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August 16, 2017 — A new imaging information technology (IT) market report from Signify Research suggests enterprise imaging IT looks set to significantly increase its share of the market over the next five years. In that time, the company forecasts enterprise imaging revenue to more than double globally, making it by far the fastest growing segment in the market.
The report posits that new entrants to the imaging IT market are looking to disrupt the status quo from traditional picture archiving and communication system (PACS) firms. Pushing "deconstruction", "reconstruction" and "distributed" multi-vendor imaging IT models, the report says these new entrants have grabbed the attention of healthcare providers.
However, traditional PACS vendors have also been expanding their offerings, pushing "enterprise imaging" solutions (bundled viewer, workflow, dashboarding and archiving) as an upgrade to their stand-alone PACS offerings.
Traditional PACS vendors have the largest installed base of standalone PACS, radiology information system (RIS) and cardiovascular information system (CVIS) software in the market today, according to Signify Research. This is a clear advantage as healthcare providers see many positives from upgrading their departmental solution to enterprise imaging, including:
- Perceived speed and lower expense of implementation with same vendor;
- Less training required for staff and clinical disruption with similar user interface and system;
- Perceived lower IT administration and professional service;
- Single-platform approach perceived to aid workflow efficiency;
- Relatively broad clinical coverage and capability; and
- Easier to work with single vendor.
Additionally, the core strengths of enterprise imaging solutions fit the needs of the largest addressable market segment, the mid-size hospital market. Combined with many providers in the large and small hospital segment as well, these customers form the core of traditional PACS vendor installed base. Today, according to the report, there is far greater focus on efficiency, workflow and speed of implementation given the current pressures on healthcare funding in this sector. With a single-vendor enterprise imaging platform, it is perceived that these core needs can be better addressed than with a multi-vendor, best-of-breed model.
For best-of-breed vendors pushing a deconstructed multi-vendor model, this limits their addressable market. Best-of-breed clinical specialists increasingly find themselves pushed out of most enterprise deals today, especially with an incumbent PACS vendor, according to Signify Research. Their mainstay opportunities instead are academic providers willing to accept the longer and more expensive implementation required with multi-vendor deconstructed models, though these tend to be less frequent in comparison.
A change in decision-making power within health provider procurement is also impacting the way that imaging information technology (IT) strategy is decided, the report said, especially in North America. Centralization of IT administration as provider networks have expanded has created a new powerbase for procurement. Archiving and management vendors have been quick to exploit this in the largest networks. Vendor neutral archives (VNAs) and independent clinical archives (ICAs) from specialist vendors are more advanced in capability in most instances and can connect different departmental imaging IT systems to centralize image management and storage at far lower cost than a complete replacement of all imaging IT.
Following this success, archiving and management vendors are also eyeing the clinical realm, developing their own clinical modules for viewing, workflow, clinical review and even diagnostic capabilities. By using their foundation of the application content layer in a health provider's stack, they are trying to push into front-line clinical and diagnostic use. Moreover, they are looking to use the power of the CIO in enterprise provider IT procurement as leverage to adopting their solutions.
Clinical Breadth Still Important
However, clinical and diagnostic capability is the mainstay of traditional PACS vendors, with decades of clinical expertise in diagnostics and a breadth of tools in many clinical applications. Signify's research with industry vendors from across all product types highlighted that for many providers, clinical breadth of solution remains a major factor in decision-making. This has so far limited independent archiving and management firms from any real success with their clinical or diagnostic capabilities, as most have far less clinical breadth than traditional PACS firms. Moreover, many traditional PACS vendors have now developed or acquired archiving and management capability for their enterprise imaging products. By doing so, this removes the need for standalone solutions from non-PACS competitors, especially in the mid- and small provider segments where advanced imaging management and archiving capability is less important.
The Bigger Picture
When considered in the wider market context, enterprise imaging from the largest PACS vendors has a further advantage, often overlooked, according to the report. Healthcare budgets are being squeezed and this is forcing a change in procurement, especially towards bundling of hardware and services in long-term managed service contracts. Most of the major PACS vendors are also imaging modality vendors, as well as offering a host of other clinical hardware and software across the clinical sector.
In bundling their portfolio together with their enterprise imaging IT solutions, they can offer advantages from a cost perspective. These deals tend to be more aggressive on pricing, especially as long-term deals become more common, as they "lock-in" customers and with it, future revenue. Consolidation to a single vendor in this way is also perceived by providers to offer greater benefits in maintenance, support and integration.
For many providers, the perceived positives discussed above offer the best mid-term solution to meet their cost and efficiency goals, while limiting disruption. The single-vendor enterprise imaging approach may lead to future challenges with regards to interoperability and content management of images and data down the line, especially when dealing with unstructured content or complex information exchange between providers. While this remains to be seen and further evolution of imaging IT models should be expected, it looks like enterprise imaging will be winning the lion's share of revenues in the near and mid-term future.
Watch the VIDEO Technology Report: Enterprise Imaging 2016
Watch the VIDEO "Role of Medical Imaging in Value-Based Care," an interview with Kim Garriott of Logicalis Healthcare Solutions at RSNA 2016.
Watch the VIDEO "Expanding Role for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging," an interview with Signify Research's Stephen Holloway at HIMSS17.
For more information: www.signifyresearch.net


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Bangor, from the Bangor Marina seawall
It's 9:45pm in Bangor and Maryl has already gone to bed, on the pull-out sofa bed in the living room of the apartment, we have booked for the week. The sun has not set yet. I have a hard time going to bed when it is still light outside when school is in session, so even with a looming swim, I'm not ready to wind down and go to sleep. It is only 1:45pm at home. I think my body clock favors Pacific Standard Time. After sight-seeing and 15-20 miles of walking (many of those uphills on cliff-side stairs between natural attractions) over the past two days, we had a pretty mellow Sunday.
I slept in until 9:45 am. Took some pictures of the apartment, which we moved into yesterday, after taking the train from Belfast, and made scrambled eggs for breakfast to top the re-heated chips (what we call french fries in the states) from dinner number one yesterday (yes that is correct we ate two dinners yesterday! I'll get to that in a bit), all while listening to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Thank you Maryl for tolerating this routine!
Back to the dinners. We ate first dinner early (maybe 4:30-5:00), after scoping out the marina and looking for a place, where I could safely hop in, to acclimate to the temperature. The restaurant was called The Salty Dog and they had gluten free fish and chips. I have not eaten fish in chips since being diagnosed with celiac disease, so more than 8 years ago. This was very exciting! Also really fun, was that there were well behaved pups everywhere in the restaurant and out our window, in view, on the porch. This was the dog friendliest restaurant I've ever been to, and overall I've seen more dogs in Bangor than anywhere else in Ireland. The city is full of cute furry pups. I've been on a mission to learn what Irish people name their dogs, while visiting with the dog walkers heading in the opposite direction. Today I met "Meg" and "Molly." Maryl met a "Shingle," while I was swimming, and we met a lovely woman/yoga teacher for children with ASD/North Channel Crew support, who has a dog named "Chunk." She named him after Chunk in The Goonies (her favorite Movie).
Anyways here we go yet again, to last night's dinner number two. After the The Salty Dog, we walked a couple of miles along the waterfront, still searching for the best possible swim spot, since the tide was very low and there were many exposed, barnacle-covered rocks breaking through the sea surface off shore. We found a nice, sandy beach, but with the tide so far out, the beach was like a quicksand mudflat, for at least 200 yards. I decided not to embarrass myself, getting stuck to my knees in mud, while trying to get out to the sea, and to just wait for high tide the next day. When we got back to the apartment, we sat out on the patio, where we were bombarded with the aroma of Indian cooking. Our front door apparently looks into the kitchen, on the back side, of an Indian restaurant! We only fasted about 15-20 minutes before both Maryl and I were in agreement that it was going to be a two dinner day. She ordered a prawn curry (the best of our orders), and I got the butter chicken. I'm pretty positive that I have never experienced two-dinners, in different restaurants, on the same night before. Maybe we'll do it again after my big swim!
Our empty patio chairs after the decision was made.
This morning after washing the breakfast dishes, we walked up another decent hill, to Bangor Castle. The main castle is now a city building, but where the stables and laundry facility used to be, there is a very informative museum with high quality exhibits.
Bangor Castle
A model of Bangor Castle made out of 43,000 sugar cubes.
Padraig Mallon, the director of the crew company for my swim, messaged me as we were leaving Bangor Castle for a meet-up at The Salty Dog. I've read about Paidraig on the Infinity Channel website. He has an extensive, ultra distance athletic marathon, which includes finishing the North Channel resume. I'm hopeful he will be my pilot, and I was eager to meet him and find out swim logistics. Maryl and I met up with him and his partner Shirley, and left the conference feeling confident of our safe passage. I did learn that the swim route I will be taking is more likely 45km or 27.9 miles rather than the 22 miles that is the most direct route between the Irish starting point at Donaghadee and the Scottish point at Portpatrick. This is due to the currents and the changing tides. The strongest currents will be at the end when I'm approximately 3 miles off the Scottish coast, so I must maintain stamina and keep my mind in the swim!
After our departure from Shirley and Padraig, Maryl and I hit the beach and I got my first swim in the Irish Sea since swimming off Forty Foot near Dublin last August! I'm feeling ready! Padraig messaged me later and thinks I will start early Tuesday morning with the high tide. This is subject to change of course if the weather predictions change significantly. Tomorrow (Monday here) will be a busy day of feed, gear, and mindfulness preparations. Hopefully a good sleep-in too, since this is likely my last night and subsequent, relaxed morning before the swim. I will try to post something on #rijl_swims on instagram. Can't Wait!
Padraig and I on sidewalk in front of The Salty Dog.


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Often I have read the story of Jesus turning loaves and fishes into enough food to feed thousands. It has gripped me that while Jesus was teaching, healing, and proclaiming the truth of God, that he did not neglect the basic needs of others. I read it and often I have doubted that simple provision in my own life.
Times are hard, no doubt. My family feels it and sees it in the lack of food in the fridge, but yet we still hope in God to come through to champion His heart into ours. This miracle of provision came tonight. As we were having family friends by for a humble potato soup and salad dinner. I get a text message from a Christ friend from Elevation Church who asks if it is OK to drop off something.
That drop was a van full of food. I mean a extra large portion of provision. Not a left over of some cold pizza, but fresh vegetables, canned goods to last for well over a month, and meats that would make a small deli blush. Seriously, when you look into the stories of God's word (the Bible) you might find yourself thinking they are far removed events of time past, and then all the sudden you get a real life, present day provision of God's story being written. I am humbled to the core about the amazing miracle of God's provision, especially within this church and it's people. As the song goes that is sung in many churches would say, "I stand in AWE of you."


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Michael Bolton – Live @ The Civic Theatre, Auckland
Wearing the sort of attire only actor Bill Nighy could get away with, singer Michael Bolton nonchalantly strolled on stage, acoustic guitar in tow. It was a night where the audience participation was interactive and quite parochial, with Bolton warning one female fan with a sign about coming on stage, while one cried "Blonde Adonis" (Sounded like "Blond Adonny") and another shouting "Can I have your jacket please?".
All sober parental behaviour that would've embarrassed the hell out of their kids – Well, it is Michael Bolton after all folks.
The Multiple Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter sartorially fashioned in jeans and plush velvet dinner jacket, was backed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, led by edgy Aussie conductor Jessica Gethin, while flanked by his singers and band, it was an imposing sight to behold. The grandeur of the night heightened by songs that made him (and his mullet) famous in the eighties and early nineties, archetypal Soul classics set against the splendour of The Civic Theatre, a night hard to fault.
The energetic 665-year-old showed no signs of slowing down, his voice given a good workout on hits (Sittin' On) The Dock Of the Bay, The Bee Gee's To Love Somebody and the Marvin Gaye classic Ain't No Mountain High Enough with Australian singer Silvie Paladino, who impressive in her own right. She joined Bolton for a set of duets including Dylan's Make You Feel My Love (popularised by Adele) that really showcased their singing abilities. Saxophonist, Jason Peterson DeLaire added smooth with his amazing Sax soloing.
Bolton has a natural resonance, his unique gravel-esque timbre a pleasure to hear live backed up with fascinating stories regarding his hits, lending gravitas to his unique voice.
When he sings, its as if he's hardly trying, or breaking a sweat, especially on the Pavarotti classic, Nessun Dorma. Said I Loved You But I Lied was a prime example of his relaxed approach, while undoubtedly one of his biggest hits he ever wrote, How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, garnished the nights biggest crowd reaction, giving goose bumps to those in attendance.
Michael Bolton Symphony Tour was a pleasant night, regardless of what you think of the singer. Even though he was a bit wooden, he possesses a cynical sense of humour, the crowd outbursts of "Jack Sparrow" or "Lonely Island" referring to his collaboration with performing with the American comedy trio, led by funnyman Andy Samberg. Bolton rueing if only he had more time.


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Skip to comments.Jeff Sessions Resigns [if you want to discuss Q, do it on the Q conspiracy thread or not at all]
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Rush just announced it for one.
GOOD! I hope Rosenstein is next.
Aww man! J/k
Should we still trust him?
Did they wake him up or merely carry him to a waiting car with his personal items? What a disappointment.
About time!!!
By far President Trump's worst decision. We lost his Senate seat and the phoney Russian collusion investigation started because of his fecklessness...
Kris Kobach is available
I'll alert the media.
He gets his Senate seat back?
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Resigns or Reclines?
Mr Magoo was fired. The resignation is window-dressing.
So what do wwe know about this Matthew Whitaker, the New acting attorney general?
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Putting it all together - Introduction to Tensorflow Part 5
This is the last part of a multi part series. If you haven't already, you should read the previous parts first.
- Part 1 where we discussed the design philosophy of Tensorflow.
- Part 2 where we discussed how to do basic computations with Tensorflow.
- Part 3 where we discussed doing computations at a scale (GPUs and multiple computers) as well as how we can save our results.
- Part 4 where we learned how to make visualizations with Tensorflow.
This time we will wrap up everything we learned in a real world example: creating a small neural network.
This post originally appeared on kasperfred.com where I write more about machine learning.
An almost practical example
While the small examples up until now are great at demonstrating individual ideas, they do a poor job of showing how it all comes together.
To illustrate this, we will now use everything (well, almost everything) we have learned about Tensorflow to make something we at least can pretend to be somewhat practical; we will build a very simple neural network to classify digits from the classic MNIST dataset. If you're not fully up to speed with neural networks, you can read this introduction (coming soon) before coming back to this.
The construction and training of the neural network can be broken down into a couple of phases:
- Importing the data.
- Constructing the model architecture.
- Defining a loss function to optimize, and a way to optimize it.
- Actually training the model.
- Evaluating the model.
However, before we can start creating the model, we must first prepare Tensorflow:
import tensorflow as tf
tf.reset_default_graph() # again, this is not needed if run as a script
Next, we import the data.
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("MNIST_data/", one_hot=True)
Extracting MNIST_data/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz
Extracting MNIST_data/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz
Extracting MNIST_data/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz
Extracting MNIST_data/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz
Since mnist is such a well known dataset, we can use the built in data extractor to get a nice wrapper around the data.
Now, it's time to define the actual model that's going to be used. For this task, we will use a feed forward network with two hidden layers that has 500 and 100 parameters respectively.
Using the idea about scopes to separate the graph into chunks, we can implement the model like so:
# input
with tf.name_scope('input') as scope:
x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, 28*28], name="input")
# a placeholder to hold the correct answer during training
labels = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, 10], name="label")
# the probability of a neuron being kept during dropout
keep_prob = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, name="keep_prob")
with tf.name_scope('model') as scope:
with tf.name_scope('fc1') as scope: # fc1 stands for 1st fully connected layer
# 1st layer goes from 784 neurons (input) to 500 in the first hidden layer
w1 = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([28*28, 500], stddev=0.1), name="weights")
b1 = tf.Variable(tf.constant(0.1, shape=[500]), name="biases")
with tf.name_scope('softmax_activation') as scope:
# softmax activation
a1 = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(x, w1) + b1)
with tf.name_scope('dropout') as scope:
# dropout
drop1 = tf.nn.dropout(a1, keep_prob)
with tf.name_scope('fc2') as scope:
# takes the first hidden layer of 500 neurons to 100 (second hidden layer)
w2 = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([500, 100], stddev=0.1), name="weights")
b2 = tf.Variable(tf.constant(0.1, shape=[100]), name="biases")
with tf.name_scope('relu_activation') as scope:
# relu activation, and dropout for second hidden layer
a2 = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(drop1, w2) + b2)
with tf.name_scope('dropout') as scope:
drop2 = tf.nn.dropout(a2, keep_prob)
with tf.name_scope('fc3') as scope:
# takes the second hidden layer of 100 neurons to 10 (which is the output)
w3 = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([100, 10], stddev=0.1), name="weights")
b3 = tf.Variable(tf.constant(0.1, shape=[10]), name="biases")
with tf.name_scope('logits') as scope:
# final layer doesn't have dropout
logits = tf.matmul(drop2, w3) + b3
For training, we are going to use the cross entropy loss function together with tha ADAM optimizer with a learning rate of 0.001. Following the example above, we continue the use of scopes to organize the graph.
We also add two summarizers for accuracy and the average loss, and create a merged summary operation to simplify later steps.
Finally, once we add the saver object, so we don't lose the model after training (which would be a shame), we have this:
with tf.name_scope('train') as scope:
with tf.name_scope('loss') as scope:
# loss function
cross_entropy = tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(labels=labels, logits=logits)
# use adam optimizer for training with a learning rate of 0.001
train_step = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(0.001).minimize(cross_entropy)
with tf.name_scope('evaluation') as scope:
# evaluation
correct_prediction = tf.equal(tf.argmax(logits,1), tf.argmax(labels,1))
accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_prediction, tf.float32))
# create a summarizer that summarizes loss and accuracy
tf.summary.scalar("Accuracy", accuracy)
# add average loss summary over entire batch
tf.summary.scalar("Loss", tf.reduce_mean(cross_entropy))
# merge summaries
summary_op = tf.summary.merge_all()
# create saver object
saver = tf.train.Saver()
It's now time to begin training the network. Using the techniques discussed previously, we write a summary every 100 steps for the total of 20000 steps.
At each step we train the network with a batch of 100 examples by running the
train_step operation which will update the weights of network in accordance with the learning rate.
Finally, once the learning is done, we print out the test accuracy, and save the model.
with tf.Session() as sess:
# initialize variables
# initialize summarizer filewriter
fw = tf.summary.FileWriter("/tmp/nn/summary", sess.graph)
# train the network
for step in range(20000):
batch_xs, batch_ys = mnist.train.next_batch(100)
sess.run(train_step, feed_dict={x: batch_xs, labels: batch_ys, keep_prob:0.2})
if step%1000 == 0:
acc = sess.run(accuracy, feed_dict={
x: batch_xs, labels: batch_ys, keep_prob:1})
print("mid train accuracy:", acc, "at step:", step)
if step%100 == 0:
# compute summary using test data every 100 steps
summary = sess.run(summary_op, feed_dict={
x: mnist.test.images, labels: mnist.test.labels, keep_prob:1})
# add merged summaries to filewriter,
# so they are saved to disk
fw.add_summary(summary, step)
print ("Final Test Accuracy:", sess.run(accuracy, feed_dict={
x: mnist.test.images, labels: mnist.test.labels, keep_prob:1}))
# save trained model
saver.save(sess, "/tmp/nn/my_nn.ckpt")
mid train accuracy: 0.1 at step: 0
mid train accuracy: 0.91 at step: 1000
mid train accuracy: 0.89 at step: 2000
mid train accuracy: 0.91 at step: 3000
mid train accuracy: 0.97 at step: 17000
mid train accuracy: 0.98 at step: 18000
mid train accuracy: 0.97 at step: 19000
Final Test Accuracy: 0.9613
96% accuracy is that any good?
No, that actually kind of sucks, but the point of this network is not to be the best network. Instead, the point of it is to demonstrate how you can use Tensorflow to construct a network, and get a lot of visualization pizzazz for very little work.
If we run the model, and open it in tensorboard, we get:
Furthermore, we can see the summaries Tensorflow made for the accuracy and loss, and that they do, as expected, behave approximately like inverse of each other. We also see that the accuracy increases a lot in the beginning, but flattens out over time which is expected partly because we use the ADAM optimizer, and partly because the nature of gradients.
The use of nested scopes let's us progressively change the abstraction level. Notice how, if we expand the model, we can see the individual layers before the individual layer components.
If you want to run this network yourself, you can access the code on Github.
Wow, you're still here. You deserve a cute picture of a cat.
If you have followed this far, you should now be comfortable with the basics of Tensorflow: How it functions, how to do basic computations, how to visualize the graph, and finally you have seen a real example of how it can be used to create a basic neural network.
Also, send me a tweet @kasperfredn if you made it all the way through: You're awesome.
As this was just an introduction to Tensorflow, there's a lot we didn't cover, but you should know enough now to be able to understand the API documentation where you can find modules you can incorporate into your code.
If you want a challenge to test your comprehension, try to use Tensorflow to implement another machine learning model by either working from the model we created here, or starting from scratch.
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Anonymous, a group of hackers has taken down a Turkish government website as protest against recently introduced Internet filters which many consider to be censorship.
The group says, "(The Turkish government) has blocked thousands of websites and blogs while abusive legal proceedings against online journalists persist. The government now wants to impose a new filtering system on the 22nd of August that will make it possible to keep records of all the people's internet activity. Though it remains opaque why and how the system will be put in place, it is clear that the government is taking censorship to the next level."
Anonymous took down Turkey's Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) website, which is still inaccessible at the time of this writing.
Internet censorship isn't new to Turkey as the country's ISPs have blocked YouTube and numerous other sites over the course of the last couple of years.
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2019 is an amazing time to be an Angular dev. Angular has become one of the fastest improving technologies these days with the latest stable version (v7). There are many roads you can follow if you want to become a great Angular developer. With this blog post, I plan to show you one possible roadmap for you that will make that journey easier.
I thought of writing this guide after pretty much going through the same patch in early 2017. Hope this guide helps you be the Angular dev you want to be in 2019.
Let's start with the basics first.
Getting started with JavaScript
When reading this blog post it's most likely that you've written some code in javaScript in the past. Even if you just made a background color change on button press, this by itself is already some good experience. Let me share a few resources you can use to increase your JavaScript development skills:
- Codecademy - if you're looking for a place where you can learn to code in the most interactive way, Codecademy is your place. Their course Introduction to JavaScript will give you the basic expertise you need to have to get on the next level and start learning Angular. And, all that is totally for free.
- **Learn JavaScript Online **- learnjavascript.online is a super simple to use platform in which you see how your code works while you're typing it. It's made for people learning JavaScript from scratch and people who want to get even more proficient.
- **Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) **- in programming you don't need to keep all the information you've learned in your head all the time. It's very common to forget how to do something. When this happens, MDN will be your best friend. It's the most complete database of resources for web development out there. Plus, they also have tutorials which will help you a lot, especially if you're starting from scratch.
Of course, if you're willing to spend a few bucks, there are tons of options in Udemy and Pluralsight.
Move your JavaScript to the Next Level with TypeScript
- TypeScript Official Docs - we can't pass this section without referencing the official documentation for TypeScript. In my opinion, you don't need other resources and I definitely recommend starting from here. Again, when using TypeScript in your day to day activities, you'll also need this as a pinned tab.
- Learn TypeScript in 5 minutes - at first glance the title sounds super unpromising, but I can guarantee that after getting familiar with JavaScript, it won't take you much time to start using typescript. So check that article on freecodecamp and see it with your own eyes.
- Best practices in TypeScript - you need to know some best practices in all languages you learn, so this article will help you a lot when you start getting more fluent in TypeScript.
Start Your Journey with Angular
Start with the essentials
After getting familiar with JavaScript and Typescript it's time to move on and choose a framework to learn because these days you'd rarely use vanilla JavaScript to create a large web application from scratch. Angular is a great choice because it's quite easy to learn and it's improving each day. When you start learning a new framework it'll most likely feel as if you're learning a new programming language. But after giving yourself time and being patient, you'll see that the frameworks are actually made to make your life as a developer easier.
So I'm sharing with you some resources that helped me get started:
- Official Angular Docs - this is the information center point for Angular development. You can't learn a new framework if you don't look at the docs. Starting from there will ensure that what you're learning is always up to date. The Angular docs website contains all the information you'd need to be a pro at Angular development. I'm pretty sure that you'll also have that as a pinned tab. 😉
- Techiediaries - this is one of the most detailed tutorials I've found out there. It shows how Angular changed through the different versions and what was actually introduced in each of them. Techiediaries shows you how you can build a full web application from scratch with Angular 7.
- Udemy Angular Course - if you want to spend some money in your development education, Udemy is again on of the top places where you can do that. More than 240,000 people have enrolled in this Angular 7 course and it's one of the best Angular courses out there. I personally recommend it.
Create a web application by yourself
Reading articles and watching videos won't give you the confidence that you "can do the stuff". The best thing you can do to learn the most is to create an application by yourself. Think of a web application that you've always wanted to create and you can do it now using the power of Angular.
If you have seen all those resume examples where people are saying that they "know X, Y, and Z". It's not enough for a developer to say that they "know stuff", they need to show that they can "do stuff". So, creating an application by yourself will teach you things that you can't learn in a different way unless you do something real. And, of course, that'll be the strongest part of your resume.
- Use Git to keep track of your contributions and easily come back to an older version of your code.
- Use package managers like Yarn and npm to install new packages and update the current ones.
- Learn how to use task runners like Gulp and npm scripts to automate your development workflow.
- Create a coding style for your website using Prettier and TSLint.
- Learn how to use continuous integration services like Codeship and deploy your application to cloud platforms like Heroku.
- Learn how you can unit test each part of your code using libraries like Jasmine, Karma and Jest.
- Make end-to-end tests and make sure that your application works as expected all the time by simulating interactions using a real browser - Protractor and cypress.io are some of the frameworks that'll help you a lot with that.
Angular is one of the most popular frameworks out there, so if you don't have any idea of what you can do as your first Angular project, I'm going to share with you a few collections of projects which should inspire you.
So, we're going to start with the most common and easiest projects that should teach you a lot:
- Hello World with Angular - you've probably heard about the hello world apps that each developer is doing when starting to learn a programming language. Did you know that can do the same when learning a new web framework like Angular? This repository provides a simple starter project and a basic look at the project structure.
- To-do list - looks simple at a first glance, but actually, by making this project, you can learn all the stuff that I listed above. TodoMVC showcases the exact same implementation of a to-do list by using different frameworks and codebases. The Angular example has different implementations using different versions of the package and also different packages to achieve that.
Following up with some great places you can find web apps and tools made with Angular:
- Madewithangular.com - this website is an awesome collection of projects made with Angular. It's super helpful to see how Angular changed through the years because it contains projects with different versions of Angular and each version is written at the top of the project. Of course, if they are Open Source, you can try searching them in GitHub and see their code. If you are still not inspired enough to learn Angular, you can see here how large companies are using it to create some of their websites.
- AngularExpo - like the above, AngularExpo is a collection of different websites, UI components, and experiments done with the Angular framework. Some of the projects, like UI components you can use directly in your application to make the development process much easier.
- Github - Github is definitely a place you'll visit a lot. It's one of the largest development platforms out there with more than 100M repositories. Try searching for "angular" in the search bar at the top and you'll definitely reach thousands of projects that are using Angular in some way in their code.
- Collection of directives you can use directly in your Angular applications.
- Want to have charts in your app? There are already great chart libraries that work perfectly with Angular.
- You're probably also going to need to make requests to some external data or a REST API, so restangular is a great library that does that for you out of the box.
Keeping track with Angular updates
As I said, frameworks like Angular are changing very fast. You just blink and there is a new version. So you need to keep track of those things to be up to date. The main source you should look for that information is the Angular releases page. There you can see really detailed explanations of all changes and see planned future releases. Following those, you can prepare your application for an upgrade a few months before the release.
Become a Testing Guru
You don't want to be one of those developers that say "it works on my computer". You want to make sure that every time you update even a tiny part of your code, the other parts of your application will still work as expected. And, you don't need to do that testing manually each time you change something in your code. You can automate all that using libraries like Jasmine.
When using libraries like Jasmine for unit testing, the only thing you should do is to say what you expect your function to return when you pass it some data. And try to make different cases, so that you are sure you get close to 100% test coverage. The links below will help you become a master with unit testing:
- Learn what are the top 8 benefits of writing unit tests.
- Learn some of the best practices for unit testing using this JavaScript Unit Testing Guide.
- Learn a bunch of patterns that'll make you sure that your unit tests will catch 99.99% of the expected outcomes. When reading this blog post you'll also see examples of anti-patterns so you'll definitely know what not to do.
- 5 questions every unit test must answer shows one of the key things you need to address when writing a unit test.
- To be able to test, first, you need to make sure that your code is testable. A great article from Toptal explains how to write testable code and why it matters.
Often, you won't be able to test the whole application using only unit tests. That's why there are end-to-end tests. Those are tests that are simulating running your application in a real environment and it's testing the exact behavior when people are doing some actions in it. Protractor is one of the frameworks you can use for that and it's very easy to use. Here are some examples and best practices of how you can write your end-to-end tests like a pro:
- Learn how to build your first end-to-end tests using Protractor.
- Check out 15 best practices for building automated end-to-end tests.
- If you want to choose a different framework for end to end testing, see those 5 highly rated frameworks.
- Learn more on how to walk in the user's shoes and make sure you don't miss any edge case.
After you create the tests for your application, you can use continuous integration to make sure your tests are going to run always before deploying your application to a production environment.
- How to get started with continuous integration (CI).
- Learn from the experts to understand continuous integration at a high level.
- How to speed up your continuous delivery and get a fast build.
Follow Best Practices
You can write a piece of code that solves a problem in thousands of different ways. Some of those ways are poor, some of them are acceptable and a really small part are great. When starting your development career you're probably going to jump on the first solution that comes to mind, which will probably not be the best possible. But don't worry, that's quite normal, everyone goes through that. That's why after getting familiar with the technologies it's time to start looking at some patterns and best practices:
- JavaScript Style Guide - before we even start thinking of best practices in Angular, we should definitely focus on best practices in JavaScript. Airbnb created a super detailed style guide in their GitHub organization which shows one of the best ways you can write JavaScript code. In my personal opinion, every JavaScript dev should go through the whole article to write quality code.
- Best practices for a clean and performant Angular application - with more than 14k claps in freecodecamp.com, this post is one of the most detailed for best practices you can use directly in your Angular application. It covers basic topics from "const vs let" to more complex ones like "lazy loading" and "nested subscriptions".
- Angular in patterns - this repository contains information where different design patterns are used inside the framework. The best way to learn something new is to see how it's used in other places. So, this article will show you a collection of design patterns and how they're used in Angular.
With this post, I showed you a collection of resources and steps you can follow to make the first step in your journey as an Angular developer. Things are changing fast, so if you really want to become a great Angular dev you need to start now. Start with learning JavaScript, raise the bar with TypeScript and put everything you know into practice by learning Angular. Practice and lots of practice make a developer best! 🏅


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Last Monday – the 15th – password storage maker LastPass was hacked, exposing the email addresses and encrypted master passwords of its users. Last Tuesday – the 16th – in Congressional testimony, House Oversight Chairman, Jason Chaffetz, said that federal cybersecurity "stinks" in response to the governmental breach that happened earlier this month, exposing the personal information of millions of current, former, and prospective federal employees.
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China-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks, and the entire federal workforce could be at risk this time.
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BABIES killer Darren Jenkinson was branded a monster and given two life sentences yesterday for murdering his sons.
Trial judge Lord McEwan recommended the double killer should serve at least 15 years behind bars.
The 29-year-old father had admitted holding his babies' tiny legs to stop them struggling as he suffocated them with their bibs.
His wife Frances Jenkinson, 24, had stood by him throughout the trial into the murders of two-month-old Aaron and Jacob, aged three weeks.
But yesterday she was not in court to see her husband caged and is now suing for divorce.
Jenkinson stood shaking in the dock at the High Court in Glasgow as Lord McEwan told him: "To take one life is terrible indeed, but when it is you own child it is monstrous.
"But to murder both your children is a crime beyond any words that I can find to describe it.
"Both these murders are aggravated by cruel attempts to murder both children. They were innocent, helpless victims who deserved to live the life that they had hardly begun."
The judge said a change in the law will do away with the system of recommended sentences from next month.
Lord McEwan said: "I may be criticised for doing it but, in the public interest, I feel I must make a recommendation.
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Jenkinson, who was given a total of 12 years for five charges of attempted murder, will serve all three sentences at the same time.
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Many people when getting acquainted with some one will ask a question. "What's your sign?" They refer to the zodiac, daily horoscope, astrology, which is forbidden by God. "And beware, lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the hosts of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven,
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We all know that hoary old trailer trick where the music stops and then somebody says a one-liner, which makes it all the more baffling at second 14 when the music stops here for the classic "In A World" (and this trailer comes precariously close to opening with exactly that phrase) voice to say a one-liner that, combining the announcers gravelly tone with his forced, awkwardly sunny intonation, is less funny than just confusing.
Immediately, the trailer goes from there to the world's most uncomfortable double entendre, which basically sums up this trailer's mistake -- which is to say it doesn't appeal to anyone. For adults, it's a crappy, perfunctory children's movie they will not be inclined to see. For kids, it's about an outsider romance. And everyone knows that, when you're seven years old, romance is totally gross.
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Practical tips when embarking on a Digital Customer Experience transformation
According to a 2018 World Economic Forum report by Bain & Company, only 1% of $1.2 trillion digital transformation investments will achieve their set targets.
Why is that? If companies have decided that customers are in the driving seat and that delivering a superlative digital customer experience (CX) is paramount, then surely all obstacles to achieving that transformation should be systematically removed.
Colm Harte, Technical Director at NearForm, suggests some reasons why many organisations are finding the digital customer experience imperative increasingly insurmountable and what can be done to face the challenges head-on before they become unwieldy.
6 Ways to Prepare the Ground for Change in Transforming your Digital Customer Experience
- Establish a Collaborative Culture in Discovery: engage business stakeholders at the outset to remove the Technology-trust deficit but be sure to focus on collaboration during discovery and decision-making rather than during execution.
- Adopt a Fail-fast Iterative Approach: set an environment and culture for rapid development of solutions to reinspire the business by technology
- Embrace the Skills Gap Opportunity: think differently about how to plug the gap while also developing & retaining the talent you have, think partner knowledge-transfer
- Open up the Tech Stack: don't be afraid to look to proven open-source modules and headless systems to make the most of your legacy systems
- Drill the Data Gold mine: think 'fast data' and don't underestimate the value of data consolidation & visualisation
- Start Small to Make a Big impact: use 'agile pilots' to build a new accelerated approach and drive enterprise transformation & culture for innovative digital customer experience from the bottom-up
When it comes to digital customer experience, many organisations today are playing catch-up. Why do you think some are winning and others are just not yet at the races?
Delivering a winning digital customer experience today requires integrating multiple channels, old and new, into a unified platform that makes it easier and faster to do business and for customers to self-serve in a seamless, frictionless way. The brands that are succeeding are the ones who are accelerating this change.
So the question really is: what is stopping some companies from achieving accelerated change?
In our experience, a principal obstacle can be one that many large organisations themselves are only dimly aware of: their own internal culture, technology systems that are no longer fit for purpose and siloed departments and workflows.
These can put up serious roadblocks to delivering even the first step towards larger change programmes or CX transformation. It leads to a technology trust deficit where the business side of the organisation simply loses all faith that the technology programs will deliver and that the anticipated benefits will ever materialise.
But technology is now central to delivering optimal customer experience. So how do organisations overcome this technology-trust deficit if they are to move ahead with the pace?
Many companies need to be re-inspired about technology, and both the business and IT teams need to see that technology really can deliver an enhanced customer experience.
The starting point is a shared and signed-up priority with all stakeholders to collaborate on the design and development of seamless customer experience.
To be truly successful, this should involve marketing, customer service, domain experts, data analysts and internal users across the supply chain – especially where there is a need to remove complicated or unconnected processes that are interrupting the flow of the customer experience.
That need for collaboration may sound like a no-brainer but we find it is a common hurdle that is often overlooked.
When we work with organisations to drive this agenda and we see that familiar cycle of low expectations, scepticism, and then delight upon delivery. It's always a reminder that there are 100 more organisations out there who have a similar technology trust deficit that's waiting to be addressed.
When working with such organisations, how do you see them being reinspired by technology?
Put simply, it's about putting the customer first and foremost, setting a defined outcome that technology can address and delivering on that with rigor and urgency.
It's about having a design journey that sets out to rapidly build prototypes that can be iterated and built on with real user feedback.
It's about having a risk-tolerant, fail-fast approach that allows for accelerated delivery of solutions that match the user's needs. It's about ensuring key stakeholders see progress early on and are a part of that process.
So what part do these stakeholders play during the development of a digital customer experience initiative?
Collaboration during what we call the Discovery and Validation stages is crucial to succeeding with digital innovation.
The sooner the IT and business stakeholders come together to assess what the company's true needs are and to validate what is being delivered, the closer the initiative will be to delivering the stated aims – on time, on budget.
Rapid iteration of the designs with input from the business stakeholders – across all parts of the value chain – is not only efficient and user-centred but it lowers risks associated with delivering an over-provisioned solution with bloatware features that aren't needed and never will be.
Fail fast, fail safe – that's the approach we take.
But too much collaboration in the execution – during the Build stage – can slow it down. At that stage, focusing on functional knowledge within departments will ensure that execution by the IT teams is not held up by others – except, ideally, those customers who are willing to test early releases.
If getting the culture and approach right is step 1 to driving the speed of digital customer experience transformation within organisations, is step 2 about getting the right technology solution?
No, technology is not the real issue to be tackled next.
It's having the right skills to exploit the technology that's a bigger risk to speed and success.
Organisations who don't acknowledge their skills shortage and who don't think differently about ways of filling those gaps and keeping skills up to date, risk either long-term damage or risk being left behind.
More and more companies are now coupling their established in-house IT teams' domain expertise with an injection of new ideas and skill sets from the outside.
Onboarding the right external partner to work closely with internal teams can really accelerate development but they also bring new thinking from other industries and projects which helps in-house IT teams to develop new skills. This in turn often results in better staff retention.
Once you have the people and processes in place, does the technology more easily fall into place in transforming the organisation's digital customer experience?
Technology presents its own difficulties particularly when the organisation is hamstrung by complex stacks, including layers of legacy technology that function but are outdated.
Often these systems are full of quirks that the IT team has grown accustomed to working around.
We realise that the sunk investment in the stack, and its valuable interfaces to other systems, means it's impossible to bypass it altogether. But often, we will use only the layers we need and circumvent the rest.
We'd never tell a client that we can't work with their CRM system, for example, but if there are legacy pieces that offer little value to the optimum solution, we'll find ways to work around them.
How do you work around outdated legacy systems without fully replacing them?
We encourage organisations to think differently, keep an open mind about the technical approach and the technology stack currently in use. Often we draw on proven open-source stacks, modules and headless systems, and we work with the technology team to build exactly what's needed, with additional coding provided by a joint team of themselves and NearFormers to cover off things like user interface requirements.
Data can be the difference between a mediocre digital customer experience and a stellar one. What advice do you have for organisations on avoiding some of the rising challenges that 'big data' presents?
It is true that many organisations are seeking solutions, skills and practical proven suggestions on how to harness customer data and analytics. But here's what we are finding to be equally if not more challenging for many large organisations: they are facing a complex array of data sources built up over the years with little or no clear way of collating and presenting it into meaningful value for the organisation or the customer.
Most have a goldmine that they have yet to drill. What was once a storage issue is now a consolidation issue, coupled with the challenge of analysing these rich data sources and visualising the most meaningful outputs.
So consolidation and visualisation of data is just as important as the analysis and interpretation of the data itself?
Yes, and the issue is becoming as much about 'fast data' as it is 'big data'.
Digital leaders need to make effective technology choices to equip their organisations for data that is both high volume and high velocity and that comes from many sources. The goal is to aggregate the right data through the right platform to make it accessible and transparent, in a centralised place accessed from any touch point.
We are frequently brought in to help transformation executives and their developer colleagues turn some unwieldy data challenges into usable tools – getting there in the most efficient way often requires stepping back and assessing it from the desired outcomes, starting with the customer and what most impacts their journey.
What would be parting advice for Digital leaders who are embarking on transformative digital customer experience delivery?
- Technology obviously plays a key role in delivering a transformed customer experience, but the culture and the way of 'doing IT' inside your organisation will be equally key to success.
- We often talk about the need for companies to transform themselves and their approach before they can deliver transformation for their customers. It's never too early to lay the groundwork for that root-and-branch change.
- Start one project at a time.
- Adopt an 'agile pilot' approach by working with a partner who has the expertise in discovery workshops and rapid prototyping to get off on the right start for your next project.
- Let the benefits speak for themselves and use it to drive an agile enterprise approach throughout all your future projects.
Colm Harte is Technical Director at NearForm, with more than 20 years experience developing scalable, high-availability platforms across a variety of industries. Colm brings a combination of deep technical knowledge and leadership skills to ensure successful delivery. Having partnered with organisations across the globe to help them achieve sustainable innovation through the design & delivery of open software, methodologies and technologies, we are expertly positioned to help you optimise your customer experience.
We work with clients to design & deliver digital customer experience solutions starting with Discovery workshops and resulting in go-to-market ready solutions in as little as 12 weeks. Contact us for an exploratory chat and feel free to connect with Colm on LinkedIn.


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