Pirate Site Admin Convicted After Five Years, Another Acquitted, Site Lives On
Numerous reports published by the European Union over the past decade have linked higher levels of content piracy with lacking availability of legal content. Restricted access to legal offers fuels the perception among citizens that piracy is an acceptable option, which in turn leads to higher levels of pirated content consumption. One way to combat that is by making content available and raising awareness, through the EU’s Agorateka...
A guide to fuzzy queries with Apache ShardingSphere
A guide to fuzzy queries with Apache ShardingSphere xionggaoxiang Wed, 02/01/2023 – 03:00 Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database and an ecosystem users and developers need for their databases to provide a customized and cloud-native experience. Its latest release contains many new features, including data encryption integrated with existing SQL workflows. Most importantly, it allows fuzzy queries of the...
What’s your community thinking pattern?
What’s your community thinking pattern? Ron McFarland Wed, 02/01/2023 – 03:00 This article is the second and final part of a discussion of the research by Dave Logan, Bob King, and Halee Fischer-Wright. If you haven’t read the first part yet, you can do so here. These researchers defined five cultural thinking patterns in communities. In part one, I explained the first three of five thinking patterns. These...
Merge design and code with Penpot
Merge design and code with Penpot sethkenlon Tue, 01/31/2023 – 09:00 For most of the history of computer programming, there’s been a gap between the programmers creating an application’s code and the designers creating an application’s user experience (UX). The two disciplines receive vastly different training, and they use a different set of tools. Programmers use a text editor or an IDE to write code, while...
