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Our place in the Universe
By Hethu NanayakkaraMost of us have looked in to the night sky and wondered how many stars are out there. On a clear night sky, we see about 2,500 stars with our naked eye. Our Milky Way galaxy has about 400 billion stars, so we are seeing just a faction of our...
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Wrapping your head around CosmosDB
By Ravin PereraCosmos DB is a globally-distributed multi-model NoSQL database service from Microsoft Azure. It seems that Microsoft is targeting developers moving on from SQL Server as well as MongoDB to transition to Cosmos DB. When you look at the marketing material, you might be tempted to switch your project to Cosmos...
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Hype vs Fact - Walking 10,000 Steps a Day
By Nalin MarambeThese days it is hard to walk the streets without running into someone who is anxiously looking at their wrist to see if they are on target to reach the magic 10,000 steps. Is it really a goal worth striving for, or might there be something better? And where did...
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Blockchain Consensus Mechanism
By Priyadharsun SivadasanBlockchain is a secure, shared, distributed ledger that is used to maintain a continuously growing list of records, called blocks. Secure - Each transaction is secured with cryptography. Cryptography is the fundamental building block based on which blockchain has been developed. Shared - The database is shared between parties (peer-to-peer)...
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Remember to Travel in Malaysia (In summary)
By Heashan FernandoThis blog is to highlight the key values of visiting Malaysia, rather than discussing the general information, which you can easily search over the internet throughout millions of resources. Frankly, I am not well-known enough to talk about the entire Malaysia, since I have visited only Kuala Lumpur & Penang...
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8 reasons why you should pay attention to Google Flutter
By Asanka IndrajithFlutter is Google’s latest cross-platform mobile app SDK for creating native applications for iOS and android. Cross-platform SDK’s are predominately having two approaches: Wrap a web view in a native app container and build a web app that will render inside the web view. Wrap native platform controls and provide...
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Creating PDF reports using timely triggered Azure Functions V2
By Ravidu LashanFor any kind of system, reports are essential. It provides statistical analysis about the system which could be used to make managerial decisions about a business, help to attract investors and help to provide useful information about the system to the end users. In this blog post, I’m going to...
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Overcome Top Testing Challenges in Agile Environment
By Kavindra Lunuwilage*source: https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/agile-testing Agile Software Development introduces a very different way of working from Traditional Software Development. The main differences can be seen in the way IT Professionals collaborate with each other when developing and testing software by adopting to new and improved technologies and new technical practices to create smart...
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Basics of Photography
By Biman Pathirage‘The art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.’ – Wikipedia. Not simple enough? Finish the article and you will see how simple...
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Multichain
By Nadeeshani DayarathnaOpen source blockchain platform Multichain is a private blockchain platform, which is open for creation and deployment of blockchain applications. It solves most of the drawbacks in public blockchains. Today Bitcoin is the most popular public blockchain platform. However, there are hundreds of public blockchains other than Bitcoin. Some of...
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Sentiment Analysis
By Akila IroshanSentiment analysis is the field of study that analyzes people’s opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language[1]. It uses computational linguistics to determine attitudes of a source toward some target/aspect. Attitudes can be emotions such as love, hate, value, desire etc or simple weighted polarity like positive negative...
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The psychology of colors
By Mishari TamaraColor is a universal language that can be used to communicate different emotions, cultures, values and ideas. Colors are all around us. Everyday we are surrounded by many different colors.Whether we realized or not the colors have important impact on our behaviors, emotions, design decision making and user experience. What...
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IoT Hub Communication
By Tharindu SubasithInternet of things (IoT) has become one of the most vital and useful technologies today. This technology is widely used in transportation, agriculture, healthcare, retail and energy industries. So, today IoT is used from your house electricity meter to MRI scanner in the hospital. With the evolvement of this technology...
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Data Analysis Using R With SQL Server Machine Learning Services
By Chamika GoonetilakaSQL Server Machine Learning Services is an embedded, predictive analytics and data science engine that can execute R and Python scripts within SQL Server as T-SQL script containing R or Python statements, or as R or Python scripts containing T-SQL. The main advantage of it is, the ability to do...
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Speedup your computer with a Solid State Drive(SSD)
By Prabath SandaruwanDo you feel like your computer is running slow? Ever thought to do an upgrade at a cheaper cost? Let’s see what we can do. Installing a SSD is the best way to increase the performance of your computer at a comparatively low price. So what is a Solid State...