In PHP, parentheses () aren’t just punctuation : they play different roles depending on where and how they’re used. Some are compulsory, others are optional, and a few are just useless clutter. And then, there’s the weird one: (cast). Let’s review all PHP parentheses usages down. Compulsory Parentheses The compulsory parentheses are the ones PHP needs to make sense of the code. No one can omit them, and the source won’t even compile without them, so they are compulsory. Function definitions and method calls And vice-versa, obviously. $x * 2; // Parameters require parentheses (unless none) echo $double(‘hello’); //…
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In a significant breakthrough for AI-assisted software development, Agentica and Together AI researchers have released DeepCoder-14B-Preview. This fully open-source code reasoning model rivals proprietary solutions with a fraction of the parameters. This development marks a crucial step toward democratizing advanced AI coding tools for developers worldwide.Performance That Rivals Closed ModelsDeepCoder achieves an impressive 60.6% Pass@1 accuracy on LiveCodeBench, matching OpenAI’s o3-mini-2025 model despite using only 14B parameters. It also earned a Codeforces rating of 1936, placing it in the 95.3th percentile of competitive programmers.What makes this achievement remarkable is the performance metrics and the project’s complete transparency. Unlike proprietary solutions,…
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DevOps-as-a-service (DaaS) is a way of delivering cloud services in the form of collaborative tools to help software developers and the rest of the engineers across organizations to work together. Under this model, the DaaS provider offers and integrates various essential tools to enable them to work together as one unit. This article takes a deep dive into DaaS, and its benefits, key challenges and future. Understanding the Problem As businesses look for quicker, more agile ways to build and deploy software that can adjust to market demands and user needs, you should be able to drive faster release cycles and offer…
Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that can no longer be read from or written to, which usually happens due to permanent physical damage on the disk surface or failing flash memory transistors. As more bad sectors build up, they can seriously impact your storage device’s performance, reduce its capacity, or even lead to complete hardware failure. It is also important to note that the presence of bad blocks should alert you to start thinking of getting a new disk drive or simply mark the bad blocks…
Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply clean up a directory by removing all files except those with a specific extension (e.g., files ending with a particular type). In this article, we will show you how to delete files in a directory, excluding certain file extensions or types, using the rm, find, and globignore commands. Before we move any further, let us start by briefly having a look at one important concept in Linux – filename pattern matching, which will enable us to deal with our issue…
Cary, North Carolina, April 11th, 2025, CyberNewsWireINE Security Highlights How Practical, immersive training environments help defense contractors meet DoD cybersecurity requirementsDefense contractors are facing increased pressure to meet the Department of Defense’s stringent Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 requirements ahead of 2025 compliance deadlines. INE Security, a leading global provider of cybersecurity training and certifications, is highlighting how hands-on cybersecurity labs are proving critical for organizations seeking to achieve compliance efficiently and effectively.This approach addresses a significant pain point for CISOs and security leaders: the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation of complex cybersecurity controls required by CMMC…
GitHub is linking developers with security pros to reduce the number of vulnerabilities that may be hiding in code that already is in workflows.The highly popular Microsoft-owned code repository this week said its security campaigns, which were released in public preview in October 2024, are now generally available to GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security developers.The AI-powered tool is the latest step by GitHub to help developers address security issues that can accumulate in fast-paced CI/CD development processes – what’s called the security debt. GitHub in 2023 built Copilot Autofix into pull requests, which the company said allowed programming…
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash This came up one day at my work when a developer was using it. I hadn’t used it before and thought I’d better check it out. It’s off by default in SQL server, but why would you use it? Table of Contents TL;DR What is XACT_ABORT? Why Use XACT_ABORT? When Not to Use XACT_ABORT Without XACT_ABORT ON With XACT_ABORT ON TL;DR Without XACT_ABORT ON, only some errors cause a full rollback, while others might leave the transaction partially committed. With XACT_ABORT ON, all errors cause an immediate rollback, preventing partial data changes. Setting XACT_ABORT…