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Creating and optimizing your first Retina image

by Kyle J. Larson | April 2013 | Open Source

This article by Kyle Larson, author of Website Optimization for Retina Display How-to, will help you create a high-density image and implement it using the HTML <img> tag. You will also learn the importance of consistent file names. It also explains techniques for optimizing images, what tools are available, and why it matters for speed. and using Photoshop and GIMP to edit images

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Migrating Data

by Cristina Nicolàs Lorente Laura Nicolàs Lorente | April 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is an Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) system targeted at small and medium-sized companies. In this article by Laura Nicolàs Lorente and Cristina Nicolàs Lorente from the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, we will see which tools can be used in Dynamics NAV to migrate data into the system and how to convert data to meet NAV requirements. We will look at tools such as:

  • RapidStart Services

  • XMLport

  • User defined tools

We will also see what kind of data is commonly migrated to Dynamics NAV and which strategies can be used to migrate it. The kind of data and strategies are listed as follows:

  • Master data

  • Open entries

  • Historical data

  • Open documents

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Follow the Money

by Stephen D. Kelly | April 2013 | Enterprise Articles Oracle

This article prepared by Stephen D. Kelly, author of Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14 , In this we will look into the details of managing the money side of your project. These are the nuts and bolts of the core of PCM.

The money is at the core of PCM. All documents in PCM related to money are also related to a specific contractual relationship defined in PCM (trends being a possible exception). And since the contractual relationship is the center of the universe as far as PCM is concerned, it follows that managing the money is at the core of the system. If you understand the information in this article you will be far ahead of most users of PCM, and all the other articles will make more sense.

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Generating Reports in Notebooks in RStudio

by Edwin de Jonge Mark P.J. van der Loo | April 2013 | Open Source

In this article by Mark P.J. van der Loo and Edwin de Jonge, the authors of the book Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing, prerequisites for producing a report are discussed and how to produce reports via Notebook that automatically include the results of an analysis is explained.

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So, what is Django?

by Mauro Rocco | April 2013 | Open Source Web Development

In this article written by Mauro Rocco, authors of Instant Django 1.5 Application Development Starter , you will find out what Django actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.

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