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Recent advances in automatic programming suggest that we stay vigilant to their potential impact on software development. Automatic programming is a branch of AI, and the point is to create a system that can design and implement computer applications automatically. Today, the most practical application of automatic programming appears in low code platforms. We will explore the current state of the art in automatic program synthesis, with an eye on the future. And we will [...]

The point of progressive web apps is to make optimal use of the ever-evolving capabilities of browsers. One such advanced browser capability is to store data in a browser for offline app functionality. Browsers now use several NoSQL and NewSQL technologies for this purpose. Apache Ignite, and Google Spanner DB are popular NewSQL DBs. MySQL Cluster is an optimized and highly scalable new SQL interface. Offline DB management is the focus of our ultimate tutorial [...]

Cyber forensics, also called computer forensic science, offers many fascinating branches to pursue. In this tutorial, we will focus on the particular branch of cybersecurity analysis with code examples using Python as our language of choice. In the course of our Python socket programming tutorial we will build an actual packet analyzer, sometimes called a network packet sniffer. We will talk specifically about SQL injection techniques and how to detect and thwart them. This leads [...]

Ah, SEO. Being ranked high in search engines' results is important for many website authors as - if SEO is done right - search engines generally drive visitors interested in your content to your website. But people think that SEO is only related to how you manage your content and which keywords you put on your pages. In reality, SEO is really broader than that. Don't forget that search engines are powered by bots - [...]

In Part 1 of this multi-tutorial about my fabulous experience as a developer using the Bytescout PDF text Extractor SDK tools I covered several easy but sophisticated tools and showed how to extract images from pdf online as well as how to extract pages from PDFs or extract one page from a PDF. START YOUR FREE TRIAL Now, in Part 2 I want to delve into the more basic nuts and bolts functions and show [...]

Recently I had a challenging project to develop an interface for a mechanical engineer who needed to chart and visualize data from PDF spec sheets on an Excel spreadsheet. Fortunately, I found these great SDK tools from Bytescout which made the technical challenges and coding a breeze and made the whole project fun and easy! In this multi-tutorial, we will explore the rich variety of tools available in Bytescout’s awesome PDF Extractor SDK, and learn [...]

Cascading Style Sheets, usually known as CSS, is an essential piece of the advanced web development process. It is a very compelling HTML instrument that gives simple control over the format and introduction of web pages by separating content from design. In spite of the fact that CSS was introduced in the year 1996, it picked up standard ubiquity by the mid-2000s when prominent web browsers began supporting its features. The most recent variant, CSS3, [...]

Let’s start with a clear definition of a “single page application.” An SPA is a web application that is contained in a single HTML page that contains all scripts and resources required, and thus provides a user experience similar to a desktop app. Ideally, SPA loads all HTML, CSS, images, and required scripts such that all resources are dynamically available, and so that the page need not reload nor transfer control to another page. To [...]

New standard methods of JavaScript development are at hand and demand our attention because of their potential for voluminous deployment across millions of important websites today. The new ECMAScript 2017 defines world-changing optimizations that we can deploy to greatly improve performance. JavaScript’s extensibility recently appears boundless. Frameworks such as AngularJS have reshaped JavaScript development with truly dynamic SPAs. Libraries like JQuery are now so prolific and commonly used that JQuery appears alongside JavaScript as a [...]

Developers must be quick to become aware of the most recent revisions and feature enhancements to the JavaScript language in order to hold a competitive advantage and to capture ever-increasing performance from their websites. That is why ByteScout is here to provide you a summary of the most recent and most valuable additions to JavaScript’s  functionality. In this article, we will explore developments listed in the ECMAScript 2017 language specification to discover how to implement [...]