Event Location:
Community College Workforce Alliance - J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
1651 E Parham Rd
Richmond, Virginia
Abstract:
One of the most common problems I have encountered as a DBA is the complaints from users that a particular query is slow, just one query. Many times one that used to run in acceptable time, but that over time has slowed down substantially. In this session we will show some of the causes for this, with emphasis on I/O requests being too high for the query. First part of the session will explain how to find these numbers, looking at a few queries with some major performance issues, including explaining why they have a problem. The second part will focus on how to reduce I/O requests. All of this can be done without the need for any 3rd party tools, all within the scope of what is available to SQL Server, all versions, all editions, including Azure.
Speaker(s): Anders Pedersen,
Abstract:
Perhaps you’ve heard the buzz about Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) and wondered, “Why is everyone so excited about Biml?” Occasionally, a new technology emerges that changes everything. For SSIS developers, Biml is one such technology. Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) is a powerful solution for rapidly creating SSIS packages and solutions. SSIS Design Patterns support various load profiles. Combined, Biml and SSIS Design Patterns offer a compelling solution for automating enterprise data integration. In this session, you will learn: - How to rapidly build multiple SSIS packages using Biml - How to apply different SSIS Design Patterns using Biml - How to automate SSIS Design Patterns using Biml
Speaker(s): Andy Leonard,
Abstract:
Using SQL 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a powerful feature which can provide HA support. The session will begin with a basic overview of the creation of an Availability Group (assuming the SQL Instances are already installed for time) then I will go into detailed demos of the following features: Availability Group Readable Secondary Replicas Risks of readable secondary replicas when using a replica that is part of the Automatic Failover pair Shared Log Chain Database Impact Read Only Routing Load Balancing with Read Only Routing (Round Robin) What the hell is "Read-Intent Only" and why it is MUCH safer than "YES" Databases with Encryption (why you no longer need a job to set the password every time the SSISDB fails over) Multiple Availability Groups on a Single Cluster What are Basic Availability Groups (are they still better than Clustered Instances?) Automatic Page Repair and many others Demos available for download after the session.
Speaker(s): Paul Rizza,
Abstract:
SQL Server is a huge product, with many different places a DBA can go to look for information on how the server is performing. So many in fact that they can often overlap, which sometimes makes it hard to understand why tackling a new tool is worth the effort. In this installment of Rick's "Why should I care" series, he lays out a case for why working knowledge of the plan cache is critical for performance tuning efforts in real world environments. A review of relevant views and functions is included for the (newly?) motivated audience. Perfect for those who are relatively new to performance tuning concerns, or advanced DBAs trying to figure out how to have a similar conversation with their less experienced peers, or developers who are curious as to why their DBAs drink in the morning (allegedly). This is not a deep dive into the cache, it really is primarily a session exploring _why_ these DMOs are worth slogging through.
Speaker(s): Rick Lowe,
Abstract:
Let’s face it, many of us are at war with poorly written or poorly tuned queries and processes. There is usually just one of you who has been tasked with managing one or more SQL Server instances while there are hundreds or even thousands of users of which a certain percentage will inevitably write poor code. So you must battle it out to identify the culprits before they wreak too much havoc on your systems. We will see several fairly straightforward techniques to positively identify the culprits and allow you to prioritize your efforts in tuning them to give you the biggest ROI for your time. TSQL and Extended Events code examples will be provided that you can use immediately in your environment to become more productive.
Speaker(s): Andrew Kelly,
Abstract:
Are your statistics up to date? Yes, it’s that dreaded phrase you hear all the time when it comes to performance tuning your SQL Server. What does it matter? Why should I care about statistics? Aren’t they automatic or something like that? In this session we will go over why statistics matter, how they are generated, how they impact performance, and even how to maintain them. Once we have that all settled, we will take a quick look at how the cardinality estimator uses statistics to determine a ‘good enough’ plan to use. We will close out the session by taking a look at the performance impact from a simple upgrade of your SQL Server to 2014 and using the new cardinality estimator.
Speaker(s): Chris Bell,
Abstract:
You've decided to start using Biml to make your integration services packages. Congratulations! Now, you're looking at data sources other than SQL Server. How do you automate package development for these flat files, Excel Files, and other databases? In this session, I'll share some of the techniques I've used to deal with these second-class sources. I'll be walking you through C# code. Don't worry, I'm not a real programmer, so the code isn't the most complex, but it does solve the need.
Speaker(s): Shannon Lowder,
Abstract:
A default SQL Server installation is reasonably secure, but quot;reasonably securequot; doesn#39;t cut it in an era in which one bad line of code, one weak password, or one open port can result in your customer database ending up on Pastebin. In this talk, we will look at different methods of securing a SQL Server instance, from venerable (principle of least privilege, Transparent Data Encryption) to novel (Always Encrypted, row-level security). These tools and techniques will show us ways for developers, database administrators, and network specialists to work together to secure SQL Server instances.
 If so, few things are more important than a solid understanding of SQL Server indexes. In this session you will learn about index internals, approaches to good index design, and the importance of proper index maintenance. This session starts from the ground up, so it is suitable for anyone wanting to learn more about indexes.
Speaker(s): Mark Wilkinson,
Abstract:
You see it all the time, someone asks a question about how to fix an error like "Subquery returns more than one value" and an immediate answer is given that fixes the syntax. But is that the right fix or are there other things you need to consider when fixing syntax errors in SQL? I am going to show why it is also important to consider the meaning of the results when fixing issues with a query and why syntax is never enough when querying a database. Along the way I will show you some common errors and problems and the multiple ways they can be fixed and how to evaluate what the correct fix would be.
Speaker(s): Judith Moffitt,
Abstract:
For the last 25 years SQL Server DBAs have administered SQL databases using only Windows GUI. For majority of them even Windows Core is too hard to accept. In the situation, when Microsoft invaded Linux territory with it's flagship product, as SQL DBA, you must not outsource SQL Server administration to some Linux geeks. You can do it yourself! Your way! And I show you how to do it.
Speaker(s): Slava Murygin,
Abstract:
Using the SQL setup wizard and management studio (SSMS) to install and configure a new SQL server is a time-intensive process. PowerShell scripts can greatly reduce the time required to complete the process. They can also ensure build standardization throughout your SQL environment. In this session we will look at PowerShell scripting, including the basic syntax and commandlets needed to automate the installation and post-install configuration of a SQL Server.
Speaker(s): Jamie Wick,
Abstract:
We've all heard about massive data breaches from big name companies. As a DBA, you should consider your company's data to be the most valuable assets. So when a data breach happens at your company, will you be able to provide management with the information? If not, then discover how SQL Server Audit can help provide you with an accurate forensic analysis of who did what to your data. In this session, we'll cover what SQL Audit can capture, how to set it up for both on-premise SQL Servers and Azure SQL Database, and finally produce reports from it.
Speaker(s): Patrick Keisler,
Abstract:
SQL Server R Services: Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics in early 2015, and introduced R services (in-database/stand-alone) with SQL Server 2016 last year. With the first Microsoft Data Science summit behind us this past Sept, in Atlanta, let us review what R Services in SQL Server brings to the table and see how it complements/supercedes features that are available with other R offerings (R GUI, Microsoft R Client [R Studio], Microsoft R Open [RROpen], Microsoft R Server[RREnterprise] etc.,)
Speaker(s): Azhagappan Arunachalam,
Abstract:
With the release of SQL Server 2016, Temporal tables are a new way to track changes within your tables. This session will walk you through moving from Change Tracking/Change Data Capture to Temporal tables and what advantages Temporal Tables has for your database and application.
Speaker(s): Doug Purnell,
Abstract:
Extended Events were introduced in SQL Server 2008. With SQL 2014, we have seen a significant upgrade to this feature. Join me for a little adventure into the realm of extended events. We will discuss how to use extended events to aid in performance tuning and in day to day administration. We will also explore some background and the architecture of extended events. This is a fast paced session and will be a lot of fun. Attendees will be able to take back several sample XE sessions to help troubleshoot different issues and get to more intimately know their data/environment.
Speaker(s): Jason Brimhall,
Abstract:
SQL 2016 brings us many new features but one of the most anticipated is surely the Query Store. The Query Store now allows us to track query plans as they change over time giving us a whole slew of new possibilities when it comes to tuning our queries. Even just the ability to compare a previous plan to a new plan is a huge step towards understanding what may be happening in our instance. We can even tell the optimizer which plan we want it to use. These were all either extremely difficult to do before and in some cases impossible to do. This session will give you the insight to get started using this new and wonderful feature set.
Speaker(s): Andrew Kelly,
Abstract:
This session will present detailed examples of the newest features added or enhanced in SSIS 2016. Including but not limited to: True template based package design Incremental package deployment Non-Admin logging access Error Handling by Column name (prior versions only gave that cryptic lineage ID number) SSISDB AlwaysOn Availability Group support and many more... The session will include a limited number of slides followed but demo examples of each new feature which will also be provided for download so attendees while have access to them for reference after the event.
Speaker(s): Paul Rizza,
Abstract:
PowerShell is always something you heard about and wanted to use but never did! Starting with the resources available for a PowerShell newbie, we will advance to what pro's use to automate their database activities and beyond, for both DBA's and developers. The goal of this session is to get you immersed in PowerShell. Ask questions and learn how PowerShell can enable you and more importantly do your job for you (the way, future is heading). We will also look at free libraries and tools to help you advance your automation abilities. Common automation scenarios is the theme! Anything done with with clicks can be automated.
Speaker(s): Jana Sattainathan,
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You can build basic SSIS packages, or you can build packages that perform. In this session, you'll learn about the internals of Integration Services. Using this knowledge, we'll review the DOs and DON'Ts that lead to improved ETL performance. (This session applies to SSIS versions from 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016.)
Speaker(s): Ravi Kumar,
Abstract:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest public cloud hosting provider with many companies successfully running SQL server on AWS infrastructure. In this session, we explore the options available to you for running SQL server in AWS, either as an RDS managed service or using dedicated EC2 instances. We document the different storage options, HA strategies and maintenance caveats to be aware of. We will also detail various approaches to licensing you can take when running SQL server in AWS.
Speaker(s): Brian Carrig,
Abstract:
So you have successfully configured Availability Groups, now what? In this session we will look beyond setup and look at how to monitor your Availability Groups. We will discuss what metrics to look at, what they mean, and what you need to alert on. You will walk away from this session with tools you need to monitor your environment and know how to respond to alerts. This session is for anyone that uses, or plans to use Availability Groups. You should come in with a basic understanding of Availability Groups to get the most out of this session.
Speaker(s): Tracy Boggiano,
Abstract:
Here is the abstract If there was one question you could ask your CIO, what would it be? In this session you'll have the opportunity to hear a panel of three CIOs and CTOs discuss the State of IT in Virginia while covering topics such as technology strategy, leveraging cloud technologies, Big Data and more. This panel discussion will be moderated by Solvaria's CEO, Greg Samuels, and panelists will include Alex Tulchinsky, CTO of UNOS, Alan Hagerman, VP of Technology at KBH Business Management Systems and Jeffrey Potter, CTO of Davenport Investments. This interactive session is geared at all levels of experience, so we hope you'll come with questions.
Speaker(s): SQLSAT RVA,
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides database administrators, business intelligence developers, and application programmers the ability to quickly and easily move and transform data. Whether your data in on-premises or in the cloud, within SQL Server or stored in text files, clean or dirty, SSIS can help you extract, transform, and load (ETL) the information. Join this session to learn more about SSIS, specifically how to develop, deploy, and maintain SSIS packages.
Speaker(s): Jessica Moss,
Abstract:
You’ve heard all the buzz about Power BI, but you have no idea what it is and how it works. This session explains what Power BI is, who can use it and why you would want to. It’s an introductory session that gives you the information you need to determine if Power BI is right for you and your organization.
Speaker(s): Angela Henry,
Abstract:
Not satisfied with Multidimensional Analysis Services’ data mining or maybe you are using Tabular Analysis Services? Looking for a flexible and robust predictive analytics tool? Consider Azure Machine Learning … a cloud service for advanced analytics. In this session, I quickly describe concepts and terms before jumping straight into a start-to-finish AML experiment. Join me to see how AML might meet your advanced data analysis needs.
Speaker(s): Mark Hudson,
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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/prizza/
Contact: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paulrizza/
Paul Rizza is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), Lead on the MCS SQL Hiring Team, and has over 25 years’ experience consulting, teaching and developing on SQL Server platforms. Paul’s expertise includes ETLs, Dimensional modeling, architecting highly available SQL environments and performance tuning. Paul has an Undergraduate degree from UMBC and a Master’s degree both in Computer Science with a concentration in Database Theory from Johns Hopkins University.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rick-lowe/a/228/441/
Contact: http://dataflowe.wordpress.com/
Rick is a Microsoft Certified Master with more than 20 years of SQL Server experience in a variety of roles. He currently lives in Washington state and works as an independent consultant providing remote performance DBA and performance tuning services for clients in the USA and Canada. His first exposure to SQL Server was as a database developer, but over time he became more and more interested in how the database engine operated... eventually specializing more on performance issues than code. Rick will work with all things relational, but most enjoys helping smaller companies get better performance from MSSQL, as well as smoothing over relationships between DBA and development teams.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelahenrydba
Contact: http://SQLSwimmer.com
Angela is a Solution Architect, living in High Point, NC and loves what she does. She's worked with all versions of SQL Server worn all the hats that come with dealing with SQL Server throughout the years: developer, administrator, data architect and BI developer. She has her MSCE in Data and Analytics (f.k.a., Business Intelligence), is a Data Platform MVP, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). She is the former chapter leader for the PASS Triad SQL User Group in Greensboro, NC. In her spare time you can probably find her in or at the pool, she's an avid US Masters Swimmer, Coach and Instructor.
I have over 12 years of experience working with SQL Server and Business Intelligence Technology. My current focus is cloud technologies: Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Factory. As a PFE at Microsoft, I regularly deliver 2 - 4 day training workshops.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/AndyLeonard
Contact: https://andyleonard.blog
Andy Leonard is founder and Chief Data Engineer at Enterprise Data Analytics, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, creator of the DILM (Data Integration Lifecycle Management) Suite, an SSIS trainer, consultant, developer, Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) developer and BimlHero, SQL Server database and data warehouse developer, community mentor, engineer, and farmer. He is a co-author of "The Biml Book and SQL Server Integration Services Design Patterns" and author of "Managing Geeks - A Journey of Leading by Doing", "Data Integration Lifecycle Management with SSIS", "Building Custom Tasks for SSIS", and the "Stairway to Integration Services". Andy blogs at andyleonard.blog where you can learn more on the About Andy page.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbajbrimhall/
Contact: http://jasonbrimhall.info
Jason Brimhall has more than 20 years of experience and has worked with SQL Server 6.5 through SQL Server 2019. He has experience in performance tuning, high transaction environments, and large environments. He is currently a consultant specializing in performance tuning, server analysis, and problem resolution. Jason is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and a Data Platform MVP.
Contact: http://www.jessicammoss.com
Jessica M. Moss is a well-known architect, speaker, author, and Microsoft MVP of SQL Server Business Intelligence. Jessica#39;s expertise includes data warehouse modeling, Integration Services ETL, Analysis Services semantic modeling, Reporting Services report design, and helping customers across industries successfully implement and enhance their BI solutions. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with the SQL community and has co-authored numerous technical books.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiewick/
Contact: http://blog.wicktech.net
Jamie Wick is the Systems Database Engineer for The College of William Mary and has been working with SQL databases for the past 10+ years. His background includes working for several years as a SQL SysAdmin for the University of Queensland (Australia), a Masters degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, and assorted Microsoft SQL certifications. He is the Chapter Leader of the Richmond SQL Server Users Group, a volunteer and speaker at regional SQL events (User Groups/SQLSaturdays), helps run the SQLSaturday RVA events, and is an avid photographer.
With over 20 years of database experience, Judy specializes in creating complex imports/ exports and reporting queries. She has done development for databases for aviation/flight planning, equipment maintenance, inventory, sales proposals and meeting planning. Her expertise saved the US government over $400 million by identifying parts that were on order in one place that were in the excess inventory at another, a task that required her to query many databases with many different data structures. She is currently employed by EPAM and extensively works with developers in India and across the US.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-feasel/7/716/504
Contact: http://www.catallaxyservices.com
Kevin Feasel is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and CTO at Envizage, where he specializes in data analytics with T-SQL and R, forcing Spark clusters to do his bidding, fighting with Kafka, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL (https://curatedsql.com), president of the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group (https://www.meetup.com/tripass), and author of PolyBase Revealed (https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484254608). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
Contact: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/default.aspx
Andrew J. Kelly is a Senior Technical Subject Matter Expert with B3 Group Inc. and lives in Clarkdale, AZ. He has over 20 years experience with relational databases and application development, but his main focus now is SQL Server. In addition to general SQL Server training and mentoring, he specializes in performance, scalability, and maintainability of large-scale SQL Servers. He is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups and was a SQL Server / Data Platform MVP for 18 years.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-bell/19/a08/93/
Contact: https://www.wateroxconsulting.com/
Chris Bell offers a unique view of how we live and work with data, both now and as we head into the future. Having braved many roles, lifecycles, and battles in the IT world, he has honed his DBA (Database Administration or Do 'Bout Anything) skills in Information Systems and development, focusing on SQL Server. Currently, he serves as the lead DBA at The Motley Fool. You can keep up with Chris' thoughts and technical community activities at WaterOxConsulting.com.
Mark Hudson is an MCITP with many years of experience in business intelligence and data analysis. He has developed data solutions using numerous platform tools including multiple SQL Server versions. He is a data architect and developer with CapTech (www.captechconsulting.com) and served as a leader of the Richmond SQL Server User Group (www.richmondsql.org).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyboggiano
Contact: http://databasesuperhero.com
Tracy Boggiano is a Senior Database Administrator for DocuSIgn. She has spent over 20 years in IT, using SQL Server since 1999, and is currently certified as an MCSE Data Platform. Tracy has worked on SQL Server since 6.5. She has spoken at local user groups and numerous SQLSaturdays. She is currently a co-leader of a TriPASS Local Group in Raleigh, NC. Tracy also tinkered with databases in middle school to keep her sports card collection organized. She blogs at databasesuperhero.com. Her passion outside of SQL Server is volunteering with foster children as their advocate in court through volunteerforgal.org and being a mental health advocate as part of the PAIMI NC Advisory Council.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anders-pedersen-993676
Contact: http://blog.AndersOnSQL.com
20+ years of experience with SQL Server, from version 6.0 to 2017. Funnily enough, the only certification I have is on SQL 2012, the one version I have never used. Mostly worked at medium sized companies, by choice. Was a consultant for 6+ years, working on anything from facility security systems, background checks, retail PoS systems, to major financial systems. Passion for performance, and teaching people easy ways to better SQL performance.
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/slowder
Contact: http://shannonlowder.com
For over 15 years Shannon Lowder has been spotting patterns and learning ways to work smarter instead of harder. He started with development and moved into database administration. Using TSQL, Database Jobs and PowerShell, he automated himself out of contracts quickly. As Business Intelligence became a greater demand, he moved into SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS development. Early on, he tried using PowerShell and .Net to automate BI Development. Later those efforts turned to Biml. After founding a startup six years ago, he finds himself a data platform consultant, designing and guiding other professionals to build highly automated enterprise solutions. Today, he is a Biml Hero candidate and is awaiting the final approval for the award.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/janakiraman-jana-sattainathan/a/a07/b95
Contact: http://www.sqljana.wordpress.com
Jana works as a Senior Oracle and SQL Server DBA at SCOR, a leading Reinsurance company in the world. He has spent most of his professional life around databases. At work, he has automated most aspects of his job using PowerShell. Most recently, he created PowerPump, a “PowerShell Database Copy Server” for his company to copy 50 billion rows (> 20 TB,) from 4000+ of Oracle/SQL Server tables on a recurring basis to SQL Server targets for migration/testing. He has also fully automated the database deployment which supports all components of SQL Server and Oracle using PowerShell (with about 150 functions) that is tracked extensively.
Brian Carrig is a Microsoft Certified Master of SQL Server and is currently a Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server Tiger Team at Microsoft focusing primarily on persistent memory technology and replication. In a previous life, Brian spent some time as an academic and holds a PhD in Computer Science. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland but now lives with his wife and two daughters in Redmond, Washington. If he is not talking about, thinking about or working with technology you will usually find him watching Chelsea FC.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickkeisler
Contact: http://www.patrickkeisler.com
I#39;m a husband, a father, an Atlanta Braves fan, and oh yeah...I know a thing or two about Microsoft SQL Server, because I work for Microsoft supporting it as a Premier Field Engineer. I have over 15 years of DBA experience and have gained considerable knowledge in SQL Server by supporting lots of different type of applications ranging from high-volume trading applications to large data warehouses. I hold several certifications: MCSE: Data Platform, MCITP SQL 2008 Admin and Dev, and Security+.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/prizza/
Contact: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paulrizza/
Paul Rizza is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), Lead on the MCS SQL Hiring Team, and has over 25 years’ experience consulting, teaching and developing on SQL Server platforms. Paul’s expertise includes ETLs, Dimensional modeling, architecting highly available SQL environments and performance tuning. Paul has an Undergraduate degree from UMBC and a Master’s degree both in Computer Science with a concentration in Database Theory from Johns Hopkins University.
Contact: http://www.m82labs.com
I am a father of 4, and live in Raleigh North Carolina. I love fixing problems, and learning new technologies that can help me fix those problems faster and better than I did the time before. In my spare time I like to read, speak, and learn new things. I currently work as a Database Administrator at ChannelAdvisor where I solve fairly interesting problems on fairly large databases. You can often find me on Twitter where I talk about SQL, beer, and anything else I find interesting.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougpurnell/en
Contact: http://sqlnikon.wordpress.com
Doug Purnell is a DBA at Elon University and is a co-leader for the Triad SQL BI PASS User Group. In his spare time you can find Doug taking photos and cooking up some BBQ on his cooker.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/slava-murygin/9/b95/858
Contact: http://slavasql.blogspot.com/
Started working with SQL Server 7.0 as DBA and Developer. Since then went through all SQL Server versions, migrations and multiple companies of different sizes and industries. Currently working as a contractor with all aspects of SQL Server, including, but not limited to: troubleshooting performance, designing/developing: databases, systems, processes, data warehouses, cubes, reports, ETLs; Refactoring old code; Migrating data from other systems to SQL Server; Securing the data on enterprise level.
Contact: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/default.aspx
Andrew J. Kelly is a Senior Technical Subject Matter Expert with B3 Group Inc. and lives in Clarkdale, AZ. He has over 20 years experience with relational databases and application development, but his main focus now is SQL Server. In addition to general SQL Server training and mentoring, he specializes in performance, scalability, and maintainability of large-scale SQL Servers. He is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups and was a SQL Server / Data Platform MVP for 18 years.
Az Arunachalam has been working with SQL server since v4.21/SQLNT. He started his career with troubleshooting at chip level, worked as a network engineer managing Novell NetWare networks, graduated into managing Windows NT, moved onto development, administered databases, and is currently working as a database architect. He#39;s excited about all the cloud offerings that Microsoft and others have made possible, and in sharing his findings with aspiring data enthusiasts.
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New Energy Vehicle Sales Fall 18 Percent in Q3 2019
by Mircea PanaitThe U.S. economy is fairly strong right now, and low unemployment also translates to more disposable income. When it comes to passenger cars, the third quarter of 2019 has seen a steady decline in sales and deliveries well. This trend has also affected new energy vehicles, which fell by 18 percent compared to the third quarter of 2018. And this state of affairs is attributed to “a severe lack of choice.”
Canalys tracked the sales performance of more than 300 models from 40 car brands in this period, and as you’d expect from the United States of America, customers are more inclined to buy pickup trucks, SUVs, and crossovers. “Deliveries of the market-leading Tesla Model 3 have peaked, but there is nothing new from the competition to challenge it,” declared Chris Jones, chief analyst at Canalys.
Does it come as a surprise that Tesla sits high and above when the Model 3 doesn’t have any proper rival in its segment? The EV automaker from Palo Alto is riding high despite an overall contraction of 1.3 percent year-on-year, but nevertheless, a market share of 60 percent stands as proof that Tesla has yet to be rivaled.
Canalys estimated that “only 90,000 NEVs were delivered in Q3 2019,” representing 2.2 percent of total passenger car deliveries in the quarter. By new energy vehicles, the analyst company refers to plug-in hybrids, full electrics, and fuel-cell vehicles. Mild hybrids and hybrids weren’t taken into consideration.
Another reason for the poor performance of passenger cars and NEVs is urbanization. Youngsters moving to big cities for employment have plenty of expenses to tackle on a monthly basis, and owning an under-utilized car would be too much for them at this point in their lives. As such, urban mobility solutions such as ride hailing or a bicycle make a lot more sense given their limited budget.
More choices in the segment that Tesla operates would be a godsend for electric-vehicle development, and even Tesla should reassess its pricing strategy as we head into the 2020s. The most affordable Model 3 retails at $39,490 excluding potential savings, which is two grand more than the average transaction price in the U.S. of A.
Remember when Elon Musk promised that the Model 3 would cost $35,000 for the entry-level specification? Pepperidge Farm remembers…


Tree falls on car along Scotts Road
SINGAPORE: A tree fell along Scotts Road on Wednesday (Nov 20), trapping a car underneath and blocking all four lanes of the road.
It took about 30 workers to move the raintree, which fell in front of the Grand Hyatt hotel.
The hotel's marketing communications manager Gerald Kheng told CNA the incident occurred at about 3pm.
Hotel employees helped to direct traffic through the hotel’s driveway to ease congestion, Mr Kheng said.
No injuries were reported and normal traffic along Scotts Road resumed at 3.55pm, he added.
An eyewitness told CNA that he noticed the fallen tree at about 3.30pm. Jin Yuan, 29, said that a white car was trapped underneath the tree.
The Land Transport Authority said on its Twitter page that the stretch of Scotts Road (towards Claymore Hill) after Stevens Road was closed due to an “obstacle”.
CNA has reached out to the National Parks Board for comment.


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Adds the Activiti Explorer and Modeler (web-based BPMN workflow editor) to Jenkow.
The Activiti Explorer is a web application that provides access to the Activiti Engine runtime for all users of the system. It includes task management, process instance inspection, management features and viewing reports based on statistical history data, and comes most importantly with a web-based workflow editor, the Activiti Modeler.
The Jenkow Activiti Explorer plugin encapsulates the Activiti Explorer & Modeler, served out by Jenkins.
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I write code for a living, but I also do it for fun. I’ve had success as a manager and a technical lead. I encourage Agile software development practices, which emphasize early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Pivotal Labs is an Agile / XP software development shop specializing in Ruby and Java. Our practices included test-driving development and pair programming.
In addition to Agile evangelism with new and potential clients, I also manage staffing, recruiting, and the sales pipeline. I also try to keep the developers happy, and, oh yeah, occasionally code.
I was a member of a 10-person team developing an enterprise web application for social services. The application is implemented in Ruby on Rails with jQuery, and featured an XML API for data export and import and Jasper reporting tools.
Pharos is a startup software and consulting company which caters to the electricity trading and asset management markets. At Pharos, I designed and built an energy trading product to aggregate public and private data from ISO energy markets. I also designed and built asset management software for generator owners and operators. Both applications are designed to be hosted “in the cloud”, and provide data mining and realtime data aggregation from multiple sources, including external websites, internal databases and data feeds. The software is implemented in Ruby, Rails, C, C++, Flash and JavaScript.
As system architect and lead developer for a generator operator, I designed, implemented and maintained a large energy management system (EMS) providing realtime overviews of the markets and electrical grid. The project was bootstrapped in two months under an extremely aggressive timetable. Implemented in Ruby, Rails, C, C++, Javascript.
As the technology director, I managed system integration projects for Accounting and Treasury departments, and managed the I.T. due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions. As part of managing the financial software systems, I initiated the company’s SOX 404 compliance efforts. I also managed outsourced staff of I.T. contractors across four sites.
At ASPEED, a successful startup ISV, I hired and managed a small team of developers in the design and development of a high-performance parallel computing SDK. The library provided dynamic load balancing, efficient data serialization and fault tolerance while supporting common business algorithms (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations) and associated issues (e.g., distributed random number generation).
Some advanced features included: machine-generating C++ template code for fast, typesafe, portable serialization of complex data structures; process management subsystem providing support for common SOA vendors as well as “native” process management for both Linux and Windows; and a patented algorithm for parallelizing some types of long-running pharmaceutical models.
I also co-authored and maintained a high-performance messaging library for distributed computing, which provided high throughput and low latency on both Linux and Windows.
The Infrastructure Application group was part of a larger effort to build a state-of-the-art ticker plant for financial market data. As team lead, I managed seven developers building and porting content generation applications under extremely aggressive deadlines. I also managed a small team of outsourced developers building a GUI application for browsing ticker plant data.
I designed and implemented a high-performance data feed to integrate third-party vendors. The feed used ASN.1 and BER encoding to describe and marshal data. The feed handled all contributed data for the firm. Implemented in C++ using POSIX threads.
At Bloomberg, I was the Lead Developer and Architect for Bloomberg Launchpad, a desktop platform which allows the user to customize a display integrating data from multiple sources: Bloomberg and third-party real-time market data; historical, fundamental and research data; news and web content. I designed and helped build the Launchpad application development framework, used by hundreds of developers across the firm.
As Lead Developer and Architect in Server-Side Integration and Research group, I led a team whose areas of focus were: rapid prototyping of applications; reusable component technology; salvaging legacy code using intelligent frameworks and components; generic market data pub/sub services; messaging and IPC; and evaluating database systems.
I led that same team in the design and delivery of a beta Bloomberg instant messaging product in three months; implemented using C++, pub/sub infrastructure and proprietary directory services.
As Lead Developer in the Trading System group, I designed and built the Trading Systems Desktop (“TW”), integrating Trading System functionality and market data display; including market data monitors, trading position blotters, pricing methodologies, news, auto-execution, trade history, and trade ticketing.
I also designed, built, and maintained TCP/IP trade feeds, custody bank links and client data feeds. This included designing an application-layer protocol and meta-programming to generate feed handler code based on feed specs.
Nokogiri is currently the most popular XML/HTML parsing library for Ruby developers. It supports CSS and XPath querying, has push and pull SAX parsers, validates DTD and XSD schemas, performs XSLT transformations, and has a very simple and usable API. It’s implemented in Ruby and C.
Loofah is an HTML sanitizer (based on Nokogiri) which can be used to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. It provides a variety of methods to clean or remove unsafe HTML, and delivers ActiveRecord plugins for Rails applications.
Mechanize is a Ruby library used for automating website interaction and screen-scraping. It fully supports browser history and cookies, and allows easy authentication and form submission. Implemented in Ruby.
Graduated 1995 with a B.A. in Physics.


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Photos: Kyle Busch wins NASCAR Cup Series Championship 18 Nov 2019, 01:17 by EndPlay Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, takes the checkered flag to win the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway. Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, leads a pack of cars during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway on November 17, 2019 in Homestead, Florida. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images)Photograph by Brian Lawdermilk Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, leads a pack of cars during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Brian Lawdermilk Kyle Busch celebrates with his wife, Samantha, and their son, Brexton, after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Jared C. Tilton Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates with a burnout after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates with his son Brexton and wife Samantha in victory lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, celebrates with victory lap after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, poses for photos with his son Brexton and wife Samantha in victory lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship.Photograph by Sean Gardner Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Express Toyota, leads a pack of cars during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Brian Lawdermilk Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, races Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Brian Lawdermilk Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, takes the checkered flag to win the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Speedway.Photograph by Sean Gardner


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General utility classes used with Permazen.
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Class Summary Class Description AbstractIterationSet<E> Support superclass forSet
implementations for which calculatingAbstractIterationSet.size()
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Publications
Jing, E., Dedeo, S., & Ahn, Y. (n.d.). Sameness Attract, Novelty Disturbs, but Outliers Flourish in Fanfiction Online. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07741.
Park, J., Wood, I.D., Jing, E., Nematzadeh, A., Ghosh, S., Conover, M., & Ahn, Y. (2019). Global labor flow network reveals the hierarchical organization and dynamics of geo-industrial clusters in the world economy. Nature communications 10 (1), 1-10.
Ma, J., Jing, E., & Han, J. (2017). Predicting Mission Alignment and Preventing Mission Drift: How Revenue Sources Matter?. doi:/10.2139/ssrn.2915677.
Other projects
Character Interaction Networks in Movies
This project was done when I was at the 2016 Complex Systems Summer School hosted by the
Santa Fe Institute. Using a unique dataset of Hollywood movies, we constructed character interaction networks in each movie based on the characters' co-appearance on screen. We found that the features of these networks reliably predicts genre and other film attributes, such as critical reception.
We also used the data to characterize how gender roles in movies have evolved over the last 50 years. Our analysis show that different statistical attributes (e.g., network centrality, screen time) are equalizing at vastly different rates, and that full gender equalization will take >80 years if current trends continue.
Because of a data sharing permission issue, we chose not to publish the results from this project. A draft can be viewed here.
The Philosophy of AI and Mind
The ultimate goal of AI researchers is to create machines with intelligence that equals to, or surpasses, human mind. However, the approaches to this goal are never uniform. Shall we create AI by simulating the human mind? Nowadays, most researchers in AI are not very interested in how the mind works, and the mainstream approaches to AI do not intentionally simulate humans' cognitive processes; similarities, if exist, are on an abstract level. However, there are still some heretics that insist on building "real" AI by making it work like the human minds do.
I had a chance to explore this topic in the very cool course with Professor Colin Allen. The outcome is a review paper that can be viewed
here.
A Network approach to The Silmarillion
There has been some studies on the social networks of mythological narratives, and as a fan of J.R.R.Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, I decided to do a leisure-time project with his posthumous work The Silmarillion. A social network was constructed from the book based on the character's interpersonal relations. Analysis found typical features of an artificial social network. More interestingly, it was found that character-wise, a higher centrality in the network is a positive indicator of the character's popularity among fans, e.g., appearing in more fanfictions.
Cooperative Games in an Extended Lattice Gas Model
The formation of cooperation is a classical topic in evolutionary game theory. This project simulates a game between two species on an extended lattice gas model, with parameters including the species’ birth rates, death rates, and the benefits and costs of cooperation. The results of the simulation are passed to a replicator equation in order to study the choice of cooperation of individuals with the ability of learning. We show that the choice of cooperation is influenced both by the environmental parameters, and the benefts and costs of cooperation. If certain conditions are met, choosing cooperation can become the evolutionary stable strategy.
This research is my thesis for my major in Information Science. The thesis can be found here. (Note: content in Chinese)
Religious Practices in Interethnic Families in North Tibet-Yi Corridor
Religious difference is an important factor in the formation of marriages. It is traditionally believed that religious differences has a negative effect on the formation of interethnic marriages; and in existing interethnic families, these differences generally persist. However, our research found that religious difference doesn’t act as a key factor that prevents the marriage of two individuals from different ethnic groups; and in existing interethnic families, a mechanism is established to recognize and resolves such differences. As a result, interethnic families develop a reshaped "habitus" marked by a special set of values, attitudes and life style influenced by their merged spirituality.
This research is my thesis for my major in Anthropology. The paper can be viewed
here.


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The following plots display the evolution of each metric over the past days. These metrics represent the total number of search queries and result clicks made each day, both on Tor Network Search, and I2P Network search.


Oh, ye gods. What a horror.
I watched an episode of “The Apprentice”.
For those who don’t know - “The Apprentice” is a UK reality TV show where a bunch of alleged experienced businessmen and women compete in a variety of allegedly business-related tasks to become the “apprentice” to alleged business guru (and, to be fair, successful tycoon) Alan Sugar.
It’s horrifying. “Normal” business practise is presented as a mass of sniping, backbiting, and bullying from Lord Sugar on down. The tasks bear about as much relation to actual business as that dude in the bear suit at your local mall does to an actual grizzly.
 Stupid to the point that a team of seven of them, in an entire day, couldn’t figure out what a “cloche” was in the context of a posh hotel. (To be fair, they weren’t allowed to use Google, which would have put my personal time on that task up from 30 seconds to, ooh, about 3 minutes).
And yet these guys and girls are all very successful in business. One had made 70k a year whilst studying at the same time. Another ran a not-that-small company.
And this got me thinking. If you forced one of these morons to run a web series, would they do as well at that, in spite of their deficiencies?
Quite likely. Why?
Balls.
If you’re smart, sensitive and empathic, as most web series creators are, it’s very easy to assess the risks. Very easy to get into other peoples’ shoes and figure out what they might think of our little web series. And so we’re “realistic”, and focus our efforts on stuff we have assessed we’ve got a good chance of succeeding at, and avoid things that are doomed to horrible failure or serious embarassment.
Meanwhile, if you’re dumb as a post and cocky as something that can’t be mentioned on primetime TV, your first reaction to “How do I publicise this series?” is “Call the New York Times and tell them it’s awesome!”
And actually, that’s a very, very good idea.
I’ve been working very hard in the last few years on differentiating between situations where I’ve got no chance at all, and situations where I’ve got a pretty small chance, but a good chance of feeling embarassed too. The latter are very, very easy to mistake for the former, because it gets you out of scary stuff.
Scary stuff like seriously pitching the New York Times film section about your web series - not sending a generic PR, but actually calling them up and saying “I’ve got this thing and it’s AWESOME!”. Like taking your dream cast list and actually calling their agents. Like phoning a major theater chain and saying “Hey, guys, fancy showing the pilot of my series as a trailer to Pirates of the Carribean 4?”
Now, you’re probably sitting there thinking “yeah, but there’s no chance that would ever work.” Wrong. There is SOME chance that would work.
I’ve been featured in the New York Times. And on CNN. Entertainment Weekly. About half of the UK’s national newspapers. And various other places. It’s doable. Hell, I pitched one of the biggest name casting agents in the UK the idea for a World of Warcraft fanfilm and she agreed to work on it. And subsequently a whole bunch of very famous people also agreed to be in it, thanks to her. (Joanna Lumley. Brian Blessed. Jack Davenport. Anna Chancellor. Think they’d agree to be in a tiny webseries? Turns out, yes they would.)
Does this mean that I’m awesome? Not especially. It just means I made a bunch of phonecalls that I thought had almost no chance for success, and it turned out my risk assessment wasn’t as good as I thought it was.
What stuff could you do for your web series (or hey, I know we have non-webseries readers, your film, or your iPhone app, or your ebook) that would totally revolutionise its success? Which ones are clearly stupidly impossible?
How confident are you that they’re impossible?
Confident enough that you’ll take 10 minutes of embarassing telephone conversation over the chance for an A-Lister as your lead actor?
Confident enough it can’t happen that it’s not even worth TRYING to get the Hollywood Reporter to cover you?
Are you really so sure that you’re right?

Smart’s good.
Good luck.
P.S. Oh, and don’t just do it once.  Engage dumb-but-cocky mode again. They’re clearly morons who don’t appreciate your genius. Time to phone Variety.

Not all the time, obviously.
There’s stuff that doesn’t scare me one bit - technical bits and pieces, for starters. Need to get a 3D model from one obscure incompatible format written in 1998 to another totally proprietory one written by a stoned UNIX coder and a drunken monkey? Pass me Google and let’s get going.
Online marketing doesn’t scare me. I love web design. And I love above all else working with actors, directing, workshopping, and working on story, playing around with beats, going for walks, coming up with an arc.
You’re probably in the same boat. Maybe you’re 100% OK with editing, or could happily colour-correct until the perfectly-shaded cows came home.
But then there’s all the other stuff.
Print press scares me, badly. Not doing interviews, so much - them I like. But whenever I get to the point of needing to assemble press releases and actually call the BBC or CNN or something, my heart rate’s going like Lars Ulrich playing a drum solo twenty seconds after he learned about Napster.
Camerawork scares me. I am acutely aware that when it comes to artistic stuff, compared to a lot of ultra-talented directors and DOPs, I’m a three-year-old with crayons. I know I don’t suck, but I also know I HAVE sucked in the past, and that means that I can manage up to two hours of “research” (procrastination) before I actually get the nerve up to point my virtual camera at something.
I’m sure that all of us have the same problems.
(Indeed, if I found a filmmaker who didn’t find any aspect of his or her work scary, I’d question if he or she was actually invested enough to do a great job.)
But the question is - what can you do about your fear? And what can you learn from it?
If it scares you, you should probably be doing it
Well, obviously not if “it” involves stepping in front of heavy things moving fast.
But one of the things I’ve learned about fear is that it’s an excellent pointer for the things I should really be doing to make my film awesome rather than just OK.
Let me tell you, getting started on the process that led to me casting Johanna Lumley, Jack Davenport, Anna Chancellor, and Brian Blessed in Death Knight Love Story was absolutely terrifying. Calling Seriously Big Name casting agents? Pitching the project to Gail Stevens and her team? Even organising the transport to take our actors to the recording studio was hyperventilation-tastic.
That’s the main reason I knew this was something that was super-important to do.
If you know you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re already ahead of the game
I’d still say that I’m not very good at camerawork. Thus, it’s a bit of a surprise for me when people compliment my shooting, as happens reasonably often, or even ask me for camerawork advice!
The ability I’ve aquired with camerawork, such as it is, has all been as a result of realising that, initially, I really sucked. So I grabbed everything I could to learn about it. I studied movies with the sound off for hours. Any time a blog post has the word “camera” in the title, I’ll read it, possibly even after the point I realise it’s about sticking something medical where the sun doesn’t shine.
If you’re shitting yourself about a task - or merely vibrating gently and procrastinating hard - you’re probably already ahead of most people on that task, because you realise that you don’t know everything you want to. Turn that fear into an impetus to learn, and do the task anyway, because…
Making good stuff is partially a function of making any stuff
There’s a much-overused Woody Allen quote on this point, about 90% of success being showing up. It’s overused because it’s true.
I have a note on my monitor reading “You don’t know if a shot is any good until the edit”, as I’ve mentioned before when talking about cameras. It’s there because I tend to paralyse myself with fear that whatever I produce won’t be good enough.
You can only make stuff that’s as good as you can make. How you’re feeling about making it on any given day won’t matter nearly as much as you think it will. I’ve shot and written things I thought at the time were shit, and subsequently turned out to be the best things about a project. And filmmaking’s a process - you’ll dramatically overestimate how far down the line on any episode you can see and predict, because once collaboration and multiple processes like editing come into play, the game totally changes.
Oh, and if you do end up producing something that doesn’t work, half the time the reason it doesn’t work will have nothing to do with whatever you were panicking about when you made it. It’s the stuff we DON’T see that clobbers us, not the stuff we obsess over.
So stop shaking and hugging Reddit.com like it’s your only friend. Make it, edit it, screen it to a bunch of friends, and THEN you can worry about whether it’s good enough yet.
What’s the stuff that scares you about showrunning? And how do you overcome it? Let us know in the comments!
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Swift Server Generator generates applications in a layout compatible with Swift Package Manager.
The files that populate the application directory depend on the project type, capabilities and services selected during creation.
The following structure is common to all generated applications:
├── LICENSE - MIT license for the generated code
├── Sources/ - Swift source code for the project
│ ├── Application/ - Swift module for application logic
│ │ └── Application.swift - Swift code for application logic
│ │ └── InitializationError.swift - Swift code for initialization error
│ └── / - Swift module for executable
│ └── main.swift - Swift code for executable
├── Tests/ - Swift source code for the tests
│ ├── ApplicationTests/ - Swift test module
│ │ └── RouteTests.swift - Swift code for the test implementation
│ └── LinuxMain.swift - Swift test definition for Linux
├── Package.swift - Swift Package Manager configuration file
├── Package.resolved - Swift Package Manager resolved packages
├── spec.json - Generator specification file for the project
There are also a number of hidden files included in all generated applications:
├── .gitignore - Defines files that should not be added to Git
├── .swift-version - Defines the Swift version for this project
├── .swiftservergenerator-project - Marks this as a Swift Server Generator project
├── .yo-rc.json - Yeoman generator configuration file
.swiftservergenerator-project and .yo-rc.json are files used by the generator to know where the root of your project is and what kind of project you have. If you don’t need to do any further modifications after initial project generation (such as using the model generator), use the single shot option.
The following are created when the application is built (by swift build):
├── Packages/ - Swift source code for resolved dependencies
├── .build/ - Build metadata, libraries and executables
├── {application_name}.xcodeproj - Xcode project file
The following subsections apply to the scaffold project type. All scaffolded projects will have the following files included:
├── README.md - Default documentation for the generated project
├── Sources/
│ └── Application/
│ └── Routes/ - Directory for organising route handler code
The README.md file contains customized documentation about the contents of the generated application including selected capabilities and services.
If you select the embedded metrics dashboard then the following file will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Sources/ - Swift source code for the project
│ └── Application/ - Swift module for application logic
│ └── Metrics.swift - Swift code for Swift Metrics logic
If you select the web capability then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── public/ - Directory whose contents is served on /
If you select the Swagger endpoint capability then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Sources/
│ └── Application/
│ └── Routes/
│ └── SwaggerRoute.swift - Swift code for OpenAPI definition endpoint
If you select the example endpoints capability then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Sources/
│ └── Application/
│ └── Routes/
│ └── ProductRoutes.swift - Swift code for example endpoints
├── definitions/
│ └── {application_name}.yaml - Swagger definition for example API
If you select endpoints from swagger file then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Sources/
│ └── Application/
│ └── Routes/
│ └── {route_name}Routes.swift - Swift code for generated API endpoints
├── definitions/
│ └── {application_name}.yaml - Swagger definition for generated API
If both web capability and example endpoints capability are selected then SwaggerUI will be added to the project in the following location:
├── public/
│ └── explorer/ - SwaggerUI
If you select the docker capability then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Dockerfile - Docker spec for an image to run the application
├── Dockerfile-tools - Docker spec for an image to build the application
├── .dockerignore - Defined files to ignore for building images
├── chart/
│ └── {application_name}/
│ ├── Chart.yaml - A Helm chart for Kubernetes
│ ├── values.yaml - IBM Cloud values for Kubernetes
│ └── templates/
│ ├── deployment.yaml - Kubernetes deployment configuration
│ ├── hpa.yaml - Kubernetes scaling configuration
│ └── service.yaml - Kubernetes service configuration
If you select the Server SDK generation then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Sources/
│ └── {generated_name}_API_ServerSDK/
│ └── Routes/
│ ├── {generated_name}_API_ServerSDKUtility.swift - Swift server SDK helper methods
│ ├── {generated_name}API.swift - Swift server SDK API code
│ └── {generated_name}.swift - Swift server SDK object wrapper
IBM Cloud core files are included by default. The following files are common to all generated applications:
├── manifest.yml - CloudFoundry deployment manifest file
├── cli-config.yml - IBM Cloud Dev Tools CLI configuration file
├── .cfignore - Defines files to be ignored for deployment
├── .bluemix/ - IBM Cloud pipeline and toolchain files
│ ├── toolchain.yml - IBM Cloud toolchain configuration file
│ ├── pipeline.yml - IBM Cloud pipeline configuration file
│ ├── deploy.json - IBM Cloud toolchain UI configuration file
│ └── scripts/ - Scripts for Kubernetes
│ ├── container_build.sh - Script to build a Kubernetes container
│ └── kube_deploy.sh - Script to deploy to a Kubernetes container
If you select an IBM Cloud service, then the following files will be included in the scaffolded project:
├── Sources/
│ └── Application/
│ └── Services/
│ └── .swift - Swift connector to an IBM Cloud Service
├── config/
│ ├── localdev-config.json - IBM Cloud service configuration file
│ └── mappings.json - Service configuration mappings file
The following section applies to the CRUD project type. CRUD projects will have the following files included:
├── Sources/
│ ├── Application/
│ │ └── Routes/
│ │ └── SwaggerRoute.swift - Swift code for OpenAPI definition endpoint
│ └── Generated/ - Generated Swift code for CRUD API logic
│ ├── AdapterFactory.swift - Swift code to select CRUD data store adapter
│ ├── AdapterError.swift - Swift code for the store adapter error types
│ ├── ModelError.swift - Swift code for the model error types
│ └── CRUDResources.swift - Swift code to organise CRUD model logic
├── definitions/
│ └── {application_name}.yaml - Swagger definition for CRUD API
├── models/ - Data model metadata files
Files inside the Sources/Generated directory should not be modified as they are regenerated regularly and any modifications will be lost.
For each model created using the model generator the following files will be included:
├── Sources/
│ └── Generated/
│ ├── {Model_name}.swift - Swift code for defining the model
│ ├── {Model_name}Resource.swift - Swift code for model endpoints
│ ├── {Model_name}Adapter.swift - Swift protocol for model storage
│ └── {Model_name}{StoreType}Adapter.swift - Swift code for model storage
├── models/
│ └── .json - Model metadata file
Model names entered into the model generator are used in a number of places in the generated project. They are used verbatim as filenames for the .json model files, and as endpoint paths in the application router and API definition. In the generated Swift code, Model names are converted to Swift classnames, using a simple transform that attempts to make them comply with the Swift specifications for Identifiers. In addition, the convention that Swift class names start with an uppercase letter is applied, unless the model name starts with an underscore character (_).


Overview
This document outlines the following concepts:
- Product Structure
- Master Products
- Variations
- Revisions
Product Structure
In Product Library and in your Catalog, products are structured in a way to make managing them easier.
This structure drives a standardized, consumer-friendly shopping experience by grouping like products together and aiding with detailed and comprehensive reporting for retailers. Master Products can be split into multiple Variations, which can then be further split into Revisions.
Master Products
The Master Product is the ‘model’ of the product. This will often be what is displayed to the consumer in channels such as eCommerce and in-store interactive software. There are two types of Master Products:
- Saleable Master Products do not offer a customer a choice before they can buy a product, such as a designer necklace or charging cable
- Non-saleable Master Products require a customer to choose options before they can buy a product, such as different colors or sizes
Variations
Variations are saleable child products of a non-saleable Master Product.
Variations can inherit properties from a parent Master Product and have their own properties such as stock levels, prices and images.
The image below represents how a Master Product “Comfy Sweater” has variations for color and size.
Revisions
In the wireless industry, there is often an additional level of complexity, as a Carrier or Company may offer a different version of the product. These are referred to as Revisions.
Note: Revisions may be created from either Master Products or Variations. If Variations exist on a Master Product, Revision must be created from these Variations, not the Master Product.
Revisions allow a Carrier or Company to manage specific versions of a product. For example, by including branded images or descriptions, or managing separate SKUs.
As an example, if a customer walks into a retail store looking for a Gold iPhone 6, in the 32GB size, they might have a choice of:
- Sprint iPhone 6 Gold 32 GB
- AT&T iPhone 6 Gold 32 GB
- T-Mobile iPhone 6 Gold 32 GB
- Verizon iPhone 6 Gold 32 GB
The image below represents how a Master Product of an iPhone 6 has Variations for color and size but also has Carrier Revisions for every Carrier that sells the iPhone 6.
Examples
| Product | Master Product, Variation or Carrier Revision? |
|---|---|
| “Lucy” Graphic T-Shirt | Master Product |
| Comfy Sweater Blue S | Variation |
| iPhone 6 | Master Product |
| Pebble Watch Black | Variation |
| AT&T iPhone 6 Gold 32 GB | Carrier Revision |


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I have 4+ years of experience as a software developer and have recently discovered an interest in Product work. I believe my technical background and communication skills make me an effective liaison between the technical folks (developers, etc.) and the business (users, stakeholders, etc.). I enjoy working with people to understand their goals and pain points and work together to implement solutions to build a better product that is intuitive and meets their needs.
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This report describes the ISO TC211 codelist catalogs, the codelists they contain, and the values and definitions of the codes.
Please contact Ted Habermann if you have questions or suggestions.
| Entry | Definition |
|---|---|
| image | meaningful numerical representation of a physical parameter that is not the actual value of the physical parameter |
| thematicClassification | code value with no quantitative meaning, used to represent a physical quantity |
| physicalMeasurement | value in physical units of the quantity being measured |
| auxillaryInformation | data, usually a physical measurement, used to support the calculation of the primary physicalMeasurement coverages in the dataset (e.g. grid of aerosol optical thickness used in the calculation of a sea surface temperature product). |
| qualityInformation | data used to characterize the quality of the physicalMeasurement coverages in the dataset. Typically included in a gmi:QE_CoverageResult. |
| referenceInformation | reference information used to support the calculation or use of the physicalMeasurement coverages in the dataset (e.g. grids of latitude/longitude used to geolocate the physical measurements). |
| modelResult | resources with values that are calculated using a model rather than being observed or calculated from observations. |
| coordinate | data used to provide coordinate axis values |
| Entry | Definition |
|---|---|
| blurredImage | portion of the image is blurred |
| cloud | portion of the image is partially obscured by cloud cover |
| degradingObliquity | acute angle between the plane of the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth s orbit) and the plane of the celestial equator |
| fog | portion of the image is partially obscured by fog |
| heavySmokeOrDust | portion of the image is partially obscured by heavy smoke or dust |
| night | image was taken at night |
| rain | image was taken during rainfall |
| semiDarkness | image was taken during semi-dark conditions; twilight conditions |
| shadow | portion of the image is obscured by shadow |
| snow | portion of the image is obscured by snow |
| terrainMasking | the absence of collection data of a given point or area caused by the relative location of topographic features which obstruct the collection path between the collector(s) and the subject(s) of interest |


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This is my cat Mo, she is my favourite pet.
Shh, don't tell the others.
We believe Mo was a wizard in a past life. She's very intuitive and loves witchcraft.
Mo was abandoned and left for dead as a young kitten. The rescue group found her in near death condition.
I'll leave out the hideous details, but our sweet girl had to have both of her eyes removed.
Being blind doesn't stop Momo, though! She's an absolute angel, and an important part of our family!


This demo shows one of the benefits of using indexed db in a webworker.
The generated data, which is an array of integers is used to simulate "work". The data is being sent to the WebWorker using an IndexedDB database, which is being populated on the main thread. The WebWorker then fetches the entire data set and processes it.
Processing the data in the main thread will caused the browser to be "stuck" for a while, while the webworker doesn't halt the animation and actually updates the UI correctly.
The lower progress bar will turn green after the data was completely processed.
More @ GitHub.
To generate a new set of data (delays) choose the properties and press "Generate data".
To see how this data is being processed on the main thread or persisted in IndexedDB and processed in a webworker click the corresponding buttons.
Try 10000 : 1 , 2500 : 10, 1000 : 25 . You will notice the overhead of storing the data and reading it entirely is not affecting the site's performance.


Member Rules
Familiarize yourself with Member Rules.
All Members must behave in a Mature manner. This includes;
- No swearing or inappropriate language
- No sexually explicit subjects
- Do not discriminate based on age, gender or racial background
- Act in a respectful and polite manner
- Act with maturity
- Do not ask for Promotions
- No threats shall be tolerated (Death Threats, ddos, dox, etc).
Respect others
- No bullying/harassment
- Do not slander on staff or members
Content
- Do not post inappropriate link(s) or images/videos
- Do not make inappropriate posts/threads
- No advertising/Server recruitment
Discord and Forums
- If you see or encounter a problem, screenshot it and report it
- We expect you to remain active, within reason, to keep up with the community.
Minecraft Server General
- Listen to staff directions
- Do not troll, harass, or bully other players in any way.
- Do not use an offensive skin, username or nickname.
- Do not reveal Real Life information, especially home addresses.
- Do not break the Mojang Terms of Services or engage in illegal actions.
- Do not scam other players either on the Forums or in-Game.
- Do not invite players to factions just to steal from them.
- Do not steal skins from players or maliciously edit them.
- If you have a problem with Staff or Players, report them on the Forum.
- Do not cause drama in public chats. Divert your complaints or reports to the Forums.

- Do not spawn camp
- Do not use a glitch to your advantage, and report any glitches you find.
- Do not use Cheats or Hacked Clients to your advantage, and report those who do.
- Do not use Auto-clickers, Macros or Mouse/Keyboard features to gain an advantage.
- Do not create traps involving portals or invisible portals to capture or kill players.
These Rules/Guidelines are subject to change. So please reread them periodically to ensure you are up-to-date.
Team Rules
Familiarize yourself with Staff Rules.
Dear Member: If you see one of our team members break any of these rules please report it to the owners and they will take care of it accordingly.
All staff must behave in a professional manner. This includes;
- No excessive swearing or excessive inappropriate language
- No sexually explicit subjects
- Do not discriminate based on age, gender or racial background
- Act in a respectful and polite manner
- Act with maturity
- Do not ask for Promotions
- As a staff member you are prohibited to; Reveal valuable information* about the server to the public or other servers. *Information such as Plugins, Staff chat logs, IP addresses, Control Panel access etc.
- Don't abuse your staff privileges.
- Obey your superiors
Respect others
- No bullying/harassment
- Do not slander on staff or members
Content
- Do not post inappropriate link(s) or images/videos.
- Do not make inappropriate posts/threads
- No advertising/Server recruitment
Discord and Forums
- Do not delete any staff members OR members post from the forums without reason
- If you see or encounter a problem, screenshot it and report it
- We expect you to remain active, within reason, to keep up with the community.
- Punishments shall be documented in the player report/punishments section on the forum.
- Punishments shall follow the punishments/rulebreaking guidelines.
Minecraft Servers
- Do not abuse staff abilities to assist yourself or others
- Do not engage in PVP using staff abilities i.e. /god, /fly, /tp, /vanish, etc
- Do not abuse staff abilities to impact the server economy
- Please, communicate with each other, use the forums
- Use the “!warn" system to take care of Rule Breakers
These Rules/Guidelines are subject to change. So please reread them periodically to ensure you are up-to-date.


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Ofsted’s latest data from 30 June 2013, found that over 15,000 children are attending a primary school that was judged to be less than good at its last inspection. That’s 76 primary schools in the local authority area that are not providing the expected level of education for their children. This is worse than the quality of primary schools across England and is an unacceptable situation.
In Suffolk, 30 per cent of primary schools are not yet good, compared with 28 per cent in the East of England and 21 per cent nationally.
Over 30 focused school inspections will be taking place in the authority as a result of Ofsted’s findings that the proportion of children attending a good or better school is currently well below the national average.
At the same time Ofsted will conduct a telephone survey of a number of schools in Suffolk, which are not being inspected.
The exercise marks a concerted programme of action by Ofsted to establish why children in some parts of the country have a much lower chance of attending a good or better school compared to areas with a similar demographic.
Sean Harford, Regional Director for the East of England said:
Children only get one chance of an education. As Regional Director for the East of England, I want to tackle the variations highlighted in our Annual Report, and more recently in HMCI’s Unseen Children report, to drive improvement in all schools in this region.
All parents should have the same opportunity to send their children to a good or better school but in Suffolk the chance of being able to do so is much lower than in other parts of the country.
That is why today and over the next week, my inspectors will be visiting a number of schools in Suffolk to find out whether performance is improving. We will be paying particular attention to the effectiveness and impact of the support these schools are receiving from the local authority.
These inspections, which were scheduled to take place this academic year but are being brought forward, will include all types of schools - although the majority will be primary schools.
The inspections and telephone surveys will give a powerful snapshot of not only how well these particular schools are doing in Suffolk but also a strong indication of the quality of external support and direction given to the schools by the local authority.
The findings and any recommendations will be shared with the local authority as well as schools, parents and the wider public. If Ofsted finds that the local authority is proactive in addressing key issues and that standards in schools are improving, this will be made clear in the letter setting out the principal findings to the local authority.
However, if there is evidence that the local authority is not fulfilling its statutory duty to promote high standards and fair access to educational opportunity, Ofsted may consider carrying out an inspection of the authority’s school improvement function under the new framework.
The local authority school improvement framework, which took effect in June this year, enables Ofsted for the first time to inspect the school improvement functions of any local authority where there are concerns that the statutory duty to improve school standards is not being met. This may include areas where the performance of schools has declined since the data was collected for the last Annual Report.
Notes to editors
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Sean Harford, Regional Director for East of England will be available for interviews on Tuesday 10 September 2013. Please call Ofsted’s Press Office for interview requests.
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The framework for the inspection of local authority arrangements for supporting school improvement


Imps can buy orbs that can expand into maps, showing their location. Orbs can also show health, stats, other imps. The food towers also double as a signal for the orbs to opperate, making them hover at a steady distance above the ground.
The orbs were the first invention reated by the imps that required every imp's powers. It is a sign of peace between the imps and hope for future cooperation. It has the expansive memory of the gluttons, rare metal from the greed imps, it's durability from the Wrath imps. It's levitation abilities come from research from the Sloth imps and its adaptability from the weather are from the Envy's adaptability powers. The lust imps created its smooth design and organic antenna.
The orb is a friend to all players... unless you attack its imp. The orbs are also protectors, defending their imp from danger.
These rings are linked to the wearer's body and transmit information to the orb and food tower's information database.
Through information gathered by the Gluttony imps, they discovered the human ways of farming and altered it. Instead of growing crops on the ground horizontally, they built towers that are exposed to the sun and grow their food in them vertically, taking up less space and saving their native plants for future generations. The towers collect water through the warm misty air touching their cold pipes, collecting the condensation for the plants and imps to partake in while the crystal and plant infused panels on top collect solar energy. The towers were created by all of the imp's efforts and are a product of peace between the races, therefore, all races are allowed to have these tower's built in their territory.


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[gecode-users] Gecode 3.1.0 and Gecode/FlatZinc 1.6 released
Guido Tack
tack at ps.uni-sb.de
Thu May 21 01:58:45 CEST 2009
Dear all,
we are releasing updates to Gecode and Gecode/FlatZinc.
Gecode 3.1.0
http://www.gecode.org
This release introduces parallel search, features improved memory
management (can double efficiency on MacOS X), and provides a reusable
command line driver upon popular request. And, of course, some this
and that.
The complete changelog is available at
http://www.gecode.org/changes.html
Gecode/FlatZInc 1.6
http://www.gecode.org/flatzinc.html
which has been adapted to work with the latest MiniZInc release
(version 1.0).
On our web site, you find source packages, as well as binary packages
for Windows and Mac OS.
Cheers,
Guido
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These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
TableSplit.getLength() contains correct sizes of region in bytes. It is used by M/R framework for better scheduling.
A new configuration replication.source.per.peer.node.bandwidth is added by this jira. the default is 0 which means no throttling. the unit of this configuration is bytes-per-second.
From the shell's doc:
hbase> set_peer_tableCFs '2', "table1; table2:cf1,cf2; table3:cfA,cfB"
Changes the default split policy to avoid too many regions with default settings. The old policy calculates the split size at each RS as follows: MIN(maxFileSize, flushSize*NoRegions^2) (NoRegions is the number of regions for the table in question seen on this RS)
The new policy calculates the size this way: MIN(maxFileSize, flushSize*2*NoRegions^3) Note that the initial split size is now 2 * the flushSize. With default settings it increased from 128mb to 256mb.
The new policy still allows spreading out the regions over the cluster quickly, but then grows the desired size fairly quickly in order to avoid too many regions per RS.
Downgrades HBase's dependency on commons-math to 2.1, which is consistent with all stable releases of Hadoop.
from 0.98.1 every hbase shell command that support regex filtering is using the java Pattern class, which does not support glob patterns. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
Many of the metrics exposed in 0.94 were removed with the refactorization of metrics in 0.96. This patch restores the availability of the live and dead regionserver lists. In 0.94 this used to be found as a large nested structure which included regionserver lists and metrics from each region.
{ "name" : "hadoop:service=Master,name=Master", "modelerType" : "org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MXBeanImpl", "ZookeeperQuorum" : "localhost:2181", .... "RegionsInTransition" : [ ], "RegionServers" : [ { "key" : "localhost,48346,1390857257246", "value" : { "load" : 2, ....
In 0.96.0, 0.96.1.x and 0.98.0 did not contain this list -- it only contained counts of the number of live and dead regionservers. After this patch, the list are present in a ';' separated field like so:
{ "name" : "Hadoop:service=HBase,name=Master,sub=Server", "modelerType" : "Master,sub=Server", "tag.Context" : "master", "tag.liveRegionServers" : "localhost,56196,1391992019130", "tag.deadRegionServers" : "localhost,40010,1391035309673;localhost,41408,1391990380724;localhost,38682,1390950017735", ... }
Multithread the region mover so can run more than one region move at a time. Specify how many threads on the command line. Feature will make rolling restart complete the sooner (if with a little more disruption as more regions are in flight at a time).
To use this feature of passing superuser and userlist we need to give the following command {code} ./hbase --config /usr/lib/hbase/conf/ org.apache.hadoop.hbase.IntegrationTestIngestWithACL -superuser <user> -userlist <user1>,<user2>,<user3> {code} Ensure that the userlist is comma seperated.
Introduces a new scan attribute to allow a scan operation with explicit columns (Scan.addColumn) to opportunistically look ahead a few KeyValues (columns/versions) before scheduling a seek operation to seek between columns.
A seek is efficient when it can seek past 5-10 KeyValue (columns) or 512-1024 bytes. With small rows and few versions look ahead is typically more efficient.
API: {code} Scan s = new Scan(...); s.addColumn(...); // instructs the RegionServer to attempt two iterations of next before scheduling a seek s.setAttribute(Scan.HINT_LOOKAHEAD, Bytes.toBytes(2)); table.getScanner(s); {code}
HTablePool and HTableFactory are relics and are going away. See HConnection#getTable instead.


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I live in Oak Park with my beautiful family. For 20 years I have been a professional saxophonist, but it's time for a change.
I have a BS in chemistry from Tufts University and a BM in music from New England Conservatory


I live in Lake Orion, Michigan but lived in California until age 11. I enjoy going on walks with my family on the beautiful trails near me. I have a motto that I live by, Use The Hill. It is inspired from when I ran cross country in high school. This hills are where most people slow down, but I've always used them as an opportunity to lean in and pass the competition. Recently, I decided to change career paths, which can be considered a hill. I've worked with a non-profit on and off for the past decade supporting adults living with disabilities. I've always enjoyed working on database programs and websites throughout my career and decided to pursue web development. I'm leaning in and working really hard to learn all of the new coding languages. I'm excited to use this hill as an opportunity to become a great web developer.


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You can easily install Adroit using the installer provided on this website after which you can run it using the shortcut created on your desktop as well as start menu.
It is 100% free and will always be free. There are no ads. You are free to distribute and share.
Automatically pause your video when you are looking away from sceen.
Control your media from mobile with a messenger. Telegram messenger provides a unique experience and does not require for you to download any specific app.
Turns VLC into your personal music assistant automatically adding songs to your playlist. The prediction system gets smarter over time and you will not have to worry about manually adding songs to playlist. Don't let the music stop.
Automatically detects the current media playing. With just one click you can download subtitle if its a movie or tv series episode. ALternative for song with just one click you can open its lyrics in your favourite browser.


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Travel
- This week: Barcelona. Heads up: I’m committed to moving here ASAP. Kin and I had the best meal Friday night at Pla: I ate cod confit and a desert that involved both wasabi and chocolate. One of the other highlights: seeing Barça defeat Getafe. We had great seats and saw Messi, Neymar, Suárez, and Xavi score.
- Upcoming week: Barcelona. Hermosa Beach, CA. Davidson, NC.
- Upcoming: I booked travel back to Barcelona in June and to Philadelphia, also in June, for ISTE.
Hack Education
Essays Elsewhere
Speaking
Known Notes and Fragments
Other Projects
- I’ve started working on my Spanish via Duolingo.
- A profile of me is now available at iiE.
- Somehow on the trip from Berlin to Barcelona, my iPhone shattered. WTF.
- I did the obligatory end-of-the-month updates to my CV and websites and sent off invoices.
- I avoided my inbox. Sorry if you sent me a message.
- When in Barcelona… yeah, I’m off the wagon.
- I updated my spreadsheet on ed-tech investment with April data.
- I worked on the talk I’ll be giving next week at Davidson College.
- My work was cited in the New Inquiry’s “Sunday Reading” recommendations.
Reading
- Read Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.
- Read a bit of Belinda Barnet’s Memory Machines. Read a bit of Philip Sandifer’s A Golden Thread: An Unofficial Critical History of Wonder Woman. Read a bit of Paul Saettler’s The Evolution of American Educational Technology.