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Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.
Lush green slowly turning into yellows, reds, and browns in the Northern hemisphere; nature awakening from its slumber in the Southern part of the world: September is a time of change. A chance to leave old habits behind and embrace the beginning of something new. And, well, sometimes a small change of routines is already enough to spark fresh inspiration and, who knows, maybe even great ideas.
With that in mind, we embarked on our monthly wallpapers challenge more than nine years ago, and since then, artists and designers from all across the globe have accepted the challenge and submitted their designs to it to cater for a bit of variety on the screens we look at so often. Of course, it wasn’t any different this time around.
This post features their wallpapers for September 2019. All of them come in versions with and without a calendar, so it’s up to you to decide if you want to have the month at a glance or keep things simple. As a bonus goodie, we also collected some timeless favorites from past years’ editions at the end of this post. A big thank-you to all the artists who have submitted their wallpapers and are still diligently continuing to do so. Happy September!
Please note that:
We are always looking for creative designers and artists to be featured in our wallpapers posts. So if you have an idea for an October wallpaper, please don’t hesitate to submit your design. We’d love to see what you’ll come up with. Join in! →
Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Sweden.
Designed by Bojana Stojanovic from Serbia.
“September 12th brings us National Video Games Day. US-based video game players love this day and celebrate with huge gaming tournaments. What was once a 2D experience in the home is now a global phenomenon with players playing against each other across statelines and national borders via the internet. National Video Games Day gives gamers the perfect chance to celeberate and socialize! So grab your controller, join online and let the games begin!” — Designed by Ever Increasing Circles from the United Kingdom.
“Nature and our planet have given us life, enabled us to enjoy the most wonderful place known to us in the universe. People have given themselves the right to master something they do not fully understand. We dedicate this September calendar to a true nature lover, Vedran Badjun from Dalmatia, Croatia, who inspires us to love our planet, live in harmony with it and appreciate all that it has to offer. Amazon, Siberia and every tree or animal on the planet are treasures we lose every day. Let’s change that!” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.
“September marks the start of the Hispanic Heritage Month, a multicultural tradition we should all be proud of.” — Designed by Yaiza Narganez Gomez from Belgium.
“Wanted to create something colorful and happening for this month.” — Designed by Ciara from India.
“As the days are getting shorter and colder, fall is here again. Enjoy these cozy times!” — Designed by Melissa Bogemans from Belgium.
Designed by Thamil G from Chennai, India.
“Life is all about taking chances. God is going to give you all the opportunities in life, it’s on you to take the chance and make a successful life out of it.” — Designed by Pragya from India.
“Even the toughest of hearts need a tiny bit of gentleness and kindness just like the cactus that needs to be nourished with a little bit of water and sunlight to stay bright and blooming in the bumpy journey of life.” — Designed by Sweans Technologies from London.
“Character is what you do when no one else is watching. A friend recently posted the 2nd half of this quote on their Instagram and it’s been my mantra lately.” — Designed by Marie Newell from Missouri, USA.
“We created this wallpaper, wanted to show what we wanted and done!” — Designed by Vạn Đăc Phúc from Vietnam.
“Going back to school is always a thrill no matter how big or small you are, facing new knowledge and challenges is one of the most satisfying feelings a human can encounter in life.” — Designed by Maria Keller from Mexico.
“Online learning is the most popular way learning nowadays and, thus, I created a view which represents that.” — Designed by Ritu from India.
“I took this photo in Chaumont France, at the garden festival. For example, plants and concrete are in good association in that corner. That’s why I think we should put more plants in the cities and everywhere.” — Designed by Philippe Brouard from France.
Some things are too good to be forgotten. That’s why we dug out some September favorites from our wallpapers archives. Please note that these designs don’t come with a calendar. Enjoy!
“Seasons come and go, but our brave cactuses still stand. Summer is almost over, and autumn is coming, but the beloved plants don’t care.” — Designed by Lívia Lénárt from Hungary.
“Summer is officially over and we will no longer need our inflatable flamingos. Now, we’ll need umbrellas. And some flamingos will need an umbrella too!” — Designed by Marina Bošnjak from Croatia.
“Cats are beautiful animals. They’re quiet, clean and warm. They’re funny and can become an endless source of love and entertainment. Here for the cats!” — Designed by UrbanUI from India.
“This calendar was inspired by International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19) — one of the many obscure and quirky days we celebrate in New Orleans. Our fair, colorfully corrupt city has entertained its share of outlaws over the years, but none as infamous as the pirate Jean Lafitte, a Frenchman who terrorized sailors and ships in the Gulf of Mexico and distributed his booty from a warehouse in New Orleans in the early 1800s. This calendar is a playful tribute to all of the misfits, outcasts and swashbucklers who call New Orleans home.” — Designed by Sonnie Sulak from New Orleans, LA.
“I designed this wallpaper to remind everyone that autumn is here and they are still reading the best design website, Smashing Magazine” — Designed by Advanced Web Ranking from Romania.
“As summer comes to an end, all the creatures pull back to their hiding places, searching for warmth within themselves and dreaming of neverending adventures under the tinted sky of closing dog days.” — Designed by Ana Masnikosa from Belgrade, Serbia.
“The earth has music for those who listen. Take a break and relax and while you drive out the stress, catch a glimpse of the beautiful nature around you. Can you hear the rhythm of the breeze blowing, the flowers singing, and the butterflies fluttering to cheer you up? We dedicate flowers which symbolize happiness and love to one and all.” — Designed by Krishnankutty from India.
“Penguins are sociable, independent and able to survive harsh winters. They work as a team to care for their offspring and I love that!” — Designed by Glynnis Owen from Australia.
“You can never have too many sunglasses” — Designed by Marina Eyl from Pennsylvania, USA.
“Be the wind of change. Nature inspired us in creating this wallpaper as well as the Scorpion’s song “Wind of change” we dedicate to all creatives worldwide.” — Designed by Design19 from Romania.
“A colorful wallpaper to brighten up your day.” — Designed by Shavaughn Haack from South Africa.
“I love September. Its colors and smells” — Designed by Juliagav from Ukraine.
“The moon will become the roundest in mid-autumn and Japanese will eat Dango (sweet rice dumpling) while admiring the moon.” — Designed by Evangeline Neo from Japan.
Designed by Oxana Kostromina from Russia/Germany.
“Summer seems to be over… but the weather is still warm and we definitely can enjoy the sea for a little longer. So… let’s go and ride the waves! Are you coming?” — Designed by WebOlution from Greece.
Thank you to all designers for their participation. Join in next month!
NetNewsWire 5.0 was released this week as a completely rebuilt, free and open source Mac app. Back in its earlier days, the 17-year old RSS reader was widely regarded as the best available. Since its creation, the app has changed hands multiple times through two acquisitions, finally landing back home with its creator, Brent Simmons, in August 2018.
NetNewsWire 5.0 retains much of its original character while incorporating modern features like JSON Feed support, Dark Mode, a “Today” smart feed, syncing via Feedbin, starred articles, and more. It is a brand new app that doesn’t use any code from previous versions. Users who are updating from older commercial versions can export OPML from the old app and import it into the NetNewsWire 5.0 app.
Notably lacking from the app is the ability to sync data across devices. Right now this is only possible if users hook up Feedbin. Simmons said he is working with contributors on an iOS version of the app.
Although it may not yet have as many features as some of its contemporaries, NetNewsWire’s return was celebrated by those who are hopeful that RSS can be one of the key technologies for unshackling web users from social media silos. NetNewsWire is back in support of this mission, which is highlighted on the app’s homepage:
We support the open web. The big social networking sites are damaging society and eroding democracy — and we believe one of the ways out of this is to get our news via the open web rather than from Twitter and Facebook.
NetNewsWire is part of repairing the web we lost, and it’s part of building the web we want. That future web should not include viral hate speech, abuse, massive corporate surveillance, or successful influence operations by hostile governments and entities opposed to democracy.
NetNewsWire is no longer owned or sponsored by any corporation. In fact, the app’s GitHub repo has a support document that says: “First thing: don’t send money. This app is written for love, not money.” It outlines the project’s values:
NetNewsWire is all about three things:
The open web
High-quality open source Mac and iOS apps
The community that loves both of the above
In contrast to recent experiments and conversations around sustaining open source infrastructure, NetNewsWire’s approach gives the project the creative freedom to take risks and ship software at their own pace.
When one commenter asked on Twitter about NetNewsWire’s business model, Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson commented in defense of the project’s lack of a plan for making a profit.
“Not everything needs a business model,” Hansson said. “Writing open source software for fun, for the intellectual challenge, for the expression of creativity, are valid reasons. Same too goes for writing and sharing. Filtering everything through WHERE’S THE MONEY is a disease of the soul.
“An open source RSS reader that does not operate a service does not need a business model. An individual publisher paying a pittance to host a blog with RSS does not need a business model.”
If you’re looking for a new RSS reader to aggregate your news in a more calm environment than Twitter or Facebook can provide, NetNewsWire is a strong open source option with an exciting future ahead. Few apps have this kind of longevity, and it will be interesting to see how it evolves as an open source Mac app. As of version 5.0, it’s still fairly minimalist in terms of features but has a lot of momentum and a passionate community behind it, which in this case has proven more valuable towards ensuring its future.
Google has announced the expansion of its Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) and introduced its new Developer Data Protection Reward Program (DDPRP). GPSRP is a bug bounty program focused on Google Play in collaboration with HackerOne. DDPRP is a bounty program for Android, OAuth, and the Chrome Extension ecosystem.
Whether it is a personal need to understand your spending pattern from looking at the bank transactions, or seeking to improve the sales performance in your organization by looking at the sales activities, the real insights are only visible with additional aggregation and summarization of the transactional level data.
Traditional RDBMSs provide this capability through the expressive power of SQL aggregation. Window functions were added to the ANSI SQL standard to further extend the ability to express more complex questions with the SQL construct.
On a recent trip to Accenture’s Dock facility in Dublin, they showcased an AI-based tool to recommend new recipes after having crunched through thousands of existing recipes to come up with potential new flavors. Though the work is interesting, perhaps such an approach is far more interesting when applied to innovation itself.
A growing proportion of innovation today is what’s known as recombinative, and sees existing ideas and concepts applied in fresh and creative ways. Researchers are increasingly deploying AI-based tools to help devise some of these possible roads to explore.
A critical PostgreSQL client contains valuable data, and PostgreSQL databases should be backed up regularly. Its process is quite simple, and it is important to have a clear understanding of the techniques and assumptions.
The idea behind this dump method is to generate a text file from DataCenter1 with SQL commands that, when fed back to the DataCenter2 server, will recreate the database in the same state as it was at the time of the dump. In this case, if the Client cannot access the primary server, they can have access to the BCP server. PostgreSQL provides the utility program pg_dump for this purpose. The basic usage of this command is: pg_dump dbname >backupoutputfile.db.
A data construct that often appears in business applications is the hierarchical data structure. Hierarchy captures the parent-child relationship often between the same object. For instance, a company structure captures the reporting line between employees. A business organization captures the relationship between parent companies and subsidiaries. Territory hierarchies in Sales. Book of accounts in financial applications.
Due to the self-referencing nature of hierarchy, querying the structure efficiently along with its associated data can be a challenge for RDBMSs, particularly from a performance perspective. In this article, I will discuss how a traditional RDBMS handles hierarchical queries, the challenges that it has to deal with, and how this issue can be similarly addressed with Couchbase N1QL and Couchbase GSI.
This week, Cisco and Facebook have patched their APIs, a detailed report on Solr parameter injection is out, and GitHub continues their fight against API keys and tokens in public repositories.
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Cisco has released patches for several critical API security flaws in its Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) software and Small Business 220 Series Smart Switch routers. The patches center around the APIs behind the web-based management interfaces.
Often times when you are processing data through a flow, you may want to treat certain errors differently than others. For instance, if you are trying to select records from Salesforce, you would want to handle a record not found error differently than an out of memory error. For this reason, MuleSoft allows us to handle errors based on use cases as well as the types of errors that are being thrown.
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In Mule 4, a try scope is used when you want to attempt to perform an action and catch the error and attempt to handle the error before failing an entire flow. The basic process for a try scope is:
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that allows clients to request limited data they need, making it possible for clients to gather data in a limited number of requests. GraphQL is a strongly-typed protocol and all data operations are validated against a GraphQL schema.
In this article, we will look at a GraphQL Java example and build a simple GraphQL server with Spring Boot.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the big tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are extremely generous with their latest machine learning algorithms and packages (they give those away freely) because the entry barrier to the world of algorithms is pretty low right now.
The open source community and tools (such as scikit-earn) have come a long way, and plenty of open source initiatives are propelling the vehicles of data science, digital analytics, and machine learning. Standing in 2019, we can safely say that algorithms, programming frameworks, and machine learning packages (or even tutorials and courses how to learn these techniques) are not the scarce resource but high-quality data is.
Feross Aboukhadijeh, maintainer of StandardJS, has formally ended the funding experiment he started lasted week, which inserted ads in the terminal whenever Standard 14 is installed.
Although the experiment met widespread aversion, it successfully captured public attention and put a spotlight on the critical need for a viable model of funding open source infrastructure. It also uncovered some intense presuppositions that developers have when it comes to protecting their workflow in the terminal.
“If nothing else, it’s nice that funding forced open source ‘consumers’ – folks who enjoy the benefits of open source software without ever contributing anything back – to reconsider their relationship with open source,” Aboukhadijeh said. “I think we successfully pushed back against the entitlement to free labor that is pervasive in the interactions that open source consumers have with maintainers.”
glob bless @feross for poking the hornet’s nest tho
— Forrest L Norvell (@othiym23) August 25, 2019
Supporting work with advertising is nothing new, but the shock of seeing ads in the terminal activated an urgency in the open source community to collectively brainstorm and consider new approaches.
“While I didn’t like the approach, I understood the goal,” ESLint creator Nicholas C. Zakas said. “There is little involved in mindlessly typing ‘npm i’ and getting something for free. This experiment at least broke people out of that mode, even if only momentarily.”
Google Chrome engineer Chris Palmer said he saw Aboukhadijeh’s experiment as “a live demonstration of the fact that it’s very very hard to get people to pay, in any way, for information goods, which are indeed scarce. It has been as delightful and as bracing as it always is.”
In his recap of the funding experiment, Aboukhadijeh contends that the phrase “open source sustainability” isn’t ideal, because maintainers are often simply subsisting, as opposed to thriving, on the few donations they receive, despite creating millions of dollars of value for the companies that use their work.
“The dirty secret of open source is that much of it is powered by maintainer guilt,” Aboukhadijeh said. “A lucky few manage to land day jobs that allow them to work on open source. But most folks have to be more creative – squeezing in time after work, secretly doing open source maintenance at work, or opting out of normal society completely.”
Aboukhadijeh is particularly concerned about finding solutions for the “invisible” maintainers of transitive open source dependencies, packages that no one installs directly:
But reliable, error-free transitive dependencies are invisible. Therefore, the maintainers are invisible, too. And, the better these maintainers do their job, the more invisible they are. No one ever visits a GitHub repository for a transitive dependency that works perfectly – there’s no reason to do so. But a developer investigating an error stack trace might visit the repository if for no other reason than to file an issue. At least then there’s a small chance they’ll see the maintainer’s plea in the README.
We need solutions that work for these folks too.
Although this particular funding experiment did not prove to be successful, Aboukhadijeh said he has more sponsors who are interested and more experiments in the works that he is excited about.
“Maybe ads aren’t the answer – fine,” he said. “But telling maintainers to bury their appeals where no one bothers to look is not the answer, either.
“Approximately 100% of the Fortune 500 use open source code. Maintainers are just starting to wake up to our own power. Expect to be surprised. This certainly won’t be the last open source funding experiment.”
Spring Aware interfaces allow you to look into the inner workings of the Spring Framework. Through Spring Aware interfaces, you can access the Spring context, or Spring bean lifecycle events.
Your Spring beans might require access to framework objects, such as ApplicationContext, BeanFactory, and ResourceLoader. To gain access, a bean can implement one of the many Aware interfaces of the Spring Framework.
Variable Fonts have unleashed a whole new world of creative possibilities along with enhancing website’s readability, accessibility, performance, flexibility, and responsiveness. Developers no longer need to rely on standard static fonts bound with fixed design limitations, but, rather, can embrace variable fonts to unlock thousands of typographic variations along with font animations to create unique custom font styles.
Variable fonts are part of the ‘OpenType’ specification originally developed as a joint collaborative project between the four giants – Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Google. The key concept behind variable fonts is to utilize unlimited font style variations of a specific typeface by relying on just a single font file. This allows a developer to fully utilize the potential of RWD (responsive web design) by modifying or animating the typeface based on a device'c viewport, type, orientation, mouse events, etc. On the contrary, standard static font requires separate font files for each font style, resulting in dreadful site performance.
