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Stop for a minute and think about all the different ways customers interact with your brand. They might hear about a new hotel or product from a friend’s Facebook post, check out a flashy ad about that same hotel through digital signage at an airport, or receive an email offer for a discounted stay. Aside from promoting your offerings, these various touch points also can help gain insight into ...

So your boss wants you to learn iOS app development. Or maybe you have an app side project that you want to work on. Where do you start? To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

Design patterns are solutions to common problems and complexities in software design. As we have discussed here before, they are classified into three distinct categories: creational, structural, and behavioral. The chain of responsibility design pattern falls under the behavioral category and can be used to reduce coupling between the sender of a request and the receiver object that handles th...

A new beta of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine is now available. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

As companies race towards “AI transformation,” applying machine learning and other techniques to optimize their processes, products, and services, there are numerous simultaneous infrastructure transformations occurring throughout AI stack. These transformations impact both suppliers and adopters and introduce yet more uncertainty to a market already driven by extensive “ FOMO, FUD, and feuds ....

Most IT professionals would agree that cloud computing is more about a paradigm than a physical displacement of computing resources. The “utility” paradigm is transformational by virtue of on-demand, elastic resources. But unlike being stuck with just a single local cable provider, the range of choice in cloud computing options also provides selectivity and customization best suited for the del...

At the same time that everyone is talking about digital transformations, there is demand from the boardroom to lower spending on technology. On the surface, these two goals appear to be mutually exclusive. How can innovation and transformation be carried out with a reduced budget? Here are some approaches that can help resolve the paradox. 1. Create a contact between business and IT Everyone ag...

Oracle has revamped its commercial support program for Java SE (Standard Edition), opting for a subscription model instead of one that has had businesses paying for a one-time perpetual license plus an annual support fee. The subscriptions will be available in July 2018. (Personal, noncommercial usage continues to be free and not require a subsctiptoion.) Called Java SE Subscription, the new pr...

A hybrid cloud provides you with the largest number of options, according to those that sell them. You get a private cloud coupled with one or more public clouds, with workloads distributed across them. IT is often told that starting with a private cloud and then going hybrid is a straightforward, sensible strategy. But it’s not as easy as you’ve likely been told. I often hear that it’s a much ...

Data visualizations have pervaded nearly every aspect of today’s data landscape. Initially conceived of as a means of best presenting analytics results, data visualizations have evolved to affect everything from drag-and-drop approaches to data preparation to visual mechanisms for issuing queries. The ability to visualize data, their relationships to one another and connections to business obje...

Hybrid IT in the enterprise has emerged primarily as a response to devops. Enterprises with decades of investments in IT infrastructure, and a natural reluctance to store their data elsewhere, suddenly are forced to contend with a significant portion of their new infrastructure being in the cloud. Agile development needs have outpaced the capabilities of traditional infrastructure, driving dema...

Presenting to management is different than presenting to other technical staff. However, it s hares a lot in common with good writing : Keep the audience in mind, keep your key points in mind, and focus on communicating them succinctly. Presenting to management is about realizing that you have a busy audience that wants to know the impact, cost, and risk of the plan, not every detail of it (kno...

What might the Node.js server-side JavaScript runtime look like today if founder Ryan Dahl could build it all over again? With his Deno project, a secure TypeScript runtime built on the same Google V8 JavaScript engine as Node.js, we get an idea. Open source Deno, which is not explicitly compatible with Node.js, is a minimal take on server-side JavaScript. One key difference between Deno and No...

Zapcc, a caching C++ compiler built for speed , has gone open source. Ceemple Software, Zapcc’s builder, claims the compiler offers dramatic improvements in both incremental and full builds compared to building with Clang 4.0 and Clang 5.0. Based on heavily modified code from the Clang compiler project , Zapcc uses an in-memory compilation cache in a client-server architecture. All compilation ...

Every single discussion of blockchain seems to start with some variant of the phrase “secure, distributed hyperledger.” I take no issue with the fact that it’s a hyperledger—in other words, a continuously growing list of linked records. And I have no problem describing it as distributed—in this case, across a peer-to-peer network communicating over a protocol that describes how to validate new ...