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DPL Reading List – June 1, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Automation Will Make Lifelong Learning a Necessary Part of Work – “With the advent of AI, basic cognitive skills, such as reading and basic numeracy, will not suffice for many jobs, while demand for advanced technological skills, such as coding and programming, will rise, by…
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5 Security Resources for Developers
Here’s a list of great security tools, many of the open source, that came out of the April 11th Vogon Poetry Security Open Forum. H/T to Jason Wilkinson of Firespring for helping me compile this list. Qualys Labs SSL Server Test – This tests that your servers are configured correctly to support appropriate levels of…
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Getting Started with Swagger API
Years ago, we had something called ASMX web services. While I wouldn’t want to go back to those, they did have some advantages over the current way many APIs are created. Back in the ASMX days, you got a pretty well-defined contract for interacting with web services. Today if someone is setting up a Web…
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DPL Reading List – May 25, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. After Meltdown and Spectre, Another Scary Chip Flaw Emerges – “Microsoft says that the risk to users from this bug is “low,” and Intel notes that there is no evidence that the flaw is already being used by hackers. Some systems, particularly browsers, already have…
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Apple: Make MacBooks Great Again
Dear Apple, I love my 2014 MacBook Pro. It has been a rock-solid development machine, especially when I’m building mobile apps. You’ve made it pretty rough to do iOS development on anything else, but I can let that slide because your hardware is sooo good. But as computers often do, mine is beginning to slow…
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Augmented Reality May Not Be Useful, But U2 Is Changing Concert Experiences With It
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are in the news quite often. We’re still in the early days of this technology, even five years removed from the initial release of Google Glass. The hardware in our mobile devices and computers are improving more and more each year – lowering the barrier to entry for…
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DPL Reading List – May 18, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. The Top 30 Emerging Technologies (2018–2028) – “As part of Wikibrands’ Digital Periscope study and surveys (see currently open 2018 studies Current Practices and Future Trends), we have ranked the 30 emerging technologies that will impact culture, the marketplace and society the most over the…
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Making Sense of Blockchain
If you’re like me, you are probably trying to make some sense of the hype (and hysteria?) around blockchain. While the concept of blockchain is fairly approachable, the applications of this technology (beyond the obvious financial transaction ledgers) is not. I have spent some time and thought trying to identify some analogies from our past…
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Top Ten Signs You’re Doing Software Development Wrong
#10 – The build server always has a few failing tests Unit tests are a valuable piece to a layered approach to quality. But unit tests only have value if people see them as needing to always pass. The moment people stop caring about failing unit tests, they have lost their value. #9 –…
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DPL Reading List – May 11, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence – “Microsoft is pitching the idea of running AI projects atop chips called FPGAs, whose designs can be reprogrammed to support new forms of software on the fly. That allows Microsoft to avoid having to dabble in…
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