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This blog post is an excerpt from the book Mastering Microsoft Teams authored by Microsoft MVPs Melissa Hubbard and Matthew J. Bailey and published by Apress.

Antivirus products are offering to monitor your web traffic directly, but this can have all sorts of ugly security and privacy implications.

This blog post is an excerpt from the book Mastering Microsoft Teams authored by Microsoft MVPs Melissa Hubbard and Matthew J. Bailey and published by Apress.

In this article you will learn how to use JavaFX’s animation APIs to create callouts.

The key aspects of SQL Server that make it a great data platform, and the unique aspects of SQL Server running on the Linux Operating System.

BizTalk Server can enable some trace mechanisms related to your solutions exposing data and events through the tracking feature, but when it comes to custom code, you have to provide instrumentation on your own. 

Oracle developers are spoiled for choice. In this crowded field, where does Oracle ADF fit in?

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups have become the most common High Availability technology used with SQL Server. This technology provides protection at the database group level...

Modular programming defines a concept called a module. Modules are software components that contain data and functions. By decomposing a system into independent software modules...

In 1981 the IBM PC was launched with 640 KB of RAM and the world of computing was never the same again. Apple Computers and IBM raced to get a desktop computer in every home and ...

As you may know, Java EE is currently being transitioned from Oracle Corporation to an open source platform under the Eclipse Foundation. That open platform will be known as Jakarta EE ...

Machine learning aficionados are heavily reliant on matrices to store, process, and even share numeric data for predictive purposes. Machine learning algorithms (estimators) use matrix operations to enable ...

When you write a program that needs to connect to a database server, you need a library that translates your queries into the messages that can be used with the protocol supported by the database ...

What is Type Inference? Suppose you want to store a person ID, say, 10, in a variable.  You would declare the variable like ...

I have spent the last two and a half years of my career focusing on a technology that, back then, was easily dismissible. So much that others in at my work doubted we could build a successful business around it ...

Data science and machine learning are not just buzz words of the moment but have rather transformed how business is conducted in today’s world. Incorporation of technology and digitization of almost every ...

Web scraping can be an invaluable skill to possess when working on data-related projects because many interesting analytics projects often start not with over-explored internal data, but with the treasure trove of ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term widely used today to refer to an area of science that is getting not only a lot of attention from the common audience but also tons of research time and interest from Computer ...

In my decade of managing applied machine learning teams I've interviewed maybe a hundred people. Over that time, I've come to rely on two main questions. I'm going to tell you what they are ...

“Big Data Analytics” and “Cognitive” are probably the hottest topics going around in areas of IT, Business availability of information and run smart strategy seekers and providers. Very interesting here is ...