What do you mean by 'Comprehension' in JavaScript?

Comprehension(s) list(array) is used in many computer languages. What it does is it takes an array and modifies it  to create a new list(array) based on some modifier.

For example if you have a list like this: [ 1,2,3 ],
you can create a new list with each element of list replaced by itself multiplied 3 times like in Example 1

In the second example from Mozilla site, you take an array of lower case letters and use the Javascript string operatory 'toUpper()' to generate a new array with letters of each element capitalized.

Read here:
https://www.xul.fr/javascript/comprehension.php
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Expressions_and_Operators#Comparison_operators

These were tested to work in Mozilla Firefox (I believe it is version 54). However it does not work in Microsoft Edge. I believe these are still being tested for future version of ECMA script according to the Mozilla Developer site.

Where is Video Manager in YouTube?

I see this question being asked often and in fact I could not find the Video Manager quick enough to do some task. Video Manager is needed to make changes to your video's title, description, etc.

This is an easy way  to find the Video Manager:
None of the menus in this image will take you to Video Manager when you access your account.

Just click Creator Studio button to display the items that you can access as shown. Here you find an item to navigate to the Video Manager as shown.

How do you format a chart in Power BI?

Customers are used to eye candy as most of social media strive to provide. While working with data it is not just eye-candy effects that are the driving force for visualization but controls available to bring out the features of data like its value representation; what it represents; relative magnitiudes; values of each piece of data, etc. Power BI can do a lot of this with simple choices. It is pretty find grained.

Take for example this mundane bar chart of some values in a chart of two axes. It shows a 'bar graph' and the default formatting if any are barely visible.

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The formatting icon is where you click and start.

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Right now only X-axis, Y-axis and Title are turned all on but you can hardly see any details. Using the drop-down you can control the Data colors; Data labels, background, border and lock aspect (locking the aspect ratio of the chart).

Presently the default color of all the six X-axis values are 'Green'.

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However you can individually color them if there is a need. For this you need to turn on 'Show all'.

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This image shows each data with a different color. You cal also go to default if you do not like. These changes in formatting renders the visualization as shown which is immediate.

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You can also change the title which is barely visible clicking on 'Title' .

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These changes in formatting renders the visualization as shown which is immediate.

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You can turn on the Data lables turning 'Off' to 'On' by pulling the slider to right.
You will notice that the letters are too small to read (see above image).

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You can work all the controls under Data Labels and make it look better as shown. If you click X-Axis or Y-axis then you can modify the formatting as swell.

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If you have a saved image or logo or any background image you can add as shown and set its transparency as shown.

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Similarly you can set the backgorund color and its tranpareancy as well.

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In the 'General' section you can set the settings shown.

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Is your Windows 10 computer SLAT Compatible?

SLAT stands for Seccond Level Address Translation is a hardware based virtualization technology. It reduces the overhead assoiated with software manged shadow page tables.

How do you find your computer is SLAT compatible?

There is a nice tool here that readily tells you if your computer is compatible.

Download the tool and extract the executable ( ChecksSLATStatusOfMachine.exe; 15KB) to a folder. Double click the executable to bring up this page.

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Just double click the label Click To Check.

You get the answer after a little while as shown.

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Although this works whether Hyper-V is enabled or not but if the OS supports Hyper-V you may assume it is SLAT compatible. In order to enable Hyper-V follow these posts.

Activating Hyper-V on Windows 10:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-you-install-hyper-v-on-windows-10.html

Enabling Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 OS:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-do-you-enable-hyper-v-in-windows-81.html

What is Microsoft Stream?

Microsoft Stream is meant as a replacement for Office 365 Video service. Microsoft Stream is video service for business users.

Microsoft is always aiming at corporate users and this service allows for uploading, sharing, managing and viewing corporate video for company-wide education and information sharing.

The base platform for Stream service is Azure Media Services. Of course integration of its various components be it Skype or Office is a feature paramount in its business vision and Stream integrates with SharePoint. Teams, Office 365 groups etc. Security is via Azure Active Directory with its authentication and encryption features.

Stream is a lot more than video managing, it can,

* searchable speech-to-text transcribed audios
* Face detection in videos
* Linked time codes

Follow the link below to see all the details about Microsoft Stream.

Migration from Office 365 Video to stream is phased and is supposed commence in the second half of 2017.

More on stream here.

This video gives some idea of what it was sometime ago (not the latest)

How does Win/Loss sparkline work?

There are three kinds of Sparklines in Excel you can create. These are small pictures that show the data trend.
These can be types Column, Line or Win / Loss. Read more here.

The first two are easy to understand as shown in the previous post. However if all your values are positive you may not see any significense difference in the sparkline as shown in the first image here:

However, if some of your data are negative, this is what you see in Win /Loss Sparkline. I have changed some values negative.

What are AngularJS directives?

AngularJS directives are extensions of HTML markups. They can be attributes, element names, CSS class etc. AnuglarJS script reference is important and the script can be found here:

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.25/angular.min.js"
The above script reference needs to be added to your hTML page.

You can find the whole list of directives here:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api

Here is the usage of some directives placed in a html page that can be displayed on your localhost (in this case the IIS in Windows 10). Place this code with a suitable name in the inetpub / wwwroot directory.

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ng-app

Sorry, blogger still does not support the "pre" tag!
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When viewed on the browser (in this case Microsoft Edge), the HTML page renders as shown.

Type anything it gets copied next to Hello
Enter the increment region with your mouse, the count (presently 1) gets incremented
Click the link and you get to the page

More to come in future posts on AngularJS

What is V8?

V8 is a 8 cylinder engine if you are a automobile geek. However V8 is also the open source, high performance ECMA compliant JavaScript engine from none other than Google.

V8 is written in C++. It is used in many embedding applications such as Chromium and Node.js ("Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on top of Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine).  Just like a web browser access the document object model(DOM), V8 engine together with Chromium provides the same functionality and additionally provides all data types, operators, objects, functions etc.

In addition to compiling Javascript code, it does memory managment; assigning objects to memory; monitoring property changes and doing garbage collection.

Read more here:
https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Introduction

How do you create Sparklines in Excel?

Sparklines are tiny charts of related information covering a range of data placed in an EXCEL cell.

I have Microsoft Office 365 Business version 1704. I will describe using this version of Excel. The data I choose to show is the data related to Opoid related deaths in New York state. I tried to get this data as data from Excel's (Data |From Web) Web menu item in Excel but it was not easy. I just copied and pasted and made some changes. The website for this data is coming
from here:

http://lohud.nydatabases.com/database/opioid-related-deaths-new-york-state

Here is a sample data in a Excel Spreadsheet.

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I have the data for all the counties, but the above has only for the top couple of counties.

In Excel you can create the following types of Sparklines:

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I will describe how to show the sparklines for the Opoid deaths for say the three counties Albany, Allegany and Bronx.

Highlight the data for the three counties as shown (keep a blank column for the Sparklines). Note that to show with some clarity, the row height has been changed.

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Click Sparklines and choose column.
The Sparklines gets into the next column as shown.

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Now you can see how the death varied from 2003 to 2014 in the three counties on a comparative basis. Looks like Allegany made the best changes.

How to make thumbnail show instead of image file icons in Windows Explorer?

Depending on your settings in the Control Panel instead of thumbnails in the Windows Explorer you may be seeing the icon of image program that opens the image.

You can make changes in the Control Panel to change this. Watch this slide show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ4fTHndHuA

How do you add Full-Text feature to an existing installation of SQL Server 2016 SP1?

It is a good practice that you only install what you need, otherwise you may end of reserving resources for things you do not need. However often times you need to add a feature to an existing installation of SQL Server 2016. There is no better place to go than the SQL Server Installation Center. This slide show shows how you may do this.

https://youtu.be/6S25lHM15E4