Variable type

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Usually when you create a variable you implicitly set the type by the value you use. Sometimes though you may want to explicitly set the variable type.

if you don’t give the variable a type you can do this:

PS> $x = 35
PS> $x
35
PS> $x = ‘now a string’
PS> $x
now a string

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DHS cybersecurity rhetoric offers contradictions at DEF CON

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The Vote Hacking Village at Defcon 26 in Las Vegas was an overwhelming jumble of activity — a mock vote manipulated, children hacking election results websites, machines being disassembled — and among it all were representatives from local and federal government, learning and sharing information a…READ MORE

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Win10 Registry Includes AllowExperimentation Key

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If you search the Registry on installations of Windows 10 Pro or higher versions (Enterprise, Education, Workstation) you can find all kinds of interesting stuff. Case in point: those who look will see that the Win10 registry includes AllowExperimentation key. It appears in two locations, in fact:
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Use a patient approach with healthcare APIs

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With this week’s news that healthcare interoperability is getting a boost from the support of six major tech companies, it’s tempting to think that is where the breakthroughs are going to happen.

But it could be that the grass roots efforts at hundreds of hospitals around the country might b…READ MORE

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Avoid killing your IoT device battery life with these 4 tips

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Battery life is the top concern for smartphone consumers and it’s easy to understand why. Who hasn’t experienced a smartphone battery draining at an unexpectedly fast rate? It’s a frustration that translates to the many smart devices that make up the IoT ecosystem today, especially smart medical dev…READ MORE

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Progress open sources ABL code in Spark Toolkit

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New England headquartered application development company Progress is flexing its programmer credentials this month.

The Massachusetts-HQ’d firm has now come forward with its Progress Spark Toolkit… but what is it?

The Progress Spark Toolkit is a set of open source ABL code combined with s…READ MORE

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Nothing too fishy about Skuid [squid] application templates

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Before we start, we need to understand how to pronounce cloud application development company Skuid.

Go on, we dare you… we double dare you.

Did you say skew-id, skood or scho-eey-dee?

Wrong, it’s ‘squid’, take a listen here.

New this month are Skuid Application Templates — and …READ MORE

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Australian e-commerce company shrugs off US behemoths with cloud move

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Australia’s eCorner has signed a deal with Macquarie Cloud Services to help it use public cloud services to fend off growing competition from larger US providers.

The Sydney-based e-commerce technology and hosting provider was founded in 2003 as the master distributor for ePages, a European e-com…READ MORE

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The Work Interrupt

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Two of my heroes of software development are Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, the authors of PeopleWare. Thirty-one years ago, they pointed out that humans working together are the important part of delivery — more than the code or the hardware. In addition to designing respectful office spaces and gett…READ MORE

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Revenue from NetApp all-flash spikes on strong demand

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Demand for NetApp all-flash storage surged last quarter, part of strong growth across its cloud portfolio that helped it beat guidance on earnings, margins and revenue.

And the storage vendor has plenty of room for continued growth in flash, CEO George Kurian told investors on Wednesday.

“Al…READ MORE

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Machine learning, AI in security: Advancing the cybersecurity landscape

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More companies today are investing in AI-based cybersecurity technology to speed up incident detection and response, to better identify and communicate risk to the business, and to gain a better understanding of cybersecurity situational awareness. That’s according to ESG research that found 12% of …READ MORE

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Knative emerges in the Serverless world

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During Google Cloud NEXT 2018, a new open source project called “Knative”. From the Google Cloud website, the project is described as “Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads.”

Beyond Google, several other vendors that were involved in the initial releas…READ MORE

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Cybersecurity risk management doesn’t need to be all or nothing

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Cybersecurity risk management should be a concern for organizations of all sizes. New threats and data breaches make the news every few days. But as vendors and cybersecurity risk management consulting firms can attest, far too many companies still lag behind when it comes to implementing safeguard…READ MORE

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How solid state disks (SSD) can save money and boost performance

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SSD’s are the one of the most expensive storage devices when measured by the GB but they are the least expensive when measured in terms of IOPs.

Using SSD in addition to tradition fibre channel and SATA drives can significantly improve the performance of your storage systems and bring your storag…READ MORE

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Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on

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French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards?

The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle of efforts to achieve “multi-cloud” operations, in which customers can operate within and bet…READ MORE

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IT spending expected to shift toward services, software in 2017

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The following is a roundup of last week’s SearchCIO and SearchCompliance content.

With digitization, unpredictability comes with the territory. This is epitomized by Gartner’s revised IT spending forecast for 2017, which shows a modest increase in worldwide spending, but less than originally pr…READ MORE

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Moving to the cloud: Start small, think big

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In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS, advises enterprises to start small to achieve big change in their organisations with cloud.

The success of Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket (and its subsequent return to earth) wowed the world. Imprinted on e…READ MORE

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Is IBM relevant to today’s mainstream?

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When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how they would like the world to be rather than how it actually is. This often means they fail to connect as well as they could with the business mainstream. The assumption is that every organisation wants to exploit leading/bleeding edge …READ MORE

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UK should worry if digital products become part of the global trade and tariff debate

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Amid the global debate about trade tariffs, prompted by US president Donald Trump’s unorthodox economic policies, it’s little remarked that the digital economy is largely untouched by the international tariff regime.

In 1998 – the early days of the internet’s spread into our everyday live…READ MORE

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Taste the deference

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Sainsbury’s is trialling its first ever till-free supermarket, entrusting us with the task of scanning our own items via our smartphones.
This comes as good news for those of us who feel the self-scan checkout option doesn’t quite cut it – an especially understandable position to hold for Co-…READ MORE

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