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В предыдущей статье мы рассказали о том, как создать камеру для улыбок с помощью HUAWEI ML Kit. В этот раз я собираюсь представить вам новую функцию HUAWEI ML Kit.

Вас когда-нибудь просили на учебе или работе принести фотографию определенного размера с цветным фоном для документов? В большинстве случаев у человека не окажется под рукой подходящей фотографии. Однажды в институте нам решили оформить персональные пропуска, но фотостудия оказалась закрыта. Тогда я сфотографировался на телефон, использовав простыню в качестве фона. И получил выговор от преподавателя. Но с помощью инструмента HUAWEI ML Kit вы сможете интегрировать SDK для сегментации изображений в ваше приложение и разработать апплет, чтобы создавать фото на документы самостоятельно и решить проблему отсутствия нужных фотографий.

Самое главное, что этот SDK абсолютно бесплатный и работает на всех телефонах на базе Android.

Разработка апплета для фото на документы самостоятельно

1. Подготовка

1.1 Добавьте репозиторий Maven Huawei в файл на уровне проекта build.gradle

Откройте файл build.gradle в корневом каталоге вашего проекта Android Studio.

The mass of news and articles about artificial intelligence creates the illusion that we are living in a fantastic time. But when you start asking everyone what exactly is useful in real life from these high technologies, the answers come down to some Google features, mobile games and a story about Chinese videos. By the way, oh, these Chinese videos — for some reason, they are constantly shown by the central mass media when they demonstrate Moscow's intellectual technologies.

In words, it seems, all the «intellects» are installed already everywhere, the whole country has long been transferred to neural networks, but only in some kind of demonstration pictures, in diagrams, on fingers. There is a mental dissonance — why not take a video camera and shoot at least a fragment of how Russia's super mega technologies work?

As Nikita Sergeevich said, «science ceases to be self-indulgence when its fruits are applied in the national economy.» And today's artificial intelligence is familiar to us only from games. Many people really want to see something useful in reality. Therefore, we were not too lazy and recorded our video of the operation of neural networks from real objects.

Do you know Node.js has turned 11 on 27th May 2020? Can’t believe we have stepped into a new decade of this technology? Okay! Let me tell you the truth and story behind it with this article.

JavaScript has come a long way with its constant bombardment of open-source frameworks. We all have embraced its journey, and Node.js is one of its prevalent and predominant innovations that knocked this tech arena on May 27th, 2009. So, technically and mathematically, both Node.js is 11 years old now.

The mobile app industry is at its peak of success and keeps evolving with the latest mobile app development technologies in future. It doesn’t matter which business you run but without an app, you cannot grow in this competitive environment.

An Android app is enough to make you achieve all your business goals. In 2019, there were around 2.13 billion apps downloaded from Google Play Store which clearly indicates its huge demand in near future and so the demand for Android app development companies in 2020.

According to AppBrain stats, there are over 2,963,573 Android apps on Google Play at present and approx. 1,365,868 no. of apps with rating.



With so many app development companies around us make it difficult to select the reliable Android app development company especially when it comes to business owners. Finding a cost-effective company which can give satisfactory results is not much difficult as it seems to you.

All you need to pick a sorted collection of the best Android app development companies where you can find the one which suits your business. Here, I have sorted a list of top 5 Android App Development Companies that you can partner with in 2020.

Theory of testing is usually differs from practice. Today we want to talk about our practical experience in testing application's code which is used by millions of iOS users and about the difficult path that our team finished in order to achieve stable code.

Let’s imagine: the developers successfully convinced themselves and the business of the need to cover the code with tests. Over time, in the project were created more than a dozen thousand unit- and more than a thousand UI-tests. Such a large test base araised several problems, and we successfully found the solution for them.

Sometimes, tired of endless code review and debugging, you start wondering if there are ways to make your life easier. After some googling or merely by accident, you stumble upon the phrase, "static analysis". Let's find out what it is and how it can be used in your project.

If a person is far over 20, then he has already accumulated a huge film library of his life, as well as videos from friends, relatives, and from his place of work… It is no longer possible to find someone or something specific there. Recently, I was preparing a video compilation for my daughter's anniversary – I spent a week. The media is all the more overloaded with video archives. And every day, millions of terabytes of video content appear in the world. And this is in the era of BIG DATA.

To keep it interesting, this time I'd like to tell about our approach to developing and polishing diagnostic rules for PVS-Studio Java. You will learn how we keep existing warnings consistent across releases and why the new ones aren't too weird. I'll also share a bit of inside information on what plans we, the Java team, have for the future, and show you a few interesting (and a few plain) bugs we found using the diagnostics from the upcoming release.

If you use static analyzers, you will have, sooner or later, to address the task of making their integration into existing projects easier, where fixing all warnings on legacy code is unfeasible.

The purpose of this article is not to help with integration but rather to elaborate on the technicalities of the process: the exact implementations of warning suppression mechanisms and pros and cons of each approach.

Introduction

In my opinion transaction management is a really important topic for each backend developer. In general, people don’t pay attention to it while using Spring framework.

But I think, it is important to know how to use transactions properly. Because sometimes can happen that there was an exception thrown inside your method, but transaction was not rolled back and it is not clear why? Or some other “strange” cases.

Academic data warehouse design recommends keeping everything in a normalized form, with links between. Then the roll forward of changes in relational math will provide a reliable repository with transaction support. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability — that's all. In other words, the storage is explicitly built to safely update the data. But it is not optimal for searching, especially with a broad gesture on the tables and fields. We need indices, a lot of indices! Volumes expand, recording slows down. SQL LIKE can not be indexed, and JOIN GROUP BY sends us to meditate in the query planner.

Intro

PXE is a great solution for booting a diskless computer (or a computer without an OS installed). This method is often used for terminal stations and OS mass installation.

Stock ubuntu (16.04) in pxe-mode can mount rootfs only from NFS. But this is not a great idea: any difficulties with the network/NFS server and the user gets problems.

In my opinion, it's best to use other protocols, such as http/ftp. Once booting, you will have an independent system

Today, we are presenting a new type of TOTP hardware tokens — USB Programmable token that displays the OTP value as a QR code and also can send the current OTP value over USB as a part of its HID emulation feature.

What is EVVIS-QR1?

EVVIS-QR1 is a hardware device developed primarily for Electronic visit verification (EVV) information systems (hence the name). It is a standards-based TOTP hardware token that can also be programmed over USB. The OTP generated is shown on the display both as regular digits as well as a QR image. Both features (OTP shown as QR code and HID keyboard emulation) are intended to make it possible to minimize typos when entering the OTP.

As the world rearranges into virtualized societal norms, the most convenient and simplified interaction for businesses or socially has come from video-based apps. Extensive use of these conferencing apps is trending Post COVID-19 pandemic. Statista.com has tracked the high number of video conference app downloads from AppStore and GoogleStore for the following:

The convenience of these apps is defined by their rich-features: video calling, ability to share screens, and interact in real-time.

1. Introduction

How can I easily test my MongoDB multi-document transaction code without setting up MongoDB on my device? One might argue that they have to set it up first because in order to carry out such a transaction it needs a session which requires a replica set. Thankfully, there is no need to create a 3-node replica set and we can run these transactions only against a single database instance.

I strain to make the far-off echo yield
A cue to the events that may come in my day.
(‘Doctor Zhivago’, Boris Pasternak)

I’ll be honest: I don’t write in pure C that often anymore and I haven’t been following the language’s development for a long time. However, two unexpected things happened recently: С won back the title of the most popular programming language according to TIOBE, and the first truly interesting book in years on this language was published. So, I decided to spend a few evenings studying material on C2x, the future version of C.

Here I will share with you what I consider to be its most interesting new features.

You will learn and implement a microservice in COBOL without Mainframe. You will structure the project, manage dependencies, implement automatic tests and build virtualized execution environment. Finally, you will publish the microservice on GitHub under Continuous Integration workflow.

Static code analysis is most effective when changing a project, as errors are always more difficult to fix in the future than at an early stage. We continue expanding the options for using PVS-Studio in continuous development systems. This time, we'll show you how to configure pull request analysis using self-hosted agents in Microsoft Azure DevOps, using the example of the Minetest game.

Kotlin is a JVM compatible & Java interoperable language that is the most-encouraged language by Google for developing Android apps & production-grade systems. According to Snyk, over the last few years, Kotlin has gained a huge user and developer base for robust, and secure app development.

The user-base has been shifted from 2.4% to 5.4%, that is a growth of 130% in the user population. This population growth and increment in its usage has made it the second most popular JVM language, that is quite surprising.

The reason for Kotlin application development is its 100% interoperability with Java. Around 7.78% of the world developers use Kotlin as their primary coding language. According to insights.dice- Kotlin is used 96% for new projects and 36% for migrating applications from Java to Kotlin. You can use it directly with Java code to make it more efficient, and it works concurrently or without any issue.



Many benchmark android applications of startups to moonshots have been built using Kotlin. Various startups and brands like EverNote, Twitter, Netflix, Slack, American Express, Airbnb, Adobe, and many others from different industry verticals opted for Kotlin app development.

Do you like GitLab and don't like bugs? Do you want to improve the quality of your source code? Then you've come to the right place. Today we will tell you how to configure the PVS-Studio C# analyzer for checking merge requests. Enjoy the reading and have a nice unicorn mood.