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DocRaptor Review – HTML to PDF API

The Crazy Programmer

Here, in this article, we’ll review the DocRaptor tool, an HTML to PDF API converter. The DocRaptor review will briefly discuss how it works with Python, some code examples, features, benefits, and perhaps pros and cons. What is the DocRaptor Tool? DocRaptor is an HTML to PDF and Excel format transforming document API. The tool uses a set of coding language for HTTP POST requests for the generation of PDF and XLS files.

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Remote Mob Program AMA: Key Takeaways

Agile Alliance

Woody Zuill, widely credited with discovering mob programming while working at Hunter Industries, describes mobbing (or ensemble programming, as the practice is also known) as “a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer”. During a global pandemic, … Continued.

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HackerEarth introduces Full-stack Assessments at Hire10(1) Conference

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The new HackerEarth Assessments feature of full-stack assessments will facilitate both backend and frontend developer assessment for recruiters. HackerEarth has just announced the addition of full-stack assessments to help recruiters efficiently evaluate the coding skills of full-stack developers. HackerEarth’s CEO, Sachin Gupta, made the announcement today at Hire10(1) , HackerEarth’s flagship virtual conference to help recruiters and engineering leaders hire top developers and build great tech

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Salesforce to add Einstein Analytics AI to Tableau platform

CIO

When Salesforce completed its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software in August 2019, IT leaders were left wondering what the largest acquisition in Salesforce history might mean. A bit more than a year later, Tableau has provided some insight into its plans, announcing that Salesforce's Einstein Analytics will be rebranded Tableau CRM and Einstein's advanced analytics capabilities will be integrated with Tableau's other offerings.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How Long Does it Take to Learn to Code? – Things to Know Before Starting

The Crazy Programmer

Everyone who is now a seasoned coder started out on the same path: they were beginners with zero knowledge and they know it can be very frustrating during the initial stages. Many people tend to give up easily when they start learning to code. It can be overwhelming and unbearable at times. We understand that if you want to invest your time and resources into learning a new skill, there has to be a significant payoff, and coding is one of these opportunities.

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How to Promote Leaders Who Build a Positive Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

Promote leaders who show their commitment to relationships and results One of the most important leadership decisions you’ll ever make is the choice to promote someone into a leadership role. Who you promote into leadership sends a powerful message of what matters […]. The post How to Promote Leaders Who Build a Positive Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Microsoft Data Analyst Associate certification guide

CIO

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced it would retire 15 certifications and 44 exams, including MCSA: BI Reporting, which validated data analysts' expertise using Power BI and Excel to visualize data via dashboards and reports. The move is the culmination of the company's 2018 decision to focus on role-based certifications such as data analyst, data engineer, and data scientist.

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Centripetal wins historic $2.6-$3.2 Bil vs. Cisco Systems; largest US patent infringement award to date

CTOvision

Editor’s note: I am proud to say I have a history with Centripetal Networks serving on their board and then later as an advisor. It was horrible to learn that […].

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Remote Mob Programming Ask the Experts: Key Takeaways

Agile Alliance

Woody Zuill, widely credited with discovering mob programming while working at Hunter Industries, describes mobbing (or ensemble programming, as the practice is also known) as “a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer”. During a global pandemic, … Continued.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How Do I Change My Leadership Approach Without Losing Credibility?

Let's Grow Leaders

We were nearing the end of our live-online leadership program with an amazing group of start-up CEOs at Bulb Africa in Nigeria, and it was time for Q&A. Or, as I like to call it, “Asking For a Friend.” When one brave […]. The post How Do I Change My Leadership Approach Without Losing Credibility? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Three Signs of Resistance That Are Really Engagement

Change Starts Here

People respond in a lot of different ways when they encounter change. When we are the one trying to implement that change, some of the responses can be frustrating, especially when they seem to challenge us. When that happens, we usually call it resistance.

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Half of All Organizations Experienced Cyber Security Incidents During the Remote Working Period

CTOvision

Half of all organizations experienced security incidents associated with remote working during the lockdown period, according to a report by Tessian. The “Securing the Future of Hybrid Working” report also […].

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MLOp: More Than Automation

DevOps.com

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about MLOps from the DevOps and software engineering perspective. The message often comes across as, “Hurry, DevOps community, let’s set some standards before MLOps reinvents the wheel,” or “The purpose of MLOps is to allow anyone who knows how to code to get ML into production.” Let […]. The post MLOp: More Than Automation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla

David Walsh

In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell in love with Mozilla — a browser that gave developers actual tools to solve dev problems.

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The cybersecurity resource problem: 4 ways to get proactive

TechBeacon

Resources have always been a problem when it comes to cybersecurity. You are not always rewarded for doing security they way you are when you develop a new business application quickly. This usually leads to security teams being understaffed and overworked. At the same time, skilled cybersecurity professionals are in high demand, and there is significant turnover in cybersecurity positions.

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Twitter Hack Spurred Copycats, But Other Businesses Don’t Have to Fall Prey

CTOvision

Read why Raz Rafaeli says that even though the celebrity Twitter hack spawned copycats, other organizations don’t have to fall prey to such tactics on Infosec Magazine: A 17-year-old was […].

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State of the OpenCloud, Part 2: Best Practices for Entrepreneurs in a Covid-Focused World

Battery Ventures

Last year, my team and I introduced our first “ State of the OpenCloud Report”. The research pinpointed some of the mega-trends—including cloud computing and the rise of open-source technology—that are upending today’s huge enterprise-IT market as organizations across industries push to digitize their operations by modernizing their technology stacks.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Tips To Strengthen API Security

DevOps.com

If you haven’t noticed, digital organizations are building more and more APIs. ProgrammableWeb tracks more than 23,000 public web APIs at the time of writing, and the API market is estimated to be worth $5.1 billion by 2023. Building with APIs increases internal interoperability, reduces development time and can extend product functionality tremendously.

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Announcing the Jammies awards winners

Netlify

We received many excellent nominations for the Jammies awards, recognizing people and initiatives that are pushing forward the modern web. We are excited to announce the finalists and winners across four categories, who will receive coveted Jamstack jammies pants and all the community glory! Jamstack web app of the year. Mapping to our theme for the conference, the Jamstack is not just an architecture for static sites, it’s changing the way we deliver software via the web.

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What Is GPT-3 And Why Is It Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence?

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain what OpenAI’s GPT-3 is and how it will revolutionalize artificial intelligence on Forbes: There’s been a great deal of hype and excitement in the artificial intelligence […].

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AI and Creativity

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The release of GPT-3 has reinvigorated a discussion of creativity and artificial intelligence.* That’s a good discussion to have, primarily because it forces us to think carefully about what we mean when we use words like “creativity” and “art.” As I’ve argued in the past, each time we have this discussion, we end up raising the bar.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Cisco Expands Effort to Meld DevOps, NetOps

DevOps.com

Cisco Systems has accelerated its efforts to converge network operations (NetOps) by adding support for Terraform tools for managing infrastructure-as-code as well as expanding its support for the Ansible IT automation framework. In addition, Cisco has improved and standardized the application programming interfaces (APIs) it makes available for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) framework for […].

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Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres

The Citus Data

One common challenge with Postgres for those of you who manage busy Postgres databases, and those of you who foresee being in that situation, is that Postgres does not handle large numbers of connections particularly well. While it is possible to have a few thousand established connections without running into problems, there are some real and hard-to-avoid problems.

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Which cybersecurity failures cost companies the most and which defenses have the highest ROI?

CTOvision

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have created a cryptographic platform that allows companies to securely share data on cyber attacks they suffered and the monetary cost of their cybersecurity […].

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Better Scrum with Essence

scruminc

When over 50% of Scrum implementations fail to deliver on time, on budget, with happy customers according to Standish Group data, we need to find tools and techniques to help us improve the odds against this. Essence is the key to driving success! The Challenge. Scrum is by far the most widely used agile framework in the world, but we’ve also found that 58% of Scrum implementations fail.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Open Source License Compliance Tips for DevOps Pipelines

DevOps.com

Open source components are used in most modern organizations, either included directly into software as code or as tools integrated into workflows. In DevOps environments, often a combination of the two occurs. These components can help speed development processes, provide functionality that isn’t otherwise available and decrease operating costs of teams.

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How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned

David Walsh

The need for position: sticky was around for years before it was implemented natively, and I can boast that I implemented it with JavaScript and scroll events for ages. Eventually we got position: sticky , and it works well from a visual perspective, but I wondered how can we determine when the element actually became pinned due to scroll. We can determine if an element has become sticky thanks to the IntersectionObserver API !

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Conscious Business and Mindful Leadership

CEO Insider

It’s a Tuesday afternoon and you’ve just wrapped up a phone call with your manager. You let out a long sigh–the call didn’t go the way you anticipated; you spent hours drafting your proposal for a potential client, only for your manager to shoot down your efforts—she points out errors in your approach, disagrees with […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Conscious Business and Mindful Leadership are those of the author Vibha Sharma alone and not the