Web components allow developers to create reusable custom elements that encapsulate markup, styles, and behavior. They leverage existing web standards like shadow DOM for encapsulation, HTML imports for modularity, and custom elements for defining new types of HTML tags. Web components provide an extensible way to develop modular and reusable UI components for the web.
The document discusses base2, a JavaScript library created by Dean Edwards that provides core utilities like a base class, modules, packages, collections, and more. It allows for extending classes and objects through the prototype and provides cross-browser compatibility fixes for older versions of Internet Explorer. The library aims to provide common data structures and functions to help build robust JavaScript applications.
This document provides an overview of ECMAScript 6 (ES6), also known as ECMAScript 2015. It discusses the history and standardization of JavaScript and ECMAScript. It then covers many of the new features introduced in ES6, including let and const block scoping, arrow functions, template literals, classes, generators, iterators, promises, and modules. It encourages using ES6 features today via tools like Traceur and Babel that compile ES6 to ES5 for browser compatibility. It also looks ahead to future features planned for ECMAScript 7 and beyond.
The document discusses the keyword "this" in JavaScript and how its context depends on how functions are called. It provides various ways to avoid using "this", such as binding functions, using closures to access outer variables, and defining objects without "this". Avoiding "this" can make code clearer but uses more memory, while using "this" carefully enables features like inheritance. The overall message is to understand how "this" works and avoid it when possible or bind it when needed.
- JavaScript patterns like custom events, deferreds, and pub/sub can help manage asynchronous processes in the browser environment. Custom events allow defining and triggering custom events. Deferreds help manage callbacks and caching of asynchronous results. Pub/sub implements a publisher/subscriber pattern for loose coupling between modules. These patterns help modularize applications and decouple components.
This document discusses best practices for deploying Vim plugins. It recommends using Git for version control, hosting the repository on GitHub, and structuring the plugin code at the root directory. The document also suggests using vim-makefile to build a Vimball file, then deploying to vim.org and mentioning the GitHub repository to announce and share the new plugin.
My Top 10 Secret Weapons for Frontend DevelopmentGeoffrey Plitt
The document is a presentation by Geoffrey Plitt about his 10 secret weapons for frontend development. It introduces Plitt as a former Google engineer and current CTO who will discuss tools like Slim for better HTML, SASS for better CSS, CoffeeScript for better JavaScript, and CodeKit for putting it all together. The presentation promotes additional tools like Knockout for better MVC, HeadJS for better JavaScript loading, Proxino for JavaScript error handling, and PubNub for better fan-out capabilities. It concludes by thanking the audience and encouraging them to follow Plitt online.
The document discusses using the r3 library in Node.js via the node-ffi package. It provides examples of defining foreign function interfaces (FFIs) for r3 functions in node-ffi, and calling them to create route trees, insert routes, and match routes. It also discusses handling structs and pointers in r3, including using ref-struct and ref.refType. Performance is addressed, noting the overhead of string transformations can be avoided by storing route data in a Buffer and passing indexes.
This document provides an overview of functional programming using Underscore.js and Lo-Dash. It discusses key concepts of functional programming like pure functions, first class functions, and higher order functions. It then explains how Underscore.js and Lo-Dash support functional programming in JavaScript with functions like compose, map, reduce, filter, and utilities to work with functions as first class citizens. The document compares Underscore.js and Lo-Dash, noting Lo-Dash's better performance, larger feature set, and utilities like partial and result. It emphasizes applying functional concepts judiciously for benefits while avoiding rewriting all code to be purely functional.
WAI-ARIA provides semantics and accessibility information to web pages and applications developed with technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. It defines roles, states, and properties that can be applied to elements to define their purpose and relationships. This allows assistive technologies like screen readers to better understand the structure, functionality and relationships within complex JavaScript-driven applications and dynamic content.
El documento define el término "emo" que originalmente se refería al estilo musical emo pero que ahora se usa más ampliamente. Un "emo" se refiere a alguien que expresa infelicidad, melancolía o problemas emocionales a través de su comportamiento y estética, adoptando este estilo de vida especialmente entre los jóvenes.
This document discusses the history and modern capabilities of web development tools. It describes how early debugging was limited to script debugging with unclear errors. It then explains how tools like Firebug revolutionized development by allowing inspection of DOM trees, stylesheets, network requests, and performance profiling. Modern tools like the Developer Tools in Chrome and Safari as well as Dragonfly in Opera provide similar powerful debugging functions without browser limitations.
The document discusses new features in HTML5 including semantic elements, form elements, and microdata. Some key points:
1. HTML5 introduces new semantic elements like <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <article>, and <section> to define different parts of a page and improve semantics and accessibility.
2. New form input types are added like email, url, tel, number, date to support validation and new UI widgets. Attributes like placeholder, autofocus, and autocomplete improve the form experience.
3. Microdata builds on microformats to embed structured data using attributes like itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop to identify items, properties and values for search engines and APIs
What I learnt: Elastic search & Kibana : introduction, installtion & configur...Rahul K Chauhan
This document provides an overview of the ELK stack components Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It describes what each component is used for at a high level: Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine, Logstash is used for data collection and normalization, and Kibana is a data visualization platform. It also provides basic instructions for installing and running Elasticsearch and Kibana.
JavaScript, React Native and Performance at react-europe 2016Tadeu Zagallo
With React Native, some of your applications core functionalities, that would previously be written in native code, are now implemented in JavaScript. And that's great! Now you can use things like Hot Module Reloading and ship updates to your app whenever you want. But what about performance and User Experience? Is JavaScript fast enough to replace native code? I'm going to talk about some of the challenges we are working on at the React Native Performance team.
This document discusses module patterns in JavaScript and asynchronous module definition (AMD) using RequireJS. It introduces the module pattern as a way to encapsulate code and expose public APIs. AMD and RequireJS are presented as solutions for asynchronously loading JavaScript modules and managing dependencies. Key advantages of the module pattern, AMD and RequireJS include maintaining encapsulation, organizing code into reusable modules, and handling dependency loading order. Challenges with large JavaScript applications using many modules are also addressed.
Jspm is a package manager that supports npm, GitHub registries and extends package.json, allowing installation of packages like jquery, materialize-css and immutablejs using commands like jspm install. It uses SystemJS as its module loader and supports TypeScript, enabling development of Angular 2 applications with features such as components, services and routing. The document provides an overview of the Angular 2 ecosystem including jspm, SystemJS, TypeScript and highlights of the Angular 2 framework.
React Native is an open source framework by Facebook that enables software engineers to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. I'll talk about what React Native actually is (and what it isn't), how it works under the hood, and why it was designed like that.
React Native allows developers to build native mobile apps using JavaScript and React. While it provides benefits like using React for both web and mobile, allowing for code reuse, there are also challenges to using it in production. It is easy for web developers to use initially but documentation is poor and updates can cause breaking changes. Performance has not been an issue yet but native apps are generally faster. While the community is active, third party packages can introduce bugs and the build can sometimes break, especially on Android. Overall, React Native can be used for production apps if challenges around updates and crashes are addressed.
We’re all camping at UX Camp West, so I thought I’d use the metaphor of a tent to share with you my view on the field of User Experience. I will describe the 7 poles of the tent's structure (research, design, evaluation, implementation, business, strategy, and management) and show you some random objects that I found in its corners. It is my goal that afterwards, we can all appreciate the beauty of the big tent, and realise how we contribute to a happy stay.
This document provides 10 tips for brands using WeChat official accounts to build audiences. The tips include making headlines count, segmenting audiences, increasing relevance of content, being more compelling, providing incentives and rewards, using more visual storytelling, linking to other social media, inviting guest editors, turning questions into content, and creating content on location. It emphasizes the importance of high-quality, relevant, visual content that engages audiences and drives action. It also recommends tools like CMS/CRM systems to better segment and target audiences with customized content.
UiPath Community Zurich: Release Management and Build PipelinesUiPathCommunity
Ensuring robust, reliable, and repeatable delivery processes is more critical than ever - it's a success factor for your automations and for automation programmes as a whole. In this session, we’ll dive into modern best practices for release management and explore how tools like the UiPathCLI can streamline your CI/CD pipelines. Whether you’re just starting with automation or scaling enterprise-grade deployments, our event promises to deliver helpful insights to you. This topic is relevant for both on-premise and cloud users - as well as for automation developers and software testers alike.
📕 Agenda:
- Best Practices for Release Management
- What it is and why it matters
- UiPath Build Pipelines Deep Dive
- Exploring CI/CD workflows, the UiPathCLI and showcasing scenarios for both on-premise and cloud
- Discussion, Q&A
👨🏫 Speakers
Roman Tobler, CEO@ Routinuum
Johans Brink, CTO@ MvR Digital Workforce
We look forward to bringing best practices and showcasing build pipelines to you - and to having interesting discussions on this important topic!
If you have any questions or inputs prior to the event, don't hesitate to reach out to us.
This event streamed live on May 27, 16:00 pm CET.
Check out all our upcoming UiPath Community sessions at:
👉 https://community.uipath.com/events/
Join UiPath Community Zurich chapter:
👉 https://community.uipath.com/zurich/
New Ways to Reduce Database Costs with ScyllaDBScyllaDB
How ScyllaDB’s latest capabilities can reduce your infrastructure costs
ScyllaDB has been obsessed with price-performance from day 1. Our core database is architected with low-level engineering optimizations that squeeze every ounce of power from the underlying infrastructure. And we just completed a multi-year effort to introduce a set of new capabilities for additional savings.
Join this webinar to learn about these new capabilities: the underlying challenges we wanted to address, the workloads that will benefit most from each, and how to get started. We’ll cover ways to:
- Avoid overprovisioning with “just-in-time” scaling
- Safely operate at up to ~90% storage utilization
- Cut network costs with new compression strategies and file-based streaming
We’ll also highlight a “hidden gem” capability that lets you safely balance multiple workloads in a single cluster. To conclude, we will share the efficiency-focused capabilities on our short-term and long-term roadmaps.
nnual (33 years) study of the Israeli Enterprise / public IT market. Covering sections on Israeli Economy, IT trends 2026-28, several surveys (AI, CDOs, OCIO, CTO, staffing cyber, operations and infra) plus rankings of 760 vendors on 160 markets (market sizes and trends) and comparison of products according to support and market penetration.
6th Power Grid Model Meetup
Join the Power Grid Model community for an exciting day of sharing experiences, learning from each other, planning, and collaborating.
This hybrid in-person/online event will include a full day agenda, with the opportunity to socialize afterwards for in-person attendees.
If you have a hackathon proposal, tell us when you register!
About Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
Agentic AI - The New Era of IntelligenceMuzammil Shah
This presentation is specifically designed to introduce final-year university students to the foundational principles of Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI). It aims to provide a clear understanding of how Agentic AI systems function, their key components, and the underlying technologies that empower them. By exploring real-world applications and emerging trends, the session will equip students with essential knowledge to engage with this rapidly evolving area of AI, preparing them for further study or professional work in the field.
GDG Cloud Southlake #43: Tommy Todd: The Quantum Apocalypse: A Looming Threat...James Anderson
The Quantum Apocalypse: A Looming Threat & The Need for Post-Quantum Encryption
We explore the imminent risks posed by quantum computing to modern encryption standards and the urgent need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Bio: With 30 years in cybersecurity, including as a CISO, Tommy is a strategic leader driving security transformation, risk management, and program maturity. He has led high-performing teams, shaped industry policies, and advised organizations on complex cyber, compliance, and data protection challenges.
As data privacy regulations become more pervasive across the globe and organizations increasingly handle and transfer (including across borders) meaningful volumes of personal and confidential information, the need for robust contracts to be in place is more important than ever.
This webinar will provide a deep dive into privacy contracting, covering essential terms and concepts, negotiation strategies, and key practices for managing data privacy risks.
Whether you're in legal, privacy, security, compliance, GRC, procurement, or otherwise, this session will include actionable insights and practical strategies to help you enhance your agreements, reduce risk, and enable your business to move fast while protecting itself.
This webinar will review key aspects and considerations in privacy contracting, including:
- Data processing addenda, cross-border transfer terms including EU Model Clauses/Standard Contractual Clauses, etc.
- Certain legally-required provisions (as well as how to ensure compliance with those provisions)
- Negotiation tactics and common issues
- Recent lessons from recent regulatory actions and disputes
This document provides an overview of functional programming using Underscore.js and Lo-Dash. It discusses key concepts of functional programming like pure functions, first class functions, and higher order functions. It then explains how Underscore.js and Lo-Dash support functional programming in JavaScript with functions like compose, map, reduce, filter, and utilities to work with functions as first class citizens. The document compares Underscore.js and Lo-Dash, noting Lo-Dash's better performance, larger feature set, and utilities like partial and result. It emphasizes applying functional concepts judiciously for benefits while avoiding rewriting all code to be purely functional.
WAI-ARIA provides semantics and accessibility information to web pages and applications developed with technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. It defines roles, states, and properties that can be applied to elements to define their purpose and relationships. This allows assistive technologies like screen readers to better understand the structure, functionality and relationships within complex JavaScript-driven applications and dynamic content.
El documento define el término "emo" que originalmente se refería al estilo musical emo pero que ahora se usa más ampliamente. Un "emo" se refiere a alguien que expresa infelicidad, melancolía o problemas emocionales a través de su comportamiento y estética, adoptando este estilo de vida especialmente entre los jóvenes.
This document discusses the history and modern capabilities of web development tools. It describes how early debugging was limited to script debugging with unclear errors. It then explains how tools like Firebug revolutionized development by allowing inspection of DOM trees, stylesheets, network requests, and performance profiling. Modern tools like the Developer Tools in Chrome and Safari as well as Dragonfly in Opera provide similar powerful debugging functions without browser limitations.
The document discusses new features in HTML5 including semantic elements, form elements, and microdata. Some key points:
1. HTML5 introduces new semantic elements like <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <article>, and <section> to define different parts of a page and improve semantics and accessibility.
2. New form input types are added like email, url, tel, number, date to support validation and new UI widgets. Attributes like placeholder, autofocus, and autocomplete improve the form experience.
3. Microdata builds on microformats to embed structured data using attributes like itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop to identify items, properties and values for search engines and APIs
What I learnt: Elastic search & Kibana : introduction, installtion & configur...Rahul K Chauhan
This document provides an overview of the ELK stack components Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It describes what each component is used for at a high level: Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine, Logstash is used for data collection and normalization, and Kibana is a data visualization platform. It also provides basic instructions for installing and running Elasticsearch and Kibana.
JavaScript, React Native and Performance at react-europe 2016Tadeu Zagallo
With React Native, some of your applications core functionalities, that would previously be written in native code, are now implemented in JavaScript. And that's great! Now you can use things like Hot Module Reloading and ship updates to your app whenever you want. But what about performance and User Experience? Is JavaScript fast enough to replace native code? I'm going to talk about some of the challenges we are working on at the React Native Performance team.
This document discusses module patterns in JavaScript and asynchronous module definition (AMD) using RequireJS. It introduces the module pattern as a way to encapsulate code and expose public APIs. AMD and RequireJS are presented as solutions for asynchronously loading JavaScript modules and managing dependencies. Key advantages of the module pattern, AMD and RequireJS include maintaining encapsulation, organizing code into reusable modules, and handling dependency loading order. Challenges with large JavaScript applications using many modules are also addressed.
Jspm is a package manager that supports npm, GitHub registries and extends package.json, allowing installation of packages like jquery, materialize-css and immutablejs using commands like jspm install. It uses SystemJS as its module loader and supports TypeScript, enabling development of Angular 2 applications with features such as components, services and routing. The document provides an overview of the Angular 2 ecosystem including jspm, SystemJS, TypeScript and highlights of the Angular 2 framework.
React Native is an open source framework by Facebook that enables software engineers to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. I'll talk about what React Native actually is (and what it isn't), how it works under the hood, and why it was designed like that.
React Native allows developers to build native mobile apps using JavaScript and React. While it provides benefits like using React for both web and mobile, allowing for code reuse, there are also challenges to using it in production. It is easy for web developers to use initially but documentation is poor and updates can cause breaking changes. Performance has not been an issue yet but native apps are generally faster. While the community is active, third party packages can introduce bugs and the build can sometimes break, especially on Android. Overall, React Native can be used for production apps if challenges around updates and crashes are addressed.
We’re all camping at UX Camp West, so I thought I’d use the metaphor of a tent to share with you my view on the field of User Experience. I will describe the 7 poles of the tent's structure (research, design, evaluation, implementation, business, strategy, and management) and show you some random objects that I found in its corners. It is my goal that afterwards, we can all appreciate the beauty of the big tent, and realise how we contribute to a happy stay.
This document provides 10 tips for brands using WeChat official accounts to build audiences. The tips include making headlines count, segmenting audiences, increasing relevance of content, being more compelling, providing incentives and rewards, using more visual storytelling, linking to other social media, inviting guest editors, turning questions into content, and creating content on location. It emphasizes the importance of high-quality, relevant, visual content that engages audiences and drives action. It also recommends tools like CMS/CRM systems to better segment and target audiences with customized content.
UiPath Community Zurich: Release Management and Build PipelinesUiPathCommunity
Ensuring robust, reliable, and repeatable delivery processes is more critical than ever - it's a success factor for your automations and for automation programmes as a whole. In this session, we’ll dive into modern best practices for release management and explore how tools like the UiPathCLI can streamline your CI/CD pipelines. Whether you’re just starting with automation or scaling enterprise-grade deployments, our event promises to deliver helpful insights to you. This topic is relevant for both on-premise and cloud users - as well as for automation developers and software testers alike.
📕 Agenda:
- Best Practices for Release Management
- What it is and why it matters
- UiPath Build Pipelines Deep Dive
- Exploring CI/CD workflows, the UiPathCLI and showcasing scenarios for both on-premise and cloud
- Discussion, Q&A
👨🏫 Speakers
Roman Tobler, CEO@ Routinuum
Johans Brink, CTO@ MvR Digital Workforce
We look forward to bringing best practices and showcasing build pipelines to you - and to having interesting discussions on this important topic!
If you have any questions or inputs prior to the event, don't hesitate to reach out to us.
This event streamed live on May 27, 16:00 pm CET.
Check out all our upcoming UiPath Community sessions at:
👉 https://community.uipath.com/events/
Join UiPath Community Zurich chapter:
👉 https://community.uipath.com/zurich/
New Ways to Reduce Database Costs with ScyllaDBScyllaDB
How ScyllaDB’s latest capabilities can reduce your infrastructure costs
ScyllaDB has been obsessed with price-performance from day 1. Our core database is architected with low-level engineering optimizations that squeeze every ounce of power from the underlying infrastructure. And we just completed a multi-year effort to introduce a set of new capabilities for additional savings.
Join this webinar to learn about these new capabilities: the underlying challenges we wanted to address, the workloads that will benefit most from each, and how to get started. We’ll cover ways to:
- Avoid overprovisioning with “just-in-time” scaling
- Safely operate at up to ~90% storage utilization
- Cut network costs with new compression strategies and file-based streaming
We’ll also highlight a “hidden gem” capability that lets you safely balance multiple workloads in a single cluster. To conclude, we will share the efficiency-focused capabilities on our short-term and long-term roadmaps.
nnual (33 years) study of the Israeli Enterprise / public IT market. Covering sections on Israeli Economy, IT trends 2026-28, several surveys (AI, CDOs, OCIO, CTO, staffing cyber, operations and infra) plus rankings of 760 vendors on 160 markets (market sizes and trends) and comparison of products according to support and market penetration.
6th Power Grid Model Meetup
Join the Power Grid Model community for an exciting day of sharing experiences, learning from each other, planning, and collaborating.
This hybrid in-person/online event will include a full day agenda, with the opportunity to socialize afterwards for in-person attendees.
If you have a hackathon proposal, tell us when you register!
About Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
Agentic AI - The New Era of IntelligenceMuzammil Shah
This presentation is specifically designed to introduce final-year university students to the foundational principles of Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI). It aims to provide a clear understanding of how Agentic AI systems function, their key components, and the underlying technologies that empower them. By exploring real-world applications and emerging trends, the session will equip students with essential knowledge to engage with this rapidly evolving area of AI, preparing them for further study or professional work in the field.
GDG Cloud Southlake #43: Tommy Todd: The Quantum Apocalypse: A Looming Threat...James Anderson
The Quantum Apocalypse: A Looming Threat & The Need for Post-Quantum Encryption
We explore the imminent risks posed by quantum computing to modern encryption standards and the urgent need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Bio: With 30 years in cybersecurity, including as a CISO, Tommy is a strategic leader driving security transformation, risk management, and program maturity. He has led high-performing teams, shaped industry policies, and advised organizations on complex cyber, compliance, and data protection challenges.
As data privacy regulations become more pervasive across the globe and organizations increasingly handle and transfer (including across borders) meaningful volumes of personal and confidential information, the need for robust contracts to be in place is more important than ever.
This webinar will provide a deep dive into privacy contracting, covering essential terms and concepts, negotiation strategies, and key practices for managing data privacy risks.
Whether you're in legal, privacy, security, compliance, GRC, procurement, or otherwise, this session will include actionable insights and practical strategies to help you enhance your agreements, reduce risk, and enable your business to move fast while protecting itself.
This webinar will review key aspects and considerations in privacy contracting, including:
- Data processing addenda, cross-border transfer terms including EU Model Clauses/Standard Contractual Clauses, etc.
- Certain legally-required provisions (as well as how to ensure compliance with those provisions)
- Negotiation tactics and common issues
- Recent lessons from recent regulatory actions and disputes
Jira Administration Training – Day 1 : IntroductionRavi Teja
This presentation covers the basics of Jira for beginners. Learn how Jira works, its key features, project types, issue types, and user roles. Perfect for anyone new to Jira or preparing for Jira Admin roles.
Microsoft Build 2025 takeaways in one presentationDigitalmara
Microsoft Build 2025 introduced significant updates. Everything revolves around AI. DigitalMara analyzed these announcements:
• AI enhancements for Windows 11
By embedding AI capabilities directly into the OS, Microsoft is lowering the barrier for users to benefit from intelligent automation without requiring third-party tools. It's a practical step toward improving user experience, such as streamlining workflows and enhancing productivity. However, attention should be paid to data privacy, user control, and transparency of AI behavior. The implementation policy should be clear and ethical.
• GitHub Copilot coding agent
The introduction of coding agents is a meaningful step in everyday AI assistance. However, it still brings challenges. Some people compare agents with junior developers. They noted that while the agent can handle certain tasks, it often requires supervision and can introduce new issues. This innovation holds both potential and limitations. Balancing automation with human oversight is crucial to ensure quality and reliability.
• Introduction of Natural Language Web
NLWeb is a significant step toward a more natural and intuitive web experience. It can help users access content more easily and reduce reliance on traditional navigation. The open-source foundation provides developers with the flexibility to implement AI-driven interactions without rebuilding their existing platforms. NLWeb is a promising level of web interaction that complements, rather than replaces, well-designed UI.
• Introduction of Model Context Protocol
MCP provides a standardized method for connecting AI models with diverse tools and data sources. This approach simplifies the development of AI-driven applications, enhancing efficiency and scalability. Its open-source nature encourages broader adoption and collaboration within the developer community. Nevertheless, MCP can face challenges in compatibility across vendors and security in context sharing. Clear guidelines are crucial.
• Windows Subsystem for Linux is open-sourced
It's a positive step toward greater transparency and collaboration in the developer ecosystem. The community can now contribute to its evolution, helping identify issues and expand functionality faster. However, open-source software in a core system also introduces concerns around security, code quality management, and long-term maintenance. Microsoft’s continued involvement will be key to ensuring WSL remains stable and secure.
• Azure AI Foundry platform hosts Grok 3 AI models
Adding new models is a valuable expansion of AI development resources available at Azure. This provides developers with more flexibility in choosing language models that suit a range of application sizes and needs. Hosting on Azure makes access and integration easier when using Microsoft infrastructure.
Co-Constructing Explanations for AI Systems using ProvenancePaul Groth
Explanation is not a one off - it's a process where people and systems work together to gain understanding. This idea of co-constructing explanations or explanation by exploration is powerful way to frame the problem of explanation. In this talk, I discuss our first experiments with this approach for explaining complex AI systems by using provenance. Importantly, I discuss the difficulty of evaluation and discuss some of our first approaches to evaluating these systems at scale. Finally, I touch on the importance of explanation to the comprehensive evaluation of AI systems.
ELNL2025 - Unlocking the Power of Sensitivity Labels - A Comprehensive Guide....Jasper Oosterveld
Sensitivity labels, powered by Microsoft Purview Information Protection, serve as the foundation for classifying and protecting your sensitive data within Microsoft 365. Their importance extends beyond classification and play a crucial role in enforcing governance policies across your Microsoft 365 environment. Join me, a Data Security Consultant and Microsoft MVP, as I share practical tips and tricks to get the full potential of sensitivity labels. I discuss sensitive information types, automatic labeling, and seamless integration with Data Loss Prevention, Teams Premium, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Protecting Your Sensitive Data with Microsoft Purview - IRMS 2025Nikki Chapple
Session | Protecting Your Sensitive Data with Microsoft Purview: Practical Information Protection and DLP Strategies
Presenter | Nikki Chapple (MVP| Principal Cloud Architect CloudWay) & Ryan John Murphy (Microsoft)
Event | IRMS Conference 2025
Format | Birmingham UK
Date | 18-20 May 2025
In this closing keynote session from the IRMS Conference 2025, Nikki Chapple and Ryan John Murphy deliver a compelling and practical guide to data protection, compliance, and information governance using Microsoft Purview. As organizations generate over 2 billion pieces of content daily in Microsoft 365, the need for robust data classification, sensitivity labeling, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has never been more urgent.
This session addresses the growing challenge of managing unstructured data, with 73% of sensitive content remaining undiscovered and unclassified. Using a mountaineering metaphor, the speakers introduce the “Secure by Default” blueprint—a four-phase maturity model designed to help organizations scale their data security journey with confidence, clarity, and control.
🔐 Key Topics and Microsoft 365 Security Features Covered:
Microsoft Purview Information Protection and DLP
Sensitivity labels, auto-labeling, and adaptive protection
Data discovery, classification, and content labeling
DLP for both labeled and unlabeled content
SharePoint Advanced Management for workspace governance
Microsoft 365 compliance center best practices
Real-world case study: reducing 42 sensitivity labels to 4 parent labels
Empowering users through training, change management, and adoption strategies
🧭 The Secure by Default Path – Microsoft Purview Maturity Model:
Foundational – Apply default sensitivity labels at content creation; train users to manage exceptions; implement DLP for labeled content.
Managed – Focus on crown jewel data; use client-side auto-labeling; apply DLP to unlabeled content; enable adaptive protection.
Optimized – Auto-label historical content; simulate and test policies; use advanced classifiers to identify sensitive data at scale.
Strategic – Conduct operational reviews; identify new labeling scenarios; implement workspace governance using SharePoint Advanced Management.
🎒 Top Takeaways for Information Management Professionals:
Start secure. Stay protected. Expand with purpose.
Simplify your sensitivity label taxonomy for better adoption.
Train your users—they are your first line of defense.
Don’t wait for perfection—start small and iterate fast.
Align your data protection strategy with business goals and regulatory requirements.
💡 Who Should Watch This Presentation?
This session is ideal for compliance officers, IT administrators, records managers, data protection officers (DPOs), security architects, and Microsoft 365 governance leads. Whether you're in the public sector, financial services, healthcare, or education.
🔗 Read the blog: https://nikkichapple.com/irms-conference-2025/
Introducing the OSA 3200 SP and OSA 3250 ePRCAdtran
Adtran's latest Oscilloquartz solutions make optical pumping cesium timing more accessible than ever. Discover how the new OSA 3200 SP and OSA 3250 ePRC deliver superior stability, simplified deployment and lower total cost of ownership. Built on a shared platform and engineered for scalable, future-ready networks, these models are ideal for telecom, defense, metrology and more.
Introduction and Background:
Study Overview and Methodology: The study analyzes the IT market in Israel, covering over 160 markets and 760 companies/products/services. It includes vendor rankings, IT budgets, and trends from 2025-2029. Vendors participate in detailed briefings and surveys.
Vendor Listings: The presentation lists numerous vendors across various pages, detailing their names and services. These vendors are ranked based on their participation and market presence.
Market Insights and Trends: Key insights include IT market forecasts, economic factors affecting IT budgets, and the impact of AI on enterprise IT. The study highlights the importance of AI integration and the concept of creative destruction.
Agentic AI and Future Predictions: Agentic AI is expected to transform human-agent collaboration, with AI systems understanding context and orchestrating complex processes. Future predictions include AI's role in shopping and enterprise IT.
Multistream in SIP and NoSIP @ OpenSIPS Summit 2025Lorenzo Miniero
Slides for my "Multistream support in the Janus SIP and NoSIP plugins" presentation at the OpenSIPS Summit 2025 event.
They describe my efforts refactoring the Janus SIP and NoSIP plugins to allow for the gatewaying of an arbitrary number of audio/video streams per call (thus breaking the current 1-audio/1-video limitation), plus some additional considerations on what this could mean when dealing with application protocols negotiated via SIP as well.
Jeremy Millul - A Talented Software DeveloperJeremy Millul
Jeremy Millul is a talented software developer based in NYC, known for leading impactful projects such as a Community Engagement Platform and a Hiking Trail Finder. Using React, MongoDB, and geolocation tools, Jeremy delivers intuitive applications that foster engagement and usability. A graduate of NYU’s Computer Science program, he brings creativity and technical expertise to every project, ensuring seamless user experiences and meaningful results in software development.
Data Virtualization: Bringing the Power of FME to Any ApplicationSafe Software
Imagine building web applications or dashboards on top of all your systems. With FME’s new Data Virtualization feature, you can deliver the full CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) capabilities on top of all your data that exploit the full power of FME’s all data, any AI capabilities. Data Virtualization enables you to build OpenAPI compliant API endpoints using FME Form’s no-code development platform.
In this webinar, you’ll see how easy it is to turn complex data into real-time, usable REST API based services. We’ll walk through a real example of building a map-based app using FME’s Data Virtualization, and show you how to get started in your own environment – no dev team required.
What you’ll take away:
-How to build live applications and dashboards with federated data
-Ways to control what’s exposed: filter, transform, and secure responses
-How to scale access with caching, asynchronous web call support, with API endpoint level security.
-Where this fits in your stack: from web apps, to AI, to automation
Whether you’re building internal tools, public portals, or powering automation – this webinar is your starting point to real-time data delivery.
Dev Dives: System-to-system integration with UiPath API WorkflowsUiPathCommunity
Join the next Dev Dives webinar on May 29 for a first contact with UiPath API Workflows, a powerful tool purpose-fit for API integration and data manipulation!
This session will guide you through the technical aspects of automating communication between applications, systems and data sources using API workflows.
📕 We'll delve into:
- How this feature delivers API integration as a first-party concept of the UiPath Platform.
- How to design, implement, and debug API workflows to integrate with your existing systems seamlessly and securely.
- How to optimize your API integrations with runtime built for speed and scalability.
This session is ideal for developers looking to solve API integration use cases with the power of the UiPath Platform.
👨🏫 Speakers:
Gunter De Souter, Sr. Director, Product Manager @UiPath
Ramsay Grove, Product Manager @UiPath
This session streamed live on May 29, 2025, 16:00 CET.
Check out all our upcoming UiPath Dev Dives sessions:
👉 https://community.uipath.com/dev-dives-automation-developer-2025/
European Accessibility Act & Integrated Accessibility TestingJulia Undeutsch
Emma Dawson will guide you through two important topics in this session.
Firstly, she will prepare you for the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which comes into effect on 28 June 2025, and show you how development teams can prepare for it.
In the second part of the webinar, Emma Dawson will explore with you various integrated testing methods and tools that will help you improve accessibility during the development cycle, such as Linters, Storybook, Playwright, just to name a few.
Focus: European Accessibility Act, Integrated Testing tools and methods (e.g. Linters, Storybook, Playwright)
Target audience: Everyone, Developers, Testers