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MySQL Shell 8.0 – What’s New?

2018-05-04 KENNETH 0

MySQL Shell 8.0 – What’s New? MySQL Document Store In MySQL 8.0 a new stack of components is introduced, turning MySQL to a competitive Document Store solution. The MySQL Document Store takes advantage of existing capabilities including: Efficient and safe data management from the InnoDB storage engine ACID compliance and Transactional Operations High Availability with Group Replication and InnoDB cluster One of the most attractive components introduced in MySQL 8.0 is a development API (DevAPI) that enables you to create JSON document based applications through a fluent API.… Source: MySQL Shell 8.0 – What’s New?

Axis Order in Spatial Reference Systems

2018-05-03 KENNETH 0

Axis Order in Spatial Reference Systems MySQL 8.0 has many new GIS features, including a catalog of spatial reference systems (SRSs) and support for geographic (latitude-longitude) computations. In a Cartesian SRS, it doesn’t really matter which coordinate is on which axis. The axes are orthogonal and the units are the same on both axes, so if a user consistently puts the X value in the Y coordinate and the Y value in the X coordinate, it doesn’t affect computations (in the functions MySQL currently supports).… Source: Axis Order in Spatial Reference Systems

Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API

2018-05-03 KENNETH 0

Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API Beginning with the EdgeHTML 17, Microsoft Edge is the first browser to support Screen Capture via the Screen Capture API. Web developers can start building on this feature today by upgrading to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, or using one of our free virtual machines. Screen Capture uses the new getDisplayMedia API specified by the W3C Web Real-Time Communications Working Group The feature lets web pages capture output of a user’s display device, commonly used to broadcast a desktop for plugin-free virtual meetings or presentations. Using Media Capture, Microsoft Edge can capture all Windows applications–including including Win32 and Universal Windows Platform applications (UWP apps). In this post, we’ll walk through how Screen Capture is implemented in Microsoft Edge, and what’s on our roadmap for future releases, as well [ more… ]

Announcing a new name for the UWP Community Toolkit: Windows Community Toolkit

2018-05-03 KENNETH 0

Announcing a new name for the UWP Community Toolkit: Windows Community Toolkit I’m really excited to announce, starting with the next major release, the UWP Community Toolkit will have a new name – the Windows Community Toolkit. This is a huge milestone for the toolkit and the community that has made this project possible. The toolkit was first released over a year and a half ago with 26 different features. Since then, we’ve added five new packages over nine new releases, each one adding new controls, helpers, services, extensions, object models and more – most coming from the community directly. Today, there are over 100 distinct features. Just compare the number of controls (and categories) in the sample app from the initial release: UWP Community Toolkit Sample App (v1.0) UWP Community Toolkit Sample App (v2.2) When we initially released the [ more… ]

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The Month in WordPress: April 2018

2018-05-02 KENNETH 0

The Month in WordPress: April 2018 This past month saw a lot of preparation for upcoming events and releases across the WordPress project. Read on to find out more about these plans, and everything else that happened around the community in April. The WordPress 15th Anniversary is Coming On May 27 2018, WordPress will turn 15 years old — this is a huge milestone for the project, or, indeed, for any open-source platform. The Community Team has been hard at work helping communities around the world plan local anniversary parties. Check the central anniversary website to see if there’s already a party being planned near you. These parties are all organized by local communities — if there’s no local community in your area, you can start one today and host a party yourself. Work has Started on a Gutenberg Migration [ more… ]