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StackState Monitoring for NGINX

2017-07-06 KENNETH 0

StackState Monitoring for NGINX In today’s world, we see a growing need to modernize traditional applications from a monolith structure into a more microservices-oriented architecture. Containerization technologies bring a lot of advantages, such as auto-scaling, speeding up the frequency of deployments, etc. However, at the same time, managing the complete IT stack is even more critical. With more than 80 integrations with popular DevOps tools and technologies, StackState enables you to monitor NGINX in context with the rest of your IT stack. Application availability and performance are key for business survival. IT is not “back office” anymore, but an essential part of gaining competitive advantage and a key instrument to neutralize aggressive disruptors in the marketplace. Where Shakespeare used to say: “To be or not to be,” it is now “disrupt, or be disrupted.” So, companies feel the urge to [ more… ]

Command-Line Activation of Universal Windows Apps

2017-07-06 KENNETH 0

Command-Line Activation of Universal Windows Apps As we continue to close the gap between Win32 and Universal Windows Apps, one of the features we’ve recently introduced is the ability to activate a UWA from a command line and pass the app arbitrary command-line arguments. This is available to Insiders from build 16226. This feature builds on the App Execution Alias extension already available for Desktop Bridge apps. To use this feature in a UWA, there are two key additions to your app: Add an appExecutionAlias extension to your app manifest. Override OnActivated and handle the incoming arguments. For the manifest entry, you first need to declare the XML namespace for the AppExecutionAlias element: <Package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/foundation/windows10" xmlns:mp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2014/phone/manifest" xmlns:uap="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10" xmlns:uap5="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10/5" IgnorableNamespaces="uap mp uap5"> The AppExecutionAlias is declared as an Extension within your Application. This is quite simple and almost the same as [ more… ]

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.5

2017-07-06 KENNETH 0

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.5 Today marks the sixth release of the UWP Community Toolkit – all packages are updated to version 1.5. Thanks to the UWP developer community, the UWP Community Toolkit has seen great improvements and stability to the existing controls and services. The community partnership has led to several new additions to this release. To highlight a few of the new additions, the UWP Community Toolkit now includes: Menu: A classic control used by traditional desktop applications, adapted for the Universal Windows Platform. As requested by the community on UserVoice, the Menu allows the developer to provide a hierarchical list of menus and submenus that support any input modality and can adapt to the screen size to provide a natural and fluid interaction. OrbitView: A new ItemsControl that arranges elements around a center element and provides flexibility [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: Keep your apps organized with virtual desktops

2017-07-04 KENNETH 0

Windows 10 Tip: Keep your apps organized with virtual desktops Happy Monday! We’ve showed you how you can easily view and manage all the apps and programs you have open at once with Task View and Snap – today, we’re going to show you how you can keep your open apps better organized with virtual desktops in Windows 10. Here’s how to get started with virtual desktops: To create a new virtual desktop, select the Task View button on the Windows Taskbar (or hit Windows key + Tab) – then, select New desktop near the lower-right corner of the screen. You can switch between virtual desktops by selecting the Task View button, and then the thumbnail for the virtual desktop you want. Move an app from one virtual desktop to another: Select the Task View button, and right-click on the [ more… ]

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The Month in WordPress: June 2017

2017-07-03 KENNETH 0

The Month in WordPress: June 2017 We’re starting a new regular feature on this blog today. We’d like to keep everyone up-to-date about the happenings all across the WordPress open source project and highlight how you can get involved, so we’ll be posting a roundup of all the major WordPress news at the end of every month. Aside from other general news, the three big events in June were the release of WordPress 4.8, WordCamp Europe 2017, and the WordPress Community Summit. Read on to hear more about these as well as other interesting stories from around the WordPress world. WordPress 4.8 On June 8, a week before the Community Summit and WordCamp Europe, WordPress 4.8 was released.You can read the Field Guide for a comprehensive overview of all the features of this release (the News and Events widget in [ more… ]