Chances are, you or someone on your team is trying to break into mixed reality development. Mixed reality is the latest technology that blends the real world with digital experiences. Most major tech companies are investing in their own vision of the metaverse — i.e. the more connected future of the internet. That means mixed reality is quickly moving from an emerging technology to our new reality.

Appian RPA 7.12 is now live to help you build and execute automation faster than ever. Here are some of the upgrades and improvements available in the new release.

We live in a world that is increasingly digital and data-driven. We have wearable devices to monitor our steps, heart rate, and sleep quality. We have Alexa, Siri, or Google ready to take our shopping orders, play our playlist, share the latest news. We can see what shows are trending on Netflix and curated suggestions for us based on what we watched. We cannot get away from data. Where does data live? Who has access to them? What do they do with them?

Exception handling tools with limited features often have a short lifetime. Thankfully, getting detailed exceptions with Retrace is a great choice for development teams, especially when compared to ELMAH. Let’s take a look.

The term “Design Pattern” describes a well-known and battle-tested solution to a problem that developers tend to encounter again and again when developing software. Design patterns are conceptual and can be implemented in any programming language. Design patterns generally fit into one of the following three different categories depending on the problem they address: In this blog post I’m going to cover a pattern from each of these categories in depth.

Node.js v17.0.0, the latest major version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has just been released. It supersedes v16 in the Current release line of the runtime. V16 is now in line to be promoted to the long-term support (LTS) channel on October 26, 2021, as it’s an even-numbered release. Despite being a relatively minor update, this release brings several refinements to the runtime, including more promisified APIs, JavaScript engine upgrades, and OpenSSL 3.0 support.

This article will explain in a nutshell how you can easily build your own CI/CD pipelines for your mobile apps, based on your specific business needs.

Imagine that a customer reports an error on one of your websites. When you check the logs or tracking tool, it just says script error and nothing else. Does it sound familiar? Such errors are difficult to debug because they do not contain additional information about what and where they went wrong.

Twas the night of production, and all through the server, all the bugs were stirring... We've all heard the developer horror stories or have had our fair share of shocking experiences as a developer tackling an unfortunate event. To keep up with the Halloween season, we wanted to hear some of the spooky encounters that developers dealt with. Here are some of the stories that you submitted to Rollbar. Make sure to turn on the light and read with caution!

To achieve success in product development, your teams must be aligned on clearly defined business criteria. If your teams are not marching to the same drumbeat, you significantly increase your risk exposure around quality issues and threaten your ability to hit deadlines. So how can companies ensure alignment? One popular option is incorporating business acceptance testing into existing workflows.

WordPress is a powerful content management system that supports 34% of all websites and 14.7% of the top websites globally. Tens of thousands of plug-ins and themes help build a website even with no programming or design skills. If you want to create your own website or plan to become a web designer or web developer, WordPress skills will definitely come in handy. WordPress is easy to use, and there are plenty of learning resources online that can help you get started.

Welcome back to this third part of our four-part series on metaprogramming in Elixir. Previously, we established the underlying behavior of macros. Now we will dive into the various applications of macros in Elixir using open-source Elixir libraries. Let’s go!

Ever since I started to learn how to code, CSS has excited me. As a very visually rewarding style sheet language, it has always been an instantly gratifying language to work with. The CSS landscape at the moment is ever-changing. There are many new features that have been released recently, so I thought I’d have a look around and summarise those that caught my eye, concisely in this post.

Google's Cloud Functions let developers run their code in production in a scalable way without worrying about the minutiae of server administration. In this article, Subomi shows walks us through building a real-world service using GCF.

A browser will preserve your history eternally if you need to return to a possibly forgotten part of the internet that you visited once upon a time. Significant others, friends, co-workers, professors, and even the authorities can all use it against you. It makes no difference if you've never looked at the website's content. Simply paying a visit these days can be enough to elicit indignation, blackmail, or whatever other form of retaliation you fear.

One of the beauties of working with APIs is their convenient and practical ways to share data and applications. APIs have enabled a transformational shift from an interface that relied on custom integrations to now a relatively streamlined process. That said, because of their agile framework, some companies have overlooked the importance of providing a great developer integration experience and are not taking the necessary steps to help drive the Time To First Hello World.

DevSecOps combines the responsibilities of development, security and operations in order to make everyone accountable for security in line with the ongoing activities conducted by development and operations teams. DevSecOps tools serve to assist the user in minimising risk as part of the development process and also support security teams by allowing them to observe the security implications of code in production.

An exception is an unwanted or unexpected event that occurs during the execution of a program which changes its normal flow. Exception handling is the mechanism to respond to and investigate the occurrence and cause of an exception. Generally, exceptions are of two types - checked and unchecked.

Building stable and robust software is one of the primary goals of any software development project. While it is crucial to keep your code error-free for that, the real strength of your application comes from its foundation—the architecture of your code. SOLID is one of the most popular collections of software design principles. Its goal is to help you avoid common pitfalls and plan your application’s architecture from a very high level.

Is your business mired in archaic processes? If your answer is yes, you’re far from alone. Tedious manual tasks, cumbersome workflows, communication breakdowns—these issues can be major thorns in the side of any company. Burdensome tasks lower the ceiling on a company’s potential productivity, aggravate employees, and often nudge customers to look elsewhere.

An excellent approach to accessibility is to build accessibility into your app workflow rather than address it at the end. When you build an accessible mobile app, you make your app inclusive of everyone, both with and without a disability. Learn how a tool like Bitrise can help!

The way developers approach new web applications has changed due to Next.js. For a long time, dynamic sites used a combination of Server-side Rendering (SSR) and Client-side Rendering (CSR) to display dynamic data in their applications. SSR succeeded well because developers were able to build HTML before passing it on to the browser, allowing search engines to readily crawl it.

Imagine the following hypothetical scenario: in a rental property management system, Employee A starts editing contact info for Rental X, adding some extra phone numbers. Around the same time, Employee B notices a typo in the contact info for exactly that Rental X and performs an update. A couple of minutes later, Employee A updates Rental X’s contact info with the new phone numbers, and … the update fixing the typo is now gone! That’s definitely not great!

Microsoft’s.NET Framework is incredibly popular, and its widespread use is one of the reasons C# is gaining ground as one of the most popular and most-used programming languages. What’s more, .NET Core, a modular, open-source (check out the code on GitHub) development stack that’s already used by ASP.NET and.NET Native, is quickly gaining speed, which will heavily influence the demand for top.NET developer skills.

Docker is a software platform that enables packaging an application into containers. These containers represent isolated environments that provide everything necessary to run the application. Dockerizing an application refers to packaging it in a Docker image to run in one or more containers. Dockerizing an application involves specifying everything needed to run the application in a Dockerfile and then using the file to build a specialized Docker image that can be shared to multiple machines.

Have you ever wondered how a successful app comes to life? The short answer – a brilliant idea combined with the successful orchestration of full-cycle software development to implement it.

In the financial services industry, it is common for employees to spend significant time on manual, repetitive tasks that need to be completed with high speed and accuracy. Complex processes like customer onboarding, mortgage lending, and customer service are filled with routine tasks like data entry, invoice processing, response tracking, and reminders. Automation frees employees from rote tasks that are better suited to simple bots, resulting in both financial and opportunity cost savings.

OAuth2 is everywhere. From "Login With Facebook" buttons to back-end API authentication. But how does it work? In this article, Diogo Souza will give us a gentle introduction to the big concepts behind OAuth2, then walk us through implementing it in Node.js.

In this blog, we'll show how you can import your project manually or as an iOS project. I’ll also present a few step combinations that can be used to test and deploy your KMM apps.

Organizations have gradually started automating their workflows. Although this began during the pandemic, it is now getting adopted widely since not only have productivity levels across teams drastically increased, but administrative errors have also decreased with the switch to automated tools. In fact, automating workflows comes with a ton of benefits. It helps cut costs while effectively presenting actionable data and decisively managing the tasks.

MeiliSearch is a search API that is RESTful. It aspires to be a ready-to-use solution for everyone who wants to provide their end-users with a quick and relevant search experience. Effective search engines can need a large investment of time and money. They are only available to businesses with the financial resources to create a custom search solution tailored to their specific requirements.

When you’re in the market for a technology that will help your business run better, you’re likely to hear solution and platform vendors make pitches that focus on their current features and functionality, as well as capabilities they’ve got on their innovation road maps. Impressive as these things may be, they still may not deliver the outcomes you need.

The US mobile workforce is on the rise, expecting to grow a sizable 19% from 2020 to 2024 as organizations digitize processes and support larger remote workforces. This uptick can largely be attributed to the labor force disruption caused by COVID-19, dramatically impacting how and where businesses operate.

Process mining is on fire—a sizzling hot market that’s expected to grow from $185.3 million in 2018 to 1.4 trillion by 2023, with Europe accounting for the largest share of the growth according to the analyst firm MarketsandMarkets. But more than that, the trifecta of Process Mining + Workflow + Automation can unlock massive customer value for any company trying to compete and win in the age of hyperautomation.

A hands-on guide to building an Android app with AWS Amplify and Bitrise

The LiveView framework supports all of the most common features that Single-Page Apps must offer their users, including multipart uploads. In fact, LiveView can give us highly interactive file uploads, right out of the box. In this post, we’ll add a file upload feature to an existing Phoenix LiveView application. Along the way, you’ll learn how to use LiveView to display upload progress and feedback while editing and saving uploaded files.

The internet has evolved from static web pages and long loading times to super-fast progressive web applications that can install themselves on client devices. The focus of web applications shifted from providing content to offering a captivating experience. As more and more people join the internet, the demand for visually appealing and friction-free web applications continues to grow. A web application is similar to a standard desktop or mobile application except that it can run on a web browser.

We are honored to announce that Rookout, the world’s leading dynamic observability and debugging platform, has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, based on the October 11 2021 report titled “Cool Vendors in Monitoring and Observability – Modernize Legacy, Prepare for Tomorrow” by Padraig Byrne.

As the post-pandemic world emerges, the future of events such as summits, conferences or concerts is brighter than ever. Thanks to hybrid events, in-person events are now doubled by online happenings, which allows event organizers to reach much larger, geographically distributed audiences. For organizers and ticket distributors, providing a great ticket-booking experience to their global audiences has become more important than ever.

With an increased amount of embedded software and connectivity features, electric vehicle security is essential. For that reason, it is important that you understand electric vehicle security concerns, how coding standards can help mitigate those risks, and what tools you should use.

Currently, electric vehicles make up less than 1% of cars currently on the road, according to global business-focused news organization, Quartz. However, within the next decade that will rapidly change. By 2040, it is estimated that electric vehicles will make up roughly 33% of all cars on the road, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance study.

DynamoDB is a NoSQL database offered by AWS. It can be a great way to avoid adding load to your primary database when you need tens of thousands of reads/writes per second. In this article, Julie Kent walks us through the basics of using DynamoDB with Rails.

Software-based automation is a relatively young concept that’s rapidly gaining popularity—as reflected by the veritable explosion of software as a service (SaaS) offerings in the last decade. Gartnre® estimates, “software as a service (SaaS) remains the largest market segment and is forecast to grow to $117.7 billion in 2021, application infrastructure services (PaaS) is anticipated to grow by a higher margin at 26.6%”.

With the rise of virtual production, creative pipelines are becoming increasingly complex, and dispersed. Team members around the globe need to collaborate remotely. This can create security vulnerabilities, which can range from misconfigured SSL settings to expiring certificates. To help studios protect what matters most, the Trusted Partner Network (TPN) created an evaluation process to standardize fundamental security protocols, across the industry.

NodeSource from the beginning was created with a great commitment for the developers’ community, that is why it has provided documentation for using the NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions via.rpm, .deb as well as their setup and support scripts. We are also aware that as a start-up you want ‘Enterprise-grade’ at a startup price, this is why we extend our product to small and medium-sized companies, startups, and non-profit organizations with N|Solid SaaS.

A PHP framework is a platform to build PHP web applications. PHP frameworks provide libraries for commonly used functions, which helps to cut down on the amount of original code developers need to write from scratch. A PHP framework provides a basic foundation for the development of web applications in PHP. Frameworks are useful because they speed up and standardize the development process, reducing doubts about how to start building an application.

Now you can skip running unnecessary builds or certain Steps when committing small or Draft PRs by using the Env Var 'GITHUB_PR_IS_DRAFT'.

This is the decade of hyperautomation—a decade when companies are doubling down on mating critical processes to drive sustainable growth. But here’s the problem. An eye-popping 60 to 80% of your organization’s processes may be running on unstructured data such as documents and email according to news reports. Which makes them that much harder to automate manage and audit.

Our brand-new report examines the ever-evolving shopping industry, delving into the trends and challenges faced by mobile retailers. Read on to find out the state of the industry, the latest product trends and cutting-edge features, and the key Mobile DevOps practices used by some of the leading shopping apps.

We’re very proud of our first version of crash symbolication and mapping but we’re still working on follow-up versions with improvements. Please feel free to contact us with any feedback.📲 Enable/disable multiple devices at once: in the Device Config. tab, apply a filter to find the devices you want to change, then select Mark all as… and select Enabled or Disabled.

Across industries, we’re seeing more use of digital twins in manufacturing. Digital twin visualization technology pairs well with the sensors that manufacturers use to gather vital information on production processes. Now, the information being collected via smart manufacturing systems can be incorporated into visual, interactive models. These models help teams drive innovation.

Maybe these situations sound familiar to you… You want to enhance the activities of your company with digital, data-based approaches. The opportunities and challenges of digital transformation are obvious, so it makes sense to rethink certain business strategies based on data. You’ve built a strategy through creative methods like design thinking, and you know exactly what data-centric solutions you need to develop – but the technical departments are pushing back.

Normally, you must submit a password in order to log into an application. In the case of two-factor authentication, you must also provide a one-time temporary password (also known as a token) in addition to your regular password. You can get this OTP in a variety of ways. The different varieties of 2FA are determined by how the OTP is provided. The OTP can be sent via email, SMS, as a software token using applications such as Google Authenticator, or as a hardware token.

For financial services organizations, onboarding institutional clients is challenging. The process is complex and made even more so by increasingly distributed and decentralized work, which compromises visibility and transparency and makes connectedness difficult. It also introduces a high degree of risk, as manual processes expose organizations to errors and inconsistencies.

Over the past few months, I’ve been redesigning and writing StatusCake’s SSL monitoring feature from Node to Go. This blog post describes one of the more subtle challenges we came across to help you master it if you find yourself with it too! Writing a Go client that fetches an SSL certificate isn’t a new problem. A common approach is to use a http.Client. This limits you to just certificates served over HTTPS, when technically anything running TLS can have a certificate.

Welcome back to part two of this series on metaprogramming in Elixir. In part one, we introduced metaprogramming and gave a brief overview of macros. In this part, we will explore the inner workings and behaviors of macros in more depth. As discussed in the previous post, macros are compile-time constructs in Elixir. So, before diving into how macros work, it is important to understand where macros lie within Elixir’s compilation process.

The #descendants method is part of Rails. It returns all subclasses that inherit from a given class. In this article, Jonathan Miles shows us how to use this method and how it's implemented. It's a great lesson in the ins and outs of Ruby's object model.

Debugging is hard. Cloud debugging is harder. Debugging Kubernetes and Serverless applications sometimes feels nearly impossible when: These classic remote debugging challenges have made the world of cloud debugging seem impossible at times and has given rise to the practice of Observability. The rise of the Observability trend in recent years has directed engineers towards one direction to solving these problems: print logs, print traces, throw exceptions.

Last week, Perforce announced our 12th acquisition, the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform – a great addition to our DevOps at Scale portfolio. I’d like to welcome the Blazemeter team to the Perforce family. Throughout our conversations leading up to the acquisition, it was clear that we were dealing with a world-class product, and a world-class team. We are excited to add both to Perforce and look forward to the things we will accomplish together.

As humans, we can keep a tab on 7 different things at the peak of our day. But when it comes to carrying out different sets of productive work, each of which needs our full attention, organizing becomes imperative. Speaking of organizing in work-related terms, although advancements in technology have offered us an array of automated tools to help out with task management, several professionals still prefer doing things the traditional way – manually.

Appian surveyed 500 senior banking and asset management executives from around the world about the drivers, challenges, and opportunities on the path to automation maturity. We classified survey respondents as either automation leaders, laggards, or part of the mainstream.