This Week I Learned - Week #51 2022

This Week I Learned - 

* Top 10 Azure Security Best Practices Slides

* A CI/CD pipeline is a tool that automates the process of building, testing, and deploying software. It integrates the different stages of the software development lifecycle, including code creation and revision, testing, and deployment, into a single, cohesive workflow. 

* How to read a WebPageTest Waterfall View chart

* roadmap.sh is a community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide the developers in picking up the path and guide their learnings.

* Homework helpers -

* Being furloughed means that your employer is requiring you take an unpaid leave of absence. While furloughs are temporary, a layoff means you are permanently separating from your employer. Furloughed employees keep their outstanding vacation, personal, and sick days during their furlough period.

* An acrostic is a form of writing in which a recurring feature or the first word, syllable or letter in each paragraph or a line spells out a message or sentence. An acrostic poem hijacks the vertical nature of poetry to embed hidden words and phrases. When the last letter of each new line (or other recurring feature) forms a word it is called a telestich; the combination of an acrostic and a telestich in the same composition is called a double acrostic

S et among hills in the midst of  five valley S,

 T his peaceful little   market town we inhabi T

 R efuses  (vociferously!) to  be  a  conforme R.

 O nce home  of  the cloth  it gave its name t O,

 U phill and down again its  streets  lead  yo U.

 D espite its faults it leaves  us all  charme D.

* An acronym is a word derived from the initial letters of the words of a phrase, such as radar from "radio detection and ranging". By contrast, a backronym is "an acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words, either to create a memorable name or as a fanciful explanation of a word's origin." Many fictional espionage organizations are backronyms, such as SPECTRE (special executive for counterintelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion) from the James Bond franchise. An example of a backronym as a mnemonic is the Apgar score, used to assess the health of newborn babies. The rating system was devised by and named after Virginia Apgar. Ten years after the initial publication, the backronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration.

* The distress signal SOS is often believed to be an abbreviation for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" but was chosen because it has a simple and unmistakable Morse code representation – three dots, three dashes, three dots, sent without any pauses between characters.

* Heliophobia is a specific type of phobia that refers to an intense fear of the sun or sunlight or any kind of bright light.

* Spectrophobia is a morbid fear of mirrors.

* Islam prohibits dowry. Islam puts the entire responsibility of incurring all expenses for the marriage on the man. Islam mandates that marriages must be simple and inexpensive.

* Royal Gala is a late season dessert apple, originating from New Zealand. They're naturally lightly striped. Like all strains of Gala, they originated in New Zealand in the early 1900s from a cross between 'Golden Delicious' and 'Kidd's Orange,' which was originally developed by J.H. Kidd. 

* Royal Gala apples are simply a mutation of Gala apples that was bred specifically for its darker red skin color. To be considered a true Royal Gala, at least 50% of the apple's thin skin must be a deep red color. The Royal Gala strain was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who deemed it her favorite during a visit to New Zealand. It was brought to the United States in the early 1970s. 

* The USDA approved an apple genetically modified to not turn brown. The "Arctic" apples have a suppressed enzyme that delays the browning that occurs after an apple is cut or bruised.

* The three major apple-growing regions in the U.S. are the States of Washington, New York, and Michigan.

* Native to Japan in the 1930s and named in honor of Mount Fuji, this apple is a Japanese cross of the Ralls Janet and the Red Delicious. Japan introduced this popular apple to the United States in the 1980s.

* Granny Smith's are great for eating, baking and cooking, while Gala and Fuji apples are best for enjoying sliced or in a salad. Its discoverer, Maria Ann Smith, had emigrated from England in 1839 with her husband Thomas. They purchased a small orchard cultivating fruit. Smith had numerous children and was a prominent figure in the district, earning the nickname "Granny" Smith in her advanced years.

* Apple trees don't bear their first fruit until they are four or five years old.

* To slow the proverbial sands of time, some fruit distributors treat their apple bins with a gaseous compound, 1-methylcyclopropene,” the USDA states. “It extends the fruits' post-storage quality by blocking ethylene, a colorless gas that naturally regulates ripening and aging.

* China produces more apples than any other country

* Apples score relatively low on both the glycemic index (GI) and the glycemic load (GL) scales, meaning that they should cause a minimal rise in blood sugar levels (10). Apples have a minimal effect on blood sugar levels and are unlikely to cause rapid spikes in blood sugar, even in those with diabetes.

* Scientists count 881 animal species as having gone extinct since around 1500, dating to the first records held by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – the global scientific authority on the status of nature and wildlife. 

* Benjamin was the world’s last known thylacine, a marsupial carnivore also known as the Tasmanian tiger. - Reuters

* India, the third-largest pharmaceutical market in the world, imports 70% of its requirement of active pharmaceutical ingredients—an essential raw material for making a final drug—from China, according to the latest PwC report with data up to 2019. The dependence on China is high for APIs used in penicillin G, levodopa, streptomycin, meropenem, carbidopa, vancomycin, gentamicin and progesterone.

* The 6.5 Lakh Sq Ft Super Saravana Stores launched in Madurai is the largest in the country.  The largest IKEA store measuring 4.6 Lakh Sq Ft in India is in Bengaluru. 

* Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language referred to as Hindi-Urdu or sometimes Hindustani. The respective writing systems used to write the languages, however, are different: Hindi is written using Devanagari, whereas Urdu is written using a modified version of the Arabic script, each of which is completely illegible to readers literate only in the other. Both Modern Standard Hindi and Urdu are literary forms of the Dehlavi dialect of Hindustani. A Persianized variant of Hindustani began to take shape during the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526 AD) and Mughal Empire (1526–1858 AD) in South Asia. Known as Deccani in southern India, and by names such as Hindi, Hindavi, and Hindustani in northern India and elsewhere, it emerged as a lingua franca across much of India and was written in several scripts including Perso-Arabic, Devanagari, Kaithi, and Gurmukhi.

* Hindi evolved from the medieval (6th to 13th century) Apabhraṃśa register of the preceding Shauraseni language, a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is also the ancestor of other modern Indo-Aryan languages. Around 75% of Urdu words have their etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit. The remaining 25% of Urdu's vocabulary consists of loanwords from Persian and Arabic.

* In modern India, the Madrassa system educates more than 2 million children free of cost

* I will not allow, what is not in my control, to prevent me from doing what is, in my control. - Yawar Baig 

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