In this tutorial, you build a desktop app that predicts which room you’re in using a simple machine learning algorithm: least squares. The code applies to any platform, but we only provide dependency installation instructions for Mac OSX.
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As the size of data for each message in our system differs from a few bytes to up to 100MB, we needed a scalable solution that could support a multitude of scenarios. In this article, Dhimil Gosalia explains why you should consider building an in-house Pub/Sub service, too.
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Node is a very versatile platform, but one of the predominant applications is creating networked processes. In this article, we’re going to focus on profiling the most common of these: HTTP web servers.
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Ever find yourself writing the same code over and over again? In this article, Jonathan Saring shares his and his team’s lessons learned from their own journey towards simple and effective code sharing.
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How can you gain a better understanding of your audience? Well, one way would be to use user-generated content that can be integrated into Machine Learning (ML) technology. In this article, Jamie Munro demonstrates how that can be done.
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If you’ve been looking for a content-driven solution, this article will explain how you can build a SPA WordPress theme with React. Continue reading to find out why this is a good choice for your web app’s back-end technology.
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When a user of your application has forgotten their password, it can and should be reset securely. To accomplish a secure password reset, I will demonstrate how to use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to generate a URL-safe token. The JWT contains encoded information about the user and a signature that, when decoded, is validated to ensure that the token has not been tampered with.
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This tutorial gives you hands-on access to my journey of creating a digital assistant capable of connecting with any system via a RESTful API to perform various tasks.
Here, I’ll be demonstrating how to save a user’s basic information and create a new project on their behalf via natural language processing (NLP).
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Web applications, be they thin websites or thick single-page apps, are notorious targets for cyber-attacks. In 2016, approximately 40% of data breaches originated from attacks on web apps — the leading attack pattern. Indeed, these days, understanding cyber-security is not a luxury but rather a necessity for web developers, especially for developers who build consumer-facing applications.
HTTP response headers can be leveraged to tighten up the security of web apps, typically just by adding a few lines of code. In this article, we’ll show how web developers can use HTTP headers to build secure apps. While the code examples are for Node.js, setting HTTP response headers is supported across all major server-side-rendering platforms and is typically simple to set up.
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I started out as a web developer, and that’s now one part of what I do as a full-stack developer, but never had I imagined I’d create things for the desktop. I love the web. I love how altruistic our community is, how it embraces open-source, testing and pushing the envelope.
I love discovering beautiful websites and powerful apps. When I was first tasked with creating a desktop app, I was apprehensive and intimidated. It seemed like it would be difficult, or at least… different.
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