Concept of the semaphore and its counterpart object in the pthread library: the POSIX semaphore, with an example. — Concurrency simply means having multiple pieces of logic within a program being executed simultaneously. Modern software systems are often concurrent, as programs need to run various pieces of logic at the same time. Concurrency can be implemented using only one of the multithreading or multi-processing approaches within a POSIX compliant…

In this article, we will look at how we can enhance a JavaScript library and add syntactic sugar through declaration files. — One of the most appealing facets of JavaScript development is the wealth of external JavaScript libraries that have already been published, are tried and tested, and are available for re-use. This article is an excerpt from the book, Mastering TypeScript, 4th Edition by Nathan Rozentals — A comprehensive guide to…

In this article we are going to learn about essential statistics for data assessment, also often referred to as descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics provide simple, quantitative summaries of datasets, usually combined with graphics. …

Rust is a modern, open source system programming language that promises the best of three worlds: the type safety of Java; the speed, expressiveness, and efficiency of C++; and memory safety without a garbage collector. In this article, we look at building terminal-based applications in Rust. Terminal applications are an…

Upgrading an app to its latest platform version, just for the sake of upgrading, is usually not a fun exercise, especially if there is no new and exciting feature to be added. Fortunately, Microsoft has provided solid inter-compatibility between libraries developed for earlier versions of .NET and .NET 5 to…

Migrating data is a tough role in any organization. Getting all the data from source to destination is a challenging task, especially with Microsoft SharePoint, mapped drives, and other storage resources. Users will complain about data being missing, even if it is irrelevant. In some cases, they will be irritated…

Moodle is the most-used Learning Management Systems (LMS) there is, and now it’s joined by Moodle Workplace. In this overview, we introduce Moodle Workplace and describe its various new key features. We then compare this newly updated software with standard Moodle, its little sibling, and with Totara, the other popular…

The objective of this overview is to help you become familiar with some of the main concepts and terminology used in the field of cyber threat intelligence (CTI). We shall cover the following topics: Cyber threat intelligence The intelligence cycle Defining your intelligence requirements The collection process Processing and exploitation …

This guide will show you how to configure the Salesforce Mobile App using declarative customization and actions in the Salesforce Lightning platform. …