![]() According to Apple, “Our stores are a happy place to shop, learn, create, and get help.” It reminds me of a conversation I had with former Apple Store executive, George Blankenship, who now oversees the customer experience for Tesla. Apple Store employees are trained from day one to do what they have to do to make you happy. According to Gizmodo, “A fundamental part of their job-sans sales quotas of any kind-is simply to make you happy.” There’s no question about it. Apple employees get people excited about their technology by using it themselves. Apple Stores are also experimenting with an iPhone app that lets customers scan their own products and pay for them without ever speaking to a salesperson or visiting a cash register. ![]() Apple started EasyPay to “showcase the technology” and today it is being used by many other retailers. Employees check out customers on the sales floor with a mobile point-of-sale tool called EasyPay, attached to iOS devices. You can even request in-person help through the iPad. An iPad is positioned next to each Mac with more detailed explanations about its features. When you walk into an Apple Store a ‘specialist’ will check you in using an iPad. It seemed like you were rushing through the interaction, and the customer had additional questions." I was concerned with how quickly you spoke to the customer. "You did a great job resolving the customer's iPhone issue. I overheard your conversation with your customer during the last interaction and I have some feedback if you have a moment. Gizmodo quotes the following sample conversation from the training manual as an example of fearless feedback: Apple Store managers who are considering a job applicant are told to ask themselves this question: could this candidate have gone toe to toe with Steve Jobs? In other words, the Apple Store wants employees who have an opinion and are not afraid to express it. ![]() You simply cannot improve the customer experience without managers who give and solicit feedback and employees who ‘fearlessly’ offer feedback as well. ![]() Apple Store Geniuses are trained to give and receive “fearless feedback.” Feedback is a word that came up repeatedly in my research. Although I explain the five steps in much more detail in this article and video, the steps are: By the last step the customer should feel welcomed, empowered, happy, and eager to return. According to Gizmodo, “Selling is a science, summed up with 5 cute letters: (A)pproach, (P)probe, (P)resent, (L)isten, (E)nd.” These five words correspond to five specific steps that employees are trained to walk a customer. After reviewing Gizmodo’s article on the secret manual, I found seven ways that Apple has reinvented the customer experience and, as a result, become America’s most profitable retailer.įollow five steps of service. But it’s interesting to note that the internal Apple Store training manual for Apple Geniuses spends as much time on communication as it does on process and technical knowledge. When a company hires a troubleshooting specialist, clearly that candidate needs to have more technical know-how than a salesperson. From the way you are greeted when you walk into the store to the way Genius Bar experts (technical/troubleshooting specialists) communicate with agitated customers, Apple carefully considers the experience its customers have at every touch-point.Īpple likes to say it “values a magnetic personality” as much as-if not more-than proficiency. It reinforces the fact that nothing at the Apple Store is taken for granted. It’s a penetrating look inside Apple: psychological mastery, banned words, roleplaying-you’ve never seen anything like it.” This description alone should teach you a lot. ![]() According to Gizmodo Senior Staff Writer, Sam Biddle, “We read Apple’s secret Genius training manual from cover to cover. The title, How To Be a Genius: This is Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual. One such piece was recently leaked and posted on the tech site, Gizmodo. However, sometimes people leak information that can teach all of us a lot about running a successful business, communicating brand messages effectively, and enhancing the customer experience. After spending one year of research into every aspect of the Apple Retail Store for my book, The Apple Experience, there’s very little new information that surprises me. ![]()
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![]() Individual Vagrant box images are Gigabytes (many times) larger than Docker “containers”, and thus take more RAM as well. Great for debugging and testing and the connecting of SFTP with PHPstorm makes everything sync easily. Simple to spin up a new instance of WordPress. Small VM’s of Ubuntu using RTcamps EasyEngine. Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Business editions came with Hyper-V installed. So some consider it more “mature”, stable, “simpler to understand” than Docker. Vagrant has been around longer than Docker. This tutorial is rather dated because many are migrating from Vagrant images to Docker. ![]() The images are pushed up to DockerHub so others can use it to run as isolated instances on Windows server machines in production. To create Dockerized images such as Windows Docker Containers. Hashicopr provides a Vagrant RDP program for GUI access the Windows instance.Ĭustom Windows apps can be added inside this Windows server. Having images in the cloud means that one line in a Vagrantfile obtained from GitHub is all that’s needed for Vagrant to bring up a Windows machine. The VMware image can then be converted to a box image in a format used by Vagrant (from HashiCorp) so that it can be made available for download from a repository of Vagrant box images called Atlas that HashiCorp has made available.īTW, HashiCorp also has a licensed utility that dynamically updates the Vagrant file when changes are made in the VMWare image. We then keep the image small by removing unneeded files and defragmenting the disk. Agents for accessing the machine within Azure and other clouds is added, called WMF (Windows Management Framework). A Windows Update is applied to get the latest security patches. ![]() VMware is needed for nested virtualization of Windows HyperV containers. The script downloads the iso file to create a VMware Fusion server image. This is important to keep up with changes without spending what usually takes days. You’ll have the very latest versions of all software. This building from scatch is like buying a new computer. We need to automate this because Microsoft limits its free license to 180 days (6 months). To automate this on macOS we download from GitHub a script processed by Packer from HashiCorp. The workflow begins with manually registering with Microsoft for download of a large installer file (an ISO image) that’s like what is on a DVD. ![]() “PROTIP:” here highlight information I haven’t seen elsewhere on the internetīecause it is hard-won, little-know but significant factsīased on my personal research and experience. Not intended to represent any employer (past or present). ![]() NOTE: Content here are my personal opinions, and This is more of a deep dive than others, as it explains the intricacies for troubleshooting, with commentary flagged as “PROTIP” along the way. Sudo kextunload -b .osxfuseĪnother thing that may work if you have Virtualbox installed and it is using too many module slots you can try and remove it using the uninstall tool and that may also help.This tutorial contains hands-on step-by-step instructions to create a Windows 2016 server within a Mac laptop (the host machine), using software from HashiCorp: Packer, Vagrant, Atlas. Sudo kextunload /Library/Filesystems/osxfuse.fs/Contents/Extensions/10.11/osxfuse.kext Changing the version number to the correct one # kill encfs If you have already run encfs and you can no longer run VMWare run this. fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)īut if you totally exit VMWare Fusion (This is 8.5) it seems to unload it’s modules and then you can run encfs…. 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Jagex version Īround 2012, Ace of Spades was acquired by British developer Jagex, which had previously started creating a new version of the game in mid-2011. ![]() As of November 2012, the beta of Ace of Spades had been installed 2.5 million times and had roughly 550,000 monthly active users. Ace of Spades was received well, despite its early and unfinished state, and was listed amongst Kotaku 's "Best Indie Games of 2011" list and PC Gamer 's April 2011 "Best Free PC Games" list. The gunplay itself was compared to that of Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Due its use of voxel-based graphics and emphasis on block-building techniques aside from gunplay, it was quickly labelled as " Minecraft with rifles". This version of the game played as a 16-versus-16 team-based first-person shooter with a capture the flag game mode, in which players were to obtain the opposing team's intelligence briefcase and return it to the own team's base. The first of version of the game, Beta 0.1, was released on 4 April 2011, and was available for Microsoft Windows. Following poor reception and several minor downloadable content package releases, the game was shut down in March 2019.ĭevelopment Ben Aksoy prototype Īce of Spades was originally developed by Ben Aksoy. ![]() Originally created by Ben Aksoy and released as a prototype in April 2011, the game was acquired by Jagex in 2012 and fully released in December that year. Ace of Spades was a 2012 first-person shooter and voxel-based sandbox video game developed and published by Jagex. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reverb in both channels mod included in kits for amps with reverb! The Bandmaster Reverb circuit is identical to the Super Reverb circuit of the same year, so the blackface AB763 Super Reverb schematic and layout is included in this kit. 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AB165 to AA864 'plus' tweed preamp for BLACKFACE AB165."1/2 Blackface" Mod for Ultralinear Fenders. ![]() ![]() This means the LCH blend modes are extremely powerful tools to use when repairing color images. Unlike the HSV Color and Value blend modes (which mangle the image's color and tonality), LCH blend modes allow you to separate corrections to LCH Color from corrections to LCH Lightness. Section C shows how to use the LCH blend modes to colorize a black and white rendering of the repaired image. Section B below shows how to use the LCH blend modes to repair blown-out highlights in camera-saved jpeg. LCH Color is a combination of LCH Chroma and Hue, and corresponds to HSV Color, which is a combination of HSV Hue and Saturation (again, the names are the same, but the two blend modes are based on very different mathematics).LCH Hue corresponds to HSV Hue (the names are the same, but the two blend modes are based on very different mathematics).LCH Chroma corresponds to HSV Saturation.LCH Lightness corresponds to HSV Value.LCH is mathematically derived from the CIELAB reference color space, which in turn is a perceptually uniform transform of the CIEXYZ reference color space. "LCH" stands for "Lightness, Chroma, Hue". ![]() All the steps in the tutorial were subsequently tested in default GIMP, but I don't actually use default GIMP for image editing. Processing notes: The images on this page were processed at 32-bit floating point precision using my patched version of high bit depth GIMP 2.9 and working in a linear gamma version of the sRGB color space ("sRGB-elle-V4-g10.icc" from my profile pack). In my patched GIMP, if the image isn't in a linear gamma RGB working space, the LCH blend modes, the conversion to black and white using Luminance, and various other editing operations will be affected by "gamma errors" and so will produce wrong results. To follow this tutorial using my patched GIMP, first convert your image layer stack to one of the linear gamma RGB ICC working space profiles included in my well-behaved ICC profile pack (the linear gamma profiles all have file names ending in "-g10.icc"). My patched GIMP allows you to edit in any well-behaved RGB working space. If you use default GIMP, make sure to change the Precision to "Linear light", or else your layers won't blend properly. When using default GIMP, if you try to edit images in color spaces other than the GIMP built-in sRGB color space, many editing operations will produce wrong results, including the LCH blend modes and converting to black and white using Luminance. ![]() This tutorial assumes you are using default GIMP 2.10, which is an "sRGB only" image editor. The LCH blend modes never made it into GIMP 2.8, but are available in high bit depth GIMP 2.9/2.10. GIMP attracts some pretty talented programmers, and the original bug report morphed into code that provides GIMP with the ability to blend colors using "LCH" blend modes in place of the HSV blend modes. Introduction: GIMP's new LCH color blend modes From bug reports, good things happenīack in 2006 a bug report was filed that asked for GIMP's color blend modes to emulate PhotoShop's color blend modes. ![]() ![]() ![]() These range from allowing you to automate tasks, easily importing stock photos and icons, and prepping designs for developer hand-offs. Lastly, you can create a Design Spec to send off to the development team – consisting of the artboard workflow, assets (such as images, colors, measurements, etc.), as well as css snippets for components.Īdobe XD has over 75 (and counting) plugins that add extensibility to make your life even easier (if that is possible). ![]() When you are done with the design and need client feedback, you can easily generate a sharable link to send to the client – where they can even leave comments directly in the prototype design (no more saving our JPG files or creating a pdf of screenshots). For the design phase, you can use Coediting (a feature that is still in Beta) to allow multiple team members to edit the same document at the same time (think of Google Docs). StatesĮasily create different user interaction states (such as hover, clicked, success, etc.) to communicate your visual intent to the rest of your team.Īdobe XD makes collaboration with team members and clients effortless and seamless. These work in a similar way as the individual grid items, where you can edit the original component and any changes will be reflected across all documents that it exists in. Not only can you reuse components throughout the same XD document, but also across documents. Think of a component as a design element that you can reuse again later. Once a grid is created, you can easily update design elements in one of them (say you decide to make the title slightly larger, or move it to the right), and it will automatically update all the others in the grid. Repeat Grid (one of our favorites)Ĭhoose a design object (or group) and quickly and easily replicate it as many iterations as you need, both horizontally and vertically. Need to create a product grid of nine products? Design one of them (image, title, price, button), and utilize Repeat Grid to create the other eight within seconds. Instead of building a separate mobile design to hand over to developers, you can create it all in one XD file and see how things move, stack, scale, etc. Whether you just need a starting point for your next app design, or some really cool looking icons to use Adobe XD’s UI, layout and icon kits allow you to easily get off the ground at a full sprint towards your design goals.Īllowing you to easily modify the size of objects (or groups of objects) for as many different screen sizes as you need, while keeping placement and scaling images as the screen changes. These range from wireframe kits with dozens of types of layouts and elements, to fully thought though apps/websites that behave as fully functioning prototypes. Adobe XD includes resources for many UI/Design/Icon kits that have a variety of themes, colors, components, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know that I personally am not going to spend hours (and it would take me hours) to study a website template someone found online, and then teach that stranger how to go about dissecting it, and recreating it in Bootstrap Studio. So while I'm happy to offer the occasional tip to someone who's made an error in their CSS, or needs help sorting out a markup error, or tweaking some javascript, etc. We are not web development instructors (well maybe some of us are, but I presume we get paid for it.) I think most of us here are in the business of building websites for a living. You'd need to create almost all this CSS yourself. The stock Bootstrap navbar (which is all that you get with BSS) does nothing like this website you've posted. Something like this website you've posted is totally custom. In other words, how to use the features and options that are PART of the program. How to use the components, the options panel, even the animations features. How to find things within the visual tools. It's for help with how to use the Bootstrap Studio program. The Help and How To section of the Bootstrap Studio forum is not for people to ask for help with building websites, writing custom CSS, or copying other websites. Users will be able to invoke this command from the Command Palette as Cat Coding: Start new cat coding session or even create a keybinding for it if they are so inclined.Okay, here's the thing, and I really think this needs to become a sticky notice at the top of this forum section. When a user invokes this command, we will show a simple webview with our cat in it. ![]() The first version of our extension contributes a command called catCoding.start. You can find the complete code for the example app here. Here's the package.json for the first version of the Cat Coding extension. As we work through the API, we'll continue adding functionality to the extension, including a counter that keeps track of how many lines of source code our cat has written and notifications that inform the user when the cat introduces a bug. This extension will use a webview to show a gif of a cat writing some code (presumably in VS Code). ![]() To explain the webview API, we are going to build a simple extension called Cat Coding. However, if you are confident that you need to use webviews, then this document is here to help. Remember: Just because you can do something with webviews, doesn't mean you should. Will your webview add enough user value to justify its high resource cost? Is a webview the only way to implement your feature? Can you use the regular VS Code APIs instead? A poorly designed webview can also easily feel out of place within VS Code.īefore using a webview, please consider the following:ĭoes this functionality really need to live within VS Code? Would it be better as a separate application or website? Webviews are resource heavy and run in a separate context from normal extensions. Webviews are pretty amazing, but they should also be used sparingly and only when VS Code's native API is inadequate. Even if you are more interested in those APIs, we recommend reading through this page first to familiarize yourself with the webview basics. This page focuses on the basic webview panel API, although almost everything covered here applies to the webviews used in custom editors and webview views as well. See the webview view sample extension for more details. In Webview views that are rendered in the sidebar or panel areas.The custom editor API also lets your extension hook into editor events such as undo and redo, as well as file events such as save. Custom editors allow extensions to provide a custom UI for editing any file in the workspace. This makes them useful for displaying custom UI and custom visualizations. In this case, Webview panels are shown in VS Code as distinct editors. With Webview Panels created using createWebviewPanel.Webviews are used in several VS Code APIs: This freedom makes webviews incredibly powerful, and opens up a whole new range of extension possibilities. ![]() A webview can render almost any HTML content in this frame, and it communicates with extensions using message passing. Think of a webview as an iframe within VS Code that your extension controls. Webviews can also be used to build complex user interfaces beyond what VS Code's native APIs support. For example, the built-in Markdown extension uses webviews to render Markdown previews. The webview API allows extensions to create fully customizable views within Visual Studio Code. ![]() ![]() Of course, the player can maneuver multiple units at once, such as firefighters, police, special forces, and ambulances to the scene. After allocating human resources to each unit, players will have to equip vehicles and personal items for each person. Players cannot deploy all available units just because they want to, but the game has many limits set even players must know how to allocate units effectively. Players must first receive reports regarding special circumstances, followed by severity analysis, and start planning unit deployment properly. Weather effects are a prominent feature of the game, making the world more vivid and realistic. Besides, fire emergencies are significantly improved, as the fire’s spread to surprises the player. Weather plays an important role in this game, causing traffic congestion and reducing mobilization time significantly. Campaign emergencies are default missions, but weather can deteriorate to hinder player work. ![]() That would make the world stop, and the player could consistently issue orders to all the different units with ease, then unpause to see magic happens.ġ12 Operator will simulate a real-world for players to enjoy, including weather effects and other random elements. Real-time map interaction is a key factor, and players can build many effective strategies thanks to the game’s Pause function. However, it can be successful with already deployed teams in some cases, but players still have to be prepared to send in more assistance if things go bad. Especially in high-level emergencies, the player must control all the functional teams to the scene via the map. REAL-TIME INTERACTION THROUGH THE SATELLITEġ12 Operator allows the player to interact with the map via satellite, such as guiding the operation teams, observing the case’s situation, and finding the best solution. But if the emergency is necessary, the player will have to deploy the most suitable functional forces, equip them, and provide as much assistance as possible. ![]() The player can also directly instruct the person on the other end of the line, discuss, and eventually solve the problem on-site without deploying functional forces. This game is a combination of strategy and puzzle factors, where players have to build up the best options depending on the severity of each case. The player’s task is to meet all needs, listen, and develop the safest solution for all situations. ![]() Of course, each city will automatically save the player’s progress until they have completed all the campaigns included inside.ġ12, what’s your emergency? is the first sentence that operators will say every time they receive urgent calls from local people. Each city has its differences, like the campaign, urban structure, and many other factors that can affect the player’s job. The cities are all accurately simulated, with detailed maps, including roads, rails, waterways, and sewers. ![]() Almost all activities related to Operator will be in this game, with the most honest level possible for players to enjoy.ġ12 Operator will use all the real map data, then import into the game and create multiple zones for players to start the first campaign. It’s an Operator job simulation game and uses all developed cities’ real-time data to build players’ active areas. If you want to experience that stressful and intellectual job, download 112 Operator. Practically all urgent problems in an area will go through the Operator, and they eventually deploy the proper unit to handle those cases. That assignment’s role is to receive emergency and administrative reports, such as accidents, fires, and terrorism. Almost all developed cities always have a unit called the Operator online 24/7 to receive countless reports and information about their cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Update: according to Statista, Amazon owns 50 percent of the entire e-commerce retail market for merchandise (gross merchandise volume or GMV). Opting into the Select program automatically gives Amazon exclusive distribution rights. ![]() More than half of the indie authors in the study were enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited Full-Read Equivalent program ( Kindle Select), which pays authors from a royalty pool based on how much of a book is read. These sales included titles sourced from the Big Five publishers, small presses, and indie authors. What’s more 64-80% of all ebook consumer dollars flowed through Amazon sales channels. “…64-80% of all ebook consumer dollars flowed through Amazon sales channels…Īn early 2017 five-country, 15-retailer report from Author Earnings (now available as Book Stat but available only to companies of $10 million or more in revenues) shows that owned a startling 65% of all ebook unit sales in those English-speaking countries including the USA (by now more than 70%). But with great sales opportunities come great pitfalls.įirst, let’s examine just how lucrative the ebook publishing market may be today. The thriving market for ebooks has prompted many authors to turn to Amazon Kindle Digital Publishing (KDP) for book distribution. This updated article refers mainly to self-published authors using the Amazon KDP platform to distribute their ebooks.) (Editor’s note: Thanks to excellent feedback from our readers, I have clarified several points in this story about Amazon We strive for accuracy and welcome your comments. ![]() |