What's new in Drupal 9.3.0?
The third feature release of Drupal 9 recently became available. New features and improvements in Drupal 9.3.0 include:
News, Opinion, and Lifestyle for Business Leaders, Marketers, and IT
Survey: Businesses are struggling to manage hybrid cloud environments
Cambridge UK, December 9 – The big move to the cloud is bringing as many challenges as opportunities, a major database monitoring survey from Redgate has found. With 80% of organizations now using a mix of cloud and on-premises database environments, the survey shows that the focus of data professionals is shifting to addressing the difficulties of migrating to the cloud ahead of improving the performance of their database estates.
10 Intelligent Automation predictions for 2022
London, UK – December 7, 2021 – Kofax®, a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software for digital workflow transformation, today unveiled its top 10 predictions for 2022 as businesses navigate the new challenges accelerated – and in some cases, caused – by the global pandemic.
Netacea research: Skewed analytics cost businesses as much as click fraud
Manchester, UK—December 2021—Netacea, the bot detection and mitigation specialist, today announced results from a new report that shows skewed analytics caused by bots cost businesses just as much as click fraud, despite click fraud’s much bigger profile.
Bots are used by hackers to buy goods before other customers, hack accounts using stolen passwords, check the validity of stolen card details and steal content or prices by bulk scraping. But even if they do not do damage directly, bots can skew data that leads marketing teams to make bad decisions. Analytics skewed by bots can hide what real customers are doing, making it impossible to target genuine audiences.
End of Life for Drupal 8
This is old news but I thought still worth mentioning. Last month Drupal 8 reached its end-of-life. This means that all versions of Drupal 8 core and Drupal contributed project releases that are compatible with only Drupal 8 have been marked unsupported and are no longer supported by the Drupal security team.
Drupal 8.0.0 was first released on November 9, 2015. The last version was released on November 17, 2021. With the end of life approaching, I also updated my two websites from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9.
How Today's Advancements in the STEM Field Are Paving the Way for the Next Generation
Why are advances in the STEM field so important? The study and practice of STEM builds critical and creative thinkers, pushing boundaries and coming up with the most cutting-edge technology imaginable. STEM covers a lot of different disciplines.
My Lack of Blogging in a Pandemic
Blogging has always been a way for me to express myself creatively as I hide away in my home office for "me time". Unfortunately, the COVID-19 Pandemic changed all that with my day job requiring maximum telework which in turn transformed my creative personal space into a remote office that work owned eight hours a day. For my mental and physical health, once those work hours are up I have made the conscious decision to walk away from the computer. I now find it more necessary to find something else to do that doesn't involve screen time. This shift in priorities unfortunately reduced my writing time.
Spurred by the Pandemic, 2022 Will See Firms Adopt a Global, Multi-lingual Approach to Knowledge Management Capability
Javier Magaña García, Technical Director at Lexsoft Systems, offers his views on the drivers of knowledge management (KM) in the professional services sectors in 2022: