(lukaseder) When performing reflective access to default methods in Java, Google seems to fail us. The solutions presented on Stack Overflow, for instance, seem to work only in a certain set of cases, and not on all Java versions.
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Deep Neural Networks and .NET
(Hannes DuPreez) Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming part of everyday life. Whether you are using your PC or your mobile phone, you are making use of some variation of AI. The Web has given Artificial Intelligence wings and it just keeps on improving.
Binding a Certificate in IIS using C# and Powershell
(Enamul Kh) Other day I was assisting a customer who had a unique need of binding a Certificate from within C# code using Powershell. A direct API call won’t work due to some constraints, so Powershell was the other viable option. Customer also didn’t want any Powershell window to pop-up, so we need
UPDATE STATISTICS GETTING SLOWER
(Jack Vamvas) Question: The Statistics tasks in the SQL Server Maintenance plan is getting slower? When I first implemented the task it used to take 1 hr – recently it’s built up 4-5 hrs. I’ve checked underlying resource issues – and everything looks OK.
Highlighting Scatter Charts in Power BI using DAX
(Jason Thomas) Another Friday, another tip. Power BI has undergone a lot of innovative updates over the years, but my favorite one has been a combination of the cross-filtering & highlighting capabilities, multi-selecting across visuals and drilling down filtering other visuals.
Introducing Elastic Search NoSQL to Oracle SQL developers – comparing dozens of ElasticSearch and SQL operations (a bit like Rosetta)
(Lucas Jellema) Even for organizations with strong roots in relational databases such as Oracle RDBMS, there may be valuable opportunities for leveraging additional data sources, for example to support special (search) use cases. Elastic Search (Index) is one of those data stores that can add value
Watson for i: Watson Conversation Can Generate Chatbots and Virtual Agents for Your Business, Part I
(John Ghrist) By using its combination of speech-to-text and natural-language comprehension skills, Watson Conversation is capable of helping create chat applications and virtual customer service agents that can handle many routine operations in those areas.
Character Escape Sequences In M
(Chris Webb) When you’re working with M code in Power BI or Power Query/Get&Transform you may want to include special characters such as carriage returns, line feeds or tabs inside a text value. To do this you’ll need to use character escape sequences inside your text.
Event Binding and Two-way Binding in Angular 5
(Ravi Kiran) Get started with event binding and two-way binding in Angular and learn how to keep the data in the model and input control in sync
A New Addition to the IBM z Trial Program
(Troy L Coleman) I’m sometimes asked about options for getting hands on experience with Db2 for z/OS. Basically, I know of only one option, but it’s an excellent one: the IBM z Trial Program.