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Managing Adobe Connect Meeting Room

by Miloš Radovanović Miloš Vučetić | September 2013 | e-Learning

In this article by Miloš Radovanović and Miloš Vučetić, the authors of the book Learning Adobe Connect 9, will explain how to edit various settings for existing meetings.

Modern world organizations require effective collaboration in order to improve productivity. Today we live in an era of companies that are spread across different continents, while there is an ever-increasing need to effectively share information in real time and to discuss a multitude of ideas, no matter where we are.

Conferencing tools enable users to increase their productivity and improve communication with their functionalities that include interactive experiences supported by multiple features. One of the most advanced conferencing tools and the market leader today is Adobe Connect. With its features that include audio and video, various sharing capabilities, meeting recordings, advanced users management, and file sharing and transferring, it is a great tool that will help you organize and present your content in the most efficient manner while capturing audience with rich and engaging presentations.

In this article, you will master all functionalities on how to edit different settings for already existing meetings.

In this article we will cover the following topics:

  • The Meeting information page
  • The Managing Edit information page
  • The Managing Edit participants page
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Regression models in Weka

by Boštjan Kaluža | September 2013 | Java Open Source

Regression is a technique used to predict a value of a numerical class, in contrast to classification, which predicts the value of a nominal class. Given a set of attributes, the regression builds a model, usually an equation that is used to compute the predicted class value. In this article by Boštjan Kaluža, the author of Instant Weka How-to, you will learn about the regression models in Weka.

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Using Virtual Destinations (Advanced)

by Timothy Bish | September 2013 | Open Source

In this article by Timothy Bish, the author of the book Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application, we are going to look at ActiveMQ's Virtual Destinations feature and learn how it can save us from the many limitations that come with using durable topic subscriptions.

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Creating sheet objects and starting new list using Qlikview 11

by B. Diane Blackwood | September 2013 | Enterprise Articles

In this article by B. Diane Blackwood, author of the book Instant QlikView 11 Application Development, we will create more sheet objects, starting with a new list box to begin analyzing our loaded data. We can add dimensions for analysis. We can format our data and other enhancements by right-clicking on our sheet or our sheet objects that were created by the wizard. For example, with this data, we can add a box for the Company dimension data and format the data to have dollar signs and commas.

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A Different Kind of Database

by Brian Ritchie | September 2013 | Open Source

In this article by Brian Ritchie, author of the book RavenDb When most people talk of a database, they mean a relational database. Relational databases have been the foundation of enterprise application for the past 30 years. First defined in June 1970 by Edgar Codd of IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory, relational databases store data in now familiar tables made up of rows and columns.

Relational databases have served us well for many years, so why do we need a different kind of database? Most developers have experience of building applications with relational databases and access to great tooling. However, relational databases do have their limits. As our systems grow, it becomes more difficult and expensive to scale a traditional relational database.

To understand how we got here, let's take a quick trip back into the recent past. Relational databases were created when big iron ruled the world. These centralized mainframes provided the foundation of the first relational database systems. As we moved into the client/server era, these databases moved onto lower priced servers. But fundamentally, they are still running on one central machine.

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Installation

by Ghislain Hachey | September 2013 | Networking & Telephony Open Source

Instant OpenNMS Starter by Ghislain Hachey, explains OpenNMS. OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network management application platform built using the Java programming language under the open source model and is freely available under the GNU General Public License Version 3. OpenNMS can perform all functions of network management defined in the ITU's Principles for telecommunications network management including fault management, configuration management, accounting (or administration), performance management, and security management, often abbreviated as FCAPS.

There are always various ways to install software and the OpenNMS website provides several good tutorials at http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Tutorial for various operating systems. The following steps provide a less detailed albeit, slightly more advanced, and secure deployment procedure.

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Aperture in Action

by Thomas Fitzgerald | September 2013 | Web Graphics & Video

In this article, by Thomas Fitzgerald author of the book Mastering Apple Aperture, we will put that theory into practice, and take a look at several real world examples of how you can use Aperture, both creatively and to solve problems. The goal is to help you think outside the box and you may actually be surprised at just how much you can achieve within the software without having to jump over to another application, such as Photoshop.

In this article, we will look at the following examples of using Aperture:

  • Recovering and controlling clipped highlights

  • Fixing blown out skies

  • Removing objects from a scene

  • Fixing dust spots on multiple images

  • Fixing chromatic aberration

  • Fixing purple highlight fringes

  • Creating fake duotones

  • Fix a scanned negatives

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Out-of-process distributed caching

by Daniel Wind | September 2013 | Open Source Web Development

In this article by Daniel Wind, author of the book Instant Effective Caching with Ehcache, talks about the steps to implement distributed caching using the Ehcache server RESTful module.

In this article, we will cover the following topics:

  • What out-of-process distributed caching is and why it is useful
  • Setting up a RESTful cache server using Ehcache
  • We will examine how to set up out-of-process distributed caching with the Ehcache cache server. This utility is provided by the Terracotta folks to ease the integration process with external systems via web services, such as SOAP and RESTful.
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Configuring payment models (Intermediate)

by Murat Yilmaz | September 2013 | e-Commerce Open Source

In this article, by Murat Yilmaz, author of Instant E-commerce with OpenCart:Build a Shop, we will learn that OpenCart supports a wide range of payment methods and services. We will learn how to integrate one of the most popular online payment services, that is, PayPal into our store. PayPal offers several solutions. Two popular ones are PayPal Website Payments Standard and PayPal Website Payments Pro.

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Understanding the Geolocation API (Simple)

by Ben Werdmuller | September 2013 | Open Source Web Development

In this article by Ben Werdmuller the author of the book Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-to, we will discuss some basics about the Geolocation API. The Geolocation API is a series of simple JavaScript calls that retrieve the following aspects of the user's location:

  • Latitude and longitude
  • Altitude
  • The accuracy of the latitude and longitude
  • The accuracy of the altitude information
  • Heading
  • Speed
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Chef Infrastructure

by Matthias Marschall | September 2013 | Cookbooks Networking & Telephony Open Source

This article by Matthias Marschall author of Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook helps you to get started with Chef. It explains some key concepts such as cookbooks, roles, and environments and shows you how to use some basic tools such as Git, Knife, Chef Shell, Vagrant, and Berkshelf.

"What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel." - Andrew Cuomo

This article will cover the basics of Chef, including common terminology, workflow practices, and various tools surrounding Chef. We will explore version control using Git, walk through working with community cookbooks, and running those cookbooks on your own servers to configure them the way you need them.

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SOA Application Design

by Matt Brasier Nicholas Wright | September 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles SOA Oracle

In this article by Matt Brasier and Nicholas Wright, the authors of this book Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook, we will look at the ways in which you can design your application for high performance.The topics that will be covered are:

  • Using BPEL process parallelization
  • Using non-blocking service invocations in BPEL flows
  • Turning off payload validation and composite state monitoring
  • Designing BPEL processes to reduce persistence
  • Using parallel routing rules
  • Setting HTTP timeouts for external HTTP services
  • Tuning BPEL adapter properties
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Using indexes to manipulate pandas objects

by Trent Hauck | September 2013 | Open Source

The article, using indexes to manipulate objects in pandas, covers the important aspects of pandas. This article by Trent Hauck, author of the book Instant Data Intensive Apps with pandas How-to , gives an idea of about the importance of indexes in pandas.

Indexes are not advanced because they're difficult, but if we want to be an expert with pandas it is important that we use them well. We will discuss hierarchical indexes in the following There's more... section.

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Introduction to BlueStacks

by Gary Judge | September 2013 |

In this article by Gary Judge, the author of Instant BlueStacks, will learn the basics of BlueStacks App Player, learn how to synchronize the apps using Cloud Connect, and discover some tips and tricks for using these tools.

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So, what is Apache Wicket?

by Felipe Fedel Pinto João Sávio Ceregatti Longo | September 2013 | Open Source Web Development

This article by João Sávio Ceregatti Longo and Felipe Fedel Pinto, authors of the book Instant Apache Wicket 6, aims to introduce the reader to the world of Apache Wicket 6. This beginner-level guide takes the reader through the basic workflow of Apache Wicket in a practical and friendly style.

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