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RegExr: Learn, Build, & Test RegEx. Virgin Media finds a new use for Atlassian's JIRA software. UK communications provider Virgin Media is using JIRA project tracking software from Atlassian to monitor how its technical systems and applications are performing. JIRA is traditionally associated with software developers building new products, who use the application to capture and organise issues, work through action items, and stay up-to-date with team activity. Nick Good, Head of Technology Efficiency and Field Teams at Virgin Media, came across JIRA after carrying out a pilot project to identify opportunities to improve the company's IT systems. The pilot had been carried out using spreadsheets, which Good described as an “absolute nightmare”. He asked around the company to find out if anybody knew of a program that would enable his team to record data in a way that could be easily monitored and analysed, and it emerged that a couple of the other development teams were using JIRA for bug tracking.

“In a couple of clicks, JIRA could show us how best to prioritise each case. JIRA in a Nutshell demo video. Using Laravel 4 with the Vidahost Cloud. Who this is for Being a web marketer first and reluctant code hack second, hosting priorities for me are: Ease, responsive support, solid backups and the ability to cope when something we do goes epicly viral on the telly. Consequently, the premise of the cloud is very appealing. We like elastic. We hate complex. Ordinary Hacks: By the end of this you'll be able to deploy Laravel code straight to The Interweb for your mum to see with a simple Git push. You'll be agile and girls will swoon. Hardcore Geeks: If you're deploying an app that performs critical tasks or has to take very large loads, you shouldn't read this.

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Astrid Byro, head of project management at environmental services company Comanco, describes Jira as a "godsend" for Comanco's distributed technical team, which is spread across Qatar, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Byro says Comcano employs the Jira Agile add-on "because I have a definition of the lifecycle that I expect work to go through; in particular I want to see all code, configurations, and documentation independently peer reviewed/tested before I will agree that the piece of work is done. " Google Developers Console. Bootstrap 3 tutorial: Prototyping your site using mockups. RegExr: Learn, Build, & Test RegEx. 3D Animation and 2D Cartoons Made Simple - Reallusion Animation Software.

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For real, during this period, I’ve picked up some knowledge and skill so I can work completely independent in building a mobile game. Some of you may know that I am a programmer and I love to draw stuff and design just about anything. When I begin to build game a while back, I knew something was missing in me to complete the game. I understand these 2 topics are different species all together and one should probably taking the degree to learn and master it, but I believe I can work something out by putting effort on it. Blender Unity. Download the Free Nmap Security Scanner for Linux/MAC/UNIX or Windows. Nmap and Zenmap (the graphical front end) are available in several versions and formats. Recent source releases and binary packages are described below. Older version (and sometimes newer test releases) are available from the dist directory (and really old ones are in dist-old).

For the more security-paranoid (smart) users, GPG detached signatures and SHA-1 hashes for each release are available in the sigs directory (verification instructions). Before downloading, be sure to read the relevant sections for your platform from the Nmap Install Guide. The most important changes (features, bugfixes, etc) in each Nmap version are described in the Changelog. Nmap users are encouraged to subscribe to the Nmap-hackers mailing list. You can also get updates from our Facebook and Twitter pages. Nmap is distributed with source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, with certain clarifications and exceptions noted in the copyright page. Latest release installer: nmap-6.40-2.dmg. PDF to Word Online Converter — The Easiest to Edit — 100% Free. OSS Watch - independent expert advice on open source software.

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Sublime Text 3 is not available for pre-purchase evaluation, so if you're new to Sublime Text, you'll be stuck with version 2 for now. Getting Around in Sublime Text Figure 1.