PHP 7.2 will not be supported much longer. Now is the time to take advantage of the time left before the end-of-life date and replace outdated versions with more recent PHP code. This will make sure security gaps are closed, bugs are fixed, and the performance of web offers won’t...
The number of people working from home has increased rapidly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and so has, of course, the number of online meetings. Video conferencing is an indispensable tool in working remotely, but also comes with drawbacks. Video calls quickly...
For some years, the Privacy Shield has regulated the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US. But in July 2020, the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Privacy Shield. For many companies, the end of the privacy agreement came as a complete...
Instagram Reels is Instagram’s new video feature. Much like Chinese app TikTok, Reels lets users create and share short video clips with added background music. But what exactly is Instagram Reels and what are the differences to TikTok? We’ll show you what the new feature can do....
PHP is one of the most important languages on the Internet. Many content management systems like WordPress, TYPO3 or Joomla are based on PHP. The release of PHP 8 is imminent, but we’ve already had some information about its new features. Also some old features will be reworked,...
Alternatives to the popular video conferencing software Zoom are having their moment in the spotlight as a growing number of people are organizing video calls daily. Free alternatives to Zoom include a wide range of features, especially since the market for video conferencing...
You don’t always have to use the market leader – this also applies to remote access. TeamViewer is still the most widely-used solution for remote management and online meetings, but there are numerous alternatives on the market which can be considered. We present some serious...
Excel’s conditional formatting is a useful feature to visually distinguish and analyze your data. This type of Excel formatting allows you to emphasize cells according to certain conditions. Conditions are predefined using specified values or formulas. But how does it work? And how is conditional formatting applied in Excel?
A brand is not just a name slapped onto a product. It is the heart of your marketing strategy. If used correctly, emotional branding attracts customers not through logical arguments, but rather through emotional experiences and ideals. How good a product or service is depends above all on how customers feel when they think about your brand.
Don’t let the simplicity of the lean Minikube Kubernetes distribution fool you – it can do almost everything that a large container system can do. For example, it’s a relatively straightforward way of using the benefits of container technology to develop software. In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at Minikube’s functions and how you can use the tool.
A supply chain consists of various cross-company process flows. The SCOR model (short for supply chain operations reference) is tasked with analyzing and structuring the various process levels within a supply chain. SCOR optimizes business processes along the value chain and serves as a reference for the analysis, standardization, and coordination of process categories.
When you save data to a hard drive, it is written to tracks on magnetic platters. On conventional hard drives these tracks are completely separate, but with Shingled Magnetic Recording, they partly overlap one another. This means that SMR allows you to store more data per inch. Read on to find out more about this new hard drive technology and its implications.
Until 2010, the on-premises software model was standard for the Microsoft Office suite and other well-known software providers. Nowadays, on-premises continues to be important particularly for companies with high data protection requirements and where there is a great need for individual software adjustments. But what exactly is on-premises and what advantages, and disadvantages does the license...
M2M communication refers to the automatic exchange of information between machines. Nowadays, it would be hard to imagine many areas of life without machine-to-machine communication. In this article, you’ll learn how machine-to-machine communication works, when it is used, and what advantages it offers. You’ll also find out how you can use M2M for your business.
InnoDB is currently the default storage engine for MySQL and is recommended for most use cases. The company behind it was acquired by Oracle Systems a number of years ago, and the software is known in particular for being a transaction-safe storage engine. In this article, we’re going to look at some of the features of InnoDB and how it’s different from MyISAM, the previous software.
Strategy patterns support object-based programming with a design pattern specialized in the behavior of software. By outsourcing code elements, independent strategies emerge that can be reused and exchanged with other solution methods at any time. When applying strategy design patterns, developers utilize proven know-how.
When a very large number of objects require information about the current status of a certain other object, the observer design pattern – or observer pattern for short – provides the right development approach. With this system, all changes are automatically relayed from the observed object itself. How does this work and what software benefits from the observer design pattern?
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