Take a good look at this painting. What is the first thing you see — the one thing that really captures the full attention of your eye? If you’re like me, it’s probably the golden helmet. It’s like looking directly into a bright source of light, then closing your eyes…

Github Repo Introduction During our day to day development we needed to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned images, screenshots and other forms or files. We looked for an SDK which will allow that and examined ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK. …

A hands-on guide with a literary twist: How to host a business website on IBM Cloud Github repo can be found here. Sample website hosted on IBM Cloud can be found here. Here’s a story: One early morning, a barber was slicing freshly baked bread his wife made. To his amazement, at the heart of the fresh soft loaf, the barber found… a nose! — but…

In his 1915 masterpiece “The Metamorphosis”, Franz Kafka described a surreal world in which a salesman, named Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge cockroach. Poor Gregor struggles across the book to adjust to this new horrible condition. Almost 100 years later, many companies…

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Introduction The CSplitButton is an MFC control which performs a default behavior when a user clicks the main part of the button and displays a drop-down menu when a user clicks the drop-down arrow of the button. That works great however there aren’t any examples for using images for the main…

The true and untold story about an invention that forever changed the world of sound and how it’s related to IBMs AutoAI — This article was written per an invitation from IBM Research Labs, and was awarded the $25,000 first prize at their competition. IBM Research At IBM Research, we're inventing what's next in AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud to shape the world ahead.research.ibm.com In the dark cold night in 1933 a young German man on a motorbike was running for his life.

Introduction I needed to fetch the most recent posts from a given Minds.com user ID. To do so, I wanted to use the Minds.com API. Building Blocks One of the key building blocks to such project, would be libCurl. I used it as a static library. The .lib …