Cowboy Agile Product Dev: 60 days to delivery

With this blog I would like to share the experience of designing and producing a mini-product line within 60 days. You might think that this is not a big deal for an organization consisting of good product managers and disciplined engineers; the difference here is that a single person (the “cowboy”) executed the entire project …

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VisioStat: Measuring from nano-amps to kilo-volts

The Challenge To measure the static charge of a 12”x12” Teflon sheet when it is rubbed by a piece of cloth To measure the charge accumulated on a can of Coke when it is charged at 10kV To discharge a roller of plastic (or paper) as it run in a production floor The Answer My …

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Installing CACTI on Windows 7

CACTI is an open source Network Management System with extensive graphics. It is used by multiple ISPs to show the status of their networks and display nice traffic and CPU load graphs. You can consider CACTI to be a front end of the RRDTool and the Net-SNMP utility. CACTI is written entirely in PHP and …

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