Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications demonstrates that it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. The book walks you ...

Truth be told, I’m useless in the kitchen—boiling water for tea and making toast is about as advanced as I get. What gets me excited is the kitchen-adjacent art of table setting; it allows me to get ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

Loading CSV, JSON, Excel, and Parquet data to database. It supports both local and online files (HTTP URLs). Data can be loaded incrementally or in full. Transforming data in existing database tables ...

A searchable database of public records concerning use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies — is now ...

While Dapper provides excellent support for performing CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations efficiently, it does not have built-in support for bulk operations (i.e., bulk insert, bulk update ...

Four years after it was mandated by lawmakers, a database that catalogs when police use force against people is finally getting up and running, promising to add another layer of transparency in police ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of Hibernate and JPA is to hide the complexity of SQL and relational databases from the ...

For almost a decade, tablets were considered to be devices that were best used for viewing content (films, shows, books, etc.) but were not considered good enough for actual work. That perception has, ...