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WordCamp US announced today that the event will be offering free on-site childcare for children aged 6 weeks to 12 years old. Organizers have contracted A Helping Hand, a licensed conference childcare service company based in Virginia Beach, VA, to provide childcare for all three days, with flexible drop off and pick up throughout the day as necessary.
When WCUS tickets went on sale in May, parents who registered had the option to indicate whether they would be interested in on-site childcare during the conference, as organizers considered different childcare options. This is the first time WordCamp US has offered it as part of the event. WordCamp Europe has included childcare for years and a handful of other camps have also had it available in a varying capacities, including WordCamp Nordic, WordCamp Pittsburgh, and WordCamp Vienna.
Parents interested in using this service at WordCamp US will need to pre-register by selecting a “Parent with Kids ticket.” Registrants will receive an email with a pre-registration link to complete the signup process on the childcare provider’s website. Both lunch and snacks will be provided, so parents will not be required to pick their kids up for lunch.
The availability of childcare makes it possible for single parents to attend and speak at events. It can also be helpful for parents with small children who are unable to be separated from their caregivers for long periods of time. With WordCamp US opting to provide childcare at this year’s event, it’s clear that this is a growing trend to help promote diversity at WordPress conferences.
WordCamp is about diversity, this is not a catch phrase, it is not just a moment. It is about real people, doing real things, in the real world across gender, generation and culture. WordCamp embraces the world. #WordCamp #WordPress @WordCamp #WCUS pic.twitter.com/GdcCDNJYed
— WordCamp US (@WordCampUS) May 2, 2019
Baron, a weather intelligence company, has announced the Baron Weather API for Public Safety. Through the API, developers can integrate quality-controlled weather data into devices and services of many kinds. From websites and apps to desktops and smartphones, the integration capability of weather data is vast and the Baron API is ready to serve.
Back in September of 2016, GoDaddy acquired ManageWP. What was odd about the acquisition was the amount of backlash that was generated by ManageWP customers.
While most were happy for Vladimir Prelovac, founder of ManageWP, many customers worried about GoDaddy’s reputation, unsatisfactory service, and how such a great service would fit into GoDaddy without changing much in the process.
Nearly three years later, Prelovac is no longer with the company as he quietly left soon after the acquisition. I reached out on Twitter to ManageWP customers who stayed with the service through the transition and asked if they’re pleased with their service and if it has improved. Here are a few of the responses I received.
Personally it’s been about the same for me. No features really added that make my job as a developer/site maintainer easier but none have been taken away either and pricing hasn’t increased for no reason.
— Daron Spence
I wish they would work on the web app more. It’s sluggish(@DaronSpence) July 26, 2019
If you use ManageWP and have been a customer since the acquisition, let us know in the comments about how the service has evolved. Have you noticed any significant changes?
Thinking of beginning your career in programming? Not a bad idea, as there’s a high demand for programmers today. Also, being certified in a technology or programming language can considerably increase the chances of employment and improve your skills. One of the most widely used programming languages is Java, and thus, Java programmers are in high demand all around the world. If you are looking to get a Java certification, you can get it from Oracle.
Getting this certification is not that difficult or expensive. Once you’re certified, you can make your own applications, games, etc. You can use coupons from GoDaddy to host your Java app; these coupons can help you save a decent amount of money when launching your app. You can also use coupons to purchase the test preparation material, or when booking the test, you can save a decent amount of money on the test.
A debatable headline, I agree, but I will explain what it means and I hope that by the end of this short article, you will be equipped with enough parameters to chose your branching and versioning strategy and not make your decisions based purely on best practices.
Gitflow has become the de facto branching strategy for most, if not all, modern companies, and there is not a shred of doubt that it works wonders if properly adhered to. Gitflow is an exhaustive model that encompasses the branching needs of products following varied software development lifecycles, be it a bi-weekly release cycle or a half-yearly release cycle, and that is where my concern lies — it covers everything, and in my opinion, this 'one size fits all' branching model does not work in every situation. It can create process barriers and actually slow down the team.
In the previous article, we looked at the OmniSci Platform and briefly described its three main components:
Let's now discuss how to install OmniSciDB and get some hands-on experience. The official documentation contains installation instructions for a range of different operating systems and environments, such as Centos or Ubuntu, Docker, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
To gather insights on the current and future state of API management, we asked IT professionals from 18 companies to share their thoughts. We asked them, "What’s the future for API management?" Here's what they told us:
Here's who shared their insights:
RingCentral deals with different kinds of APIs that offer reliable VoIP calling, web meetings, fax, and more features over cloud communication with reliability, security, and quality.
In this article, we will discuss the different APIs related to SMS and messaging and it’s various status.
There is seldom a sector or field that is not undergoing some form of transformation at the moment, many at the behest of a tidal wave of digital technologies that are upending the traditional way of doing things. While many of these claims suffer from frothy over-hype, the way companies engage with customers is one domain in which the claims are justified.
A recent report from Deloitte highlighted how customer service has transitioned from the cost center of old, and the most sophisticated companies now aim to create experiences that delight customers and turn them into loyal devotees of the brand.
WordCamp Europe’s continuing success has inspired other parts of the WordPress world to work towards getting their own regional camps off the ground. With a little help from WCEU mentors and inspiration from WordCamp Nordic’s proposal, WordCamp Asia is now officially on the schedule for February 21-23, 2020, in Bangkok, Thailand. WordCamp Central America is on deck to be the next new regional WordCamp with a proposal targeting 2020 for an inaugural event in Managua, Nicaragua.
Members of the Central American community began discussing the possibility of a larger event at the most recent WordCamp Managua 2019. For the past five years, Central America has been home to a growing number of local WordPress communities, with 12 meetups across five countries and a total of more than 4,000 participants as of July 2019. Meetup organizers have hosted more than 230 events since 2014, averaging four events per month.
In the working proposal, a document that was forked from the Nordic and Asian WordCamp proposals, organizers outlined why the timing is right for a regional camp in Central America:
The local WordPress communities have also experienced an exponential growth. In the last five years the local WordPress Meetup groups have increased fivefold. Moreover, the collaboration between the Central American communities is more active than ever; sharing experiences and resources, members attending events in neighboring countries, giving talks and volunteering in WordCamps.
This can be explained not only by the relative closeness of our countries, but also by the shared culture, values and identity of the Central American people.
We believe that hosting a Central American WordCamp will further strengthen the bonds between the local communities and give birth to new initiatives and collaborations between the local WordPress Meetup groups.
San José, Costa Rica, has the largest local WordPress community with more than 2,000 meetup members and 750 attendees at recent WordCamps. Managua, Nicaragua, the second largest community, was selected as the first host city due to its central location, direct flights from all major cities in the region, and wide availability of bus services. It is also one of the most affordable capital cities in the region and does not require visas for citizens of other Central American countries.
Organizers are planning a three-day event, beginning with Contributor Day, with four tracks during the main conference days. They are eyeing early October 2020 to avoid conflicts with other WordCamps that are frequently attended by the local community.
WordCamp Central America’s proposal has not yet been officially submitted but if it is approved, the event would be a strong addition to the region’s growing technology sector. It also has the potential to expand and amalgamate the local communities through shared knowledge and experience.
If you want to get involved, check out the proposal in progress and join the dedicated Slack workspace to participate in discussions.
Working with Neo4J and Scala at ThoughtWorks, I had a major qualm regarding the way we were interacting with the graph database using Cypher. Cypher is a declarative language, hence it is tricky to compose it programmatically. This is the reason why most of the ORMs (or micro-ORMs) for Neo4J are effective only for simple use cases. We observed that as the scale and complexity of our business logic started to increase, our code fragmented into two distinct flavors. There were Scala models and business implementations. And then there were string generation and manipulation methods to generate Cypher queries.
String-based queries have inherent issues like no type safety, minimal syntax checking, difficulty in composing directly proportional to complexity, etc.
At RedisConf 2019, Redis Labs introduced a new module called RedisAI. The idea is to bring together machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) and execute artificial intelligence (AI) models as close as possible to where your data currently lives.
This sounds amazing, but what if you’re brand new to all of this? What if you’re interested in machine learning, but you’re not quite sure what the heck it all means? How do you make sense of it all? Your boss’ boss is saying, “We need to integrate machine learning,” and last week you thought that meant he wanted you to run an extra compile step or something. Now you’re sitting here trying to understand a lot of new terms and how you can bring this into your organization.
Today’s microservices rely on data with different models and read/write access patterns. Polyglot persistence, first introduced in 2008, states that each such data model should be powered by an independent database that is purpose-built for that model. This post highlights the loss of agility that microservices development and operations suffer when adopting polyglot persistence. We review how distributed SQL serves as an alternative approach that doesn’t compromise this agility.
Create a new Mule project and name it samplemaildemo (You can choose any name).
Drag and drop an HTTP listener component to get the request for your service. Specify the host and port and provide a URI path. Make sure to test it, as the port is not being used by any of your other services.
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how easy it is to create a web application with Spring Boot 2, along with the embedded Tomcat + JSP template and JSP views.
You can get the blueprint from the Spring Initializer page.
UC Browser is an application that attracts many users around the globe. Some users even think to switch to this browser and forget about good-old Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. The browser made by Chinese developers already had a few versions. Initially, it was distinguished by a more convenient interface, its loader, and data compression to [...]
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To understand the current and future state of the cybersecurity landscape, we spoke to and received written responses from 50 security professionals. We asked them, "What suggestions do you have for developers to improve the security of their applications and data?"
This is the first in a series of three articles.
