: Gradle DSL method not found: 'runProguard()' The solution is quite...
Enumerating all providers, and respective installed apps, in Android
Android ships with a number of content providers that store common data such as contact information, calendar information, and media files. These classes offer simplified methods of adding or retrieving data from these content providers. If you need to list all the...
AngularJs + Bootstrap, single page app resources
Some bookmarks on how to develop single page applications using AngularJs and Bootstrap This is not a tutorial and/or step-by-step instructions on how to create this specific kind of App: these are just bookmarks i use and decided to share:...
Android Development, Best Practices
Compiled by Futurice, here is the summary of what they have compiled so far: Use Gradle and its recommended project structure Put passwords and sensitive data in gradle.properties Don't write your own HTTP client, use Volley or Retrofit libraries Use the Jackson...
Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices
The Android 5.0 SDK was released last Friday, featuring new UI widgets and material design, our visual language focused on good design. To enable you to bring your latest designs to older Android platforms we have expanded our support libraries, including a major...
Make your Android App Lollipop compatible
by Antonio Leiva: http://antonioleiva.com/material-design-everywhere/