Getting Started with Impressive Presentations
Presentations are one of the most effective ways of communicating our ideas to people who are interested in the topic. We used to create presentations with popular desktop programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress. Things have changed dramatically now and web-based presentations are gaining more interest from users. impress.js is one of the stand out frameworks among the web-based presentation creation libraries and tools.
In this article by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake, the author of Building Impressive Presentations with impress. js, we are going to work on creating impressive visualizations with the impress.js framework.
In this article, we are going to cover the following topics:
- What is impress.js?
- Built-in features
- Beyond presentations with impress.js
- Why is it important?
- Downloading and configuring impress.js
Connecting with people
In this article by Ralph Roberts, the author of Yammer Starter , will help us increase our interaction with people by experimenting with several tasks on Yammer.
In this article, we will cover the following topics:
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Posting an update
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Posting a photo or other graphics
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Commenting and complimenting
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Yes we LIKE that
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Learning more
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Receiving notifications
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Searching
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Using the bottom line
Managing Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence is an integrated solution that addresses business intelligence requirements, such as enterprise performance management, data integration, financial performance management, data warehousing analysis, and reporting.
Oracle Business Intelligence includes Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting and Publishing, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
This article by Dhananjay Papde, Vipul Patel and Tushar Nath, authors of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook describes the steps to configure OEM 12c to manually discover the Oracle BI EE targets.
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Beginning with Yahoo! Chat in the early 2000 and up to today's popular Google Talk or Facebook Chat, chatting has been the most popular form of real-time communication on the Internet.
This article by Rohit Rai, author of Socket.IO Real-time Web Application Development will show you how to build a chat room using node and express, and the socket.io library.
Read Let's Chat in fullManaging Network Layout
In this article by Tom Ryder, the author of Nagios Core Administration Cookbook , we will cover the following recipes:
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Creating a network host hierarchy
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Using the network map
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Choosing icons for hosts
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Establishing a host dependency
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Establishing a service dependency
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Monitoring individual nodes in a cluster
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Using the network map as an overlay
While Nagios Core is still very useful when configured to monitor only a simple list of hosts and services, it includes some optional directives that allow defining some structural and functional properties of the monitored network; specifically, how the hosts and services interrelate. Describing this structure in the configuration allows some additional intelligent behavior in the monitoring and notification that Nagios Core performs.
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