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Use of MadTranslations Allowed Miro Technologies to Complete Initial Translations of its Flagship GOLDesp™ Software and New Transportation Management System into Arabic in Three Months
La Jolla, CA — July 30, 2014 — Miro Technologies has selected MadTranslations, Inc., a subsidiary of MadCap Software, as its provider of translation and localization services. Miro is a leading supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and supply management software to the aerospace and defense (A&D) and commercial MRO sectors. Working with MadTranslations, Miro was able to complete initial translations of both its flagship GOLDesp software and newly developed Transportation Management System into Arabic in three months.
"Embarking on this new initiative of Arabic translation, it gave us confidence to know that MadCap and MadTranslations were also committed to the success and understanding of the project,” said Steve Walker, product manager for Miro Technologies. “We have appreciated the continued support of our global efforts and dedication to providing leading-edge services worldwide.”
A Complete Solution for Localized Communications
In early 2014, a Middle Eastern military customer asked Miro to deploy its solutions in Arabic. After careful evaluation, Miro selected the MadPak Suite as a complete set of tools to help modernize its online Help and further deploy it in multiple languages. First, Miro took advantage of MadCap Flare's native authoring and publishing for right-to-left (RTL) languages, including Arabic.
Miro then engaged MadTranslations to translate the terminology and project files for its GOLDesp software and Transportation Management System into Arabic. Given the seamless integration of MadCap products, MadTranslations was the natural choice to handle its translation and localization goals. Through a deep understanding of content authoring, the file structure of MadCap products, and the translation process, MadTranslations was able to complete the initial translation of Miro’s content within three months. Additionally, MadTranslations has helped to solidify the translations assets so that future updates can be handled in a timely, highly cost-efficient manner using the project update function in MadCap Lingo, the fully integrated translation tool for translators and content developers.
“Offering integration with MadCap Flare, MadTranslations is by far the best solution for helping us meet our customer requirements, and MadCap has provided superb assistance in helping us maximize the functionality of MadCap Flare. We are now on a steady path to modernizing and localizing our online Help, growing our business to better serve international markets,” Mr. Walker said. “MadCap and MadTranslations offer first class support and are always available to meet our needs, from assistance with planning the project through to detailed and responsive technical support.”
“As a leader in MRO and supply management software, Miro Technologies is a trusted partner for many companies as well as the aerospace and defense sector worldwide,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “We are excited by Miro’s success in advancing the global reach of its end-to-end logistics and asset management solutions through localized online Help and software created with MadCap Flare and translations provided by MadTranslations.”
About MadTranslations
MadTranslations, Inc., a subsidiary of MadCap Software, provides a full array of language and business services, drawing upon the most accomplished professionals in the industry. Through a full range of localization services, MadTranslations helps clients succeed in the global market by localizing their products, software applications and technical documentation into more than 50 languages. The company’s process ensures that localized content is functionally, linguistically, and culturally flawless.
As a leading provider of authoring and publishing solutions, MadTranslations understands the importance of the localization (L10N) process to ensure that products and documentation are adapted to the technical, linguistic, and cultural requirements of a specific country and locale. Services include language translation, software localization, website localization, technical documentation, e-learning localization, project management, terminology management, training, consulting and technical writing. Visit www.madcapsoftware.com/services/translation/ to learn more.
About Miro Technologies
Miro Technologies is a leading provider of advanced software solutions that manage maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) for high value, complex assets for air, space, sea and ground. Miro's technology facilitates logistics enterprise integration to ensure organizational agility, optimize supply chain management and reduce sustainment costs. Miro's industry leading commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, GOLDesp, has been widely adopted by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), defense contractors and military organizations as a key element in their defense system sustainment strategy since 1981.
The Boeing Company acquired Miro Technologies in October 2012. Miro Technologies and Tapestry Solutions merged together as non-fully integrated subsidiaries of The Boeing Company, to form Boeing’s Logistics Information Management Systems (LIMS). LIMS, a subdivision of the Boeing Training Systems and Government Services (TSGS), delivers value to Boeing and its customers by focusing its products and services on DoD, commercial, and international markets. Headquartered in San Diego, California, LIMS also has offices in Saudi Arabia, Oman and United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.mirotechnologies.com and www.tapestrysolutions.com.
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
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Summary: E-iceblue is proud to announce Spire.XLS supports the important feature of printing excel files now. Several new features to operate pivot table are added in the latest version as well.
Spire.XLS for .NET is a professional Excel .NET component that can be used to any type of .NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5 framework applications. This standalone library offers support both for the old Excel 97-2003 format (.xls) and for the new Excel 2007,Excel 2010 and Excel 2013 (.xlsx, .xlsb, .xlsm), along with Open Office (.ods) format. It features fast and reliably compared to developing your own spreadsheet manipulation solution or using Microsoft Automation.
This library has powerful conversion ability and it enables converting Excel files to most common and popular formats: Excel to HTML/XML/CSV, XML/CSV to Excel; Excel to Image/Txt/PDF.
With Spire.XlS, users can freely operate worksheets:
Create and edit Excel;
Find and Replace Data;
Import/Export data from a DataTable, DataView, Array, DataGrid etc;
Save Excel to file/Stream or as web response;
Create charts;
Read and write hyperlinks;
Insert/Delete or Hide Rows, Columns and Sheets;
Calculate Complex Excel Formula;
Protect/Unprotect Worksheets
Merge data into Excel with MarkerDesigner
Recently we’ve added new features in Spire.XLS:
1. Print Excel worksheets in C#.
2. Operate Pivot table in Excel worksheet with C# code, such as expand/collapse the rows, read value in a row, insert blank rows as a header in an existing Pivot Table, etc.
3. More elements in Excel file can be converted to PDF successfully, such as chart, shape, smart art, Pivot table and etc.
You are welcome to check and evaluate our Spire.XLS from the URL below:
http://www.e-iceblue.com/Download/download-excel-for-net-now.html
Contact US:
http://www.e-iceblue.com/Misc/maillist.html
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PMB, New York City, July 29, 2014: - Through this medium of online press release RecoveryTools announces the launch of its most online-discussed software even before its launching, Exchange Recovery; which is supposed to repair and convert complete Exchange mailboxes and public folders from EDB file into PST format. The recovery tool was recently launched in an extremely sophisticated manner with almost all important and senior delegates of the Company present at the launch ceremony. The CEO of the Company and the developer team were seen quite excited to have their software been designed and developed to support issues in Exchange Server, one of the esteemed products of the world’s largest IT Company ‘Microsoft’. One of the designators present there proudly said that when Microsoft fails to recover damage issues of its own developed product they endow with a perfect solution. Intellects say that if this is believed to be true then actually it’s a big development in the record of RecoveryTools.
Reportedly, RecoveryTools Exchange Recovery software is built-in with unmatched characteristics when compared to several other similar third party tools. The key features according to the official reports are as follows:
1. Batch Conversion Possible – The external tool is supposed to convert multiple EDB files into PST file type all at once. Hence, conversion time from EDB to PST will be saved.
2. Deep Scan Provided – The ‘deep scan’ option is provided to repair extremely corrupt ES database in addition to auto-scan that can fix only minor damage issues. This is really an advanced feature.
3. Can Convert All Data Items – All data items including emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, journals can be converted without exceptions with the recovery application; which many other similar tools cannot.
4. Can Recover Permanently Deleted Data – It is almost impossible to recover permanently deleted data, but this tool is said to recover even those data items from EDB file.
5. Can Retain Meta Data and Other Important Formatting – The software is believed to preserve the header field of emails with all its properties like subject, date, to, from, bcc, cc, etc. It can even maintain HTML formatting, inline images, etc.
6. Can Export Both Private and Public Folders – The recovery tool can repair and export both pub.edb and priv.edb file into PST file format. All or selected mailboxes from these files can be converted.
Antona Fernando, the Head of Support Department states: “I am extremely glad to launch this extremely advanced tool that will surely assist users in repairing extremely corrupted Exchange Server EDB file and converting all or selected user’s mailboxes. This is in fact a highly remarkable tool and we have quite good hopes with it as it comprises of advanced and enhanced key features.”
About RecoveryTools: The Company has set up high benchmarks by developing unique and enhanced data recovery tools. Exchange Recovery is it’s one such software that has immense potential to repair Exchange database irrespective of the extent of damage caused.
For Complete Details, Visit Here - http://www.recovery-tools.org/exchange-server-edb/
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What’s new in this release?
We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java 2.1.0. If your Microsoft Visio users have prepared a pretty heavy drawing in a beautiful layout, chances are they’d like to maintain its appearance when exporting it to other formats. We have improved the APIs performance in this area. This release includes a number of key fixes when exporting Visio diagram to the PDF format. Such as the arrow thickness is preserved in the output PDF format. Previously, it was ignored. The caption text gets overlapped with the arrow symbol line. It is now fixed. The black spots were generated in the output PDF format. The heading row in table and other icons at the bottom were getting blackened. Pop up message was appearing as “Do you want to save changes to ‘MyDigram.pdf’ before closing?” while closing output PDF documents.
Aspose.Diagram for Java is fully ported from the Aspose.Diagram for .NET API. The porting process has added a few more features that are already available in the latest version of Aspose.Diagram for .NET. Below is a of new features.
- Gets a master from a Microsoft Visio drawing by name – Developers can now retrieve a master object using its name. The MasterCollection.getMasterByName method searches all masters in the masters collection’s containing master. Developers just need to pass the exact master name. Developers can use either the master ID or name: the MasterCollection.GetMaster and MasterCollection.GetMasterByName methods give developers that option. You can find the details of this feature in the following help topic: Get Master from a Visio Drawing by Name
- Glue group shapes inside a container – Developers can dynamically glue group shapes inside the container group shape. You can find details of this feature in the following help topic: Glue Group Shape Inside a Container
- Check for the presence of master in a Visio drawing by name – Developers can now check the presence of a master object by its name using the MasterCollection.IsExist method. It checks that the title master exists and, if it does, returns true, otherwise false. Developers can use either the master ID or name: the MasterCollection.IsExist method supports both options. You can find details of this feature in the following help topic: Check Presence of a Master in a Visio Drawing
- Glue Visio shapes together with connection points - This feature allows developers to glue shapes together with connection points. A connection point is a special point on a shape that can be used to “glue” other shapes to it. When developers glue a shape to a connection point, the shapes stay connected, even if one of the shapes is moved. Please see this feature in the following help topic: Glue Visio Shapes Together with Connection Point
- Reading shape data is not synchronized
- Shape.connectedShapes method throws ClassCastException message
- Shape.gluedShapes method throws ClassCastException message
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Diagram for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Diagram for Java
Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure Java alternate for MS Visio Object Model. It is a standalone Visio Java library and does not depend on Microsoft Office Visio. It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files and they can open files & Add & manipulate the elements of the diagram, export Visio files to PDF, XML, HTML, images format, SVG & several other formats, Rotate a shape, Add a hyperlink to a Visio shape, protect diagram shape and many more. Aspose.Diagram can be used with any kind of application, whether it’s a Web Application or a Windows Desktop Application.
More about Aspose.Diagram for Java
Contact Information
Suite 119, 272 Victoria Avenue
Chatswood, NSW, 2067
Australia
Aspose - Your File Format Experts
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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Partnership with leading technical communication services firm in Israel expands adoption of state-of-the-art MadCap content development, multimedia, translation and social collaboration applications
Tech-Tav and MadCap SoftwareLa Jolla, CA and Petach Tikvah, Israel — July 24, 2014 — Tech-Tav and MadCap Software announced today that the two companies have partnered to provide documentation services and solutions in Israel. The partnership will help strengthen ties to the region and will give Tech-Tav direct access to a variety of resources from MadCap Software, including marketing and training support.
"We’re very excited about this new partnership with MadCap Software, which enhances our ability to provide our customers with the best set of features available in the market. We look forward to a fruitful relationship with MadCap in the years to come,” said Yoni Palmer, Tech-Tav CEO.
“We are thrilled to partner with Tech-Tav, a company with the experience, expertise and commitment to customer service we demand from our resellers,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “This is a great opportunity to give technical communicators in Israel a comprehensive resource for software, services and consulting.”
About Tech-Tav
Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. is one of Israel’s largest and longest-running technical-writing companies. Tech-Tav services include technical and marketing writing, documentation-management consulting, placement services, single-sourcing consulting and solutions, and training. Its customers include the leading companies in Israel’s thriving and exciting hi-tech scene. You can find out more at www.tech-tav.com.
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
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New Case Study Examines How Zend Relies on MadCap Flare’s Topic-Based Authoring and Single Source Publishing to Keep Pace With Rapid Delivery of Multiple Product Releases
La Jolla, CA, USA — July 23, 2014 — MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has published a new case study on Zend Technologies. A leading provider of PHP software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications, Zend relies on MadCap Flare to streamline the delivery of its online product documentation, WebHelp, and mobile Help. The full Zend case study can be viewed by visiting: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/casestudy/zend.aspx.
Zend helped establish the PHP language, which today powers over 200 million applications and websites. More than 40,000 companies worldwide rely on Zend’s industry-leading PHP solutions. Fueled by these enterprises’ demand for rapid application delivery, Zend has trained more than 10,000 Zend Certified Engineers (ZCE), including 1,500-plus new engineers in the past year alone.
Zend’s own focus on continuous delivery of products—including Zend Server, Zend Studio and Zend Guard—has proven a key competitive advantage in today’s business climate. To ensure that customers have timely, accurate information about its products, even as new versions are released, Zend relies on MadCap Flare to deliver customized online documentation, WebHelp and mobile Help outputs. Among the key benefits Zend has realized with Flare:
* MadCap Flare’s topic-based authoring and single-source publishing have eliminated redundancies and reduced the project time, making it easier to support the rapid releases of multiple products.
* Single-source publishing with Flare lets Zend manage content in multiple outputs for multiple products, each with hundreds of pages of documentation.
* Flare’s support for mobile outputs has helped Zend to expand the availability of its content, when and where customers need it, enhancing the user experience.
* Zend uses HTML5 and cascading style sheets in Flare to customize the look and feel of its content and then generate different variations using targets.
* MadCap technical support and forums within the MadCap community helped Zend to shorten the learning curve and gain new skills with Flare.
“In this day and age, people want to access information quickly and easily, and more often, our users are away from the computer but need to access our online system,” Daniel Berman, Zend Technologies technical communicator. “MadCap Flare's support for mobile output, along with more traditional online documentation and WebHelp, enables us to deliver on customer expectations, so they can get the information they need anytime, anywhere. Flare has truly transformed the way we deliver content to our users.”
“As one of the world's PHP pioneers, Zend has been instrumental in empowering tens of thousand of companies to modernize their software development,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “We are excited by Zend’s success in matching its state-of-the-art software products with modern technical content where users need it—on the Web and across mobile devices—using the powerful topic-based authoring and single-source publishing of our Flare software.”
About Zend Technologies
Zend partners with businesses to rapidly deliver modern apps across mobile and cloud. Zend helped establish the PHP language, which today powers over 200 million applications and web sites. Zend’s flagship offering, Zend Server, is the leading Application Platform for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications in PHP. Zend solutions are deployed at more than 40,000 companies, including NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, Bell Helicopter, France Telecom and other leading brands worldwide. Learn more at www.zend.com.
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
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JavOnet is a new JAVA to .NET bridge recently released by a Polish company based in Warsaw. JavOnet bridge allows using any .NET solutions directly in the JAVA projects. Although still new and not that popular, javOnet wins enthusiasts very quickly. Those who have evaluated javOnet share their truly positive opinions with the product owner and with each other. The new bridge has already been purchased by a number of companies representing different businesses, including education, transportation, and banking.
What makes javOnet attractive is the reliability of the solution and the fact that it can be set up in a few minutes after downloading. There is no need to dive into sophisticated configuration. No need to install IDE plug-ins, generate proxy classes, adapt existing .NET codes, or anything of this kind. The developers value javOnet for its simplicity, which does not affect the capabilities of the solution. JavOnet might be utilized in various scenarios. It proves its efficiency in both big and smaller implementations. It might cope reliably with the most fragile data or systems in any enterprise.
If there is a need to communicate between two heterogeneous systems written in JAVA and .NET or take advantage of legacy software components, javOnet would be the right tool to choose. Thanks to javOnet, companies may extend the solutions they offer by implementing previously unavailable functionality because of the interoperability impediments. Although it is possible to develop custom in-house solutions to solve the interoperability issues, all the research done by the javOnet team reveals that this approach is highly uneconomic or suffers when it comes to efficiency and performance. It consumes not only a lot of time but also company resources and requires complex maintenance with constant development and adjustments for new functionalities. Generic interoperability solutions can only be developed by highly experienced developers with vast programming knowledge. It also requires the perfect communication and cooperation of different specialists programming in JAVA, .NET, and C++. These are the reasons for not starting this kind of side projects in the development units. In most cases, this distracts development teams from their main tasks, which are crucial for the business. No company would possibly abandon ongoing projects in order to prepare tools that are necessary to perform the particular tasks. That is why tools like bridges are, in most cases, acquired from third-party companies.
Javonet solution is the natural reaction to the present demand of the market. There are not too many options available when it comes to JAVA and .NET bridging. And the solutions that are visible on the market are not the most comfortable to use most of the time. That is why one of the main goals of javOnet was to prepare a solution that would be the easiest JAVA to .NET bridge that ever existed and would remain highly reliable, fast, flexible, and light.
JavOnet can be thoroughly tested before the purchase. The trial version of the product is available to any programmer or company struggling with interoperability issues. When the customer is sure that javOnet solves his or her issues, then the purchase is done. During the evaluation process, we are always there to answer any questions or provide professional help for the developers. In addition to this, there is a precise documentation and quick start guide available on the javOnet website. All the licenses of javOnet are sold with support packages. If there is any need for professional support and advice, anybody from the customer's company may ask questions and obtain the needed help.
The solution is available in three different license options, which include server, desktop, and developer licenses. Licenses need to be purchased accordingly with the environment where they are about to be used by the company.
JavOnet is a very promising alternative to the already-available solutions. It is not surprising that it catches the interest of developers all over the world. It seems to be perfectly suited to all the issues that developers come across in their work.
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What’s new in this release?
Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Android v8.1.1. Scenarios are part of a suite of commands called what-if analysis tools provided by Microsoft Excel. What-if analysis is the process of changing the values in cells to see how those changes affect the outcome of formulas on the worksheet. They are useful for forecasting and financial models. Microsoft Excel saves a set of values in a scenario, and can automatically substitute these values in the worksheet. Aspose.Cells for Android has provided support for scenarios to allow you to create, manipulate and remove scenarios without the need of Microsoft Excel. Aspose.Cells for Android has exposed many useful classes. The class HtmlSaveOptions has been enhanced further to render HTML results with better layout and presentation. The feature is now available through the Boolean PresentationPreference property which can be set to true when exporting spreadsheets to HTML format to get a better presentation layout. For further elaboration on this topic, please check the detailed article on using the PresentationPreference option. Aspose.Cells for Android 8.1.1 has provided fixes and other enhancements for several important issues, such as, reading Microsoft Excel files, manipulating styles and calculating formulas, manipulating charts and shapes, rendering & manipulating conditional formatting, fonts related issues while rendering to PDF files, Sheet to image bugs and localized formulas formats etc. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below
- Support GridWeb for Java
- Cell.StringValue/DisplayStringValue returns # for thin columns when Worksheet.DisplayZeros=false
- Give meaningful messages for CellsException when loading a damaged spreadsheet
- Conditional formatting background colors are now rendered in the PDF
- Setting the ImageOrPrintOptions' Transparency renders the PNG with Black Background is now fixed
- XLSX to PDF: CellsHelper.setFontDir does not seem to pick the fonts is fixed
- Cell.getType() is detecting number as datetime is now fixed
- Support for localized formats in formulas is now fixed
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Cells for Android documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Cells for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Cells for Android
Aspose.Cells for Android is a MS Excel spreadsheet component that allows programmer to develop android applications for reading, writing & manipulate Excel spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX, XLSM, SpreadsheetML, CSV, tab delimited) and HTML file formats without needing to rely on Microsoft Excel. It supports robust formula calculation engine, pivot tables, VBA, workbook encryption, named ranges, custom charts, spreadsheet formatting, drawing objects like images, OLE objects & importing or creating charts.
More about Aspose.Cells for .NET
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Devart announces release of the dbForge Studio for MySQL v.6.2. Upgraded design simplifies user's work from the very start. Now it supports connection to Sphinx Search Engine that is designed to provide a full-text search functionality to client applications. Improved completion features make code writing more accurate and time-saving.
The new features and improvements are listed below:
* User Interface
- Windows connection coloring is added
- Restoring document tabs from the last session is possible now
- Switching between wizard window and primary window is possible now
- Updated Database Explorer with new filtering options
- New themes are added
- Design is upgraded
* Object Editors
- Connection to Sphinx Search Engine
- Viewing script while editing columns, indexes etc.
* Code Completion
- Alias refactoring
- Detect changes on a server before refreshing suggestion cache
dbForge Studio for MySQL is a MySQL and MariaDB front-end client for database management, administration and development. This GUI tool provides utilities to compare, synchronize, and backup MySQL databases with scheduling, and gives possibility to analyze and report MySQL tables data. It enables users visually design database structures, execute SQL queries and scripts, and manage MariaDB users and privileges.
Pricing and Availability
The prices of dbForge Studio for MySQL, v6.2 starts from 119.95$. Read more about pricing at the ordering page.
Also, a free 30-day trial version of dbForge Studio for MySQL is available at the download page.
About Devart
Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software.
Company's solutions support such databases as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, SQLite, etc.
Along with database oriented software Devart offers productivity tools for Visual Studio which help developers to be empowered, stay focused, and deliver their best all the time.
For additional information about Devart, visit http://www.devart.com/
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What's New in this Release?
We are pleased to announce the long awaited version of Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports 1.3.0. The Aspose.Pdf product family contains a range of award winning APIs and components for PDF file generation and manipulation. Aspose.Pdf for Java is an API for PDF manipulation on the Java platform. Extending the feature of this API, we developed the Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports component, which is a flexible solution designed to export reports from JasperReports and JasperServer to Portable Document Format (PDF). Important report features such as tables, charts and images are converted to PDF with the highest degree of precision. Now we are excited to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports 1.3.0 which is synchronized with the latest JasperReports versions. In this release, the image rendering feature has been improved greatly and also supports rendering maps in the output PDF. Please get the download and start exploring the exciting new release of Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports 1.3.0. Below is the list of main new and enhanced features added in this release
- Synchronize with latest Jasperreports version
- Implementing export reports with maps
- Add compatibility to JasperReports libs v.5.5.0 and higher
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports
Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports is a flexible Java component designed to export reports from JasperReports and JasperServer to Portable Document Format (PDF) with high fidelity and identical to the report design. Its engine supports many chart layouts, such as Pie, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter Plot, Bubble, and Time series. All report features, including charts, tables, images and more, are converted to PDF with the highest degree of precision. It also supports the .jrxml specification
More about Aspose.Pdf for JasperReport
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd
Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Aspose – Your File Format Experts
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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Technical workshop will demonstrate how organizations can transform their integration process across mobile apps, legacy systems, and cloud services using the WSO2 platform
Mountain View, CA – July 23, 2014 – In the era of the connected business, enterprises increasingly rely on the convergence of APIs, integration, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). RESTful APIs connect internal and external business participants; integration bridges silos; and SOA encourages organizations to build maintainable solutions. WSO2 will present a half-day workshop to help integration developers and IT architects can take advantage of this convergence to transform their integration process.
The “API, Integration, and SOA Convergence” workshop will be held on Thursday, July 31, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. in Zurich, Switzerland. For more information, visit http://wso2.com/events/workshops/2014-july-zurich-api-integration-and-soa-convergence-workshop.
Transforming the Integration Process
The workshop will demonstrate how organizations can transform their integration process by rapidly implementing a RESTful design, enforcing governance policies, safely scaling solutions, orchestrating complex interaction sequences, and reusing assets.
Leading the workshop will be Isabelle Mauny, WSO2 vice president of product management. Isabelle will first discuss why mobile, cloud services, and big data insights are transforming integration practices. She then will review patterns and best practices for increasing adoption, speeding delivery, and creating maintainable solutions. Additionally, Isabelle will explain how to realize a reference architecture for API, integration and SOA.
Workshop demonstrations will include:
• Building RESTful APIs with WSO2 Application Server and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB).
• Sharing master data with WSO2 Data Services Server.
• Mediating, transforming and routing messages with WSO2 ESB.
• Encouraging mobile interactions with WSO2 API Manager.
• Monitoring RESTful APIs, service usage and adoption with WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 ESB toolkits, and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor.
Workshop Presenter
Isabelle Mauny, WSO2 vice president of product management, leads the WSO2 Madrid office and works with WSO2’s engineering, sales, and marketing teams to maximize the customer value of WSO2 middleware products, platforms and solutions. She played a central role in bringing the 100% open source WSO2 API Manager to market in 2012. Isabelle has more than 20 years of technology, consulting and management experience in Java, application development, middleware, and SOA. She is a published author and regular speaker on the topics of system administration, application development, and programming.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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What's New in this Release?
We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.5.0. We have introduced much requested features for adding, inserting and updating group shapes on slides. Previously, it was only possible to update group shapes already in a presentations by accessing them. But now, it is possible to create group shapes from scratch and add new shapes to group shape collection. For more details about the supported features, please visit the documentation article Working With Group Shapes. We have also added support for identifying if a presentation is password protected or not without even loading the presentation. We have enhanced the presentation rendering support and have resolved issues related to improper tables, SmartArt, text and chart rendering in generated slide thumbnails and exported PDF files. We have resolved issues pertaining to accessing and saving presentations that resulted in different exceptions in earlier product versions. Issues of corrupted presentation files generated have also been addressed in this release. The slide cloning support has also been improved by rectifying issues of cloning slides with video and charts on them. The issue of wrong layout slide applied during slide cloning has also been rectified in this release. We have enhanced chart support in this release and have resolved issues related to setting the chart category direction, formatting chart labels, setting font related properties for different chart entities and radar chart support. We have made several enhancements to the new API. Please visit the documentation article Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes in Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.5.0 for further reference. We are hopeful to overcome these limitations in upcoming versions.
- Support for creating group shapes
- Support to determine if Powerpoint presentations are password protected without loading them
- Add license expiry date checking in export operations
- Implement slide transitions serialization to PPT
- Implement audios serialization to PPT
- NullReference exception is resolve on cloning slide with video
- Text in the table is distorted after conversion to PDF is now fixed
- The Data Point text in the Chart is distorted and very hard to read is now fixed
- Layout slide applied differently than PowerPoint in destination presentation for source slide using Aspose.Slides
- Presentation repair message for Aspose.Slides cloned presentation
- The presentation generated using Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.4.0 is twice the size of the same in Aspose.Slides for .NET 8.4.0 is now fixed
- Saving the presentation causes PowerPoint to crash is now fixed
- Chart gets distorted when coping slides from one Presentation to the other
- Images rendering issues are resolved, shape distortions
- TextFrames don't inherit properties of characters from the TextMasterStyleAtoms.
- Setting the chart category axis direction hide the category axis data
- Slide comments are now easily read for PPT presentations
- Table Layout gets disturbed after saving the PPT file is now fixed
- Table Font Changes on saving the presentation file is fixed
- Issue is resolved for PPTX to PNG conversion: Chart is not showing in the generated file
- Setting font related properties for different chart entities are fixed & now working
- Radar chart broken on changing the value is now fixed
- Formatting Data Labels are fixed and now working correctly
- PPT presentation is corrupted after resaved with Slides is fixed
- SmartArt is improperly rendered in thumbnail is now fixed
- Text getting improperly rendered in generated thumbnails is now corrected
- Graph missing in Thumbnails is fixed
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Slides for .NET
Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, PPS are also supported. Now you can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. Other features include saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding & modifying audio & video frames, using shapes like rectangles or ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.
More about Aspose.Slides for .NET
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Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Aspose - Your File Format Experts
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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La Jolla, CA and Limerick, Ireland — July 21, 2014 — the University of Limerick (UL) is joining forces with MadCap Software to ensure students pursuing its Technical Communication and E-Learning Master of Arts Degree have a clear competitive lead when entering the workforce. The university is taking advantage of MadCap Flare—the state-of-the art, future-proof technical authoring and multi-channel publishing software that supports print, Web, desktop and mobile—to provide students with the most advanced authoring and publishing solution available today. As a result, students are building expertise in modern technical writing techniques through hands-on experience with the software used by thousands of companies across the globe.
The University of Limerick is dedicated to providing technical communication students with innovative tools and practices that will help enrich their skillsets and position them for thriving careers. Currently, the University of Limerick is using MadCap Flare in its "MA in Technical Communication and E-Learning” course to help students generate online Help and eBook projects based on topics. The course uses an eBook framework to help guide teaching of the tool itself.
Today, some 90% of students in the course are using Flare to create eBooks, which also have proven to be attractive projects to present during professional interviews. Looking ahead to spring 2015, the University of Limerick plans to take advantage of the XML capabilities in Flare to create new outputs and extend best practices for creating Help guides.
"Our students love how intuitive MadCap’s software is; they were able to rapidly and independently learn the tool using resources readily available. Out of the box, MadCap Flare is immediately easier to engage with than any other Help programs I have worked with,” said Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn, University of Limerick lecturer in Technical Communication and director of a Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing program (distance learning).”
Dr. Marcus-Quinn added, “The ability to quickly and easily create eBooks has proven to be a favorite among our students. The coolest part is that they can use their Flare projects as examples during professional interviews, demonstrating best design principles for online delivery and industry standards. We are excited to continue expanding our use of Flare capabilities to enhance our student skills and generate new outputs.”
“We are thrilled by University of Limerick's spirited success in adopting MadCap Flare to help students design and develop multimedia content and technology-enhanced learning solutions,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “Our partnership with University of Limerick highlights a joint effort for using state-of-the-art technical communication practices to create a superior learning experience. Through our MadCap Scholar Program, we are pleased to provide students with the tools to help build their skill sets and gain a competitive advantage in the workforce.”
About MadCap Scholar Program
The MadCap Scholar Program offers special discounts on MadCap’s state-of-the-art technical communications software to help students, educators and universities gain access to industry-standard tools that support technical writing and documentation best practices. They include the ability to outfit labs with MadCap Software applications for free; free training, including the MAD Certification Test for teachers and professors, and discounts on software for current students. For more detail, visit www.madcapsoftware.com/education/scholar.aspx.
About the University of Limerick
The University of Limerick (UL) is located on the west coast of Ireland along the picturesque River Shannon and enjoys an unspoiled natural environment blended with state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. With close to 12,000 students, including more than 2,000 international students each year, UL is a young and enterprising university with a proud record of innovation in education and scholarship. UL offers more than 70 undergraduate programs across Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Education and Health Sciences, Science and Engineering and the Kemmy Business School. UL also delivers a strong postgraduate offering with more than 100 taught postgraduate programs to Doctoral and Post-doctoral level. For more information, visit www.ul.ie.
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
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What’s new in this release?
The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 8.1.1 has been released. Our team has been hard at work bringing many useful improvements with the latest edition of Aspose.Cells library. The class HtmlSaveOptions has been enhanced to render HTML results with better layout. The feature is now available through the Boolean type PresentationPreference property which can be set to true while exporting spreadsheets to HTML format to get a better presentation layout. With previous releases of Aspose.Cells for Java API, when a possibly damaged spreadsheet was loaded in an instance of Workbook, the API tended to throw a generic message not mentioning where the problem could be. We have changed this behavior since 8.1.1, so that now the API throws an exception with a meaningful message to point out where (which cell) and what (formula expression) causes the exception when reading the template file. Scenarios are part of a suite of commands called what-if analysis tools provided by Microsoft Excel. What-if analysis is the process of changing the values in cells to see how those changes affect the outcome of formulas on the worksheet. They are useful for forecasting and financial models. Microsoft Excel saves a set of values in a scenario, and can automatically substitute these values in the worksheet. With this release of Aspose.Cells for Java, Aspose has provided support for scenarios to allow developers to create, manipulate and remove scenarios without needing Microsoft Excel. Aspose.Cells for Java has exposed many useful classes to make this task possible. Aspose.Cells for Java 8.1.1 has been packaged with the GridWeb component that can be used in Java based web applications to render and visually manipulate spreadsheets on the go. The download package also contains a demo – gridwebdemo.war – that you can deploy on your web server to see the component in action. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below
- Support GridWeb for Java
- Cell.StringValue/DisplayStringValue returns # for thin columns when Worksheet.DisplayZeros=false
- Give meaningful messages for CellsException when loading a damaged spreadsheet
- Conditional formatting background colors are now rendered in the PDF
- Setting the ImageOrPrintOptions' Transparency renders the PNG with Black Background is now fixed
- XLSX to PDF: CellsHelper.setFontDir does not seem to pick the fonts is fixed
- Cell.getType() is detecting number as datetime is now fixed
- Support for localized formats in formulas is now fixed
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Cells for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Cells for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Cells for Java
Aspose.Cells is a Java component for spreadsheet reporting without using Microsoft Excel. Other features include creating spreadsheets, opening encrypted excel files, macros, VBA, unicode, formula settings, pivot tables, importing data from JDBC ResultSet and support of CSV, SpreadsheetML, PDF, ODS and all file formats from Excel 97 to Excel 2007. It is compatible with Windows, Linux & Unix and supports all advanced features of data management, formatting, worksheet, charting and graphics
More about Aspose.Cells for Java
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Suite 119, 272 Victoria Avenue
Chatswood, NSW, 2067
Australia
Aspose - The .NET and Java component
publisher
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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Devart has recently announced the release of dbForge Studio for Oracle, v3.6 – a tool for Oracle database management and development. The new version comes with enhanced Database Explorer, Code Debugger and user interface. Now users can easily restore document tabs from previous sessions, group documents in categories and mark connections with different colors. Updated dbForge Studio for Oracle also has improved comparison and synchronization features.
New Features and Improvements:
• Improved user interface. Restoring document tabs from the last session and switching between wizard window and primary window is possible now. Windows connection coloring is added.
• Connection via Windows authentication is added.
• Improved Database Explorer. Ability to enable/disable indexes and triggers is added. Also objects now can be compiled from object category node.
• Improved Schema Compare and Synchronization. Six new related options are added.
• Improved Data Compare and Synchronization. The “Include Print Comments” and the “Use SQL *Plus Commands” options are added.
• Improved Object Editors. Now users can view script while editing columns, indexes, etc.
• Improved Code Debugger. Current variable value output in tooltip while debugging procedures and functions is added.
• Ability to view results as a structured XML file is added.
dbForge Studio for Oracle is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for Oracle which helps developers increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing data. This GUI client for Oracle allows to synchronize data between different Oracle servers and automate schema change management process during development. It also adds lots of features wrapped into a smooth GUI consistent with Microsoft Visual Studio.
Availability
The price of dbForge Studio for Oracle, v.3.6 is very competitive and starts from 149.95$. To learn more about pricing visit at the purchase page.
A free 30-day trial version of dbForge Studio for Oracle is available at the download page.
About Devart
Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software.
Company's solutions support such databases as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, SQLite, etc.
Along with database oriented software Devart offers productivity tools for Visual Studio which help developers to be empowered, stay focused, and deliver their best all the time.
For additional information about Devart, visit http://www.devart.com/
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WSO2 director of API architecture will lead free webinar-based training on July 30, exploring how managed APIs can enable better management and monitoring of IoT devices
Mountain View, CA – July 17, 2014 – For the capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to be useful, there needs to be a programmatic way of accessing these capabilities. The fifth WSO2 Summer School class of 2014 will examine how using a managed API provides a programmer-friendly approach for controlling and monitoring an IoT device.
The interactive online class, “API Management in the Context of IoT,” will be led by WSO2 Director of API Architecture Sumedha Rubasinghe. It is being offered at no cost as a part of the WSO2 Summer School 2014 program. The session will be held on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Pacific.
To attend the class, register at http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/07/api-management-in-the-context-of-iot.
Managed APIs for the Internet of Things
The class will examine how APIs are fundamental building blocks for enabling the Internet of Things, the problems created by an inefficient API, and how taking a managed API approach provides better control and monitoring.
Among the topics covered will be how managed APIs can be used for:
• Throttling to protect a device from being exposed to more traffic than it has the capabilities to handle, a common risk when developers use a naked API.
• Exposing statistics about how a device is being accessed to gain better insight into usage and performance.
• Managing subscriptions, a key challenge for handling large volumes of devices.
For architects and developers who want to learn more about IoT best practices, WSO2 has published a white paper, “A Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things.” The paper is designed to provide an effective starting point for addressing the major requirements of IoT projects and systems. It can be downloaded at http://wso2.com/whitepapers/a-reference-architecture-for-the-internet-of-things.
About the Presenter
Sumedha Rubasinghe is WSO2 director of API architecture. He focuses on development of the WSO2 Carbon Core, WSO2 Data Services, WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Business Activity Monitor, and WSO2 API Manager. Sumedha has contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well many WSO2 QuickStart development consulting engagements. He is an active committer with the Apache Axis2 project.
About Summer School 2014
Since 2009, the popular WSO2 Summer School program has helped more than 2,000 enterprise IT architects and developers become more familiar with software technologies and best practices. The all-new classes for 2014 will focus on the latest developments of the Internet of Things, the set of devices and systems that interconnect sensors and actuators (things) to the Internet, which is fast becoming the next major development in IT. Taught by some of the industry’s leading technical experts, the classes offer an opportunity to obtain thousands of dollars worth of professional training at zero cost. To sign up for additional classes or view recordings of past sessions, visit http://wso2.com/landing/summer-school-2014.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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White paper by WSO2’s VP of solutions architecture discusses the best practices and technologies for integrating people and processes via a connected business
Mountain View, CA – July 15, 2014 – Enterprises today need to step away from traditional ways of engaging with customers and suppliers and instead apply new approaches to integrating processes and information that ensure a richer user experience. A new white paper from WSO2 discusses how an enterprise can improve customer and partner relationships—and become more agile and seize new revenue opportunities in the process—by building a connected business.
Connecting all the Components of a Business
The white paper, “Convert Your Enterprise to a Connected Business,” was written by WSO2 Vice President of Solutions Architecture Asanka Abeysinghe. It begins by defining a connected business where an enterprise increases its value proposition by focusing on its areas of expertise and leveraging external services in order to make the user’s experience more productive. The paper then discusses critical challenges enterprises face in enabling a connected business, such as complex business requirements and quicker release cycles.
Next, the paper explains how to transform an organization into a connected business with a seven-step approach, which starts off by converting business functions to services and then turning those into APIs. The paper also explores how to connect all the components of a business using WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) as a connectivity layer in the system, along with other WSO2 products. Additionally, it provides real-life examples of how enterprises are deploying WSO2 ESB, WSO2 Identity Server, and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor to enable a connected business.
The paper goes on to explain how the WSO2 cloud stack can be used to create and deploy applications in a cloud-native environment. It then concludes by discussing the changes required to become a connected business.
The white paper can be downloaded at http://wso2.com/whitepapers/convert-your-enterprise-to-a-connected-business.
About the Author
Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 vice president of solutions architecture, provides consulting and training for enterprise IT architects and developers. He also focuses on the company’s vertical market capabilities, including financial services. Asanka has more than a decade of experience implementing projects, from desktops and Web applications to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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What’s new in this release?
We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET 4.2.0. Based on this new build, developers can now glue group shapes inside a container. Also, this release allows them to get and check for the presence of a master by name. Developers can now retrieve a master object using its name. The MasterCollection.GetMasterByName method searches all masters in the masters collection’s containing master. Previously, it was difficult to find the exact master ID, and then get the master. The new release of the Aspose.Diagram API has now made it very easy: just pass the exact master name. Developers can use either the master ID or name: the MasterCollection.GetMaster and MasterCollection.GetMasterByName methods give developers that option. In the previous version, we announced support for gluing shapes together by connection points. It works perfectly with ungroup shapes. However, there are many points in group shapes where it was not supported quite so well. We have now added group shape support. Developers can dynamically glue group shapes inside the container group shape. You can find details of this feature in the documentation help topic: Glue Group Shape inside a Container. Every Microsoft Visio document contains a masters collection, which refers to the various “master shapes” that are used by it. Developers can now check the presence of a master object by its name using the MasterCollection.IsExist method. It checks that the title master exists and, if it does, returns true, otherwise false. Developers can use either the master ID or name: the MasterCollection.IsExist method supports both options. You can find details of this feature in the following help topic: Check Presence of a Master in a Visio Drawing. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below
- Add support to get Master by its name
- Add support to check Master presence by its name
- Add support to dynamically glue group shapes inside the container
- Install Aspose.Diagram product in the correct place
- VSDX to PNG conversion, shapes missing are resolved
- VSDX to PNG conversion, shape's text is rotated
- Can't read shape properties from VSDX file is now fixed
- EULA 14 May, 2014 Update
- VSDX to PDF conversion, resolved issue with shapes missing
- VSDX to Image format conversion, fixed shapes missing
- VSDX to PDF conversion, shapes fill color is black instead of white is fixed
- VSDX to Image conversion, shapes fill color is black instead of white is fixed
- VSD to Pdf conversion, arrow thickness is ignored in the output is now fixed
- VSD to PNG conversion, white space around the actual drawing is fixed
- VSDX to PNG conversion, white space around the actual drawing is now fixed
- Exception message is resolved while loading VSDX diagram
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Diagram for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Diagram for .NET
Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure .NET alternate for MS Visio Object Model.It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files on ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It makes use of the advanced functionality of Visio's services to manipulate Visio docs on a server. Developer can open files & manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills, to more complex elements, and then export to native Visio formats or XML.
More about Aspose.Diagram for .NET
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd
Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Aspose - Your File Format Experts
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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Document Filters, Search Engines & The Anatomy Of A Binary Format
WHEN YOU VIEW a document in Microsoft Word, you expect the text to be crystal clear. The same applies when you display a database in Access, a presentation file in PowerPoint, a spreadsheet in Excel, a PDF in Adobe Reader, an email in Outlook/ Exchange or Thunderbird, etc. Further, these applications make it easy not only to view the text but also to locate specific words for basic navigation within the file. But what if you need to search across millions or billions of files? Pulling up each file individually in its associated application would take far too much time. Opening an untrusted document in its native application also creates a risk of virus infection. Instead, you would want a separate search engine to automatically search through all the data at once.
Binary Formats
Just as it is inefficient for you to sequentially retrieve a large number of files in their associated applications, so that process is inefficient for a search engine. Instead, a search engine needs to review data in binary format, bypassing the need to pull up each file in a separate program. The problem is that file text that looks crystal clear inside its associated application typically appears as gibberish in binary format. Take a look at the image at the top right of this page for a look at a product description as it appears in Word. The bottom image shows a sample from this document as it appears in binary format. Returning this binary format to the readable text that appeared in Word requires a lot of parsing. The industry name for the process that parses binary formats is document filters. Document filters and search engines all parse binary formats to different levels of depth. The parsing process this article describes reflects the dtSearch® product line. While this article’s anatomy of binary formats is a general one, the stages this article describes to unravel these formats may not precisely reflect other product lines than dtSearch.
Binary Format Identification
Before parsing a binary format, the document filters need to identify what type of document or other object the binary format represents. In fact, identifying the right data specification is all-important, as the file specification for Word is nothing like the specification for Outlook or PDF. Further, the document filters need to figure out the data type of a binary format preferably without reference to any document name or extension. For example, suppose a user saves a Word file with an extension of .PDF instead of the Word extension .DOCX. Only by using the binary format itself to identify the data type instead of the extension can document filters effectively recognize and parse this file.
Evolving Specifications & Unicode
After figuring out the data type, the document filters can begin to apply the correct specification to decode the data. File specification data can be enormous. For example, Microsoft’s documentation of the .DOC Word file format alone is more than 600 pages. The document filters must also take into account the fact that all major data formats continue to evolve. If Microsoft makes a change to the .DOCX Word specification, the document filters have to apply this update for all new Word documents. And the document filters have to do so without interfering with the parsing of existing Word documents.
The next item for the document filters is to identify relevant text encoding. Some documents such as newer versions of Word store data in Unicode. Other document formats can store text in language-specific encodings, which the document filters must identify and translate into Unicode.
Metadata & Recursively Embedded Objects
In addition to parsing the main body of the text, the document filters have to identify and correctly handle other elements of a document, including headers and footers, fields such as subject and author, and even potentially hidden metadata. Then there is the issue of nested objects. A Word document can embed an Access database, which can itself embed an Excel spreadsheet, which can further embed a PowerPoint. The document filters need to recognize and drill through all of the different levels of nested document objects to fully parse the text.
Database & Online Data
It is not only documents that can embed other documents as nested objects. An SQL database can store documents inside BLOB data within the database. An email can attach documents directly or as part of a ZIP or RAR archive. Documents — including standard Office files such as Word documents or emails — can appear online in the context of Web-based static (HTML, XSL/ XML, PDF, etc.) data. Or they can appear within Web-based dynamic data (MS SharePoint, ASP.NET, CMS, PHP, etc.). The document filters need to handle all of these different data types just to ensure proper handling of documents. And that’s not even to mention the surrounding SQL, email, compression, static, and online data itself, which the search engine needs to handle for comprehensive full-text searching.
Document Filters In Context
Parsing data is just the initial step for a search engine like dtSearch. After parsing the data, the search engine needs to create a search index. The search index itself is simply a programmatic device to enable very fast searching of a wide range of data. A single search index can hold a large variety of data, including documents, emails and attachments, databases, and other Web-based static and dynamic data. In doing so, the index can enable concurrent or multithreaded federated searching across all of these different data types at once. After processing a search request from its index, the search engine will return a list of matching files or other data. The search engine then returns to the document filters to display the complete text of retrieved data. dtSearch products display the complete text by converting data types that are not already Web-ready to HTML for browser- based display. The final step is to retrieve “hit offsets” from the index. The hit offsets tell the search engine and its document filters where to highlight hits in the browser-based data display.
For more information please visit http://www.dtsearch.com[^]
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Integration Solution Streamlines and Simplifies Documentation Management for Complex Product Lines, Enabling New Levels of Efficiency
AUSTIN, Texas and LA JOLLA, California — July 14, 2014 — BigLever Software, the leading provider of product line engineering (PLE) solutions, and MadCap Software, the leading technical communication software provider, announced today that the companies have partnered to integrate MadCap Flare with BigLever’s Gears PLE solution. The new bridge integration optimizes document sharing and dramatically simplifies the complexity of documentation management for organizations that develop and deliver complex product lines. As a result, organizations can streamline technical communications throughout product engineering and business operations to achieve new levels of efficiency.
Organizations that build complex product lines inherently have large sets of documentation that play a vital role in the creation, delivery and maintenance of their product lines, as well as in the use of their products by end users. These companies must effectively manage a broad array of technical specifications and all of the diversity needed to support the different “flavors” of products within a product line family. The new bridge integration solution combines the capabilities of MadCap Flare and BigLever Gears to provide a single, unified mechanism for end-to-end document management across each stage of the product engineering lifecycle, and throughout business operations such as portfolio planning and definition, marketing, sales, manufacturing, deployment, service, and finely tailored documentation for end users.
"The BigLever/MadCap partnership is not only beneficial to their mutual customers, but also offers an interesting opportunity for companies needing to automate similar complex interactions and tasks,” said Allan Behrens, Managing Director of leading technology consulting firm Taxal. "This type of product line approach to engineering and documentation should bring significant business value to their customers by enabling them to more effectively automate product variation across a broader set of operational processes and applications.”
According to Dr. Charles Krueger, BigLever Software CEO, the Flare/Gears Bridge allows companies to establish well-structured and consolidated document “supersets” that support the full diversity of documents in a product line. These document supersets can be automatically configured based on the specific features of the individual products within the product line. “The Flare/Gears Bridge addresses a long-underserved strategic challenge of product line organizations. Even organizations that have transitioned to mature PLE practices continue to struggle with the complexity of managing their document variants based on conventional word processing tools. The synergy that arises from the Flare/Gears integration is strikingly greater than the sum of the parts” said Krueger.
“In an era of continuous improvement, shrinking product cycles, and multiple product variations, businesses need to ensure that their documentation keeps pace with each new rollout,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap Software founder and CEO. “Now organizations have an integrated solution to this challenge with Flare/Gears Bridge, which synchronizes BigLever’s industry-leading Gears PLE Lifecycle Framework with MadCap Flare’s best-in-class technical authoring and publishing software. Using MadCap Flare, BigLever customers can take advantage of topic-based authoring to speed content creation and promote reuse, along with multi-channel publishing to streamline the delivery of content to where customers will use it—whether in print or on their desktops, Web browsers, or mobile devices.”
About the MadCap Flare/BigLever Gears Bridge
With BigLever’s Gears PLE Lifecycle Framework, companies can establish an automated, feature-based production system — much like a manufacturing factory — that uses product feature profiles to assemble and configure engineering assets from across the lifecycle to produce all the products in a product line. MadCap Flare allows technical communicators and content developers to efficiently author and maximize content reuse for delivery in any format including print, online, desktop, mobile, and completely responsive HTML5.
The Flare/Gears Bridge brings the benefits of these two solutions together by extending Flare and enabling it to work seamlessly with the Gears Framework. Built on the PLE Bridge API, the integration solution makes Flare “product line aware”, ensuring consistent PLE capabilities and enabling the execution of PLE operations from within Flare menus.
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
About BigLever Software
BigLever Software, Inc., the leading provider of systems and software product line engineering solutions and services, dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution, maintenance and delivery of a product line — a portfolio of similar products or systems with variations in features and functions. BigLever’s patented Gears solution enables organizations to reduce development costs and bring new product line features and products to market faster, enabling businesses to more reliably target and hit strategic market windows. BigLever is based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.biglever.com.
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What's New in this Release?
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java &.NET 14.6.0. This month’s release containing over 115 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes to the Aspose.Words products. The InsertHtml method of the DocumentBuilder class now allows developers to choose what formatting will be used for inserted HTML fragments. A new overloaded version of InsertHtml has been added, whose argument useBuilderFormatting controls this behavior. When useBuilderFormatting is false, which is the default, any formatting specified in DocumentBuilder is ignored, and the formatting of the inserted text is based on default HTML formatting. In this case, the inserted text looks as in browsers. When useBuilderFormatting is true, the formatting of the inserted text is based on the formatting specified in DocumentBuilder. Note that useBuilderFormatting chooses only the base formatting of the inserted text, and does not affect any formatting directly specified in the HTML fragment. New public methods were added to start and stop automatic revision tracking. Currently formatting changes are not tracked. There are few limitation in the current implementation. Previously, we always returned the NameAscii attribute value for the public Run.Font.Name property getter. Now, the behavior is slightly changed. If the source run is of the FarEast character category then Run.Font.Name returns the NameFarEast attribute value like Microsoft Word does. Previously, the font substitution mechanism (the fonts to be used when a specified font is missing from the system) was hard coded into Aspose.Words’ code base and there was no way in the public API to manually customize it. Now, three new public static methods have been added to the FontSettings class. Previously, there was an option (ExportCustomPropertiesAsMetadata) to control how document’s custom properties were exported to PDF document. Now, this property is obsolete, instead a new property is added. It provides new functionality – export custom properties of document to PDF as entries in /Info dictionary. Footnote and endnote references PDF rendering is now controlled by PdfSaveOptions.CreateNoteHyperlinks property. If it is set to true then footnote and endnote references in the main text story are rendered into active hyperlinks. When clicked, the hyperlink will lead to the corresponding footnote or endnote. The default value is false.
- Support of automatic change tracking on a document
- Added vertical text support to HTML\Epub\MHT
- Footnote and endnote references now can be rendered as hyperlinks into output PDF
- CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text is now properly rendered in multiline DrawingML textboxes
- Default text AntiAliasing on Java is optimized for Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts
- Add Font Substitution feature to public API.
- Add feature to export custom properties of Word document as custom properties of PDF
- Add an option in PdfSaveOptions to create Hyperlink for Footnote
- Add vertical text support to HTML Export
- Add vertical text support to EPUB Export
- Add support of enclose characters for import/export.
- Add support of combine characters for import/export.
- Make it possible to track all changes made programmatically
- Support extraction of pictures from OLE objects in ODT
- Detect "Asian" fonts e.g (SimSun) for Chinese text
- Make it possible to manually add revisions
- One extra page is rendered because of Font and Table size differences
- The position of Arabic text is changed after conversion from RTF to Doc
- Font color is not changed for all Runs visited by DocumentVisitor
- Provide an option to choose the formatting inside HTML or of DocumentBuiler
- InsertHtml method resets paragraph's style to 'Normal'
- Shape node does not preserve height/width after re-save the RTF
- "Page Number Start at" value does not preserve after conversion from RTF to Docx
- Improve font fallback for Arabic characters
- Content inserted using DocumentBuilder.Write or InsertHTML does not inherit the alignment of the set style
- Style Normal is not applied to paragraph inserted by InsertHtml.
- Incorrect indentation of HTML code generated for fixed-page HTML documents
- Unexpected characters appear in the output images produced on Ubuntu
- Image resolution is lost for PDF when image is resized to a lower size
- Emf shape path outline thickness too thick.
- Collection initializer warning.
- Html: paragraph margin inside div tag is shifted.
- HtmlSaveOptions.UseAntiAliasing has no effect on images in HTML
- Map NUnit [TestCase] to TestNg @DataProvider.
- DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml changes the paragraph indentation
- Text Frame position is changed after conversion from Doc to Pdf/Doc/Docx
- Cell vertical alignment is not preserved during rendering to PDF
- Hyperlinks do not work after conversion from RTF to Doc
- Normal style's font size is not applied to text inside Table when importing HTML using InsertHtml method
- Rendering of Cell's content in two line pushes some content to next page in PDF
- Text in the shape is hided by gradient fill.
- Inserting Image in table's cell does not fit according to table's cell
- DOCX to RTF conversion missing keyword \ftnbj
- A paragraph is not Hyphenated during rendering
- Document.PageCount returns wrong value
- Background color and dimensions of TextBox Shapes are not preserved in rendered documents
- /Justification text/ Debug.Assert occurs for document with new justification text.
- Rendering DrawingML (SmartArt) issue while saving Docx to Doc/Png file format
- InsertHtml inserts the # sign when document is converted to Doc file format
- Space between ListLabel and List item is decreased after conversion from Docx to Pdf
- Contents are missing after conversion from Docx to PNG/XPS/PDF (fixed file format)
- Conversion of Rtf containing embedded docx to HTML (rendered image incorrect)
- DocumentBuilder.InsertHyperlink inserts the # sign when document is converted to Doc file format
- Acrobat Distiller is unable to process Aspose.Words generated PostScript file
- A DrawingML in HeaderPrimary causes rendering of 129 blank pages in PDF
- Document.AcceptAllRevisions hide the contents in output Doc/Docx/Pdf
- Infinite loop detected during saving to PDF after applying Hyphenation
- Infinite loop detected during saving to PDF after applying Hyphenation
- CoverPage layout changes when imported to another document
- Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading ODT file
- Aspose.Words produces 100s of blank pages in PDF
- Extra space at the top of the page when converted DOC to ODT
- Field is not properly updated
- Arrows above text are displaced upon rendering
- Incorrect header layout
- Table looks incorrect during rendering.
- Image is given white background in ODT format
- formatting of document is broken after rendering.
- Paragraph shading is rendered shrinked.
- Position of floating table is incorrect during rendering.
- Extra pages are added during rendering.
- H1, H2 tags don't use existing 'Paragraph Space After' value of Heading1 and Heading2 styles correctly
- Text spacing is lost while rendering DOCX document to PDF
- Doc to PDF conversion issue with image position
- DrawingML images are causing incorrect rendering to PDF
- A background image is incorrectly appeared on 2nd page in Pdf
- OleFormat.IsLink return false for linked images
- Spans with bidirectional text are not reordered during HTML import
- MS Word doesn't wrap line with justify text alignment.
- DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml change the style of Heading 1 (font name/size)
- Content of SDT content controls is not preserved in PDF
- DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml changes the ParagraphFormat.StyleIdentifier
- InsertHtml resets formatting of the current paragraph in DocumentBuilder
- DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml loses the table formatting
- DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml changes the style of Heading 3 (font name/size)
- Doc to Pdf conversion issue with signature (Shape) rendering
- Document.Save moves the frame's contents outside of the page
- Aspose.Words produces a single page PDF
- Document.AppendDocument issue with CustomXmlPart
- UpdateFields does not include all items in TOC field
- "Repeat as a header row at the top of each page" option is not working in PDF
- MacroButton field value does not render in Tif file
- MACROBUTTON field disappear after conversion from FlatOpc to PDF
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Words for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Words
Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET, Java & Android applications to read, write and modify Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, TOC updated/rebuilt, Embedded OOXML, Footnotes rendering and support of DOCX, DOC, WordprocessingML, HTML, XHTML, TXT and PDF formats (requires Aspose.Pdf). It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. You can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.
More about Aspose.Words
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Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road
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Australia
Aspose - Your File Format Experts
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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What’s new in this release?
We are proud to announce the new release of Aspose.OCR for .NET 2.0.0. Users may now define custom recognition blocks on the document image. These will be processed by the OcrEngine while other areas of the image are skipped. However, if user defined recognition blocks are not set prior to processing, the OcrEngine automatically calculate the recognition blocks using its default behavior. Images with text can be divided into many text recognition blocks. It is sometimes important to apply a special sorting so that the correct text block order is maintained. The OcrConfig class has exposed the DetectReadingOrder property to handle situations where an image within the main document image may contain text blocks of its own. Setting the DetectReadingOrder property to true instructs the OcrEngine to maintain the order of text regions for better recognition result. However, performance degradation can be observed for images with a large number of text blocks. In such cases, it is advised to turn this feature off by setting the DetectReadingOrder property to false. In order to improve the accuracy of the recognized data, the Aspose.OCR for .NET API has exposed the DoSpellingCorrection property for the OcrConfig class. A Boolean property, it can be either set to true or false indicating whether automatic spelling correction should be applied on the recognized text or not. Setting the DoSpellingCorrection property to true will improve the OCR results; however, the process may take more time to complete. Please check the detailed article on setting the OcrEngine to automatically correct spelling . Document images to be processed with OcrEngine may contain graphics. During the OCR process, these graphics may not contain any text to be recognized although they are detected as a separate block. If developers wish to ignore the non-textual blocks such as graphics from the recognition process, they just have to set the RemoveNonText property exposed by the OcrConfig class to true. Last but not the least, we have completely overhauled the OcrEngine with new recognition algorithm for better accuracy of the recognized data and performance considerations. Moreover, Aspose.OCR API now uses a resource file that is just of 5.5MB in size unlike previous resource files of 88MB. This release includes plenty of new & improved features as listed below
- Support new algorithm for OCR.
- Support detection of reading order.
- Support automatic text regions detection.
- Support spelling correction.
- Allow user to define which blocks to process.
- Support removing of non-text blocks.
- Add .Net 4.5 binaries into release
- Add possibility to recognize text on complex background
- Resource file path should be specified explicitly by user.
- Restore layout of image
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.OCR for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.OCR for .NET
Aspose.OCR for .NET is a character recognition component built to allow developers to add OCR functionality in their ASP .NET web applications, web services and Windows applications. It provides a simple set of classes for controlling character recognition tasks. It helps developers to work with image (BMP, TIFF) files from within their own applications. It allows developers to extract text from images quickly & easily, saving time & effort involved in developing an OCR solution from scratch.
More about Aspose.OCR for .NET
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Phone: 888.277.6734
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Half-day interactive workshops will explore how teams can improve business performance by aggregating and streaming big data from IoT devices and other information feeds
Mountain View, CA – July 8, 2014 – Today, enterprise teams seek to gain a competitive edge by acting on strategic and tactical intelligence recommendations to strengthen business performance, revenue growth, and customer service. WSO2 will present two workshops that explore how organizations can gain deeper, just-in-time insights through big data captured from Internet of Things (IoT) devices and other information feeds.
The half-day “Big Data Streams, Small Internet Things, and Enterprise Dream Team” workshops being held in two cities in July:
• London, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. To register, visit http://wso2.com/events/workshops/2014-july-london-big-data-streams-small-internet-things-and-enterprise-dream-team-workshop
• Houston, Thursday, July 17, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. To register, visit http://wso2.com/events/workshops/2014-july-houston-big-data-streams-small-internet-things-and-enterprise-dream-team-workshop
Gaining a Competitive Edge By Delivering Big Data Streams
The workshop will explore how to enable a more adaptive business by creating big data activity streams, triggering events, and delivering contextual data that has been captured from intelligent controllers within a multitude of IoT devices and connected business information feeds—including clearinghouses, ad networks, and weather services, to name a few.
This solution architecture workshop will describe how leading enterprises are structurally improving business performance, revenue growth, and customer service by delivering big data streaming solutions containing big data repositories, complex event processing (CEP), adaptive workflow triggers, and dashboards. The workshop will explore best practices by guiding attendees through proof-of-concept demonstrations, real-world use cases, architecture reference diagrams, and facilitated discussion. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to describe their scenarios, ask questions, and learn from WSO2 experts and their peers.
Key topics will include:
• Why businesses are shifting from static workflows to adaptive business activities triggered by big data streams and events
• Why teams are building business solutions around business activity stream events and contextual data
• What architectural components deliver complex temporal pattern matching, big data discovery, accessible APIs, and real-time notifications
• How IT teams are reshaping business interactions, connecting things and streams, and enhancing business performance
• How to define proof of concept (POC) project success metrics and infrastructure cost
• How to spin up a business activity monitoring (BAM) and CEP environment feeding user dashboards and triggering adaptive workflows
Workshop Presenters
London presenter Paul Fremantle is WSO2 co-founder and CTO, and he is co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee. Recognized by InfoWorld as a Top 25 CTO, Paul was responsible for simultaneously leading development of the groundbreaking WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and Apache Synapse ESB. Paul has played a pioneering role in open source development, beginning with the original Apache SOAP project and his role in leading IBM's involvement in the Axis C/C++ project. Paul is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and he previously served as vice president of the Apache Synapse project.
Houston presenter Chris Haddad is vice president of platform evangelism at WSO2. Chris works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives, as well as WSO2's engineering team, to increase adoption of WSO2 open source technology, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors on adoption strategies, architecture, product selection, governance, and organizational alignment.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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WSO2 CTO will lead free webinar-based training on July 10, exploring the technologies and best practices for overcoming the security issues around IoT and M2M devices
Mountain View, CA – July 7, 2014 – The rapid adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions are bringing new challenges to protecting privacy and data. The third WSO2 Summer School class of 2014 will address the security issues around IoT and M2M devices, including hardware challenges, network and encryption, software and cloud challenges, and identity and access control.
The interactive online class, “Security – Your Thing is pwnd – Security Challenges for IoT,” will be led by WSO2 Co-founder and CTO Paul Fremantle. It is being offered at no cost as a part of the WSO2 Summer School 2014 program. The session will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Pacific.
To attend the class, register at http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/07/security-your-thing-is-pwnd-security-challenges-for-iot.
Securing the Internet of Things
The class will address the challenges of using widely adopted protocols, such as the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), and the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP).
Paul will begin by examining encryption, federated identity, and authorization models. He then will drill down on encryption issues, including discussions of:
• Securing MQTT with the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.
• Facing challenges with the Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform.
• Using hardware encryption for microcontrollers.
Next Paul will explore the key privacy requirement of giving users control over how their things collect and share data in user-centric IoT use cases. Additionally, he will discuss the issues with applying protocols, such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect to the M2M world, as well as review existing proposals and activity for extending M2M protocols to include federated identity concepts. Finally, Paul will explain how to create best practices for IoT security and defend against the hacking of IoT devices.
For architects and developers who want to learn more about IoT best practices, WSO2 has published a white paper, “A Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things.” The paper is designed to provide an effective starting point for addressing the major requirements of IoT projects and systems. It can be downloaded at http://wso2.com/whitepapers/a-reference-architecture-for-the-internet-of-things.
About the Presenter
WSO2 Co-founder and CTO Paul Fremantle is also co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee. Recognized by InfoWorld as a Top 25 CTO, he was responsible for simultaneously leading development of the groundbreaking WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and Apache Synapse ESB. Paul has played a pioneering role in open source development, beginning with the original Apache SOAP project and his role in leading IBM's involvement in the Axis C/C++ project. Paul is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and he previously served as vice president of the Apache Synapse project.
About Summer School 2014
Since 2009, the popular WSO2 Summer School program has helped more than 2,000 enterprise IT architects and developers become more familiar with software technologies and best practices. The all-new classes for 2014 will focus on the latest developments of the Internet of Things, the set of devices and systems that interconnect sensors and actuators (things) to the Internet, which is fast becoming the next major development in IT. Taught by some of the industry’s leading technical experts, the classes offer an opportunity to obtain thousands of dollars worth of professional training at zero cost. To sign up for additional classes or view recordings of past sessions, visit http://wso2.com/landing/summer-school-2014.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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What’s new in this release?
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 6.8.0. This month’s release further empowers Aspose.Tasks users to render project data to multiple individual image files, which was not possible with earlier versions of the API. The setSaveToSeparateFiles method of the ImageSaveOptions class allows developers to save project data to separate files. In addition, the getPages() method of ImageSaveOptions returns a list of page numbers to save when saving Project layouts to separate files. OpenProj, also known as ProjectLibre, is an open source project management tool that can export project data to XML format. Previously, the Aspose.Tasks API lacked support for reading the output XML files. However, we are pleased to share that this month’s release supports reading XML files created by OpenProj. Rendering time scale information to output formats is already supported by Aspose.Tasks API. However, the feature didn’t include the time scale count information. This month’s release further enhances this rendering capability by providing the facility to set time scale count for a Project. The TimeScaleTier class’s setCount() method can be used to achieve this. This month’s release also introduces a new feature: configuring the Gantt chart view to display custom fields by default in Microsoft Project. Each time the file is opened in MSP, the saved columns settings are displayed to the user. This can be achieved by customizing a project’s table data. Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.
- Print each/selected page of a Project to PNG/JPEG
- Option to read timescale data from source xml/mpp and make effective in output image/pdf file
- Configure Gantt Chart view by showing selected custom fields when opened in MSP
- Add reading support of XML files created by OpenProj.
- Investigate compatibility issue of DLL with Delphi Prism XE 1, with Visual 2010 or with RemObjects 3.0
- PrePopulate dates while rendering project data to PDF similar to MSP
- Option to set Timescale count
- Review and update project data reading/writing summary
- Implement Tables data writing to mpp
- Read TimescaleStart, TimescaleFinish values from mpp 2003-13 files
- Implement recalculation of tasks with splits.
- Implement Task.IsPublished flag reading/writing for mpp 2007-2013.
- Implement CanSplitInProgressTasks flag writing to mpp 2003-2013.
- Implement Tables data writing to 2010-13 mpp formats
- Implement Tables data writing to 2007 mpp format
- Implement Tables data writing to 2003 mpp format
- Debug splits recalculation.
- Refactor rescheduling to move splits and dates.
- Imeplement splits recalculation.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Tasks for Java
Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical Java Project management component that enables Java applications to read, write & manage Project documents without utilizing MS Project. It supports reading MS Project Template (MPT) files as well as allows exporting project data to HTML, BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, XPS, XAML and SVG formats. It reads & writes MS Project documents in both MPP & XML formats. Developers can read & change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations & calendars.
More about Aspose.Tasks for Java
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Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Aspose - The .NET and Java component
publisher
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.9465
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