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  1. Top Programming Languages for DevOps

    Why Go, Python, Scala, Ruby and C are excellent programming languages for DevOps teams (and why JavaScript is not). Continue reading...
  2. New Year, New Dev – Windows IoT Core

    To wrap up the “New Year, New Dev” blog series, we’ll go into using Windows 10 IoT Core and show how easy it is to start developing applications to deploy on IoT devices such as the Raspberry Pi 3. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first two posts in this series, you can find them here...
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    Windows 10 Python: get PID from window handle

    hi I am trying to get PID from the foreground window, but this doesn't work because I am passing the wrong kind of handle to the function. This is under python. How do I fix this? thx! import ctypes import time time.sleep(2) handle = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow() print(handle)...
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    Windows 10 Python Problem

    Hey guys, I installed Python and I had some problems with running it form the console. It runs perfectly fine with IDLE 32 bit, but when I saved it and run from Python, it flashes and exit the program. I attached a video to show what's wrong.
  5. What would you do with 10kB?

    Sixteen years ago, Link Removed conceived of a contest that would test the mettle of any web designer: The 5k. The idea was that entrants would build an entire site in 5kb of code or less. Its aim was to force us to get creative by putting a bounding box on what we could do: Between servers and...
  6. Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    At Build 2016, Microsoft introduced to the world the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) [WSL], which enables developers to run native Ubuntu user-mode console binaries through the Bash shell in Windows 10. If you’re in the Windows Insider program, you’ve had the opportunity to try out this...
  7. Windows 8 permissions Hell.........

    i'm the only user with an account on my machine. hence, the administrator. still, i've been being bombarded with permission errors of every kind lately (most recently, while trying to install Python). in researching, i've found i have no control of the Windows folder (when i should have full...
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    Best Programming Languages for Quick Learning

    I am interested in learning computer language and I wanted to know what one would be easier to learn fast
  9. TA15-314A: Web Shells – Threat Awareness and Guidance

    Original release date: November 10, 2015 Systems Affected Web servers that allow web shells Overview This alert describes the frequent use of web shells as an exploitation vector. Web shells can be used to obtain unauthorized access and can lead to wider network compromise. This alert...
  10. Last Week on Channel 9: August 17th - August 23rd, 2015

    Here are a select 23 episodes and posts from our awesome content authors... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Vlad and guest host Petri Wilhelmsen discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Gabe Aul] ... CodeChat 035 - Node Chakra Arunesh and team have...
  11. Hello, Windows 10 IoT Core

    Greetings, Makers! We are excited to announce the public release of Link Removed for the Link Removed and the Link Removed. Visit the Windows IoT Dev Center to choose your target board, then walk through the steps to provision your board, acquire the tools, and get started Making. This release...
  12. Running Cocos2d-x on Windows 10

    With Microsoft’s latest open source code contribution to the Cocos2d-x project [https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/12107], Microsoft has enabled Cocos2d-x to run on Windows 10 on the Universal Windows Platform. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) makes it possible to target all Windows...
  13. VIDEO OpenCV turns 3 and seeing Intel(R) INDE OpenCV

    One of cooler libraries we've highlighted over the years is OpenCV, Open Source Computer Vision. Link Removed OpenCV is; OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure...
  14. Introducing PyKinect2: The Python Wrapper for Kinect 2 Development

    Vladimir Kolesnikov, Microsoft employee and part of the This Week on Channel 9 host team has released a new wrapper that will make the Python Kinect 2 Dev's smile... :) PyKinect2 Enables writing Kinect applications, games, and experiences using Python. Inspired by the original Link Removed...
  15. Windows 7 How to place an action button in windows task bar for a minimized running application

    Windows is an unknown platform for me. I need to place an action button in windows task bar, after minimizing the running application. I don't know what to search for my need. Detail : I have an application that will just connect to an another machine in a local network. This is done by python...
  16. Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

    This package contains the compiler and set of system headers necessary for producing binary wheels for Python 2.7 packages. Link Removed
  17. Python Tools for Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox

    Link Removed (PTVS) is a free, open source plugin that turns Visual Studio (including Express!) into a Python IDE. In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Dower, who shows how PTVS provides Python developers all of the goodness of Visual Studio, including IntelliSense, local and remote...
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    Windows 7 Calling ActiveX dll

    [Crossposted from Windows 7 forum] I have a commercial program with an interface intended to allow certain aspects to be run automatically by an external program written by the user. This interface consists of an ActiveX dll. Functions in it can be called from a Visual Basic 6 or VBA program...
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    Windows 8 Suddenly many operationms require Run as Administrator

    Of course this is Windows 8, with Start8 and ModernMix to make it bearable. My account is an administrator. UAC is off (I build a lot of live CDs and flash drives that can't be built with UAC on). For the last week or so I've had problems running Google Drive or choosing Run when I download a...
  20. Windows 7 Cloud Cover Episode 48 - Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure

    NOTE: Apologies to Nate! The video has his last name wrong. To be clear, he's Nate Totten. Link Removed An updated video will come out later with the correct name. ---- Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at Link...