- The student researched magazine articles and layouts, taking detailed notes to help write their own articles
- They created a rough layout in InDesign before writing, adding grids and guides, though some elements changed during creation
- Managing time across 4 teachers was difficult but the student prioritized work and ensured everything was completed to a high standard
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
2. Before creating my magazine I had done in depth research of articles and layouts. This is evident from my research folder.
While I was analysing/researching articles (Reviews, Interviews, Feature articles and editors letters) I was taking plenty of
notes which would help me to write up my final articles. These notes consisted of conventions of each article and how it
links to the genre. Also if there is a constant common flow throughout the magazines. I kept in mind to identify the
content of each article, the layout and design. When analysing the content I made sure to identify if the text was official
or unofficial, primary or secondary, attributable or confidential.
Beforehand of starting the creative side I made a rough layout of my feature article pages adding grids and guides. When
I actually started to create the article on here there were certain things I changed in terms of the layout.
I created a plan before writing my articles up, this enabled me to have a rough guide of what I would write about in each
paragraph. However before doing my interview and writing it up, as a class we got the chance to have a practice
interview this helped me a lot because it gave me a tester of how to carry out an interview linking each question well.
For layouts I mainly looked though the NME magazine because it’s the same genre as my magazine Spectrum. Although
ideas in the NME magazine helped me enormously there were a few things that I chose to not make similar in my
magazine, for example the use of loads of colours. My magazine is an indie rock magazine which has a consistent flow of
a black and white theme and minimum colour.
Beforehand of starting the
creative side I made a rough
layout of my feature article pages
adding grids and guides. When I
actually started to create the
article on here there were certain
things I changed in terms of the
layout.
3. This magazine unit was combined with 4 teachers therefore time management was slightly difficult; I couldn’t give
each the same amount of time because of the different amounts of work load. However I did prioritise my time for
each in different ways, for example, I would plan to research on reviews in the lesson and attempt to finish this, if I
didn’t complete it then I would carry this on at home ensuring that piece of work is done and to great standard.
Whatever I planned and wrote down to get done in that day I was determined to get it done.
During my production I did review my work from time and time again, for example I wrote up my reviews and placed
them onto InDesign to finish my production however, there was quite a few gaps which needed filling up therefore I
wrote up an additional capsule review first on Microsoft word then pasted onto InDesign making sure I didn’t make any
text errors. After I had produced my magazine pages on InDesign I then again pasted all my texts into Microsoft Word
and proof read. If there was an area I was seriously stuck on I asked for assistance however I tried my upmost best to
come out with the solution and/or answer myself.
I would rate the use of the layout and design of making my magazine on InDesign a 9 out of 10 as I was able to use
many different tools with no difficulty to make my final product. I helped out my classmates that needed help also
which made me feel even more confident with myself. To create my magazine, I used Adobe InDesign – a programme
used by professional’s to construct music magazines (even the likes of NME, a well-established and popular magazine,
use this programme). I had never used this programme before, and so I found initially difficult to get to grips with.
However, once I got into it, I learnt a lot about how to professionally layout my magazine. I believe that this programme
was perfect for creating a music magazine, as any other software, such as Microsoft Publisher, would not have allowed
my work to look as professional as the final product was with InDesign. Once I got the hang of it, I was able to create
my magazine with ease. I found this programme quite easy to use, and through using this for my project I have learnt a
lot about how magazines are made.
4. In the process of creating my
magazine I did make a few
errors on the software however
I overcame them.
This is an example where the
text was flowing around
everywhere because the text
boxes weren’t linked. I then
learnt how to link text boxes
I would rate my creative abilities 8 out of 10 as it made me get in touch with my creative skills and my
photography and art skills and ideas. I asked my family and friends for advice on how well they think
my magazine is, and I got positive responses which made me pleased. My intentions was to present a
professional, well and neat magazine I feel like I have met that requirement however for the large
image I used on my feature article, the image was taken on a RAW format which enabled the image to
stay high quality but I then edited it and made a mistake by saving it as a jpeg not being able to go back
to my original file. When placing this image to InDesign it showed up as slightly fuzzy.
5. The language for my magazine is appropriate for my audience with an average age of 24. The language is formal how
its meant to be written in a magazine however to make it more interesting to read I made it slightly chatty to just do
the reader doesn’t get bored and it gets differentiated from a newspaper article. The use of a black and white theme
with minimum colour is effective because it allows the images to stand out. If there were a mix-up of colours it would
just make the magazine look messy or even “kiddish” which I didn’t want because one of my aims was to make the
target audience of my magazine obvious.
I have learnt many different skills in this assignment, such as improving the way I write articles and how articles are
written and the right style for each specific articles such as a feature, an interview and a review, how you have to
write this articles in a third person. In my feature I had to do research on the history of rock and indie rock music,
which made me more confident on my research with primary and secondary research. I have developed my skills
more in using InDesign. The improvements I could make are making my editor’s letter more colourful by adding an
image as it looks to empty with no images. Another change would be to make the pull quotes on my feature article
smaller and adding more text in as this area is large and is taking up a lot of space.