An Awesome Intro into Induction Motor Basics
A brilliant intro into induction motors explained in a clear and easy to understand way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ugeGOOjso
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Freeboard.io dashboard
A very neat open source dashboard tool that is very simple to use. Unfortunately the documentation that comes with it is far from complete but I managed to get something up and running. It is also mobile friendly as well.
Neat site for svg icons
This site http://www.flaticon.com has a whole bunch of cool svg for download. SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and uses XML to draw images that do not lose resolution when scaled up. To test your SVG, this site here is very handy https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_svg_circle
Guess what? YouTube hires monkeys!
Did you know that YouTube still hires monkeys?
The best diagram for a 3 way switch.
This video explains a 2 way switch with an intermediate switch in the middle very well. The key is not to get hung up on the labels of the intermediate switch but to use a multi meter to figure out the parallel or the cross over position. This is because the intermediate switch could be… Read More »
Good to see JIRA Service Desk in order
It was good to see the JIRA Service Desk team fix the order of their release notes. It may see minor but consistency and predictability is important.
What is Slow Loris Attack
Here is a neat article explaining the Slow Loris attack. https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/01/19/single-computer-dos-slow-loris-attack/
Content Inc: Joe Pulizzi
An interesting book about creating great content to attract business. One interesting take away is to first create great content. Then figure out what to do next.
JIRA 7.3 is out!
The new year has just begun and Atlassian has kicked it off with a new release of 7.3! Check out this blog here from Atlassian on the latest version 7.3 to kick of 2017! http://blogs.atlassian.com/2017/01/jira-server-7-3-power-to-the-admins/ Here is a link to the release notes dated 3 January 2017. https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-7-3-x-release-notes-861181590.html
Photoshop how to blur part of image for focal point?
Have you ever had an image and wanted to blur out everything except one particular area? In photoshop, there is a neat feature called “Iris Blur”. Filter > Blur Gallery > Iris Blur You can then adjust the area of the blur and also the “blurriness” along with a million other tweaks.