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SocialEngine Unite : it's not there yet...

Social Engine PHP, their self-hosted option is an amazing amazing product, we first used it in 2008 and had many clients ask for it as it wowed them. However, SocialEngine Unite and the new interface to manage SocialEngine Unite seem like a rushed job at least as of April 2020. It seems like it ...

What AWS does not/will never realize...

AWS has long ignored their lightsail product. How can you tell? * The poor UI that hasn’t changed for years * the limitation on number of static IPs and instances * No autoscaling feature on DBs * No easy way to increase capacity of DBs or instances * No addition to 1-click apps like digital o...

NodeBB review: doesn't seem to be production ready...

One thing we love : Node.js, hence a need of forum software started and ended with NodeBB. There are no other options. However having spent 48 hours with it, it seems learning Ruby on Rails [https://rubyonrails.org/]  is worth it just to use Discourse instead. Here was the journey with NodeBB: 1....

Gemini : An awesome crypto platform...

For the past four years, Gemini’s team has been building the most trusted and secure cryptocurrency platform on the market. Gemini’s team is on a mission to not only build the future of money but to create educational and informative content to help you navigate the industry. Gemini continues to ex...

Yarn let us down today : "There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying..."...

An engineer could not run yarn this morning, asked another engineer if yarn was working for her, but it kept failing. we thought it's our corporate network that is down but it couldn't have been because everything else seemed to be working. so we logged on to a Windows VM on GCP. Since we are a Goog...

How to delete invalid emails from MYSQL DB...

Often times we’ll find ourselves with invalid data in our database and we just want to clean it up. Particularly invalid emails. This SQL query helped us get 1 step closer to deleting invalid emails from our db. Note: Query only checks for email format and abc@abc.co will pass Delete e.* From <t...

AWS : Free Machine Learning (ML) virtual event...

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM–1:30 PM Pacific Time 12:00 PM–4:30 PM Eastern Time Learn More & Register » [https://email.awscloud.com/ol/h0lZdcfLdlhd6BYnucijD_67yXiSKsr_7eQwRLq1hpZsjB0zYv7APAyixYIBTsRlM7nYDBEXGpQ8kEpcE-TILMZT9KgNTUS7XGbxiaLRT4tcfrpn2c9lsaSknnUMroDQwgWUWxtZGCkqZw6Ya...

React Native: Unable to verify Xcode and Simulator installation...

yarn run v0.20.3 $ react-native-scripts ios Starting packager... Starting simulator... Unable to check Xcode version: Error: Process exited with non-zero code: 1 Failed to start simulator: Unable to verify Xcode and Simulator installation. Exiting... While trying to run React Native apps if you r...

Read how hackers are exploiting emerging technologies....

[https://www.business.att.com/content/dam/attbusiness/insights/articles2019/insights-featured-article-agentsecurity.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.816.480.jpeg] CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY INVITES NEW CYBER RISKS Emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G are creating opportun...

The key difference between a telephony reseller and an operator...

The Key Difference Between a Telephony Reseller and an Operator [https://images.ctfassets.net/taysl255dolk/6e3KRxe608McsWesO8uagu/8664af19f9451af31486477a73e6de27/TelephonyResellerAndOperatorDifference.png] It’s important to understand the key difference between a telephony reseller and an operator...