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A dataset with all sessions of the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference is nice to have - for experiments and demonstrations with many technologies. The session catalog is exposed at a website here.

With searching, filtering and scrolling, all available sessions can be inspected. If data is available in a browser, it can be retrieved programmatically and persisted locally in for example a JSON document. A typical approach for this is web scraping: having a server side program act like a browser, retrieve the HTML from the web site and query the data from the response. This process is described for example in this article - https://codeburst.io/an-introduction-to-web-scraping-with-node-js-1045b55c63f7 - for Node and the Cheerio library.

However, server side screen scraping of HTML will only be successful when the HTML is static. Dynamic HTML is constructed in the browser by executing JavaScript code that manipulates the browser DOM. If that is the mechanism behind a web site, server side scraping is at the very least considerably more complex (as it requires the server to emulate a modern web browser to a large degree). Selenium has been used in such cases - to provide a server side, programmatically accessible browser engine. Alternatively, screen scraping can also be performed inside the browser itself - as is supported for example by the Getsy library.

As you will find in this article - when server side scraping fails, client side scraping may be a much to complex solution. It is very well possible that the rich client web application is using a REST API that provides the data as a JSON document. An API that our server side program can also easily leverage. That turned out the case for the OOW 2017 website - so instead of complex HTML parsing and server side or even client side scraping, the challenge at hand resolves to nothing more than a little bit of REST calling. Read the complete article here.

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20 May 2018 8:16am GMT

Digital transformation is an omnipresent topic today, providing a lot of challenges as well as chances. Due to that, customers are asking about how to deal with those challenges and how to leverage from the provided chances. Frequently asked questions in this area are:

• How can we modernize existing applications?
• What are the key elements for a future-proven strategy IT system architecture?
• How can the flexibility as well as the agility of the IT system landscape be ensured?

But from our experience there's no common answer for these questions, since every customer has individual requirements and businesses, but it is necessary to find pragmatic solutions, which leverage from existing best Practices - it is not necessary to completely re-invent the wheel.

With our new poster "Four Pillars of Digitalization based on Oracle Cloud" (Download it here) , we try to deliver a set of harmonized reference models which we evolved based on our practical experience, while conceiving modern, future-oriented solutions in the area of modern application designs, integrative architectures, modern infrastructure solutions and analytical architectures. The guiding principle, which is the basis for our architectural thoughts is: Design for Change. If you want to learn more, you can refer to our corresponding Ebook (find the Ebook here, only available in German at the moment).

Usually the technological base for modern application architectures today is based on Cloud services, where the offerings of different vendors are constantly growing. Here it is important to know which Cloud services are the right ones to implement a specific use case. Our poster "Four Pillars of Digitalization based on Oracle Cloud" shows the respective Cloud services of our strategic partner Oracle, which can be used to address specific challenges in the area of digitalization. Get the poster here.

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20 May 2018 8:15am GMT

This week we announced a beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.13 release, and so far the internet seems pretty excited about it. But we're nowhere near done, and here's another week of Usability and Productivity enhancements to highlight:

New Features

• Discover now shows the download speed in the transactions overlay (Aleix Pol, KDE Plasma 5.13.0)
• Discover now shows transactions' command-line output when using Arch Linux (Aleix Pol, KDE Plasma 5.13.0)

Bugfixes

• When switching categories using the sidebar in System Settings, you are now prompted to apply or discard unsaved changes (David Edmundson, KDE Plasma 5.13.0)
• When multiple user accounts are present, logging into any of them no longer causes one of the other ones to not appear in the User Manager System Settings page (Valeriy Malov, KDE Plasma 5.12.6, KDE Plasma 5.12.6)
• Fixed a common crash in Discover (Aleix Pol, KDE Plasma 5.12.6)
• The "Open Wallpaper Image" menu item in the desktop's context menu now works (Oded Arbel, KDE Plasma 5.12.6)
• The "Minimize all windows" widget no longer breaks the Application Launcher menu when any unminimizable dialogs are open (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Plasma 5.13.0)
• KRunner searches are now case insensitive for the first letter (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Plasma 5.12.6)
• The timer on the logout options screen now works correctly when more than one screen is attached (David Edmundson, KDE Plasma 5.13.0)

UI Polish & Improvement

• The systemwide single-click/double-click setting is now located in the Workspace Behavior System Settings page (Furkan Tokac, KDE Plasma 5.13.0):
  
• The Look & Feel System Settings page now displays an informational warning when the "Use desktop layout from theme" checkbox is checked (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Plasma 5.13.0):
  
• The context menu for notifications that have images or files in them now has all the "Open" entries grouped together on top for easier access and a clearer user interface (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.13.0):
  
• The Quick Share Plasmoid's icon is now the same size as system tray icons, so it doesn't look out of place next to them (Chris Holland, KDE Plasma 5.13.0):
  
• Gwenview now displays the preview of a folder's content at high resolution even when the folder itself has a low-resolution icon (Peter Mühlenpfordt, KDE Applications 18.04.1):
  
• Clicking on a pop-up note in Okular now brings it forward if there's another note overlapping it (Simone Gaiarin, KDE Applications 18.08.0)
• Okular's search results are now easier to differentiate from highlight annotations (Oliver Sander)
• Baloo (the file indexer) now ignores more types of development files, using fewer resources and easing Node.js development (me: Nate Graham, KDE Frameworks 5.47)
• Scrolling over tabs in Plasma, QML apps, and Kirigami apps now switches the active tab, just like it does for QWidgets-based apps like Dolphin and Konsole (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Frameworks 5.47)

See all the names of people who worked hard to make the computing world a better place? That could be you next week! Getting involved isn't all that tough, and there's lots of support available. Give it a try today! It's easy and fun and important.

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20 May 2018 4:59am GMT

KDevelop 5.2.2 and 5.2.3 released

kfunk Sun, 2018/05/20 - 00:00

19 May 2018 10:00pm GMT

After almost two years, here comes a new version of Doxyqml, the QML filter for Doxygen. This new version adds a new command-line option: --namespace to wrap the generated C++ in a namespace, and makes the parser more robust. Nothing ground-breaking, but some nice changes nevertheless.

What's interesting with this project is that I don't use it these days, but it still receives contributions from time to time. This puts me in the unusual position (for me) where most of my contributions to the project are reviewing code, cleaning things, a bit of infrastructure (I just added code coverage checks: 88%, not too bad) and release management.

Surprisingly, I like doing this, I am happy to see this little tool remains useful enough that others keep it alive.

All that to say, you can now pip install --upgrade doxyqml to get the latest version, and enjoy documenting your QML components!

19 May 2018 6:48pm GMT

Oracle API Platform Cloud Services - API Design This is the first video of a series to showcase the usage of Oracle API Platform Cloud Services. API Management Part 1 of 2. Oracle API Cloud Services This is the second video of a series to show case the usage of the brand new Oracle API Platform CS. This is part one of API Management Oracle API Platform Cloud Services - API Management part 2 This is the 3rd video of the series. In specific here we will see the second part of the API Management functionality focused on Documentation. Oracle API Platform CS - How to create an app This is the 4th video of this series. In this video you will learn how to create an application. Oracle API Plaform Cloud Services - API Usage This is the fifth video of this series. In this video I will showcase how you will interact with the APIs that are deployed in APIPCS.

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19 May 2018 8:25am GMT