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Microsoft IoT Hackathon accelerates solutions across industries

2019-05-25 KENNETH 0

Microsoft IoT Hackathon accelerates solutions across industries Houston, Texas, has become a hub for digital innovation, making it the ideal location for the Microsoft IoT Hackathon that took place May 13-15. Fed by a competitive university system, Houston’s growing engineering and IT talent base is leading disruption in the manufacturing, energy and life sciences sectors. The City of Houston is also partnering with Microsoft to realize a smart city agenda with the goals of improving the effectiveness of city employees, streamlining transportation and better connecting citizens to local services, especially during emergencies. Houston’s journey to work with Microsoft and its partners in leveraging the cloud for digital transformation and building repeatable Internet of Things (IoT) solutions was brought to life during the recent IoT in Action event on April 16, which featured Mayor Sylvester Turner as a keynote speaker. The [ more… ]

F5 and NGINX: Delivering Flexible, Secure, and Durable Applications from Code to Customer

2019-05-24 KENNETH 0

F5 and NGINX: Delivering Flexible, Secure, and Durable Applications from Code to Customer Businesses are always looking for the next competitive advantage. Customers have more choice than ever, and expect every interaction to look, feel, and function as seamlessly as the Facebook and Google apps they use every day. As enterprises race to build new applications and roll out capabilities to meet their customers’ demands, a distinct pattern has emerged, often called “shadow IT”. In a traditional IT architecture with monolithic applications, the infrastructure or network operations (NetOps) team usually controls app deployment, which is subject to strict compliance, governance, and security requirements. But DevOps teams in such environments – faced with both the internal pressure to innovate and the external pressure to bring services to market quickly – often circumvent such controls for the sake of agility. Even if [ more… ]

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WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release

2019-05-22 KENNETH 0

WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release WordPress 5.2.1 is now available! This maintenance release fixes 33 bugs, including improvements to the block editor, accessibility, internationalization, and the Site Health feature introduced in 5.2. You can browse the full list of changes on Trac. WordPress 5.2.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. Version 5.2.2 is expected to follow in approximately two weeks. You can download WordPress 5.2.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now. Sites that support automatic background updates have already started to update automatically. Jonathan Desrosiers and William Earnhardt co-led this release, with contributions from 52 other contributors. Thank you to everyone that made this release possible! Alex Dimitrov, Alex Shiels, Andrea Fercia, Andrew Duthie, Andrew Ozz, Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko, Andy Fragen, anischarolia, Birgir Erlendsson (birgire), chesio, Chetan Prajapati, daxelrod, Debabrata Karfa, Dima, Dion Hulse, Dominik Schilling, Ella van Durpe, Emil Dotsev, ghoul, Grzegorz [ more… ]

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How to get the Windows 10 May 2019 Update

2019-05-22 KENNETH 0

How to get the Windows 10 May 2019 Update In early April, we announced enhancements to the Windows update process to improve the user experience with more control, transparency, and the initial availability of the Windows 10 May 2019 Update through the Windows Insider Program’s Release Preview ring to focus on and improve quality. Based on positive data and the feedback we’ve seen from this longer preview phase; I’m pleased today to share that we are beginning to make the Windows 10 May Update available. We will be taking a measured and throttled approach, allowing us to study device health data as we increase availability via Windows Update. This post will provide details on how you can get the May 2019 Update, including update options. I’ll also cover how commercial organizations can begin targeted deployments and offer insight into how [ more… ]

Introducing NGINX 1.16 and 1.17

2019-05-22 KENNETH 0

Introducing NGINX 1.16 and 1.17 Today we release NGINX 1.17.0 – the latest version of the NGINX open source project, which is now the most popular web server on the Internet. This release also signals the start of the NGINX 1.17 development branch, following the release of NGINX 1.16.0 last month. In this blog we discuss the NGINX versioning scheme, look back at what happened during the NGINX 1.15 development cycle, and look forward to what is in store with NGINX 1.17. NGINX Versioning Explained At NGINX, we maintain two branches in the NGINX source code repository, named mainline and stable: Mainline is the active development branch where the latest features and bug fixes get added. It is denoted by an odd number in the second part of the version number, for example 1.17.0. Stable receives fixes for high‑severity bugs, but is not updated with new features. [ more… ]