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April 19, 2017

Reactive Forms in Angular: An Introduction

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Teklinks

Angular provides two ways to work with forms: template-driven forms and reactive forms, the latter also sometimes called model-driven forms. With template-driven forms, the default way to work with forms in Angular, template directives are used to build an internal representation of the form.

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This is not a test: Google Optimize now free — for everyone

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Teklinks

Businesses often have one big question for us: How can they better understand their website visitors and deliver more relevant, engaging experiences? To help businesses test and take action, last spring we launched our enterprise-class A/B testing and personalization product, Google Optimize 360.

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Indian Hackers Leaks 1.7 Million Snapchat User Data

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Teklinks

Snapchat is going through one of its worst weeks in a while. First the ratings of its app took a nose dive in the fallout of its CEO’s alleged comment calling Indians poor ( read more about it here ) and now, reports are coming in that a hacker group has released details of around a million accounts.

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April 18, 2017

Secure Communication With TLS and the Mosquitto Broker

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Teklinks

MQTT is a lightweight and broadly used Internet protocol (see MQTT with lwIP and NXP FRDM-K64F Board). And probably the majority of IoT applications today are using Mosquitto as a server (or ‘broker’ in MQTT language). By default, Mosquitto uses a protocol without encryption.

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Top 5 Docker Swarm tutorials

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Teklinks

At Dockercon '16 in Seattle last June Docker released a complete re-think on their orchestration offering called Swarm. Swarm has been gaining momentum and key features ever since. You can read more about Dockercon in Seattle in my Dockercon 2016 speaker notes.

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How to Extract Text from Images Using Command Line

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Teklinks

It’s easy enough to read an image and pull the text yourself. But dynamically pulling text from a photo is a bit tougher, and thankfully, imgclip offers a fairly simple solution. This command-line tool runs in the terminal for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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