Posts Tagged ‘Environments’

Article by Tuch Gallucci

The method of Net application growth is critical to the success of net-based mostly projects. The proper processes cannot be enforced unless technical environments are properly setup. Technical environments are required for growth, take a look at and production.

Net purposes structure is often in 3-tiers. Purposes are developed on NT platforms, and deployed to production on UNIX platforms. Without streamlined procedures and proper surroundings settings, deployment and testing just isn’t solely a frustrating experience, but in addition a serious detriment in software failure and budget overrun.

Development and take a look at environment may be powered by less powerful computer systems, however the configurations needs to be the identical for all three environments. Growth and take a look at environments must be populated with manufacturing data periodically.

Improvement Setting

Function – The event atmosphere is a spot where improvement staff develops and tests the applications. If functions are developed on NT, deployment to UNIX atmosphere helps developers to port NT functions to UNIX atmosphere and test UNIX specific duties, equivalent to shell scripts and cron jobs.

Safety Considerations – Growth staff should have full management of and entry to the atmosphere, although set up of new software program needs to be consulted with UNIX admin and DBA.

Take a look at Environment

Role – The check atmosphere is a place where QA group (configuration management and software program testing practices deployment. The deployment of large and sophisticated applications might take many trials.

Safety Issues – QA group is absolutely responsible for the check environment. Improvement workforce should not be aware of the existence of the test environment. In reality, development group members are often concerned with deployment to check environment largely as a result of organizations pattern to position staff with less technical expertise on QA team.

Production Setting

Function – The manufacturing surroundings is a place where you serve your customers. The deployment from check to production should be automated using deployment scripts to avoid the potential human errors and to reduce the deployment cost.

Security Issues – Each development staff and QA workforce should not be conscious of the existence of production environment. It’s the sole responsibility of operation staff to maintain the production environment.

The procedures and technical environment settings described above have been proven to be useful in eliminating many issues in web-based mostly system implementation. The profitable implementation of the procedures, nevertheless, depends upon management commitment and the technical competency of all groups involved.

Article by Ken Rigby

Design of 3D Virtual Environments and the Digital Future.

By Ken Rigby for Tele3DWorld and MellaniuM Design. http://mellanium.com/

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Advances in 3D computer graphics have allowed application developers to integrate real-time 3D environments, with animated and interactive 3D graphics in their designs without being burdened by low level details. State of the art 3D graphics cards now support many of the 3D render pipelines in hardware. 3D graphics libraries allow programmers to efficiently develop their applications by providing higher-level data structures. Exchange formats such as VRML, 3DS, X3D, and/or MPEG4 enable distributed applications and a world-wide access to 3D content, thus increasing the number of potential users and 3D applications in a wide range of areas or domains (e.g. E-Commerce, entertainment, architecture, engineering, medicine, social networks, conferencing, education/training, GIS, leisure, Museums, Places of interest, virtual prototyping, etc.). These formats support a declarative/graphical approach suitable for authoring tools, methods, and non-programmers, whereas 3D APIs and scripts will allow more complex and powerful solutions and capabilities (such as AI) but require programming skills. As a result of the new graphics cards becoming more powerful (speed and capability), not only do you get more pixels, but you get more materials and objects in the same space. The complexity of scenes and environments will increase exponentially without ever increasing CPU overhead thus enabling more AI and Physics to be implemented.

While technical advances have laid the foundation for wide spread access and use of interactive 3D environments, there is still a significant lack of design/content experience and know how of the software tools that allow for a seamless integration of interactive 3D components into the current 3D engines and multimedia applications. More often, the development of 3D content requires an ad-hoc realization that is implemented from scratch resulting in unacceptable life-cycle development costs.

To address these problems the proposed workshops will be concerned with the structured design of interactive 3D environments and animated content using 3D models, virtual, and augmented reality techniques. An important aim is the applicability of suitable design approaches in a wide range of application areas and hardware/software configurations ranging from mobile devices over standard PCs to the graphics intensive computers. Moreover, the design support shall include content expert users (i.e. designers) and not only technical experts (i.e. 3D programmers). Therefore, a collection of reusable, flexible 3D components, agents, or Virtual Reality building blocks as well as the authoring tools to configure and compose them will be valuable in rapidly constructing virtual Real World 3D environments, models, and interactive 3D applications.

Workshop Topics:

As a unifying theme of the workshops, we will address the problems of efficient design, acceptability, implementation, and evaluation support of the 3D distributed, interactive virtual environments, models, and augmented reality.

Developers of 3D environments face questions like:

What conceptual 3D engine model is best suited to the applications.How do the 3D environments and models address the highly interactive and dynamic content and context in the 3D virtual worlds and how do they compare to traditional metaphors in multimedia design? Compare performance, capabilities, and usability of existing 3D engines for use as a 3D media provider.

Is there a clearly defined design process that aids development of 3D Virtual Real World content applications that meet the end users needs and that can be efficiently developed? The key problem is to bridge the large gap between communicative intent and technical implementation details and to provide a method that can (at best) be followed step by step even by inexperienced users or will it be better for third parties to undertake this task as with web pages.

What software tools support is necessary and currently available that allows direct mapping from conceptual ideas to 3D VRW environments and interactive animated objects?. This includes base technologies like high level graphics libraries, scripting languages, and easy-to-use visual tools. Content scripting with emphasis on 3D to 3D communication.

What about software engineering problems like reusability, extensibility, composability, maintainability, or third party development of 3D VRW environments? The key problem in designing (interactive) Virtual Real World Environment content is cost efficiency due to short development life-cycles. Thus, interdisciplinary teams need to reuse existing solutions by adapting and combining components and elements to new applications. Efficient reuse is the key in efficiently designing expressive virtual 3D worlds. Standardised concepts regarding object description, metaphors, declarative exchange formats and component-based development of 3D applications are necessary. Creation and maintenance of a standard 3D model and texture data-base is essential.

How can I guarantee that my application will be accepted by end users?Though usability in 3D, virtual, and augmented reality worlds is very important only a few approaches consider this aspect. Virtual Worlds will be judged by comparative subjective techniques (the best for the price will win). New techniques for validation and testing may have to be developed that will allow qualitative and quantitative evaluation of 3D Virtual Real Worlds and applications.

What innovative solutions exist that validate the usefulness of interactive 3D Virtual Real Worlds. Special application areas have specific requirements and therefore need customized solutions. The workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to experience, present, and discuss design, implementation, and evaluation techniques for interactive 3D virtual environments.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

1. Design concepts for interactive content using 3D models, virtual, and augmented reality techniques;

2. 3D engine availability, capabilities, and performance (now and in the future);

3. VR and virtual 3D environments content development in special application areas like medicine, training & education, architecture, manufacturing, entertainment, e-commerce, engineering, social networking, group learning;

4. Frameworks, design processes, design techniques, and tool kits;

5. Base technologies for 3D content creation that provide high level access, flexible exchange, reuse, and extendibility (e.g. components, high-level layers, scripting);

6. Existing 3D-component technologies and their relation to declarative 3D formats;

7. Evaluation requirements, techniques, and tools;

8. New application areas, techniques and devices that require special design considerations (e.g., E-Commerce, mobile devices, haptic devices, head mounted displays, augmented reality);

9. Impact of the digital fusion of the many domains; on politics, education, work, leisure, etc.

Workshop participants will be expected to have visited http://www.mellanium.com be conversant with the referenced articles and have viewed the referenced videos. A live demonstration is also provided on SKYPE:joe133952

We aim to create a brainstorming session for each of the application areas to find problems and solutions to implementing 3D digital technology now and in the future.

Thinking caps on.

MellaniuM Design and Tele3DWorld will support the workshop by providing example 3D environments and implementation expertise. http://mellanium.com

Copyright (c) Ken Rigby for MellaniuM Design and Tele3DWorld.

All Rights Reserved.

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Article by Alicia Forest

I’m writing this on my laptop in a Cosi café in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. The reason I am here has nothing to do with me or my business, but the reason I can continue to be successful in my work is because I have set myself up to do so. How? By creating supportive environments. In this case, the laptop, the appropriate software, and the ability to connect to the Internet, as well as the support of my husband, all contribute positively to my accomplishment of the task: writing and submitting this piece on deadline and without stress.

Creating supportive environments is imperative to your success as an entrepreneur. It goes without saying that if you have environments that will support you and your passion, it’s going to be much easier and more enjoyable for you to do your work. I’m going to touch upon the environments that I believe are most essential to your success and well being.

There are many environments in your life, and most of them intertwine. Being aware of these environments will ensure that you have a hand in creating them, and not allow them to be created for you by tolerating those people, situations and things that you shouldn’t.

Important areas of your overall environment include your home, office/work space, body, energy, and nature, which all impact your mental, spiritual, and emotional environments.

In your outer environment, your home is one of the most important. Your home should be a sacred place for you, a place where you feel safe, taken care of, and content. Clutter and chaos in the home should be kept at a minimum, but your bedroom and your work space in particular should reflect calm. I know sometimes it just isn’t possible to stay on top of it all, but if you make a consistent effort to divide and conquer – and ask for help! – over time you can make a huge difference in the quality of your home environment. As bonus, you’ll create space for other more appropriate and wonderful things to enter as well!

Exercise 1:

If you have a list of things that are broken, need replacing, or just need to be tossed, then start doing this today. Pick three things that are in your home right at this moment that you can either toss or give away. Then do so, and feel the space clear.

Nothing blocks creativity more than clutter in your office or work space. To be honest, I write that sheepishly thinking of the paper piles on the floor surrounding my desk at home. What I need are several filing cabinets so I’ve ordered the ones I want and just that simple decision is freeing a lot of mental stores.

Exercise 2:

If you have clutter in your work space, you are not allowing yourself to be more productive and creative. Give yourself the gift of a clutter-free space in which to bring your gifts into the world. Take ten minutes at the end of each day and tidy your space. File what needs to be filed, throw away anything that you no longer need and can honestly assess that you really won’t ever need, and make a plan for tomorrow.

Don’t ask yourself to be perfect in this; sometimes you are going to need to fly away from your work space and simply don’t have the time to do so. When that’s the case, then take the ten minutes in the morning to clear your space so you can clear your mind for the work of the day.

Having the right tools to work with will also make your work more enjoyable and much less stressful. My desktop died a slow tortuous death one summer and you can’t imagine my stress level at the time. It got so bad that I literally shut down and spent a week in a cabin in the woods, just working from my laptop, just to get away from it. And I also can’t tell you how happy I was when it finally bit the dust and I bought my new one. The lesson for me, though, was that I should have simply bought the new desktop when I knew that there was no saving my old one, instead of going through the stress of not being able to do my work, and not being as productive as I like and need to be to continue to be successful in my work. It certainly wasn’t worth it – on any level – to suffer through those last weeks.

Exercise 3:

As in your home, are there things in your office or work space that need to be tossed, replaced or upgraded? Are you tolerating things for financial or other reasons that are really counter-productive, like I did with my ailing desktop? Choose one thing that would make your work easier and more enjoyable if you replaced, upgraded or tossed it, and make the decision to do whatever it takes to make that happen as soon as reasonably possible. Stop tolerating what you shouldn’t and get on with bringing your work into the world.

Your body is an environment that you need to take care of as well. Are you getting regular exercise? Are you participating in something physical that you really enjoy, not something that you dread making yourself do simply because you know it’s good for you? Are you eating as nutritiously as possible, without feeling deprived of the foods you love? Do you get haircuts as often as you should and would like? Do you treat yourself to a manicure, pedicure, or some other spa treatment once in awhile? Do you get enough sleep? Do you rest when you need to? Do you run on adrenaline or do you use food and exercise as your means for energy? Our body is one of the environments that can be easy to ignore (until something is wrong), yet when we take good care of ourselves in this way, it is amazing how much more energy, patience, creativity and satisfaction we have.

Exercise 4:

Choose one area of your body environment that you know you can improve right away and make the commitment right now to do it. That could mean you will go to bed a half hour earlier each night, or that you will take a 30-minute walk outside today. You could not have a sugar-laden dessert tonight and instead opt for a lighter version of frozen yogurt with fresh fruit. What action could you take today that you know will make you feel proud of yourself for doing so? Making an effort over time to create supportive environments for the things that are most important to you will open doors and opportunities that you might never have received otherwise. You deserve to be supported in your work and your life, so choosing to allow those people and things into it that bring out your best is not only a gift to yourself, but also a gift to the world.

Making an effort over time to create supportive environments for the things that are most important to you will open doors and opportunities that you might never have received otherwise. You deserve to be supported in your work and your life, so choosing to allow those people and things into it that bring out your best is not only a gift to yourself, but also a gift to the world.

Article by Tom Fisher

One of the fastest ways to reach your dreams is to change your environment. What are environments? There are many different kind of environments. Physical environment would constitute clearing your physical space. Cluttered space creates clutter thinking.

Spiritual Environment are the envioronments you create to connect with your spiritual side. Some people do it in nature, surrounding themselves with beauty and others do it through meditation and slowing down to listen to the whisper of their souls.

Environments are also the people we spend time with. We look at what we are working on in our lives and then surround ourselves with others who are creating the environments to reach similar goals and intentions. We then have them support us and we support them in order to create harmony and success for both involved.

A couple of examples … If better health is one of your goals, it would make sense to surround yourself with people who value health. Or, if growth and prosperity in your business is your focus, it would be smart to surround yourself with winners—people who are moving forward, inspiring each other and making a difference.

But before you make a decision to change your environment, you need to take certain steps to attract that new environment.

The first step is internal research. Ask yourself, What do I need? What kinds of changes do I need to make in my life?

Let’s assume again that one of your goals is to make more money in your business while at the same time making a difference. In that case, look for an environment that can support you in achieving that dream.

The second step is to develop those qualities in yourself that will attract, effortlessly, the environment you are looking for.

For example, to create an environment where you can ask for support, you must be willing to be vulnerable so that others can support you.

Ask yourself, If I put myself in that environment, am I ready to receive support? So many times I have noticed a pattern in women who come to my coaching practice and experience being vulnerable in a safe environment. They are able to take that energy and acceptance and begin creating those same authentic and honest relationships in their other world.

The third step, once you have created the inner qualities that allow you to attract and be in that environment, is to be willing to take a risk.

Yes, making new decisions, meeting new people, stepping up big in your life, are risky! They all require stepping out of your comfort zone. But if your desire is strong enough, you will do what it takes to leap forward toward your big life. When the pain of remaining small becomes too much, you will have no choice. The leap you take doesn’t have to be big and scary. It can be small, such as investing in a mastermind group or entering into a relationship with a coach who can support you in creating environments for success. And you don’t have to do any of it alone. With a support system in place, you can create new environments easily.

Keep this in mind: you are the average of five people you hang out with. Look at those people. Are they in the place you want to be? Or should you be looking for a new environment outside your current circle?