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What kind of site is GuardianForum.com?
By: Omale Joseph
Tags: News, Projects, Guardian Forum, Join, China

Guardian Forum is a place to read and share stories on the Internet. Guardian Forum is simply an English-language open forum and social networking website where people exchange ideas and discuss issues just like the way they do on Facebook and Twitter. Guardian Forum is a new project from Omale Joseph.

www.guardianforum.com
Add Charts And Some Formatting
By: Saif Khatri
Tags: Design Thinking, Excel, Development, Projects, Engineering

CHARTS LIST AND PARAMETERS :

From above we see that i added two coloumn remaining in last post. This data i found from ineternets. Its Baldor Motors Data and its only use for General Purpose. And thats the good news for us.

This above two charts have simillarity to our pervious usage charts. I found that they havent give us the length of motor its “ L ” for IEC and “ C’ ” for NEMA. They say we have to conatct near their office to get it.

But we want just data for making frame and diameter for checking stress and load on it. So i think that its best usage if we use that datas for our project purpose.

Certain data i used for the IEC coloumn is

AC = Width of Motor

HC = Height of Motor

FORMULAS :

I use same formula As we use in other cells for finding the value. Its IF, INDEX, MATCH, and CONVERT Formula.

I find that when use autofill or copy formula method we usually lost our refrencing cell. For that i do lock the Refrencing cells in main sheets and i change the range of INDEX and MATCH Formula to get more accurate Results.
Most Software Projects Failed
By: Ridwan Taofiq Firdaus
Tags: Project, Software Development, Software, Software Projects, Project Management

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Virgin Media Business — Serviceability Checker
By: Matthew Lawes
Tags: UI Design, UX, Projects, UX Research

Virgin Media Business — Serviceability Checker

The brief

Virgin Media Business requested an examination of their end-to-end order process to seek context and opportunities, and to ensure that each decision point within the eCommerce process fits with the wider business vision.

During initial discovery, it was established via Adobe Analytics that only 20% of users check serviceability and 42% of users leave during the serviceability process. Currently, the serviceability checker does a very simple check, but passes no more details back through the system.

Because there’s no address look-up tool, the information going in could lead to erroneous results. User expectations are poorly managed and related products surfaced after serviceability have no order of relevance to a users selection (heavily biased to the broadband service).

By making the serviceability checker integrated into the purchase journey, the barriers into check-out will be reduced, resulting in a more unified response.
Online Courses | IT Professional Certification Course | LearnInbox
Tags: Coding, Learninbox, Writing Services, Projects, Online Classes

LearnInbox, the world's #1 online coding & project certification course provider and offers the best practical IT coding skills and live project training class
Building a Website in 30 Days — Week 1
By: Jake Barlow
Tags: Web Design, Projects

This is the first week in a month-long project to redesign Urbana Boulders website. Urbana Boulders is a local bouldering gym by me. After taking a look at their website I decided to reach out to them and ask to help them out by giving it a facelift. You can check out the landing page for the project here.

For my project, I used this week to plan out and set up for the rest of the month.

I began the project by deciding how to keep track and schedule it. In order to do this, I used Notion.

I found a task/project management template while researching more into how to use Notion. After I decided to use it I spent a couple of hours looking into how it works and how it was built. Next was to simply use the template to list and schedule all the tasks for the project.

This week I have:

Planned out the project

Created a task list in Notion

Scheduled out when to complete each task

Started my project landing page

Moving on

Looking back on this week the biggest struggle was getting my wisdom teeth removed right at the start of the week. I was out for a couple of days but was able to get back on my feet and stick to my schedule.

The big win for the week was in the process of finding the Notion template and editing it for my project I learned much more about Notion than I needed. This will help me in the future to use this powerful tool in other projects, work, or in my personal life.

You can check out my week 2 update here!
The Wonder Weeks V.8 — App Redesign
By: Matthew Lawes
Tags: UI Design, UX, Projects, UX Research

The Wonder Weeks V.8 — App Redesign

The brief

The Wonder Weeks app acts a summarised and condensed version of the original Dutch book (Oei, ik groei!) and has won multiple awards.

Every year, the UI has been updated internally by business stakeholders and intermediate changes in terms functionality have been pushed live gradually. In recent years, functionality updates have been more user-centred, in the sense that feedback and requests are acted upon.

Due to an increasing workload and demand, in 2019, the business made the decision to bring in an industry professional to undertake the creative UI work for the first time.
Why vs. What. Here’s the challenge. Agile is founded…
By: Lech Ambrzykowski
Tags: Agile, Projects, Project Management

Whenever a client wants us to start a new venture with them, to initiate a project together, we work on defining business requirements (apart from making sure there is a business case in the first place). Traditionally, Business requirements form the “what” of the project. They provide an explanation on what should be built to achieve the expected return on investment. It is uncommon to find a detailed, technical description there. From a technical perspective, finding a flowchart or field definitions in a BRD (Business Requirements Document) is rare. As the document is owned by the client and often prepared by her, as professionals on the supplier’s side, we often expect from our customers not to cross the thin line between the “what” and the “how”. Figuring out the “how” is the supplier’s job. It’s the space where he can analyze the work at hand, translate the more general, business perspective into functions, data structures and flows, paired with interfaces required to interact with the future solution. Among others. This is how functional requirements are born. They form a pair — business “reqs” and functional “reqs,” they should directly relate to one another, where business requirements are the “what” and the functional requirements — the “how.” In a way, the BRD is part of a mandate to start a project, whereas the FRD (Functional Requirements Document) — a contract describing how the project result is to be built.

Here’s the challenge. Agile is founded on the premise that suppliers and customers are able to work out requirements collaboratively in the form of user stories, maintained in a backlog of remaining work, detailed iteratively as needed — based on priority / proximity, aligning in tight iterations and frequent feedback. In theory this is faster as there is no dichotomy . In practice… I have yet to see this work well.

Granted, agile requires sufficient organizational maturity with the new artifacts, events, and roles — Product Owners able to own the backlog, empowered and knowledgeable enough to detail requirements and decide on priorities.

But I haven’t seen many Product Owners like that. Plus, with increasing complexity of the business landscape and progressing specialization, they simply cannot be know-it-alls, right? Even having sufficient business acumen, they won’t be able to drill down to technical levels detailed enough to provide a sound basis for development work.

How do we deal with this? From my perspective this is Agile’s uncharted land, that’s where “there be dragons.” Pre-sprints, parallel analytical sprints are just means to patch this up. The issue possibly requires several “whys” before we reach the root cause. My bet is that complete functional requirements are a necessity that cannot be neglected, and that they should form a response to whatever the business requests. Having agreed functional requirements we can expect viable “work packages” which can be decomposed, estimated, and developed with a higher degree of accuracy.
Windows Pt. 1, Day 11
By: The Magno-Mobile
Tags: DIY, Conversion Van, Vanlife, Campervan, Projects

Another problem that had arisen was the fact that the universal camper/trailer window kits are intended for a wall thickness of 1–1/2". After prepping the site where the windows were to be installed, we found the sheet metal thickness was less than a 1/4". If left unremedied, a tight seal would not be achieved. To make up for the missing width, crafting wooden frames were the easy fix.

Prep work involved clearing the install site of any insulation, mocking up the window kit, and transferring the template to the exterior of the vehicle. To do this, once the template was in position inside the cabin, two holes were drilled through to the exterior by which we could hang and match the same template on the outside surface.

First blood!

After tracing, painter’s tape was applied to provide a visual guide as well as to protect the rest of the painted body surfaces from becoming scuffed/scratched by the power tools we were about to wield.
Take a break? How does that work?
Tags: Work, Projects, Humor, Comics, Holidays

It’s ok to take a break sometimes as long as you have someone to blame

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npower Energy Engage — Guerrilla Testing
By: Matthew Lawes
Tags: UX, Projects, UX Research

npower Energy Engage — Guerrilla Testing

The brief

Ahead of the launch of the Energy Engage initiative in late September 2017, I worked closely with npowers delivery team to explore a range of email options for SMART customers. The purpose of the research was:

To prioritise the content and data streams that were available for launch (for the MVP) in the eyes of customers.

To explore a range of themes for the visual style and tone of voice for the initial email campaign and understand which approaches resonate with customers.

Understand customer perceptions of the on-off tracker component and when and where it should be introduced on the email.

This research directly informed the wider business objectives of:
Simplify your Multi-Projects Life
By: Anna Smith
Tags: Productivity, Projects, Project Management, Windows 10, Project Manager

SmartWindows helps save your applications so you can switch between them whenever needed. Switching from work to coding to gaming to browsing is as simple as a few clicks. SmartWindows supports multi-monitor setups to make it even better!

Key Features:
MISBLOC Structure
Tags: Medicine, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Telemedicine, Projects

Hi there! In today’s post, we are going to review the structural composition of the MISBLOC architecture. The MISBLOC is primarily composed of 3 layers, which are called “Core, Service, and DApp”. Briefly speaking, the Core layer is responsible for handling the original data and supervises IDs and hash values, and the DApp layer is simply a UI for mobile and web programs, whereas the Service layer is responsible for integrating the latter and former layers.

MISBLOC Structure

MISBLOC is structured in 3 primary layers, which are Core, Service, and DAPP.

A. Core

The core layer is the fundamental part that forms the foundation of the entire system, consisting of the MISBLOC CORE part and the Blockchain part. The MISBLOC CORE ensures that sensitive personal medical information, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) original data, is securely encrypted and stored, and only users who are qualified through digital signature functions using asymmetric cryptographic keys (personal/public keys), upon DApp request. In the blockchain section, the identity value of participants such as hospitals, doctors, and patients and hash values of EMR are stored, and data can be checked for forgery and alteration through a comparison of hash values.

B. Service

The service layer is a layer, that connects Core and DApp layers, and implements core functions of the platform through the usage of smart contracts. It communicates with the blockchain data network to manage I/O of data and implements key services, that the platform wants to provide by utilizing smart contract technology.

C. DApp

It is a layer, that includes the medical data available on the MISBLOC Platform, various applications that utilize it, and all user environments such as mobile, web, and app. Through the MISBLOC platform, implemented and provided in the form of DApp, users will enjoy various benefits such as downloading EMR to mobile devices and providing them to third party institutions, safe personal information management, convenient remote counseling services, and token compensation based on the acquisition and participation of informative information through the community, while other participants, such as hospitals and operators, will also be able to implement a token ecosystem in which rewards are based on their roles in the ecosystem.
Všechno, co jste chtěli vědět o eRoušce. Přehledně na jednom místě!
Tags: Adastra, Projects

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Редизайн системы управления игровыми сессиями в клубах виртуальной реальности
By: Alex Voloshyn
Tags: UX Design, UX, Projects, Virtual Reality, Product Design

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Проектирование финансово-образовательного сайта
By: Alex Voloshyn
Tags: UX Design, Prototyping, UX, Education, Projects

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Learning and Teaching Tech Tools Week One
By: Kaytriona Williams
Tags: Demonstration, Projects, Planning, Tutorial

Hey! I’m spending 30 days building a series of tutorial videos and blog posts demonstrating how to use strategic tech tools that benefit startups. This is my week one documentation. If you’re interested in learning more about my project, you can view the full project here.

This week I focused on finding a project that demonstrated my ability to learn quickly and teach what I just learned proficiently. I spent a large portion of it organizing and dividing work into specific time slots then creating a task management system.

The Project Idea

I entertained several ideas but the one that stuck out the most to me was to create a series of tutorial videos on how to use various tech tools.

This stood out to me because, during my first couple of months of Praxis, clear and simple tutorials on various tech tools I was trying to learn could’ve been very beneficial to me.

I soon realized this isn’t only beneficial to Praxis participants but to anyone wanting to leverage their business by using tech tools. I wanted to help others by creating clear and concise tutorials all compiled in one place.

During this process, I would be building a mock-up website of the company Strava to use as an example throughout the project. I noticed they could benefit from several of the tools I was demonstrating so I created the mock-up website as the base for my tutorials.

Organizing My Work

First I created a project overview with what I wanted to accomplish for the month. Next, I updated my calendar with designated work slots. Here’s a screenshot of what one of my weeks would look like.

I then broke the entire project down task by task and created a checklist on Notion. You can view my project management checklist here.

After I finished that, I got a headstart on week two. In week two I will be focusing on building and demonstrating several tools needed to build a successful website. You can view my week two documentation here.
To the Window, To the Wall Pt. 1, Day 10
By: The Magno-Mobile
Tags: DIY, Conversion Van, Vanlife, Campervan, Projects

We refrained from putting up the third wall stud on each side as we have to wait until we install the windows. These will be placed in the portion where we have not installed insulation. We are hoping that we can tackle that task this weekend so that the can move forward with putting walls up throughout the whole cabin.

While waiting for the windows to arrive, I had not been sitting idle. I took a few hours out of my day to complete the rear paneling of the benches-bed that face the rear.
Slobodna škola Pionir — Novi projekti
By: Kristina Keljevic
Tags: Development, Projects, Programming, Srbija, JavaScript

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MileVerse Application Official Version is Launching!
Tags: News, Apps, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Projects

We are thrilled to announce, that the official version of the MileVerse Application is going to finally be released on December 11, 2020. The existing members’ information has been deleted in the prototype version due to the launch of the official version of the application, therefore we kindly ask our existing members, who previously signed up in the prototype, to sign up again in the latest official version.

The Key Functions of the MileVerse official version of the application are as follows:

1. MVP Purchase and Exchange

● Purchase MVP — Buying MVPs with from 5% up to 10% discount

● (J)HealthPick is currently being linked to the platform (updates will be available soon), and other companies are also being linked consistently.

2. MVP Usage

● Linkage with Franchises: Work in Process

● Additional efforts are being taken to link more Gifticon products — Google Play, Book Gift certificates, etc.

3. Cryptocurrency Wallet Function

● Support for BTC/ETH/MVC deposit and withdrawal functions integrated

4. Other user-friendly features

The MileVerse team is continuing to put big efforts into work to introduce even better services for its dear followers and members. We hope that you will like the latest version of the application and we hope to see you among our early members! Thank you for being with us and supporting us in this marvelous journey.

※Download & Update the latest version:
Project dan Project Management
By: Ridwan Taofiq Firdaus
Tags: Agile, Projects, Project Management, Scrum, Waterfall

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Too many ideas, not enough time.
By: Numeric Citizen
Tags: Writing, Blogging, Projects, Review, Ideas

Too many ideas, not enough time. Sounds familiar to you? This is my Friday notes. As I write these lines today, Friday, December 11th, my head is full of blog post projects. For example, I’ve got a new M1 Mac mini, so I would like to write about my experience setting it up. It comes with macOS Big Sur pre-installed; I want to write up my thumbs up and down about it. But before that, I got a new HomePod mini, and I’m yet to write my impressions of this 99$ smart speaker. Next, I’ve been working on photo storage and backup strategy, and I’d like to write about it too — so many things to write, too little time this week. Here comes the weekend, so watch this space.
How I Made a Mini Home Gym during the Pandemic
By: David Penny
Tags: Innovation, DIY, Projects

Testing it out!

I have always been very hands-on. From a very early age, I was taking apart various electronics, making small items of furniture and even replacing the radiator in our car as a teen. Some of my projects over the years have included quadcopters, wireless communications using Arduinos, building loft beds in my dorm room, and even a wood-fired hot tub. At a professional level, I have renovated bathrooms, re-roofed entire homes and poured a concrete slab in a basement. You could say I have “The Knack”.

Dilbert S1E9 “The Knack”

Upon moving into the city to pursue a career in Data Science, I knew I needed a way to stay active with many public gyms closed during the Pandemic. I started jogging with the goal of running continuously for 5K (a big goal for me as it's been over 10 years since I last trained for this sort of thing). This was progressing smoothly however I missed the weight training I had become accustomed to.

With our apartment not allowing holes bored into the concrete (understandably) and no doorway to that permitted a hanging chin-up bar, I set to work creating a workout station that would enable a few different exercises such as pull-ups, push-ups and reverse rows. This way I could effectively work most of my upper body with one small unit.

The upper portion of the Frame.

I was able to create what you see here for about $50. It is essentially a 2x4 frame with an electrical conduit bar and heavy-duty cloth pole sockets. The frame is pressure fitted into place and tacked in the bottom. The wide upper plate prevents rotation and the tacks at the bottom keep the sides of the frame from moving inwards.
MileVerse Community Newsletter #2
Tags: News, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, ICO, Projects

Hi there! It’s been another hectic month for the MileVerse, where our team has managed to expand the partner ecosystem to make some major updates in the app and carry out new expansion plans. In fact, the MileVerse team is further committed to continue progressing towards the future, where the mileage integration platform will be the primary way to look at the mileage usage. Check out previously uploaded news & announcements and content to stay tuned and updated with MileVerse’s progress.

Content

MileVerse & J.Jane business agreement reached!

MileVerse has signed a business agreement with the premium women's golf outfit brand, J.Jane. According to this agreement, the MileVerse and J.Jane users can utilize MVP points in order to buy things on both platforms.

Link: https://medium.com/mileverse/mileverse-j-jane-business-agreement-reached-42363afaf791
Rewarding sides of a project other than only the technique, what pays off?
By: Ronald Vermeire
Tags: AI, Agile, Cooperation, Projects, Ai In Computer Vision

Standardized approach

At Heroes, we have developed a standard approach for such innovative projects like the one we are currently working on with VidaXL. Our method is divided in five phases. In this project we are now at the end of phase 3, the so-called prototype phase and about to start the MVP phase and this in only five weeks!

The advantage of working with this standardized approach is that at the end of every phase you can come to the conclusion that it won’t be possible to turn the idea into production. This way you know very fast how feasible the use case is and minimize the cost of investment in case it is not.

Teamwork & co-creation

Another great advantage of this method is the boost it gives you as a team. As you are starting from scratch together, you will immediately be on the same page striving for the same results. Actually, it is much more like a co-creation than a traditional client-supplier relationship. The involvement from the VidaXL team provided us with much-needed domain knowledge.

Open for innovation

Although VidaXL knows that there are solutions for this type of use case which you can buy ‘of the shelves’ they decided to take the opportunity and build an, in the end much more flexible and tailored solution, together with us. From all things that pay off most in such projects this is my absolute number one, the will to innovate.

Partnerships

The most challenging part in this project was the camera hardware. It turned out that we had very high demands on what is still possible and affordable. To be more concrete we needed to read a 0.56 mm (barcode) line from a distance of 1,5 meter and a field of view of 2,5 meters. Because we did not have all the knowledge in house, we decided to reach out to getCameras (https://www.vision-camera.nl/) and they could give us a first-time-right advice within hours. We even decided to partner with them for this and future projects. For me it is a reconfirmation that working together is the only way you can ever succeed.

Open-source software as a companion

It is common to use open-source software for computer vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and some amazing building blocks are out there. So, we selected a SOTA (state of the art) YOLO model as the base for our pallet and location detection.

Also our Optical character recognition, barcode detection and integration layers are all build on and with open-source software. With the additional benefit that there are absolutely zero license costs.

Kickstart the next phase

We are about to start the MVP phase and I will definitely keep you posted on that. We are very much looking forward using new techniques like the part of AI that also enables the creation of Deepfakes. We will use it only for a good purpose by enhancing the photos we take, so that we need less or cheaper cameras and/or we can build an even more reliable solution.

In the end innovation is our DNA!
Benches/Bed Pt. 3, Day 9
By: The Magno-Mobile
Tags: DIY, Conversion Van, Vanlife, Campervan, Projects

We then used a router to create a channel in the inner edge of all the frames. Wood panels will then be inserted into the grooves, much like in your typical cabinetry.

We cut down 3/16" 4'x8' plywood to sizes that could be accommodated in the channels:

Assembly steps:
Benches/Bed Pt. 2, Day 8
By: The Magno-Mobile
Tags: DIY, Vanlife, Campervan, Van Conversion, Projects

December 6, 2020

Yesterday’s bench frames became today’s fully fledged benches! In order to achieve this, we had to finish the parts of the wall that the frames were attached to.

3/16" plywood was cut to provide the “backing” of the compartments underneath and behind the bench storage. This was done to give the wall a more finished look as well as to protect the insulation from the contents that will be stowed.

Storage paneling

After securing the plywood panels via self drilling/tapping sheet metal screws , a strip of wood was fastened horizontally to the chassis by way of two bolts and more screws. This provided the lateral mounting points for our bench frames.

Lateral mounting strip for bench frames to be screwed to

Once frames were secured onto the horizontal mounting strip, we fashioned lids for the compartments.. or shall I say, the tops of the benches. These lids will open via hinges to provide ease of access to anything stored below.
The Greatest Films You’ll Never Watch.
By: Sebastian Mayer
Tags: Opinion, Lists, Projects, Film, Movies

The Greatest Films You’ll Never Watch.

Photograph for El Pais

Every day we’re closer to watch the new film adaptation of the classic Frank Helbert novel Dune. But his is not the first time it’s been tried to be adapted to the big screen, and no, I’m not talking about the 1984 David Lynch project (we’ll be on that later).

This is not the first time it happens. Remember the 2003 film I, Robot? That’s a simple reflection of the original project that was set to be made by Harlan Ellison. You can actually find the illustrated script of what the film would’ve looked like.

These two examples are not the only times we’ve seen the second shot at a full length feature, in fact, many times we only hear the idea and never get at least a director try to recreate the piece with his own view.

So, we ask ourselves, why aren’t those films made if they have the talent and audience in their hands?

The first thing that might pop up in your head is “oh, the big bucks”, but some get produced later and, dare I say, with a few extra dollars thrown in. We can wander around on many reasons why this happens, but a better way to look at it by checking out some examples in the past, so let’s dive in a few times when we lost the chance to watch amazing projects:
‘ImHex’ Tops GitHub Trending Repos With 1600 Stars in 24 Hours!
Tags: Github, Computer Science, Programming, Projects

ImHex’s creator says his trending hex editor is aimed at “Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eyesight when working at 3 AM.” The project currently ranks among the most popular on GitHub, earning 1600 appreciative stars in 24 hours and a total of 3.7k since it went online last week.

Hexadecimal (Hex) editors are software applications for editing single-byte data, primarily used by programmers or system administrators. While regular text editors represent the logical content of a file, hex editors instead represent a file’s physical content, enabling the viewing and editing of a file’s binary data in hexadecimal form with a user-friendly interface. Hex editors are useful when dealing with binary data — for example when editing files to tweak the low-level settings of a game program.

Commonly used hexadecimal editors include Bless Hex Editor, GNOME Hex Editor, and Oktata. As with most editors, desirable features include powerful functions, high customizability, and a simple and attractive user interface (UI). Very few currently open-sourced hex editors cover all these aspects, with most especially lacking in UI aesthetics.

ImHex is built on the Dear ImGui graphical user interface library and features a pleasing and elegant, dark-themed UI that “doesn’t burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions.“

ImHex can be used on both Windows and Linux, but will require a C++20 compatible compiler (e.g. GCC 10.2.0). The dependencies needed for compiling ImHex are listed below; all can be easily installed via Pacman package manager. The author also provides all-in-one dependency installation scripts for Arch Linux, Fedora and/or MSYS2 in the repo’s dist folder.

GLFW3 ( (sudo) pacman -S glfw )libmagic, libgnurx, libtre, libintl, libiconv ( (sudo) pacman -S file )libcrypto ( (sudo) pacman -S openssl )capstone ( (sudo) pacman -S capstone )libLLVMDemangle ( (sudo) pacman -S llvm llvm-libs )nlohmann json ( (sudo) pacman -S nlohmann-json )Python3 ( (sudo) pacman -S python3 )All in one for Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S glfw file openssl capstone llvm llvm-libs nlohmann-json python3All in one for Fedora: sudo dnf install cmake gcc-c++ capstone-devel glfw-devel glm-devel json-devel llvm-devel mesa-libGL-devel openssl-devel python-develAll in one for MinGW: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-capstone mingw-w64-x86_64-glfw mingw-w64-x86_64-glm mingw-w64-x86_64-file mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm mingw-w64-x86_64-nlohmann-json mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl mingw-w64-x86_64-polly mingw-w64-x86_64-pytho

After installing these libraries, simply run the following commands to build ImHex:

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make -j

Interested readers can find additional information on the project Github. The ImHex author, “WerWolv”(Nik), is a 21-year-old Swiss student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering.
Projects Update
By: Aisha Urooj
Tags: Writing, Books, Projects, Goals, Authors

This is an update on my current writing pursuits. As you know, I just finished the second book in the love and friendship trilogy, Eleanor’s Travels. I thought that after I completed this book, I would either:

Complete the sequel to my dark comedy novella, Divine Error. I was already halfway done. Start on the final book for the YA trilogy. I have the first few chapters ready.

So, what am I working on now? I am working on 3. A brand new project because inspiration struck and refuses to let go 😅 So, all my other projects are on hold while I work on this new book.

So far, this is what I know. It will be a standalone, epic, love, fantasy novel based on a mythical creature (I won’t reveal what yet). It will also be my longest project to date. I hope that it will be 90k in length, but as I have mentioned before, underwriting is my weak point… so wish me luck 😔

The good news.. if all goes well, it will be ready in a few months. I will be excited to share it with all of you. I have already work on the book cover, and it is so pretty 😍🥰

I also think I won’t do pre-order this time, and I will publish it straightaway. I am a small fish author in the large ocean of literary works, and my pre-order rates are just depressing at this moment lol 🐟🌊

Thank you for stopping by, and following me on my writing journey.
2nd Project Alert! Sinatra CRUD App
By: Samara G
Tags: Coding, Bootcamp, Sinatra, Projects, Software Development

Back again with another project, I feel great that I actually created a user interactive app.

Dream Space!

DreamSpace is an application used to track and share recollections of a dream as soon as you wake up. Helping you retain details and allow you to process it. Users can sign up, sign in, and sign out. As well as create dream posts, read other’s dream posts, and edit and delete their own dream posts. Users are not able to log in, or sign up with incorrect credentials. And they cannot create posts with nothing in the forms.

Users can only view the contents of Dream Space only if they are a user logged in. I’ve incorporated the use of Flash to display errors/messages to the user throughout the use of the application. If a user tries to log in, sign up, or create a post with invalid credentials they’re shown an error message. If the user successfully creates an account or posts a submission. Each individual dream post is also displayed with a timestamp.

As far as styling my website, I’ve utilized Materialize CSS. I’ve added a navigation bar, proper buttons for submission and redirections, and card detail boxes displaying each individual submission on the timeline.

Finally…

This was definitely a good project to work on and it was fun creating my own interface style. I’m excited to see what else is in store for me and what other things I will create. Thanks Flatiron School!
Working Title: The Podcast
By: Jared Oviatt
Tags: Creativity In Business, Podcasting, Projects, Creativity, Creativity In Education

A few months ago, I would have told you that podcasting is easy. But as I quickly found out, it’s a lot harder than it looks (and sounds). Despite the challenges I faced, I was able to deliver at least a semi-cohesive result. If I had to give anyone advice if they choose to go down this route in the future, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY! Otherwise, you will likely have to edit out hundreds (if not thousands) of “uhs” and “ums”. Though, perhaps this is more of a me issue than a podcasting issue. Nonetheless, feel free to give any of my episodes a listen, I promise they aren’t all bad. And perhaps you can find a more creative or unique way to discuss the CITW principles than I managed to.

On the not-so-first episode of Working Title: The Podcast, I (Jared) venture into the world of the unknown — podcasting. While I have never used this medium before, I wanted to try out something creative and challenging. Briefly, Jared touches a little bit on who he is (obviously), what CIWT is, and his creativity goals for the rest of the semester. Here is to hoping it’s not terrible!

In today’s episode, Jared walks us through the first four principles of creativity: 01 Creativity will improve your workplace, 02 Creativity is fun, 03, Innovations make valuable differences, and 04 Communities best nurture creativity.

After a triumphant first *official* episode, Jared — in a similar fashion — walks through the next four principles of creativity. Although, there is a twist! These principles are not 05, 06, 07, and 08. Instead, Jared walks through 05 Leverage strengths and weaknesses, 06 Imagination powers creativity, 07 Capture and manage all ideas, and 16 Min mapping enhances creativity.

You know what they say, the best things come in three’s! And Episode 03 is no different. Not only does Jared cover the MOST principles yet…but he does it *semi* well. In today’s episode, Jared walks us through 08 Develop your creative competencies, 09 Challenges are valuable opportunities, 10 Broadening yourself, 11 Change your surroundings, 12 Good entertainment powers imagination, and 13 Good health powers creativity.
Reasons final year projects can be annulled, repeated or marked for correction .
By: Codemint Team
Tags: Final Year Projects, Corrections, Undergraduates, Projects, Annulled

Photo by timJ on Unsplash

The last stage to check the performance of final year projects students is right in front of an academic defense panel who would stare at you consistently with disdain, hoping you fumble or at least make confident efforts to impress them. It’s in this tensed scenario that your performance is graded including the content of your final year projects and systemic procedures. While some get excellent grades, some good and fair; others are lucky to be sent back for necessary corrections or unfortunate to be marked for a repeat or even have the entire research annulled.

Check out possible final year project defense question

Ofcourse not without reasons are these actions taken; that’s what we are about to discuss. If I were you, I would pick a pen and take note; you don’t want be a victim, do you? Quickly, let’s check out some very good reasons final year projects can be either annulled, marked for a repeat or for corrections.

Your project can be annulled or marked for corrections if:-

Your research does not correspond with your project topic

Well, I have witnessed a lot of cases so it’s not news that students can deliberately and selectively pick a totally different research material, paraphrase it and tag it alongside a project topic that seems similar not realizing the differences in variables and systematic procedures for various research topics.

If the research Methodology is wrong

Yeah, that’s right. Maybe deliberately or not, you decided to choose to adopt the easiest research Methodology to ease your research stress. Truth is, it will affect your research outcome and makes it even more complicated. A project can be annulled for this reason and marked for a repeat.

If the table of analysis is not coherent

Data analysis is really tasking and statistical and so students find no interest putting too much energy on it. So its always a trap where many are caught and victimized. You research can be marked for correction if your data analysis is not coherent and comprehensive because the outcome influences the research findings.

If the research procedures was not religiously followed

Research is very rigorous and deliberate and so it requires a systemic approach but when such approach is overlooked in anyway, it is treated with audacity.

If the research is guilty of plagiarism

You are bound to be sent back and make necessary acknowledgment, citation and references if your research has not done so. Plagiarism is very big offence in the academic terrain you have to take the blame if you are caught.

If the questions on the research survey does not mirror the research objectives

I noted earlier that research is very religious in following procedures. If you are using a questionnaire for your research, the questions much mirror the same in the research questions and objectives else, it will be tagged as a deviation from the research purpose. You may be sent back for corrections or a repeat of the entire data gathering process.
Grains of Salt
By: Ben Grange
Tags: Design, Original, Learn, UX, Projects

Microblog #11

There is something to be said for for norms. They help us operate together in a functional way. Workplace norms, familial norms, design norms, technical norms, etc.

But there’s a gray area we all operate in, and that gray area is a wonderful place. It’s the place that allows us to be ourselves, to be unique, to learn and grow and be different.

People will give you advice. In your designs, in your work, in your projects. They’ll tell you how things have to be done. And sometimes, they’re right. Norms have their place, after all. But when advice can be taken with a grain of salt, take all the grains you need.
Sundays with Ray Bradbury
By: Scott Myers
Tags: Creative Writing, Writing, Screenplay, Fiction, Screenwriting

I've been lecturing at the University of Southern California cinema department for twenty-two years — I go down there a couple of times a year — and various students have come up to me and said, “Can we make films of your short stories?” I say, “Sure, take them. Do it. But there's one restriction I put on you. Shoot the whole story. Just read what I've done and line up the shot by the paragraphs. All the paragraphs are shots. By the way the paragraph reads, you know whether it's a close-up or a long shot.” So, by God, those students, with their little cameras and $500, have shot better films than the big productions I've had, because they’ve followed the story.

All my stories are cinematic. I may be the most cinematic novelist in the country today. All of my short stories can be shot right off the page. Each paragraph is a shot.

When I first talked to Sam Peckinpah years ago about directing Something Wicked, I said to him, “How are you going to shoot the film if we do it?” He said, “Tear the pages out of the book and stuff them into the camera.” I said, “Right.”

The job finally is to pick and choose among all metaphors in the book, put them into a screenplay in just the right proportion were people don't start to laugh at you.

For instance, I saw The Only Game in Town, George Stevens’ film about gambling in Las Vegas, on TV recently. Warren Beatty and Elizabeth Taylor, who was a little bit Porky Pig. About a half hour in, Taylor turns to Beatty and she says, “Carry me into the bedroom.” Well, there's no way to do anything but laugh. I thought, “He's going to throw his back out.” I mean there goes your film.

So when you do a fantasy for the screen, make sure people don't fall off their seats.
“The Story We Know”
By: Scott Myers
Tags: Creative Writing, Writing, Poetry, Fiction, Screenwriting

The Story We Know

By Martha Collins

The way to begin is always the same. Hello,

Hello. Your hand, your name. So glad, just fine,

and Good bye at the end. That’s every story we know,

and why pretend? But lunch tomorrow? No?

Yes? An omelette, salad, chilled white wine?

The way to begin is simple, sane, Hello,

and then it’s Sunday, coffee, the Times, a slow

day by the fire, dinner at eight or nine

and Good bye. In the end, this is a story we know

so well we don’t turn the page, or look below

the picture, or follow the words to the next line:

The way to begin is always the same Hello.

But one night, through the latticed window, snow

begins to whiten the air, and the tall white pine.

Good bye is the end of every story we know

that night, and when we dose the curtains, oh,

we hold each other against that cold white sign

of the way we all begin and end. Hello,

Good bye is the only story. We know, we know.
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work
By: Scott Myers
Tags: Writing, Writing Tips, Productivity, Screenwriting, Creativity

20 writing tips which actually are quite smart… because they work!

The monastic figure Dumm, patron saint of Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work

Over the years, I’ve come up with or stumbled upon a number of tricks to help with the writing process. Here are some of them.

1 Page A Day

Adopt a different writing persona

Create an Argument

Don’t Finish That Scene!

Free Association

Get Off Your Ass

Get Un-Comfortable

Highlight Your Verbs

Listen to a Movie

Make a Collage

Name That Tune

Plot Backward

Read Your Dialogue Aloud

Set a deadline

Snacks

Star-Casting

The Six Word Test

Transcribe Screenplays

Unplug Your Internet!

What To Do After You Finish Your First Draft

If you have any dumb writing ideas that work, send them along!
Why I keep hosting this blog… and a Christmas wish for you
By: Scott Myers
Tags: Writing, Christmas, Fiction, Screenwriting, Creativity

We all know the odds against success as a screenwriter, playwright, TV writer, and/or filmmaker are long. That combined with the fact there are many practical considerations involved in carving out a career in the field of entertainment is why I devote as many posts as I do to the business side of things. It’s a competitive environment and all of us need to be reminded of that.

However, there is no point in pursuing a dream if you don’t allow yourself to dream in the first place. And the positive energy I put out on this blog is part of my DNA as well as personal history. I left a safe career path (academics) to pursue my own dream: seven years as a musician, two as a stand-up comic, the rest as a screenwriter and now writer-educator. It would be a total lie if I didn’t embrace hopes and dreams because I myself was a complete Hollywood outsider who wrote and sold a spec script that began a decades long career in the movie business.

So when I get emails from people such as Matti, I am gratified to know that this part of what I do — provide inspiration to readers — is somehow getting through.

Yes, it’s a fact Hollywood is extremely competitive. But it’s also a fact that Hollywood is constantly looking for great stories, writers with a distinctive voice, and new blood.

Here’s another fact: Variety calls people who write a spec script and break into the business by selling it “first-timers.” And I’ve heard from some writers who follow this blog who became first-timers this year. They are living out that dream. They wrote a spec script. They sold that spec script. And to hear from writers like these that what I do on this blog contributed even a little to their success… well, that’s another reason I keep doing what I do here.

So my Christmas wish for all you dreamers out there is simple: In the year to come, you nail that script. You write a great one. You sell it. You break into the business. Whether it’s in Hollywood or any of the other filmmaking centers around the world.

Keep dreaming the dream. Hoping. And of course, keep writing.

To Matti: Merry Christmas to you, too, my new young friend in Lapland, Finland, “official” home of Santa Claus.

And to all Go Into The Story readers: Merry Christmas to each of you as well!

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[Originally posted December 24, 2010]