Technology
Knitting Helps You Understand Programming Patterns
Knitting as Programming or how I learned programmers owe it all to fiber As part of my bootcamp, I was asked to present for 10 minutes on any topic. I’ve been crocheting since 2013 and knitting since 2018, and I had noticed some similarities between the way I approached a project in either fiber arts …
10 Best Email Marketing Tools In 2022
Emails have become an important tool in a marketer’s arsenal. Email marketing, in particular, is widely considered being the most cost-effective marketing strategy. If used appropriately, this strategy can help businesses promote their products or services in a bid to acquire new customers and retain their existing base. However, an email marketing campaign is only …
Can We Make Data Tidy?
Imagine: You are about to sit down with a newly-fetched data set, excited about the insights it will bring you and then you find out it is no use. If you’ve been there, then you know for sure what an untidy dataset is. A statistician from New Zealand once said: Tidy datasets are all alike, but every messy dataset is …
4 Agile Testing Trends That Will Continue in 2022
Since their inception in 2001, agile practices have radically evolved. It was first about shifting from the waterfall model of software development to focusing on iterative development using Scrum, XP, and other methodologies, thereby removing many bottlenecks organizations had with faster software delivery. Agile is now about optimizing operations within the development process, using different …
Open Source Is Life
We often don’t realize this, but open-source projects play a huge role in our life. Today, in this article, I am going to talk about how we use open-source technologies in our everyday life and what would happen if they didn’t exist 😱. Let us start with some open-source technologies we use in our daily …
5 Barriers To DevOps Deployment
According to a recent State of DevOps report, teams practicing DevOps benefit from a lower change failure rate, 24 times faster recovery from failures when they do occur, and significantly less time spent on rework and security issue remediation. In short, DevOps helps reduce risk, improve productivity, and reduce costs. Such teams tend to be more …
Tech Trends: What Will Be The Biggest Innovations By 2022
Predicting the future is hard and risky. Predicting the future in the computing industry is even harder and riskier due to dramatic changes in technology and limitless challenges to innovation. Only a small fraction of innovations truly disrupt the state of the art. Some are not practical or cost-effective, some are ahead of their time, …
October Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Why Being Cyber‑Smart Matters
The month of October is associated with a variety of themes, but it also ushers in the start of autumn and pumpkin-spiced lattes and culminates with one of the scariest days of the year – Halloween. However, beyond the uptick in Starbucks stock prices and the sale of costumes, October is marked as Cybersecurity Awareness Month in …
To Avoid Cyberattacks, Companies Need To Think Like Hackers
Companies are spending more than ever on cybersecurity but, despite a plethora of new security systems, they continue to be vulnerable to attacks, which are not only becoming more numerous but are also taking a greater financial and business toll on organizations. This is happening, I believe, because companies are approaching cybersecurity in the wrong way. Even …
Microsoft’s big new Windows 11 update is out now — here’s how to get it
Microsoft’s big new Windows 11 update is now available as a free upgrade for computers that support it. I’ll show you how to check if it works with your PC, and how to download Windows 11 if your computer meets the requirements. The release is a milestone for Microsoft, the world’s second most valuable public …