Codecamp Blog Archive 1

In the era of digital cameras, with people sharing billions of photos and videos daily, it’s impossible to manage the content manually. Therefore the necessity of automatizing visual recognition has rapidly increased, proportionally with social networks. Image recognition can be used in numerous tasks, such as filtering out explicit content, labeling the content of images with meta-tags and performing image content search. Beyond social media, visual recognition can be used in various other domains: health, to trace visible symptoms on patients and contribute to the diagnostic, environment, to detect problematic areas, road traffic, to avoid accidents and build self-driving cars, and many others. Read in full

If you want to compare images in an automated test, take a look at the selenium-screenshot-watcher tool. I created this when I needed to determine if something changed in the UI, so that I was safe from a high-fidelity point of view. The tool is a REST-API client that is able to save images and provide feedback when asked to do a comparison. What it actually does is quite simple, based on some parameters that you build, so that you have a unique identifier for a screenshot that you’re about to take. Read in full

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much would a GIF be worth? Imagine how convenient it is to have a short replay of an automated test that fails when you file a bug report. You can attach it, the developers can get a glimpse of what went wrong and the flow the automated test took in order to easily reproduce it.

Find out how to use GifWebDriver in this article.

Codecamp Piatra Neamt will be back on May 26. Don’t forget to register HERE. The complete agenda will be announced soon.

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“AI is the new electricity” says Andrew Ng, one of the pioneers of AI and online learning. His remark may be an overstatement, bit there’s no denying the impact AI has had, is having, and will continue to have on our lives, at both personal and professional levels.

Date: 29 – 30 October 2018, Iasi
Training fee: €330/participant plus VAT, only 25 seats available

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Originally published on the Ness Digital Engineering blog at https://www.ness.com/know-dont-know-blockchains/.

Bitcoin is already a household name. The blockchain, the data structure plus protocol that lies under Bitcoin and many other novel applications, gets mentioned in almost every list of hot technologies [1].

For every writing that extols the potential of blockchains, another pops up dismissing blockchain-based solutions as inferior [2]. Both extremes are of course “right,” such as you would expect from any projection of a complex, multidimensional issue. Read in full

The trends of 2018 are already having a strong voice among developers and technology passionate over the world.

Machine learning is a trend with a tremendous impact on how businesses rule themselves nowadays. Vehicle detection and tracking using machine learning, Adi’s presentation at Codecamp, managed to trigger curious minds present there.

Other trends such as Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies will soon impact start-ups and the market as we see them. Read in full

Codecamp Chisinau will be back on June 2. Don’t forget to register HERE. The complete agenda will be announced soon.

In the meantime, we want to thank our partners for being with us every step of the way.

 

Established in 1998 in Cluj-Napoca, Softvision is now a big and global outsourcing company that provides great software product development services to their clients. Softvision expanded throughout Romania in Baia Mare, Bucuresti, Iasi and Timişoara. Read in full