Voice Menus and IVR in AsteriskNOW
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Nir Simionovich | January 2009 | Linux Servers Networking & Telephony Open Source
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)-enabled telephony platforms are the pivot elements of the telephony industry. You must be familiar with several IVR telephony platform—your cellular provider's top-up system, your bank's call distribution system, or your Internet service provider's technical support line—IVR systems are everywhere. As you may already know, IVR systems can be a hell to use, but as Winston Churchill said, you just have to keep on going to get to your destination.
In this article by Nir Simionovich, we will learn about the human dynamics of IVR systems, the implementation and the deployment of an IVR environment to your AsteriskNOW PBX system.
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VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization
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Andre Leibovici Jason Langone | June 2012 | Enterprise Articles
<p>In this article by <b>Jason Langone</b> and <b>Andre Leibovici</b>, the authors of <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/vmware-view-5-desktop-virtualization-solutions/book">VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions</a>, we will learn about virtualization. <b>Virtualization</b>, the technology of abstracting the operating systems from the underlying physical server components, has become a cornerstone of the data center architecture. Virtualization allows organizations to run not just one operating system per physical server in the data center, but tens, dozens, or even hundreds, on a single physical server. The benefits of virtualization are many, including a reduction in hardware, power, and cooling costs. In addition, virtualization allows for new techniques of distribution and resilience to be applied, such as <b>VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler</b> (<b>DRS</b>) and <b>VMware High Availability</b> (<b>HA</b>).</p>
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VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization
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Andre Leibovici Jason Langone | June 2012 | Enterprise Articles
<p>In this article by <b>Jason Langone</b> and <b>Andre Leibovici</b>, the authors of <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/vmware-view-5-desktop-virtualization-solutions/book">VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions</a>, we will learn about virtualization. <b>Virtualization</b>, the technology of abstracting the operating systems from the underlying physical server components, has become a cornerstone of the data center architecture. Virtualization allows organizations to run not just one operating system per physical server in the data center, but tens, dozens, or even hundreds, on a single physical server. The benefits of virtualization are many, including a reduction in hardware, power, and cooling costs. In addition, virtualization allows for new techniques of distribution and resilience to be applied, such as <b>VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler</b> (<b>DRS</b>) and <b>VMware High Availability</b> (<b>HA</b>).</p>
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VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization
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Andre Leibovici Jason Langone | June 2012 | Enterprise Articles
In this article by Jason Langone and Andre Leibovici, the authors of VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions, we will learn about virtualization. Virtualization, the technology of abstracting the operating systems from the underlying physical server components, has become a cornerstone of the data center architecture. Virtualization allows organizations to run not just one operating system per physical server in the data center, but tens, dozens, or even hundreds, on a single physical server. The benefits of virtualization are many, including a reduction in hardware, power, and cooling costs. In addition, virtualization allows for new techniques of distribution and resilience to be applied, such as VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA).
Read VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization in fullVisualizing Productions Ahead of Time with Celtx
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Ralph Roberts | April 2011 | Beginner's Guides Open Source
In this article, we explore how Celtx lets us use sketching, storyboarding, and Adding media files. Besides, even if we are just writing a script, visualization techniques can make that a lot easier as well. Knowing where we are going is wonderful in helping us get there, eh? By the end of this article, we'll be well familiar with why and how to use these visualization features in Celtx.
In this article by Ralph Roberts, author of Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide, we will learn the following:
- Sketching: Sketches let us diagram camera, light, character and prop placement, and the other items that we need to visually plan the setup of a scene for filming.
- Storyboarding: Celtx helps us build storyboards using external clipart or photos and included icons to give a visual representation of our script. We can do storyboards before writing a script, or afterwards, to help turn the script into a film or video.
- Add media files: Media files (photos, graphics, videos) may be attached to any of the thirty-six production categories, including wardrobe, props, and locations.
Visual Studio 2010 Test Types
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N. Satheesh Kumar Subashni S | December 2010 | Enterprise Articles
Software testing is one of the most important phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The delivery of the end product is based on better design, better coding, better testing, and meeting the requirements. The quality of the product is measured by testing the product based on functional and non-functional requirements with the help of testing tools and techniques. The tools are useful in simulating a real life situation and the user load. For example, testing a web application with more than 1000 user load is a very time consuming and tedious task if we do it manually. But the performance testing tool that comes along with Visual Studio 2010 can simulate this scenario and test it in a very short period of time. Visual Studio 2010 provides additional tools for testing all type of applications and scenarios such as Unit testing, Load Testing, Web testing, Ordered testing, and generic testing.
This article by Satheesh Kumar N and Subashni S, authors of Software Testing using Visual Studio Team System 2010, provides a high level overview on all the testing tools and techniques supported by Visual Studio 2010. This article covers the following topics:
- Testing as part of the software development life cycle
- Types of Testing
- Test Management in Visual Studio 2010
- Testing Tools in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2008 Test Types
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N Satheesh Kumar Subashni S | December 2008 | .NET
measured by testing the product based on the requirement, using different testing tools and techniques. Even though we test the product with different tools, the real judgement of the product comes from the testing that simulates the real life situation, for example, by simulating the actual number of users, by simulating the load and simulating the actual production environment, and then by measuring the product. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides not only the development environment and code maintenance for application but also different testing features such as Unit test, Load test, Web test, Coded tests, and Ordering tests list.
This article by Subashni.S and N Satheesh Kumar, will give us an understanding of the tools in Visual Studio and an overview of the different types of testing supported by Visual Studio.
Read Visual Studio 2008 Test Types in fullVisual SourceSafe:Creating a Service-Oriented Application
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Alexandru Serban | October 2008 | .NET Microsoft
In this article by Alexandru Serban, let's take a more realistic software development scenario. What I am going to build is a room-reservation system for the newly launched Orbital Hotel. As you well know, this is the very first space building, after the International Space Station, used for tourism, allowing people to enjoy a view of our blue planet and stars from their private rooms. OK, OK, the Orbital Hotel doesn't yet exist, but when it does, it must have a room reservation system anyway. Who knows, it might be this one.
Read Visual SourceSafe:Creating a Service-Oriented Application in fullVisual MySQL Database Design in MySQL Workbench
by Djoni Darmawikarta |
June 2008 | MySQL PHP
MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool recently released by MySQL AB. The tool is specifically for designing MySQL database.
MySQL Workbench has many functions and features; this article by Djoni Darmawikarta shows some of them by way of an example. We’ll build a physical data model for an order system where an order can be a sale order or a purchase order, and then, forward-engineer our model into an MySQL database.
Read Visual MySQL Database Design in MySQL Workbench in fullVisual ETL Development With IBM DataStage
by Djoni Darmawikarta |
May 2008 | Architecture & Analysis
ETL (Extract Transform Load) is the most resource consuming part of data warehouse development and maintenance. An ETL tool, particularly one that is GUI-based, can leverage the productivity and quality of ETL development and maintenance.
WebSphere DataStage from IBM is an ETL tool. In DataStage you build and execute ETL jobs visually on its GUI clients. This article by Djoni Darmawikarta shows how to build and execute an ETL job with DataStage. Specifically, we’ll build a job that loads a Customer Dimension table from an input sequential file (implementing an SCD1, Slowly Changing Dimension Type1; a well-known technique from Dimensional Data Warehouse methodology).
Read Visual ETL Development With IBM DataStage in fullVisual Basic for Applications (VBA)
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Robert Martin | December 2012 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language built into Microsoft Office applications. As you improve your skills in any application from the Office System, you will eventually realize that although Microsoft Office applications offer a large number of tools, they do not offer everything you need to perform your daily chores. Such chores may include creating a corporate custom-format, a custom function that calculates commission payments, and so on.
Thus, VBA works as a gap-filler; in other words, its main purpose is to ensure that you can do whatever you need to do in your job.
In this article by Robert Martin, author of Excel Programming with VBA Starter,you will get to know a bit about VBA, its basic features, what you can do with it, and how you can put it to work with a view to facilitating your daily work, by automating common tasks.
Read Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in fullVim 7.2 Scripting
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Kim Schulz | April 2010 | Linux Servers Open Source
This article by Kim Schulz, author of Hacking Vim 7.2, will contain recipes focusing on the following subjects:
- Tips for when you develop Vim scripts
- How to debug a Vim script
- How to use other scripting languages when writing Vim scripts
Vim 7.2 Formatting Code
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Kim Schulz | April 2010 | Linux Servers Open Source
This article by Kim Schulz, author of Hacking Vim 7.2, will have recipes in two categories:
- Code formatting
- Using external formatter programs
Views, URLs, and Generic Views in Django 1.0
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Scott Newman | July 2009 | Web Development
Many developers new to Django get tripped up on the vocabulary and purpose of different pieces of the system—models, views, generic views, model managers, and so on. With some functions belonging to models and others to views, it can be confusing to know where to put the logic of your applications.
The view is where most of your application logic will be executed. Before we can work with views, however, we need to look at the URL dispatching system to see how a view is matched up with an incoming request. Once we have seen the URL dispatcher and some working views, we'll take a look at some shortcuts Django offers us to accomplish these actions even more quickly.
You can write entire Django sites without using models, but you'd have a hard time doing that without views or generic views.
In this article by Scott Newman, we will:
- Create a sample application to work with
- Learn how the URL dispatcher works and how URLs are matched to views
- Explore the structure of views
- Build views to display a list of content and content detail
- See how to cut down development time with generic views
- Examine when to use regular views instead of generic views
Video Editing in Blender using Video Sequence Editor: Part 2
by Reynante Martinez |
February 2010 | Open Source Web Graphics & Video
In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn the basics of how to do post-processing and perform color correction on your videos, add them on to the sequence editor, cut them, move them along the timeline, mix and blend the video strips, add effects, and finally, control the speed of playback in an individual manner. Read Video Editing in Blender using Video Sequence Editor: Part 1 here.
Read Video Editing in Blender using Video Sequence Editor: Part 2 in fullVideo Editing in Blender using Video Sequence Editor: Part 1
by Reynante Martinez |
February 2010 | Open Source Web Graphics & Video
In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn the basics of how to do post-processing and perform color correction on your videos, add them on to the sequence editor, cut them, move them along the timeline, mix and blend the video strips, add effects, and finally, control the speed of playback in an individual manner.
Read Video Editing in Blender using Video Sequence Editor: Part 1 in fullVideo Blogging in Wordpress
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Peter Spannagle Sarah Soward | April 2010 | Content Management Open Source Web Development WordPress
In this article by Peter Spannagle and Sarah Soward, authors of the book Wordpress and Flash 10x Cookbook, we will cover the following:
- FLV Embed plugin
- Video blogging using WebTV Plugin
- Video blogging using Free WP Tube theme
Version Management with UPK 3.5: Part 2
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Dirk Manuel | September 2009 | Oracle
Read Part One of Version Management with UPK 3.5 here.
Read Version Management with UPK 3.5: Part 2 in fullVersion Management with UPK 3.5: Part 1
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Dirk Manuel | September 2009 | Oracle
This article applies primarily to a client/server environment where all the content objects are stored on a central server.
In this two-part article by Dirk Manuel, you will learn how to:
- Check in/out a content object
- Display and Revert to an earlier version history of an object
- Restore a deleted content object
- Export content/Import content-backup file
- Import content from a previous version of UPK or OnDemand
Venturing Beyond the Basics in MS Office Live Small Business
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Rahul Pitre | December 2009 | Beginner's Guides Microsoft Content Management e-Commerce
This article by Rahul Pitre, will help you try your hands at writing your own HTML mark up to tweak your site.How to install off-the-shelf components to enhance your website is the next skill you'll learn in this article. You'll install a custom FAQ component because the built-in FAQ page doesn't work as advertised.
In this article you will:
- Add an HTML module to your page.
- Write HTML in the HTML module. Chances are that you don't know a lot about HTML. So, you'll take a crash course on a small subset of HTML that will help you to get started with writing your own markup, if you so desire.
- Perform some common page-building tasks such as embedding flash movies, PayPal buttons, and other such external content in your web pages using the HTML module.
- Download and install an FAQ solution that renders a customized FAQ page.
