IoT and Employee Empowerment: How Connected Devices are Redefining Work
Employee empowerment is essential when implementing IoT devices into the workforce. But it can be easier said than done. Picture yourself walking through a large retail chain store at the height of the holiday season. As you navigate the aisles, dozens of employees are hard at work—restocking inventory, helping other customers find what they need, […]
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Microsoft .NET Aspire boosts integrations, testing
.NET Aspire 8.2, a new version of Microsoft’s cloud stack for building distributed applications, has arrived. The latest version features improvements for onboarding and testing. Developers can download the release, announced August 29, from learn.microsoft.com. With this release, .NET Aspire components now are called Integrations. These are packages to be added to an app that […]
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Adopting SGP.32: What Enterprises Need to Know
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow and evolve, managing connectivity for constrained IoT devices has become increasingly complex. The latest advancement in this area, the SGP.32 standard for Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP), offers a more streamlined and user-friendly approach. This new standard is set to replace the older SGP.02 standard, but transitioning […]
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Humble UI offers a Clojure-based desktop UI framework
The Clojure-based Humble UI is being developed as a framework for building high-quality desktop UIs. Humble UI’s GitHub page says the framework lets developers build better apps quickly while staying cross-platform. Humble’s principal developer, Nikita Prokopov, said work on Humble UI began in 2020. There is no set date for its completion, and it could […]
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I switched to a vertical mouse and I’m never looking back. Here’s why.
Over the next decade or so, I used the Evoluent mouse nonstop, to the point where its buttons started to malfunction and the whole unit started looking grubby. By that point, around 2022, vertical mice were more common, and so I replaced the once-costly Evoluent (around $100) with a relatively inexpensive model from a company […]
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What is an embedded system?
An embedded system is a combination of computer hardware and software designed for a specific function. Embedded systems might also function within a larger system. These systems can be programmable or have a fixed functionality. Embedded systems are used today to control numerous devices. For example, they’re used in industrial machines, consumer electronics, agricultural and […]
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Golioth’s Free Zephyr Training in September
Join Golioth’s free Zephyr training in September and learn how to work with Zephyr RTOS from Golioth experts without leaving your home! As the fastest-growing RTOS, Zephyr is well worth learning, but most people need a little help getting started. Golioth’s next live and hands-on free Zephyr training workshop happens online on September 11th, 2024. Our training […]
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Solar Energy Production and Consumption with AI
Solar panels and connected battery systems are still novel technologies in the grand scheme of things, even though they can feel like old news, given how often governments talk about them. Professionals and IoT enthusiasts see potential for solar energy growth by integrating AI. How can this combination forge next-generation tech to be more efficient […]
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Better than reflection: Using method handles and variable handles in Java
Class<?> clazz = objectInstance.getClass(); Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField(“name”); field.setAccessible(true); String value = (String) field.get(objectInstance); System.out.println(value); // prints “John Doe” Notice we are again directly working with the metadata of the object, like its class and the field on it. We can manipulate the accessibility of the field with setAccessible (this is considered risky because it […]
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TypeScript 5.6 enters release candidate stage
Microsoft said several new types have been renamed since the beta. Previously, TypeScript provided a single type called BuiltinInterator to describe every value backed by Iterator.prototype. This type has been renamed IteratorObject in the RC, and has been given a different set of type parameters. It also adds several subtypes such as ArrayIterator and MapIterator. […]
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