Category IT

Data Visualization

This post features data visualization tools. Data visualization is usually linked to: Dashboard You can read this post about dashboard. Data Visualization Tools Visualization tools featured on this post: Grafana Grafana is FOSS, under an AGPL v3 license. Grafana official…

Artifact Repository

An artifact repository or repository manager is a tool to manage, store, and distribute software artifacts, such as libraries, dependencies, and packages, throughout the software development lifecycle. List of Artifact Repository Solutions Artifact repository software: Nexus Sonatype Nexus Repository is…

How to import Quizzes to Canvas LMS

Log in Canvas LMS (Learning Management System). Create a course, and then in the right hand side you can find a button “Import existing content”. Canvas LMS supports the following formats: Importing Quizzes from a QTI 1.2 or 2.1 file…

Internet

This post is about the internet. List of Internet Governance Organizations List of internet governance organizations: ISOC Internet Society (ISOC) is a non-profit organization. It is the legal entity that governs the internet. IAB Internet Architecture Board (IAB) designs the…

IT Monitoring Applications

This post features monitoring tools of IT. List of IT Monitoring Applications List of monitoring tools: Prometheus Prometheus is FOSS, under an Apache 2 license. Prometheus at Wikipedia Prometheus source code repository Nagios Core Nagios Core is developed by Ethan…

Portable Document Format

Portable Definition File (PDF) is a page description language. PDF Characteristics Early versions PDF files were human-readable. Modern PDF files are only partly human-readable and mostly binary files, because they contain compression. Advantages of PDF (or page description languages): Disadvantages…

Structured Query Language

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a language to query relational databases. You can read this post that is an introduction to relational databases. SQL Variants There are variants to SQL. For example, PL/SQL (Procedural Language for SQL) is an extension…

Linux Endpoint Security

This post talks about endpoint security on Linux OS. Linux Endpoint Hardening Tools Lynis Lynis is free and open source software (FOSS) tool to audit Unix-like OSs. It is developed by Dutch company CISOfy. Lynis official website Lynis code repository…

Ideal Fraction Method

The ideal fraction method is a normalization technique used in multi-criteria decision-making. This method is applied to normalize values for a criterion that needs to be maximized (where higher values are better), transforming the original scores into a scale from…