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W3C Finalizes Web of Things (WoT) Recommendations
The W3C recently announced two new W3C Recommendations, Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), for web integration across IoT platforms and applications.
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Instana Launches Context Guide: Enabling Visual Navigation of Infrastructure & Services
Provider of automated application performance management (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana, has launched the Instana Context Guide, providing GUI-based access to the company’s underlying system model called the Dynamic Graph. Instana’s solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure.
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Remaining Accessibility Issues in HTML Controls
The HTML standard has constantly made progress in accessibility over the years. Developers and designers have however reported some accessibility issues with common HTML controls such as <input/>, <select/>, <video/>.
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Ionic 5 Release Supports iOS 13 Consistency, Angular Ivy
The recent Ionic 5 release adds support for iOS 13 styles, a new custom animation API, and an improved Ionicon icon set.
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Angular 9.1 Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support and Faster Builds
The Angular 9.1 release adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and reduces the time it takes to build an Angular application.
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AlphaFold Algorithm Predicts COVID-19 Protein Structures
DeepMind uses AlphaFold to predict 3D protein structures straight from amino acid sequences for novel coronavirus 2019 (NCOVID-2019).
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What's New in MicroProfile 3.3
The Eclipse Foundation released MicroProfile 3.3 featuring updates to five APIs - Rest Client, Config, Fault Tolerance, Metrics and Health. Other improvements include clarifications and enhancements to specifications and documentation, improved integration among all the MicroProfile APIs, interoperability across different MicroProfile implementations, and a complete set of artifacts for each API.
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NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 Releases Add Svelte, WebAssembly, KotlinJS and Performance Improvements
The recent NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 releases add a wide range of new features to their framework for building native mobile apps with TypeScript or JavaScript. Highlights in these releases include performance improvements to CSS parsing and CLI commands, support WebAssembly on Android and Svelte, 3D View Transformations, and experimental KotlinJS Support.
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Adobe Open-Sources Adaptive, Accessible Color Palettes Generator
Nate Baldwin, designer @Adobe’s design system Spectrum, released Leonardo 1.0, an open source color generator. Leonardo strives to enhance designer productivity and end-user experience by automating the creation of accessible, adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors. Leonardo also supports full theme generation and is intended for both designers and engineers.
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Web Components at Scale at Salesforce: Challenges Encountered, Lessons Learnt
Diego Ferreiro Val, principal architect at Salesforce, co-creator of Lightning Web Components (LWC), talked at WebComponentsSF about the challenges and lessons in building a platform leveraging web components at enterprise scale. Albeit with missing pieces, the web components standard was instrumental to achieve Salesforce’s interoperability, backward and forward compatibility objectives at scale.
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Improving Incident Management through Role Assignments and Game Days
John Arundel, principal consultant at Bitfield Consulting, shared his thoughts on how to ensure incidents are handled smoothly and quickly. He suggests assigning specific roles to each team member responding to the incident. Red team versus blue team exercises can also be leveraged to ensure the team is prepared to respond accurately and quickly.
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Next.js 9.3 Released, Improves Static Site Generation
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9.3, featuring improved static website generation and preview and adding Sass support, while shipping a smaller runtime.
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CSS Writing Modes Now an Official Web Standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently announced that CSS Writing Modes Level 3 is now an official web standard. The new CSS standard enables developers to configure texts to be laid out horizontally or vertically, as well as to set the direction in which lines are stacked. Thanks to CSS Writing Modes, content in a large number of languages can be natively displayed.
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NGINX Releases Controller 3.0 with Major Redesign Providing Consolidated Application View
NGINX announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0, their control-plane solution to manage the NGINX data plane. The 3.0 release sees a full redesign of Controller moving it into an "app-centric experience" that allows for interacting with the infrastructure at the application level. This includes a full configuration API, a role based self-service portal, and a built in certificate manager.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability for UI Flows, Enabling Robotic Process Automation
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of UI Flows on April 2nd, for customers worldwide. UI Flows is an addition to Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, that enables democratized access to automation and workflow. In this this latest release, Microsoft is enabling robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in the Power Automate service.