The first time I heard about the Lumia, the new Nokia mobile, I was mesmerized by the fact that Nokia has developed a new UI for their mobile. Little did I know it was a Metro design. Recently, we were involved in the wireframe and design of an exclusive metro website and metro mobile app. The challenge was to understand the principles of the metro UI. But I soon realized that here is a story in the making that can drive the future of the user experience.
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Usage of 3D printers is taking place across multiple product segments like hi-tech, consumer, medical, among others
In less than 5 years, we all have got used to multi-touch functions on devices whether it’s a smartphone, a tablet, a netbook, or a notebook. Similarly, another major and disruptive product category that has the potential to change everything around us is the 3D printer. 3D printers are quietly making their ways into the mainstream of design and manufacturing from consumer to industrial to mission critical products. According to the Wohlers Report, 3D printing will become a $5.2 bn industry by 2020, a 4X growth during this decade.
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In power systems, operation and maintenance (O&M) plays a significant role in power generation, transmission and distribution (T&D). Generally, maintenance is performed in a defined period of intervals in order to take preventive action before a major failure occurs, and also to reduce downtime. Currently, engineers frequently face challenges in reducing equipment downtime. The real challenge in operation and maintenance is applying the appropriate solution at the right time to prevent failures, or at least to reduce downtime.
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Today, creating better software architecture ensures almost 70% completion of any software project. Better software architecture depends greatly on individual capability. This includes designing new patterns, leveraging existing design patterns, choosing third-party open source software, choosing third-party commercial software and reusing one’s own codes and designs.
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Introduction
The Grinder is an open source load testing framework. The framework is comprised of three types of processes: worker processes, agent processes, and the console. The load tests are defined using jython scripts. The responsibilities of each of the process types are (as specified in http://grinder.sourceforge.net/g3/getting-started.html):
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