First archaeologist, later software engineer – Metronieuws.nl

The University of Amsterdam (HVA) is highly educated unemployed retrained as a software engineer. Project leader Ronald Kleijn.

Make IT Work called the project. Why think you need this?

In and around Amsterdam have relatively many highly educated people without a job. On the other side are desperate numerous businesses to ICT professionals.

In this field, there are currently in the region some 12,000 vacancies. On the initiative of the Amsterdam Economic Board has therefore begun the regionalization plan “Advancing talent ‘and’ Make IT Work ‘is part of that. The aim is to 180 highly qualified without a specific IT background to retrain as a software engineer.

You give a couple of years science lesson on the HvA. Mark your students during their studies are approached by companies?

That certainly happens. Many students have a job alongside their studies already in that area. I feed also talks regularly with companies that wish to work with us. Everything to as quickly as possible to get in touch with upcoming ICT talent.

Regular students receive software engineering already offered a job during their studies by companies where they work placement or execute commands. Fortunately, most of them nowadays will first finish their studies. That was ten years ago, yet different, but now see students and businesses or the value of a degree.

When they which are issued, most incidentally already have a job in my pocket.

I studied Communications. Eight you fit me to join?

If you are motivated enough and have the insight to be able to program, then you should certainly succeed. There are plenty of examples of people with communications, archeology or human resources on their resumes by companies are retrained to ICT’er.

However, what specific features you should have as a software engineer at the Started to?

It is often puzzles you’re working on, so a little analytical ability is still a requirement. You have to like to find solutions to problems and other issues.

The courses we voorschotelen students focus on coding and translating needs into a product proposal. You learn for example, designing a program. Also going to get on the information from databases, and how you can link things together.

The first five months are dominated by theory we treat during lectures. The cost is half funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, the affiliated IT companies and the HvA.

On the student we require a financial contribution of $ 1,000. An important reason for this is that we want to make sure we attract serious people. Then follow six months with an employer where in addition you get one day a week at the HvA lesson. You will also receive salary.

Does anyone with a college diploma or university background welcome?

You can register from today at www.hva.nl/ makeitwork, but there is a selection at the gate. We do this using an online tool that we have created in collaboration with a recruitment agency. Indeed, it is quite a tough course and the story we want people to remember.

Who signs up, following a number of tests in the field of personality and intelligence. We work through a knockout system. Pick up one of the tests do not, you fall off.

The next step is an employers market. Students and companies that have committed themselves to this initiative come into contact with each other. Is there a click, then the signing of a letter of intent. Students who do their best and get the dust below the knee, are thus assured of an employment agreement.

But you aim it specifically at young people, right?

The recruitment indeed was directed at this target group, because we expect there is the greatest need retraining. Nevertheless, people aged 30 and older also respond, if they already have completed a study

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Software craftsmanship is about passion and pride – Computable

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The term craftsmanship is increasingly used by software developers as a reaction to the negative news about failing software projects in organizations. Where does this come from and is it a good development? Provides craftsmanship for better software? Or serve you as a client especially watchful for these self-appointed craftsman? Passion and pride prevail. In this blog I will explain why

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Pete McBreen, one of the first to use the term, writes in his book Software Craftsmanship (2001):

Becoming a good software developer Involves a lot more than just learning to write programs. Software development is a craft, it blends science, engineering, mathematics, linguistics and art.

An interesting consideration that requires some elaboration. Until now, software development often sees as engineering

History in engineering

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Large software knew until recently often an “engineering” approach. We therefore speak often about a software engineer. Engineering is engaged in developing and constructing products and systems where scientific knowledge is used for. Examples include construction, engineering and mechanical engineering. The emphasis is on planning and creating a detailed design before construction starts (waterfall). Within engineering, there is much focus on processes to ensure controllability, measurability and predictability. This also led to the emergence of licensing, certification (eg Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) and manuals for the exchange of engineering knowledge and the adult making the field.

With the rise of Agile work and emphasis on agility (instead of predictability), software development is going to a more creative process seem than engineering. It is creating more than build. Software development is a young profession without significant minimum entry requirements. There are no mandatory training, protected titles or rankings available to measure the competence, eg. A doctor or lawyer. Companies also have Microsoft, then with languages ​​such as Visual Basic, programming accessible to the masses. This easy entry, ample reward and physically light work had a great attraction for the labor market, making a big difference in skills originated in the field. Reputation also often determines the level of software developer, because objective standards are lacking.

At the same time software development has become a labor-intensive industry. Developers are now the most expensive resource in a software project. In history, craftsmanship often used for crafts with expensive labor and difficult to learn skills for beginners went into the leather to the box below the knee.

As a reaction against failing projects and the large influx moderately talented developers, seek software developers that represent their profession himself as a craftsman stand out from this crowd.

What is a craftsman?

There is often a parallel with Europe in the Middle Ages where craftsmen in a guild, a kind of profession, were trained as a professional with a master-apprentice approach. Think of the training as a lawyer or a medical specialist. In a guild has knowledge and experience exchanged. New guild members were trained in the profession. After a thorough education could be recognized as an apprentice technician with the title journeyman and finally the title “master” get after doing the guild or master thesis. The guild represented the interests of the guild members, and protected them. Often a guild had a monopoly on the exercise of the profession, which led to the assurance of quality of work, sometimes even to a monopoly.

A great social disadvantage of the guilds the corrupting effect of it monopoly. The age-old methods were not renewed, let alone be changed. Someone with new ideas had to either join the guild (and thus give these ideas), or choose another profession.

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Agreements with software development

In his blog Doug Bradbury describes a craft historically determined by an important collaboration between the hands and the eyes of the practitioner. A glassblower can be done by a trained hand-eye coordination blow the perfect glass.

Only when the effect is quickly visible to the hand elopment be adjusted in order to perfect the result. Agile work promotes an iterative process in which short sprints working (visible) software is delivered. Each sprint enables the hand Elingen make adjustments, like the craftsman of the Middle Ages.

While engineering chooses in advance a detailed design with little room for adjustment. Other parallels with medieval craftsman are both design and develop the product (where in engineering is often divorced), presence of material (steel), tooling and method of learning (apprenticeship / by doing).

The challenge now is that a trained glassblower not get any decent blown glass and therefore no glassblower (craftsman) can call. However, a mediocre software developer can present a working application where the client is happy with it. It is for the client simply does not show how the software ‘under the hood’ was born. To be able to say something about is arranged in parallel with Agile manifesto a manifesto craftsmanship. The question is whether this is really adding anything and does not have a high open-doors content. I especially miss the why and how behind these 4 principles. In addition, everyone is free to sign the manifesto, without being asked or looked at the record. There is more substance needed in my view. I give a cross

Properties and temptations of a craftsman

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A good software developer is distinguished by knowledge and skills. Knowledge of languages, architecture, design patterns, methodologies and frameworks. However, this knowledge is not unique and freely accessible and available on the Internet. For skills is a different story. Skills you learn by practicing. Practice makes perfect. Skills are crucial to the success and quality of the software development process. Especially since knowledge is accessible to everyone. We see this also in the definition of McBrean, which it calls a fusion of science, engineering, mathematics, linguistics and art. Especially in the latter, the focus on skills

Skills testing as software, advise, analyze, ‘clean coding’, communicating with stakeholders, plan, collaborate, and perhaps most important:. Continue to improve (learning) . You constantly ask how it could be done better next time, both technically and in cooperation. Engineering also plays an important role. Within Groupon combine them to make these two currents which:

While engineering is about the macro goal of delivering economical software that’s reliable and efficient, craftsmanship is about the micro process of mastering the skills to Achieve That macro goal.

I am of the opinion that a software developer as a craftsman must bet by striving always better to be in the box. Each command can be better (faster, cheaper, more attractive) are carried out than the last, because the skills again are better trained. It is important to use good skills. The purpose of a software development project is to deliver working software that meets the demands of stakeholders. Nothing more and nothing less. A Rolls Royce while making a Golf was asked, does not make you craftsman. Scott Norberg describes this threat in his blog based on his experiences as a flute repairman. As a professional, he carried out repairs that cost many times the value of the flute. It was also playing the flute for the owner difficult. As a professional, shot by Scott. In his argument, moreover. Gold plating is at everyone with a passion lurking. It is the professionalism of the engineer watches for unprofitable decisions. These are skills that are used to achieve the result, not so much the result

Quality and tools

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The skills also involve the deployment the right tools and techniques such as unit testing, DevOps / continuous deployment, standardization, design patterns, etc. With proper I mean especially those techniques and tools that contribute to the required result. That are appropriate in the work. It seems to be obvious, but just choose the appropriate skill requires much practice and knowledge sharing. This also requires a lot of insight and understanding of the needs of the client. For throw-away software (eg once for an event.) Have different requirements for design and maintainability than for example a shop

Passion and pride create a software craftsman

What qualities make a software craftsman? Neil Roodyn comes to:

– A craftsman devoted his working life to be better at his job;

– A craftsman learns skills as ‘companion’ in practice;

– A craftsman seeks mastery of the box after

– A craftsman teaches beginners the art as ‘master’;

– A craftsman building a reputation based on what he produces, not on the basis of extracted examinations;

– A craftsman works closely with the customer to realize what is requested;

– A craftsman discuss implications with the customer;

– A craftsman assures itself that the client is satisfied with the outcome;

In other words, passion for the job and proud of the results are decisive. Passion creates continuous learning and sharing skills with colleagues. Pride actually means that the craftsman also his signature on the result because he dares to put the customer and his satisfaction with the result. Passion and pride have direct impact on reputation, so the position of the craftsman is rising in the market. This distinguishes the craftsman from the crowd.

BT secures cloud with Check Point Software – Computable

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BT announces an agreement with Check Point Software to integrate additional security capabilities within its global network. Customers are thus enabled cloud-based applications to access secure wherever they are hosted.

New ‘Cloud Firewall’ services are part of a series hosted security solutions that BT adds to the global network for its cloud of Clouds’ vision – which in April, it was announced – further shape.

are becoming more applications and workloads now moved to private, public and hybrid clouds, customers need efficient and secure access through a mix of dedicated and public networks. They find attached the optimum balance between performance, cost and security. To protect the border between business customer networks and the Internet better BT now adds additional managed security services to its worldwide Internet access points, based on Check Point’s 13500 series firewall technology.

In order to strengthen its cloud integration offerings, BT improves Internet breakout of its global network to global access. These gateways are located in the world’s largest Internet peering locations. Breakouts can be established at the regional level, the best access to Internet-based cloud services, or optimized basis with traffic ‘on-net’ is held and breakouts closer to a specific cloud-site place.

The integrated Cloud Firewall services are now available worldwide as a standard for customers of BT Global Services.

Software monitors mental health declaration rules – Zorgvisie

[Weekly overview] Ggz setting Geriant monitors with software the accuracy of declarations. This week the designated institution received a certification. Eline van der Wal, finance manager Geriant, explains the software and tells what the certification Geriant

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 The software takes the rules for claims in the eye.
 

Why is the certification required?

“The certification of the financial module in our EPD Synapse (Topicus) contributes to the approval of our annual production and direction accountant and health insurers. In the software we work with validation rules that control or the DBC meets the rules of the Dutch Healthcare Authority and DBC Maintenance. This should ensure that we send wrong claims to insurers. These validation rules we had in our system, but the certification, we can prove to the outside world that the validation rules are correct. That makes the job of the auditor easier and we notice that health insurers as well to questions.

What do these validation rules exactly?

“It’s A total of 140 validation rules when a claim is assessed. There are simple rules that look at mandatory fields as the customer’s name, date of birth or the reason for closing the DBC. Additionally, there are more complicated rules see if there is a diagnosis is made and whether the DBC no longer than 365 days open. When the dbc after 366 days is closed, we do not get paid. When Geriant early 2014 began working with the EPD, we have tested in every way, a substantial task. Turned out about 80 validation rules error prone. Validation rules, however, change yearly. By repeating the certification of the validation rules do not need these tests.

Ensures that a reduction in the administrative burden?

Indeed . By preventing administrative errors, you reduce the administrative burden of secretariats and caregivers. Administration is not exactly a hobby of caregivers. They may charge a storage rate of 30 percent provided care per hour for administrative tasks and related issues. That sounds a lot, but in practice it really tight. In recent years, the amount of work per client has increased such that the rate previously around 40 to 50 percent range. But we have storage to date do not increase: if you must care organization does not want. We try to bring that percentage down so that the main practitioner can devote his time to the clients. The installation of controls and certification of the EPD can help. By declarations in good time to file, you do not correct afterwards. “

What’s the next step?

” We prefer would the rules for insurers also bring. We are still working with many lists, but that is proving difficult. Namely all the insurers apply different rules. We treat geriatric patients. When someone in the hospital is diagnosed with dementia, the hospital can refer to us. However, not every insurance company accepts the hospital as referral; We have for example a referral from a general practitioner. If we forget that, the declaration is not right and we do not get paid. Another example is that not every health care provider accepts the specialist in geriatric medicine as hoofdbehandelaar. Some only accept a psychiatrist. There are differences between the health insurers that may cause errors in the declarations.

Each insurer uses different rules so?

“It goes even further . Except that with VGZ, Silver Cross, Menzis, Multi Care, DSW and CZ make separate agreements, there are also several appointments per contract year. There are also differences in terms between basic and specialized mental health services. Actually, we have twelve contracts to be reckoned with and that takes a lot of time to test it all. And then I let the wijkverpleging- and WMO contracts only out of consideration. The most annoying is that our workers should apply separate rules for each client: which should you actually do not want. By automating the invoice control, we want to make sure that our people can only do well. Now we carry many periodic checks. That goes, but it is the route of most of the work.

Deliver software and stop methods and tools – Computable

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Agile has long been very hot. Was it in the beginning something special today everyone claims to be Agile. But is that really so? And how important is that? Agile really helps in achieving our objectives? Carries an Agile working method really help to devise solutions that achieve or is it just the next excuse? Let’s just do it, that’s crazy enough. It is high time to deliver software

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In my role as a software (I am co-founder of a software house), we make a call daily along with potential customers. There is a huge desire to work Agile. We meet a lot of software teams on the client side who claim to be all Agile. However, often there is on both sides of the table, so both in the business and IT, dissatisfaction. Software projects do not deliver on what they had expected.

An impasse is often the result, accusations are made over and over again. Frequently we hear stories that the business side but do not understand that they do not come get what they ask for. The IT side complains about all the ignorance and the many disruptions to their development through all kinds of customer priorities

Methods not everything

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In order to improve the situation , IT departments are increasingly taking matters into their own hands. And that is to be welcomed wholeheartedly. One chooses to work in a different way and thus be more flexible towards the business. Usually one chooses to implement Scrum. In this way they try to finally have promised new release to deliver. But if such a change takes place in isolation, it is doomed to fail.

Forced goes the IT department itself namely closing the business. Opening hours are adjusted to keep the business as much as possible out the door. However, alternatives are not presented towards what the customer is in principle anyway. This allows the business side gets the feeling that the service still fell further, because he can his story now no longer lost

Mutual incomprehension

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Recent I discussed this issue during a keynote address at PMI-conference. A large group of experienced project managers held massive hand down when I asked if they had a good consultation relationship with the business side of their projects. I found this quite shocking. And it confirms what we often see in practice. The business side has submitted a request, but then does not get what was desired. Soundings of the IT department learns that they have not really understood, but anyway produce something.

Such problems can not be solved by introducing eg Scrum within the IT department. Internal change there or processes, rituals give form and the day the short term might lead to more focus and with pleasure. But in the longer term there will unfortunately not change much. The customer remains dissatisfied. And all this by the simple fact that the business does not feel understood and the IT side will continue to lack appreciation

Additional capacity

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Another solution elected regularly is a capacity to realize all the wishes of the business. Arrears must be eliminated. An external IT partner is involved in the process and which may provide additional resources. In the worst case, this is the start of a much larger problem.

We all know the phenomenon of garbage in is garbage out. ” An inadequate optimized process is not to spend, you can not solve problems by adding more capacity. Lead times shortened not you with that, on the contrary. Nine women give birth to a baby even in a month.

It’s obviously very dangerous to generalize, but sometimes that is necessary to make things clear. The above situation sketches are based on our long-term experience with customers in several countries. Often we encounter similar situations

Together you can achieve more

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The question now of course there is a cure for this ailment? Yes, that medicine exists and is often too simple for words. Many organizations only apparently needs an outsider to identify the sore spot. In the majority of cases are business and it simply too long opposite each other.

As such, we find this all probably strange, because we would all have to pursue the same business objectives. The practice is more stubborn. For very different reasons, every department now as his own objectives, which are far from being fully in line with that of the overall organization

Wink

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Personally, I think it should put this as a first step. By showing interest in the business side can create a dialogue. Genuine interest creates an unprecedented exchange of information. It will find that the customer did not need what he asked. He came with a supposed solution to the problem, but in many cases it appears that the real problem is actually different, but that it had failed to articulate this.

Do customers actually know what they really want, or have in need? Often insufficient. And actually they should also not try to articulate. They just have to, in relatively simple functional descriptions, explain what problem they experienced or what chance to see them. If it involves himself in this situation, they can use their knowledge of existing systems and (new) technical possibilities really how to realize it

Common Sense

Do you have here Scrum and other Agile methods and tools required? No, not necessarily. This is simply a matter of using common sense and together make a good dialogue. These are techniques that we apply together for many centuries. Of course, some do support best practices, but on the condition that both business and IT participate.

An IT department that says to work in accordance with Scrum, but has no product owner, is in my eyes still not really good Agile process. Then Scrum up an excuse and it’s time to just do it and have a good talk

Success

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CBP: Anti-jihad software on school going too far – BNR

             
             

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New: software to detect jihadism in the classroom – Volkskrant

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Many software includes error-prone open source components – Automatiseringsgids

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Garment Software and customization are often unsafe due to be easy ready-made components are used whose quality is not adequately controlled

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This is the finding of Sonatype , a company that maintains a repository infrastructure under which hundreds of thousands of open source Java components down. Last year 240 757 components therefrom downloaded by large software companies and financial institutions. The study of Sonatype shows that contain more than 7.5 percent of them, or around 15,000 components known vulnerabilities, reports Computerworld.

Sonatype host the Central Repository, but not managing it, and has no control over what goes in and out. According Sonatype research, many software developers also did not indicate whether components are processed with a known vulnerability because a balanced inventory of components used often lacking.

Sonatype analyzed 29 financial institutions and technology companies, the top 100 most downloaded components over 2014. This shows that they used on average 27 different versions of each component. It can be concluded that they use outdated and potentially vulnerable versions in many cases. In one case appeared developers have downloaded at a financial institution even 51 of the 58 available versions of the Spring Application Framework. According Sonatype this is indicative of the sloppy inventory tracking software developers. The problem is not new, but growing in size by the speed with which software should be ready, suggests Sonatype,

Colt moves towards software defined networking – Computable

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The ‘connected’ world economy, where all signs point to a continuation of the explosive data growth, companies more than ever rely on data centers. Colt has already focused on the concept of virtualization before software defined networking (SDN) is a hip trend was whether the term network functions virtualization (NFV) was conceived. What steps Colt took to transform into a provider of virtualization and data center services

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ICT infrastructure of companies is becoming increasingly complex. Their digital business models also require constant innovation. Companies must implement new structures and continually weigh up to develop technology in-house or to buy into this. Now trends such as enterprise mobility, big data and Internet of Things (IoT) continue their advance, it is crucial that the underlying network and data center infrastructure 100 percent available, flexible and safe for optimal support of business applications that run on it . Carriers and operators need to think about ways to keep these developments and competition

More and more demanding

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“Our main strategic goal is to transforming a traditional operator to a company that offers integrated ICT and network, “says Ben Timmer, country DCS operations manager at Colt. “We want to offer our customers the opportunity to purchase a seamless service instead of a series of components. Our clients come up with new demands. The emphasis is shifting from transactions to the user experience. That goes for all companies that deal with increasingly demanding business users inside and outside the company walls.

For what you might call a precursor of a NFV initiative Colt called on functionality network virtualization as part of the strategy to remove physical Layer 3 devices from the premises of business customers. Instead wild colt services as VPN connections and Internet access offer based on a combination of software solutions (virtual customer premises equipment) and more powerful performance Layer 2 devices in IP-based network edge. The objective was twofold: cost and complexity reduction and expand service offerings

vCPE

Colt operates Because of the focus on the business sector, a relatively small number. large customers. It is not so much about the volume but rather to the complexity. This business focus calls for quick configuration of services that the customer wants to use. The traditional techniques proved inadequate for this purpose. In the past weeks, for example, lost customers to set up connections. This required both manual configuration work as remote configuration. The use of virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) makes it possible to roll out these services in a matter of hours. A vCPE often runs on standard hardware, reducing the cost per unit are much lower than with traditional physical CPEs.

In addition to transforming the customer network / EDGE network to an environment with a stronger virtualized character Colt also virtualizes the networks within their own data centers. Timmer says: “Our primary data center in Paris serves about five hundred customers, and we were faced with the task to migrate them from an aging infrastructure that was no longer supported.

Colt has twenty European data centers. The first virtualization phase has been completed in four of them, including those in Paris and Roosendaal. The remaining data centers will be virtualized in the next eighteen months

Goodbye complexity

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The Colt data centers originally had a complex structure. There were manual, physical connections to various networks in order to create a comprehensive service offering. One of the main objectives was to make the network “programmable.” This stems from the fact that networks in the course of the years have evolved into complex, inflexible, and costly closed systems. The main reasons are a lack of networking principles and abstractions (ie a good “control plane”) and a lack of open network APIs. This is in contrast to the ‘computing’ layer, which is open, has a high level of abstraction and the cloud paradigms (automation, virtualization, elastic, on-demand) supports.

programmable networks, the computing principles applied to the network, and in addition to the applications, and networks to communicate with each other. To make that possible, its three components are required:

• Software defined networking to separate the data and the control plane of each other and standardize the basic netwerkabstracties (per-hop and overlay)

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• Software driven networking focuses on network APIs, allowing applications and network to exchange information.

• Network functions virtualisation to consolidate all the various network devices.

In addition, was striving to achieve cost savings. One problem was the limited scalability of the old infrastructure. It took effort to meet the demand for multiple 10 Gbit / s connections for connecting servers, storage and other ICT components

Cloud Centric Networking

In order to achieve these objectives Colt launched the Cloud Centric Networking (CCN) initiative, which was used CloudStack (open source cloud computing software) and VMware vCloud for managing cloud resources. VMware NSX (a combination of Nicira and vCloud functionality) and switches from Arista Colt was able to implement an overlay sdn solution. This meant that the existing equipment does not have to be completely replaced.

“With VMware NSX we could disconnect the data center network from the underlying physical hardware,” explains Mirko Voltolini, vice president of Architecture and Technology at Colt, increasing. “This resulted in unprecedented scalability and simplify network design and management. NSX also helped us with the consolidation of four disparate physical networks within the data center. These networks we manage as a single logical network. We have a new data center architecture developed that appeals to the scalability of Layer 3 data center network and the capabilities of NXS for virtualizing overlay networks.

No more cumbersome process

The virtual network will enable Colt to quickly put together a complete range of services for business customers. Web services, storage and backups can be in the data center connected to a network management and WAN connectivity. In this particular case five network capabilities are coupled to one another. In the past, this was accompanied by a cumbersome process. Technicians had to go into the data center and connecting physical cables between ports. Then they had to configure all systems

Voltini:. “The VMware system does this automatically. Which brings us one step closer to the status of a truly software-defined enterprise. Down the line, we can reduce costs by 60 to 70 percent compared to the original situation.

This article first appeared in Computable magazine volume 48, number 5 of May 2015.

• Watch for when considering software defined networking to a quick win, for example in the form of a vCPE (virtual customer premises equipment) .

• Cloud providers and over-the-Top ‘players take the lead, keep an eye on them in order to learn from it.

• Avoid vendor lock-in. Software defined networking has to go a long way in determining the ideal architecture and the availability of industry standards.

• Overlay sdn solutions for the data center reality, they put so well in.

• Software defined networking is not purely technology driven, it affects the entire organization. Prepare for here

• Think from services and applications

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Topdesk offers software in Microsoft Azure – Computable

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Software supplier Topdesk has entered into a partnership with Microsoft, with its service management software is available in the Azure cloud. Azure customers can deploy the software Topdesk through their account. The software of the Delft company is suitable for service desks in it, building management and human resources.

As a result of the collaboration software Topdesk now available as a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure marketplace. The cloud environment contains the most commonly used features and modules, including the self-service portal and reporting capabilities for managers

Topdesk

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The 450 employees of Topdesk currently help 4,000 customers in supporting enterprise-wide processes such as incident management, resource management and worflowmanagement. Headquartered in Delft, the company has offices in London (England), Antwerp (Belgium), Ballerup (Denmark), Budapest (Hungary), Kaiserslautern (Germany), Orlando (USA) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Adobe rolls 2015 update for Creative Cloud – Techzine

Adobe Creative Cloud today provide a major update, all applications have again undergone further improvements and features are added here and there. In addition, Adobe also introduced Adobe Stock, a stock photo service based Fotolia which was acquired by Adobe.

All those with a membership to Adobe Creative Cloud can upgrade to the new versions of Adobe’s software . Because they are the Creative Cloud a monthly subscription users always have the latest versions.

If we look at the blogs of Adobe then seems important improvement and Mercury engine are responsible for rendering all projects. This seems to have been necessary optimizations so that projects can be rendered more quickly. Thus, Adobe Photoshop would be a whopping 120 times must render quickly. Illustrator is 10 times as fast and twice as fast InDesign.

In Photoshop, it is now possible to use multiple artboards to design layouts for different sizes. This is also reflected in Dreamweaver, which now supports responsive design this you can easily see how your design will look on a mobile device. Lightroom adds the capability to easily and fog removing blurry parts. Even with underwater photos, says Adobe.

Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects have undergone some changes. Premiere is now much easier to make color corrections can now be more subtle in a video cut with “Morph Cut” , so that a dialog will look smoother. In After Effects is now possible to make adjustments without having to interrupt the playback. Further, it is possible to soak with the static images to life Character animator. This uses the webcam to the movements and facial expressions of the user on the image.

Finally, there is added a new subscription with Adobe Stock included. Users can then download 10 images free per month. Users may also choose to seek out images separately and then pay at least $ 9.99 per image.

The price of the normal Creative Cloud subscription will remain unchanged at 60.49 euros per month, compared to the price in the United States is still very expensive.

Google Chrome will make more energy efficient – Techzine

Google has announced that there are several improvements in the coming weeks added to Chrome’s beta version of the software to make a lot more energy efficient. Compared to other browsers, Chrome is not as energy efficient.

In recent years, Google Chrome has become one of the most popular browsers. Google Chrome is also responsible for a lot of innovations and the accelerated rollout of HTML5. Although Google has at one point or stabbing are falling and that is energy. Google Chrome is currently anything but energy efficient which for laptop users who brings a lot on their battery works necessary disadvantages.

Recently there was also an extension available tabs in Chrome over time is idle to save energy. The popularity of this extension is Google certainly have noticed and coincidence or not, Google is now taking action to make Chrome more efficient.

The company has already announced that it is not essential Flash animations on a Web page will pause. The user must then himself to press the Play button to view the animation. As a result, many Flash banners in the future standard are no longer displayed. Flash video players should change nothing.

Google does, however, know that it is even more improvements make the next time. So Chrome will soon deal differently with inactive tabs, which should reduce energy consumption. Further procedures that will require a lot of energy optimized where necessary. Chrome is on many websites hundreds of times active over a period of 30 seconds, the intention is that that activity is reduced which means less processor requested and also less energy consumption.

The adjustments are now implemented in the beta versions of Chrome and cause energy consumption on Mac OS X alike will lie with Safari. A browser that is much more energy efficient at the moment than Chrome. But it will take some months before the improvements are also available in the production version.

Software 2020: nerds are the future – punt.avans

The greatest job on earth? Do something with it no matter how you look, what you wear and still have access to the hippest party? Living in luxury every day with pleasure. Well, there’s only one thing for you, a job as a software developer for nerds are hipper than hip. Sander Hoogendoorn argues keynote speaker at a symposium at Avans about the future of software.

Hoogendoorn right to speak. He’s been thirty years in the profession. Has has several books to his name and is considered an expert on particular software sites and asked if such as a speaker in India, Britain, Romania, Poland and so at last Friday at Avans in Breda.

Confrontation
The image of the quiet, shy man nerd is very misplaced in the case of Hoogendoorn. He talks a lot and quickly, using humor and does not avoid confrontation. Especially Java programming language and project leaders must pay for his college. “We must get rid of that software project planning. It just can not. This course is only fifty years old. You do not know how long something. Why make all those plans in advance if you already know that deadlines are not met? “

The future of software is as Hoogendoorn in the development of micro services. “Those old mainframes meet just not. They are not expensive to update and manage. “Commissioned by an insurer Hoogendoorn now micro services to develop to take over the dated software-heavy tasks in 2017. “Is it doable? I have no idea. “

Expand Further
‘Benefits of Micro services are legion. You can build much faster, you’re not dependent on a programming because the services can communicate with each other and you can always expand. “

Hoogendoorn called Gmail as a good example of software development. “It started as a software to send mails. That was in early enough. They’ve constantly updated, there are things added. But they have not waited for years and suddenly put a complete software package on the market.

Skateboard
In the future we will move toward building small programs immediately in management are taken. “Why would you build a whole car if you only need a skateboard? With software it is exactly so. If a program does what you want, you do not continue to build. “

One caveat Hoogendoorn put it in micro services. “It’s really still in a development phase. We do not really know yet how everything turns out. But this is the direction we want to go.

Software Update: FileZilla Server 0.9.53 – Tweakers

There is a new version of the open source FTP server FileZilla Server released. FileZilla Server is a small and powerful FTP server that includes support for FXP (sending files from one to another FTP server), secure connections (SSL and TLS), GSS authentication and Kerberos encryption. Unlike the client version, which is also available for Linux and OS X, the server version is being developed for Windows, but not very active. FileZilla has been discredited since the standard download is a download manager which advertises other software, but this link points to a clean installation. In version 0.9.53 comes with a newer version of OpenSSL, which several security problems have been corrected

Bug fixes and minor changes:.
 

• Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2b due to several at security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

 

Daum PotPlayer 1.6 build 54549 – Tweakers

When GOMlab decided to join, I am accompanied switched their GOM player adware. Since then, very satisfied with this player.

It is a very comprehensive player that plays almost everything. Also, subtitles and the like are no problem. The settings are very extensive, so you can customize to fit your needs him (as I found the keybindings not fantastic and have them set up so as to GOM).

Sony acknowledges heat problems Xperia Z3 + and will soon release software update – Android World

The Sony Xperia Z3 + or Z4 in Japan has only a few days on the market and features a Snapdragon 810 chipset from Qualcomm . This chipset is there mainly to get very hot nations also known users of the Sony smartphone have been reported there. Sony has now issued an a statement on this case.

Sony Xperia Z3 + and Z4

The new Sony Xperia Z4 was first announced for the Japanese market, but a European version has also known; Sony Xperia Z3 +. The unit contains high-end specifications and Sony chose it for a smartphone processor from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 810. This processor we now find in a handful of handsets like the HTC One M9 and LG G Flex 2 and provides good performance. This good performance is of course fine, but the 810 chipset is a hothead and that is what less. Users in Japan reported last week already have heat issues with their Xperia Z4 sets, where the aircraft were very warm

Also read:. Users Sony Xperia Z4 report heat problems chipset

Statement

Sony now has to GSMinfo let know to be aware of these findings:

” That can create the device extra warmth under some circumstances makes to stop an application (for example, those of the camera). This heat can be felt by the users to the rear of the unit, but that’s normal and no cause for concern. Why is there released a software update in the summer that should bring down the temperature of the smartphone under normal conditions. If some users have concerns, they can contact the customer service of the company and units can be checked for proper operation. ”

Our initial experience with the Xperia Z3 + are found in a hands-on but we have not yet tested the device. The Sony Xperia + Z3 and Z4 Xperia Tablet feature a 2.1 revision of the Snapdragon 810 chipset. This version differs from the first chipset 810 in the area of ​​optimisations for thermal management, but that seems therefore still not have to work quite well.

The unit has now buy all or at T-Mobile in the Netherlands, received a single price of € 699, but also in combination with different subscriptions available

Source:. GSMinfo

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Software Update: Driver Fusion 3.0.0 – Tweakers

Treexy has released version 3.0.0 of Fusion Driver. With this program, old drivers are cleaned. When removing old drivers via an included uninstaller or through the Control Panel are by no means always all files of that driver from the system and remain there sometimes registry keys behind. This could lead in some cases to stability or performance problems.

Driver Fusion is available in a free version and a premium version, which offers additional functionality. The free version is bundled with adware, prices for the premium version starting at 15 euros. At the bottom of this page can download the free version without adware gevonden..In this release are made the following changes and improvements:

New features:
 

• Interface – Community Suggested feature – The menu HAS BEEN redesigned to Improve usability. It is now possible to go directly to each screen without having to first select another tab.

 
• Interface – Added a help button to go directly to the manual

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Changed features:
 

• Device Control – Added a progress indicator while scanning for hardware devices. **

 
• Driver family – Improved caching or installed driver families

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• Driver Family – The family installed driver will now automatically refresh after a delete operation

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• Driver family – Added a progress indicator while scanning driver installed for families

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• Driver Family – History entries are now saved even after canceling the current operation

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• Interface – Improved the responsiveness and driver family

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• Interface – Improved font scaling of the notification bar

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• Interface – The scrollbar is no longer invisible When it is disabled

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• Interface – Many icon changes to Clarify Their function

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• Localization – Community Suggested feature – Added right-to-left language support

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• Localization – Added Kazakh and Uzbek

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Resolved issues:
 

• Device control – Devices without compatible ids could occasionally cause Fusion Driver to freeze or close unintentionally. **

 
• Device control – Changing between different sources in the backup driver install dialog could occasionally result in an empty title bar. **

 
• Desktop – The user name was not stored set correctly for all languages ​​

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• Interface – A white line was occasionally rendered at the bottom of the window

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• Steam – The Tree Mulcher Steam achievement could occasionally cause Fusion Driver to close unintentionally

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• Filters – The new filter ook entry could be added with cancel

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• Filters – Multiple filters with the same name could be added

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• Filters – Add new filter button entry could in some cases be visible without a filter selected

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• Driver family – Scanning for family installed driver entries could in some cases get stuck at 0%

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 ** Only on Premium Edition

Software Update: Wine 7.1.45 – Tweakers

There is version number 1.7. 45 published a new development build of Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. The software enables DOS and Windows programs to run on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.

A large group of developers contributes to Wine and it was decided to include every two weeks a new so-called development version bring rather than waiting for a number of new features is done. A few times a year, a stable release.

The database applications running under Wine, possibly using small adjustments at the time of writing contains 22 427 titles. Below you’ll find what’s changed in this release and improved

What’s new in this release:.
 

• Better debugging support on 64-bit Mac OS X.

 
• Some more progress on DirectWrite implementation.

 
• A number of rich edit control fixes.

 
• Beginning implementation of the old MSVCIRT C ++ runtime.

 

Bugs fixed in 7.1.45 (total 49):
 

• 2805: Utopia angel does not start (error clipboard)

 

• 4463: Dogwaffle exits constantly initalization with a visual basic error

 

• 7425: Gothic 2 crashes without direct native music

 

• 9473: Adobe Reader 6 / Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro: Zoom factor and PageNumberStyle are empty (Riched20.dll)

 

• 11176: Adobe Reader 6 / Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro: Searching not possible (Riched20.dll)

 

• 11849: Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 & amp; 7 / Adobe Reader 6 & amp; 7 – Updates fail

 

• 12451: Adobe Acrobat / Reader opens the wrong URL

 

• 14896: GTA: San Andreas – Ambient Sounds are too quiet (EAX)

 

• 18019: Some Bioware games’ setup crashes When changing install directory

 

• 19156: Street Fighter 4 Benchmark: Poor framerate

 

• 19813: Voddler client hangs on startup (kernel32.GetSystemTimes is a stub)

 

• 20830: DameWare NTutilities crashes trying yo create AD object

 

• 21042: Outlook Express crashes before sending a message

 

• 21579: Multiple applications crash with builtin Rich Edit (text Host window / gui control methods must not be called consistently CreateTextRange Services) (Yahoo Messenger 10, bssb-Win, ICQ 6,7,8)

 

• 21708: d3d is trying to use GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE_ARB When driver does not support ARB_depth_texture

 

• 23174: Fallout 3: Diologue and video / sound issues

 

• 23997: Gridrunner Revolution: does not render certainement objects in-game

 

• 24033: Starcraft2 bath physics issue on non-flat landscape parts that’s Unrelated to the physics

 

• 24299: StarCraft 2: Custom maps with labels using dialogic style “ABChoiceBackButtonText” game crashes

 

• 26808: Multiple games need XAudio2 ‘{5a508685-a254-4fba-9b82-9a24b00306af}’ XAudio2_7.dll (Blue Toad Murder Files, Crazy Machines, Zafehouse Diaries)

 

• 28768: Multiple GFWL (Games for Windows Live) 1.x games crash on startup (Kane & amp; Lynch: Dead Men)

 

• 29349: Summoner launch screen: corrupted graphics

 

• 31896: Portable Calibre does not add to library book

 

• 32060: Guild Wars: Input gets stuck

 

• 32966: MSHTML: crash get_frame_by_name (“jquery”) using jQuery 1.3.2

 

• 33592: Family Tree Builder crashes partway through imports or components

 

• 34684: Raid Call 7.2.x crashes When joining a group

 

• 34808: wine iexplore.exe http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com:crashes

 

• 34982: Multiple web installers crash ‘get_frame_by_name’ with NULL Html Outer Window ‘(Horizon XBOX tool, MAGIX Video deluxe MX Plus 18)

 

• 35029: Ancient Gems (myrealgames.com) crashes on startup

 

• 35191: make install Should not call update-desktop-database

 

• 36135: valgrind shows some errors in OLE32 / tests / ole2.c

 

• 36704: wine cmd uses overwrite mode INSTEAD OF insert mode

 

• 37713: winecfg: Window title is not updated When removing application from the list

 

• 38384: 64-bit InstallShield engine COM server ‘ISBEW64.exe crashes during installation or AT & amp; T Connect iMeeting

 

• 38443: valgrind shows some invalid writes in dpnet / tests / address.c

 

• 38462: valgrind shows an uninitialized variable in dlls / MSHTML / tests / activex.c test_exec_script ()

 

• 38576: PES2015 will not connect to online services / 2 (ConvertInterfaceLuidToGuid is missing)

 

• 38 593: valgrind shows uninitialized memory in set_mwm_hints ()

 

• 38595: FXCM Trading Station II does not install without winetricks vcrun2005

 

• 38654: Multiple games have rendering issues When antialiasing enabled (King’s Bounty series, GTA: San Andreas, Tomb Raider: Anniversary)

 

• 38658: Perfect World’s Arc game client: window contents missing after log-in (needs better support for NtQueryInformationJobObject)

 

• 38664: PJConv crashes after dropping an image file

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• 38683: Waldorf Spectre application crashes on start

 

• 38 694: Waldorf Spectre crashes When Clicking on buttons in the user interface

 

• 38710: Simon the sorcerer hangs 5 ​​When changing settings

 

• 38717: MX Simulator demo does not display menu set correctly

 

• 38725: valgrind shows an invalid write in OLE32 / tests / usrmarshal.c

 

• 38733: appcertui helper tool from Windows SDK 8.1 App Certification Kit crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-core process threads-l1-1-1.dll.OpenProcessToken

 

Microsoft sees old Ask Toolbar as unwanted software – Security.nl

The Microsoft Security Software considers old versions of the Ask Toolbar, which included among other things the installation of Java, now as unwanted software. Late last year, the software giant announced that it would take action against toolbars and other programs that change browser settings, unsolicited.

Toolbars for many users is a major source of annoyance. It also happens often that the default search engine users is adjusted and it is very difficult to change back to the original search engine. In late May it let Microsoft know that it went modify this software. The new measures would take effect on June 1, and it seems that the software giant has kept his promise.

Old versions of the Ask Toolbar, given the large number of topics on its removal for many users is a scourge, is now labeled as unwanted software. That informs a user on Slashdot, which thereby pointing to an article in the malware encyclopedia of Microsoft. According to the description the Ask Toolbar Microsoft considers a “high threat” that can be removed by Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Safety Scanner.

Since the message on Slashdot the news was taken up by other media, which again for a response from Ask.com and Microsoft seems to have created. Indeed, there is an update posted in the encyclopedia, which now reported that the most recent version of the Ask Toolbar is not considered unwanted software.

Software Update: LibreOffice 5.0.0 Beta 3 – Tweakers

The Document Foundation has the third beta release of version 5.0 of LibreOffice released. This open source office suite was created as spin-off from OpenOffice and comes with Writer word processor, spreadsheet program, Calc, presentation program, Impress, drawing Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application to join scientific notations.

New in version 5.0, includes a 64bit version for Windows and toolbars get new buds coming out of KDE. Detailed information on the changes in version 5.0.0, which if all goes well the end of July will become available, can be found on this page. These are the main ones in Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw are made:

 

Writer

  Word-compatible text highlighting
 

• Both highlighting and shading are preserved constantly import / export or Microsoft Word documents. tdf # 64490

 

• New compatibility option to Specify how to export LibreOffice character background to Microsoft Office file formats: as highlighting or shading axis. tdf # 64490

 

• To use this option, go to Tools & gt; Option & gt; Load / Save & gt; Microsoft Office .

 
• For more information see this blog post

 

Crop an image
It is now possible to crop an image with the mouse. Action is accessible through contextual menu entry: Crop image, Format & gt; Image & gt; Crop menu entry and Graphic toolbar. tdf # 34555 Standard behavior apply:
 

• dragging from a center edge crops only vertically or horizontally,

 

• dragging from a corner crops is where the mouse cursor,

 

• dragging with Shift forces pressed a crop rectangle proportional to original image size.

 
• crop is preserved constantly image resizing,

 

• crop mode stops When you press Esc or you click anywhere outside the cropped image.

 

Better calculation or displayed page number
Another issue inherited from OpenOffice.org-which Caused Writer’s status bar to display the incorrect page number When scrolling-has leg fixed in LibreOffice. Writer will now update the page indicator When less than the 43% of a page is visible on-screen. tdf # i # 90150 80672

Table Management
 

• Inserting rows or columns is affectedness by a user’s pre-selection, similar to Calc. tdf # 90883

 

• Ability to add rows and columns before the current cursor position through the context menu. tdf # 90882

 

Toolbar improvements Additional improvements have gone into the “Standard”, “Formatting,” “Drawing” and contextual toolbars to providence users with frequently used commands. tdf # 81475

Calc

 

• Item labels in PivotTables can be repeated now. tdf # 87972, Screenshot

 

• The functions CEILING.MATH and ERROR.TYPE have been added.

 

Conditional formatting
 

• UI for Data bars with a solid background. (Feature without UI HAS BEEN available since 3.6) tdf # 87356

 

• UI for Data bars without showing Their under-lying values. (Feature without UI HAS BEEN available since 3.6) tdf # 89199

 

• Minimum and maximum bar lengths for data bars tdf # 90197

 

• Export or formatting for conditional formatting to XLSX fixed.

 
• Import or Data bars and Color Scales handles color values ​​theme colors. tdf # 90511

 

• Import and export of custom icon set definitions (including MSO extensions to OOXML) (no UI)

 

• Additional icon sets: 3 triangles, 3 stars, 5 boxes

 

Scientific Format and Number Format
 

• Engineering notation: tdf # 30716
   
  • enable exponent multiple of 3 (or other value) format with ## 0.00E + 00 : set the number of digits ( # or 0 ) before decimal separator.

   

  • Format add ## 0.00E + 00 to scientific format list in UI dialog
    Format & gt; Cells & gt; Numbers & gt; Scientific for all localizations.
  
   
  • replace Thousands separator checkbox with Engineering notation for scientific formats. tdf # 90258

   

 

• General format using scientific, scientific and default format, keep minimum two digits (INSTEAD OF 3) exponent for all localizations. tdf # 88835

 

• Trend line equation with one digit in minimum exponent (INSTEAD OF 3). tdf # 88835

 

• Add / remove decimal digits or scientific format:
   
  • with buttons Add Decimal Place / Delete Decimal Place tdf # 88 960;
   
  • with Sidebar: Properties & gt; Number Format & gt; Decimal places tdf # 88999;

   

  • UI dialog with Format & gt; Cells & gt; Numbers & gt; Decimal places . tdf # 88999

   

 

• Allow variable with decimal format 0.0 E + ## 00 for scientific numbers and 0.0 ## for numbers (decimal part can contain some 0 and then some # ). This format is now set correctly saved in ODF files. tdf # 90133

 

• Sign of exponent can be skipped for positive exponent with format 0.00E00 (remove sign after E ). This format is now set correctly saved in ODF files. tdf # 90133

 

Table structured references
 

• Table structured references in a spreadsheet formula expressions are imported from Excel OOXML spreadsheet documents.

 
• Usable with defined database ranges, OOXML tables-which are imported to.

 
• Note That the structured references are not written to documents saved yet, but transformed, to A1 style reference notation instead. The table context is lost on exports.

 

Crop, change and save an image
 

• It is now possible from Format & gt; Image menu, from contextual menu and from graphic toolbar to Crop an Image with the mouse, to Save an image and to Change it by another image from disk.

 
• These functionalities behave like in Impress or Writer.

 
• Format menu HAS BEEN updated accordingly: there is now
   
  • Format & gt; Object entry with Position and Size, Line, Area, Define Text Attributes and Points

   

  • Format & gt; Image entry with Crop, Edit with External Tool Change Image, Compress Image, Save Image.
  
   

 

Impress and Draw

 

• Rear Rangement or toolbars in Impress tdf # 87 676

 

• Rear Rangement or toolbars in Draw tdf # 90090

 

• Area fill dropdown is now Implemented in the color selector in Impress and Draw. Blog entry