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Rebuilding Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa: how can PR and comms help?
Living through a category five hurricane was not on my bingo card this year. A month on, and despite the aftermath, I am thankful that my immediate family and friends are ok. How Hurricane Melissa left Jamaica will never be the same. With the country in the relief phase of rebuilding the nation, reimagining what renovation can achieve must be climate change-compliant.
Tech Trek Series: Introduction to Redis
Understanding In-Memory Databases Natasha Ferguson · Follow 5 min read · -- In today’s system design, speed is a key consideration. As applications grow and users expect instant responses, caching became essential to improve performance. Redis is a powerful in-memory key-value store and is one of the best solutions for these challenges. Let’s explore Redis at a high level, its core features, see how it compares to Memcached, and why Redis is widely used in modern system architectures.
Tech Trek Series: Parallelization Strategies for Faster, Smarter Systems
Natasha Ferguson · Follow 6 min read · -- Welcome back to the Tech Trek Series. Whether you’re out for a run, walking the dog, or commuting, this post will break down parallelization strategies in a way that’s easy to follow while you’re on the move. This content is optimized for listening on the go. Let’s look into how parallelization helps speed up software processes and make systems more efficient. What is Parallelization?
Tech Trek Series: What is Containerization?
Natasha Ferguson · Follow 3 min read · -- Note: This blog post is part of the ‘Tech Trek Series,’ designed to help you easily grasp essential tech concepts while on the move — whether you’re running, walking, or commuting. What Are Containers? Let’s kick off by thinking of containers as portable, self-contained units of software. They hold everything your app needs — like code, libraries, and dependencies — so it can run anywhere, from your laptop to the cloud.
June 2023 | The Walrus
We need to be more open minded about who gets to work in the trades
As a Black Woman, I Couldn’t Get a Fair Chance in Construction. So I Started My Own Company
WHEN I WAS A KID, my dad would take me to work with him. He was a contractor who specialized in installing and fixing appliances. I remember spending hours in his work van, handing him tools at work sites, fixing TVs, and putting up wallpaper. My parents, who were immigrants from Jamaica, never made me feel as if there was anything I couldn’t do because I was a girl. I grew up in a single-parent household with my mom. I loved playing with Legos and tinkering with things.
As a Black Woman, I Couldn’t Get a Fair Chance in Construction. So I Started My Own Company
When I was a kid, my dad would take me to work with him. He was a contractor who specialized in installing and fixing appliances. I remember spending hours in his work van, handing him tools at work sites, fixing TVs, and putting up wallpaper. My parents, who were immigrants from Jamaica, never made me feel as if there was anything I couldn’t do because I was a girl. I grew up in a single-parent household with my mom. I loved playing with Legos and tinkering with things.
How to Write a TV Show (A True Beginner's Guide)
4.6K So, you want to write for television? To write the next big thing? In an age of highly competitive television programming, there is certainly the scope for screenwriters to pursue their goals. Television jobs indeed outnumber film jobs by two to one, as the Writers’ Guild of America tells us. If you are looking for numbers, Madeline DiMaggio estimates that around four hundred movies are made against around three thousand episodes of television per year.
How to Consume REST APIs Using Fetch and Axios
JavaScript provides several ways to send HTTP requests and get responses. There are some native as well as third-party libraries that help you send HTTP requests or parse a JSON response. In this article we'll focus on getting data from APIs using Fetch API (native JavaScript REST API), XMLHttpRequest (a built-in API in JavaScript) and Axios (one of the most popular third-party packages used for making HTTP requests, a modern alternative to XMLHttpRequest ).
Promises in JavaScript
Promises provide a cleaner, more streamlined way of writing asynchronous code than callbacks. By introducing the concept of deferred operations and chaining, promises allow software engineers to write elegant, efficient code that is better able to handle complex data requests while still providing power and flexibility. This blog post will introduce you to promises in JavaScript, explaining what they are and how they can be used in situations where asynchronous operations are needed.
Event-Driven Programming in JavaScript
As software engineers, we are constantly tasked with creating sophisticated applications that run efficiently and reliably within the constraints of modern development. One area of programming that has become increasingly popular in recent years is event-driven programming. This style of coding uses events as the primary means to control the flow of an application's execution. What is an Event-Driven Programming?
JavaScript Objects
Numbers, booleans, and strings are the primitives that data structures are built from. Many models and formats for organizing our data require more than primitive data types, though. Objects allow us to group values, including other objects, to build more complex structures. An Object An object is the base non-primitive data structure of JavaScript used to store key-value pairs, an arbitrary collection of properties and methods. Object keys are usually strings, and values can be of any type.
Under the Hood of JavaScript and the V8 Engine
To begin talking about the inner workings of JavaScript, let's look at this simple example: function a() { document.write("a() was called. <br>") b() document.write("a() is returning. <br>") } function b() { document.write("b() was called. <br>") c() document.write("b() is returning. <br>") } function c() { document.write("c() was called. <br>") document.write("c() is returning. <br>") } a() If you run this in your console, the output looks like this: a() was called. b() was called. c() was called.
Dive In At The Deep End
My advice for beginners who are hoping to learn how to code and land their first jobs as software developers is to learn a programming language first. If you are brand new to coding and don't know where to start, I recommend starting with JavaScript. In this post, I'll lay out the reasons and make a case for learning the harder skills first. There's a huge difference between a programming language and a markup language.
Wedding Photography Gig? How to Prepare
The role of a wedding photographer—helping to document one of the most important days of a person’s life—is very important. So it goes without saying that the job must be done well. Many of the opportunities to snap the perfect picture are fleeting and will be lost forever if missed. It’s normal to be nervous, considering the situation. I remember how I felt before my first wedding.
Helping Native communities attain 'energy sovereignty' with solar
102" @keydown.escape.window="searchActive ? [searchActive = false, query = ''] : ''; menuActive ? menuActive = false : ''"> Nonprofit Grid Alternatives develops solar projects on reservations and provides job-training opportunities. 1 December 2021 Vivian Hamilton surveys the Santa Rosa Community Solar Project built on reservation land in California's Anza Valley.
Preparing for a Wedding Photography Job
The role of a wedding photographer is very important, helping to document one of the most important days of a person’s life, so it goes without saying that it must be done well. Many of the opportunities to snap the perfect picture are fleeting and will be lost forever if missed.
Chronic Morphine Administration Differentially Modulates Viral Reservoirs in a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVmac251-Infected Rhesus Macaque Model
Pathogenesis and Immunity Arpan Acharya, Omalla A. Olwenyi, Michellie Thurman, Kabita Pandey, Brenda M. Morsey, Benjamin Lamberty, Natasha Ferguson, Shannon Callen, Qiu Fang, Shilpa J. Buch, Howard S. Fox, Siddappa N. Byrareddy Guido Silvestri, Editor DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01657-20 ABSTRACT Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) persists in cellular reservoirs despite effective combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), and there is viremia flare-up upon therapy interruption.
Presence of Inflammatory Group I and III Innate Lymphoid Cells in the Colon of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Rhesus Macaques
Pathogenesis and Immunity Andrew Cogswell, Natasha Ferguson, Edward Barker Guido Silvestri, Editor DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01914-19 ABSTRACT Chronic, low-grade, systemic, and mucosal inflammation correlates with increased morbidity and poor clinical outcomes among patients living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These long-term complications are linked to the disruption of gastrointestinal (GI) tract epithelial barrier integrity and subsequent microbial translocation.
Christian Entrepreneur Series: Russ Bravo- Editor of Inspire Magazine
We are aware that in the world there has been a blossoming of new ideas taking place, that has birthed and made us aware of new and established Christians in business. From entrepreneurs with Kingdom faith and principles, alongside industries being formed for the Christian culture, we wanted to take time out to celebrate the movement taking place in the UK.
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