Category: tips and tricks

The digital-first era has undoubtedly broadened the horizons of possibilities but has eventually increased the threat vector and created new vulnerabilities. 

Whether we talk about phishing attacks or modern brute-force attacks where individuals' identities are compromised, ignoring the importance of private security could be the worst thing ever.  

Austin, Texas, is the 10th largest city in the US and is constantly growing, both in population and in industry. Every year, dozens of major companies either relocate or expand into the Austin area. It is also home to six universities, like The University of Texas at Austin and Texas State. As the state capitol of Texas, many government agencies have a presence there as well. Folks from all these sectors came together in the last week of September to learn from one another at Texas Cyber Summit 2023.

Here are just a few of the highlights from this security-focused event.

In this article, specialists of Intelligent Converters share their experience on database migration from SQL Server to Postgres. It covers tips and tricks, the most important bottlenecks, and best practices of migration.

Most  SQL Server to Postgres migration projects consist of the following steps:

Web 3.0 has grown in popularity over the last few years and has fast become a tool for the empowerment of users in regard to ownership and sharing of data. The premise is that Web 3.0 will bring back the digital industry to a decentralized model, driving forwards, monetization, ownership, and governance, that was not as prominent through Web 2.0’s centralized model.

The basic principles of technological evolution dictate that when a new model is created, it replaces the previous version; that’s precisely what happened between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. However, Web 3.0 will not follow the same pattern; instead, it has the potential to enhance instead of replace Web 2.0.

You have a Google Form and you would like to send an auto-confirmation emails to the person as soon as they submit the form. The autoresponder email message can contain a custom note (like an acknowledgement saying that you have received their form entry)  and also a copy of the form answers that that they have submitted.

These auto-responders are similar to canned responses in Gmail but for Google Forms. You may use the technique for sending welcome messages, acknowledge support requests, and more. Here’s a sample confirmation email that was sent through Google Forms:

A sample auto confirmation email sent through Google Forms

Send a Confirmation Email to the Form Submitter

The other day I got an email from N.Vamsi asking me how to send these confirmation emails using Google Forms?

Would you mind telling me how you have set up auto email updater for inputs taken from Google forms. I have seen your video tutorial on setting up Google forms and getting input values to an email address but auto email responder is something new! Do you have any tutorials for that as well?

This is easy and you can can add the auto-reply feature to your Google Forms in less than a minute. Here are the steps involved:

1. Create a new Google Form with one or more fields. You can also use an existing form but do make sure you have a field where you would be asking for the email address of the form respondent. This should be a mandatory field.
2. Install the Google Forms add-on, then go to the add-ons menu inside forms, choose Email Notification for Forms and select Create New Rule.
3. Enter your name, choose your Gmail alias that you wish to use for sending confirmation emails and check the “Notify Form Submitter” option. Select the form field that you are using to get the email address of the respondent.
4. On the next screen, customize the email subject and message as described in the Google Form Email tutorial.

Create the rule and you’re done. When anyone submits the Google Form, they’ll get an automatic confirmation email in HTML format and copy of the email data will also be cc’ed to you so you are in the loop.

LLM hallucination refers to the phenomenon where large language models like chatbots or computer vision systems generate nonsensical or inaccurate outputs that do not conform to real patterns or objects. These false AI outputs stem from various factors. Overfitting to limited or skewed training data is a major culprit. High model complexity also contributes, enabling the AI to perceive correlations that don't exist.

Major companies developing generative AI systems are taking steps to address the problem of AI hallucinations, though some experts believe removing false outputs entirely may not be possible. 

MQTT control packets are the smallest unit of data transfer in MQTT. MQTT clients and servers exchange control packets for performing their work, such as subscribing to topics and publishing messages.

Currently, MQTT defines 15 types of control packets. If we classify them based on their functionality, we can categorize these packets into three categories: connection, publishing, and subscribing.

Apparently, hot-cold data separation is hot now. But first of all:

What Is Hot/Cold Data?

In simple terms, hot data is the frequently accessed data, while cold data is the one you seldom visit but still need. Normally in data analytics, data is "hot" when it is new and gets "colder" and "colder" as time goes by. 

Remote, hybrid, or in-office? Opinions are divided on what has quickly become one of the most controversial topics in tech: Should we return to the office, and if so, how and when?

On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, we sit down with Duolingo’s Sr. Director of Engineering, Fabio Lessa, to discuss how to successfully transition your engineering org back to the office — and why Duolingo has done it so successfully. [Hint: it all starts with culture.]