We want to use ImageResizer in our "software as a service" solution to compress user-uploaded images before saving them on the server. We will not use it to serve the images.
Do we need a caching plugin?
Can we use the free version for this, or we need to buy a license?
If the license is required, what license should we get? (we run DNN install with 50+ portals)
p.s. #Nathaniel Jones responded to my support ticket, and said that it's ok to use the free version in our setup.
ImageResizer's SaaS license is what you are looking for.
In a large deployment, the Apache-licensed Essential edition lacks some important features, the most popular of which are:
HQ Gif and Animated Gif support
The higher-quality image resizing/rendering engine FastScaling, which is 43x faster as well.
Blob storage support. Unless you plan to store everything on local disks, you need a flexible data store.
FreeImageDecoder adds support for RAW & HDR source images - over 20 formats supported.
The SaaS license is flat-fee, royalty free, and includes an Enterprise-wide Elite license as well.
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I am looking for a Data Masking tool to protect the sensitive data/files when I move them to dev environment (all data sits on S3). Is there anybody here that already doing data protection using third party tools? I would appreciate for the recommendations.
You could try FileMasker. It supports masking CSV and JSON files on S3. FileMasker can run as an AWS Lambda and can also run on local computers too. A free Community license is available. Disclaimer: I work for the developer.
I want to implement a feature that you can scan an image of reality by your phone, you will generate a feature code from the image, and then upload it to cloud service. If the database of cloud service has this code, you can download something related to the image. Now, the main problem with me, I need a system or cloud service to help me to identify the images, I don't want to do too much things, so is there hava an existing cloud service to support me do that? Free or paid are ok.
Microsoft has launched recently a new set of machine-learning APIs called "Project Oxford" that include functionality for face detection and recognition, speech recognition and synthesis, vision and understanding of natural languages
Face APIs provide state-of-the-art algorithms to process face images, like face detection with gender and age prediction, recognition, alignment and other application level features. For more information, see Project Oxford at www.projectoxford.ai/face.
Related Link http://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/marketplace/partners/faceapis/faceapis/
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/989752/Integrate-Windows-Azure-Face-APIs-in-a-Cplusplus-a
Is there a way to have one product definition and have it publish to multiple sites? I am looking for this ability specifically in DNN or Umbraco, either with free or paid extensions. I did install both the platforms and played with the free extensions and looked for any extension offering such functionality but did not find one. Any links or pointers are highly appreciated!
I had looked up for this info in many places before reaching over to the expert pool here, hoping to get some hints;
In umbraco there is the built in /base extension (http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-base) which enables you to access product data that is maintained in Umbraco from other websites. Base is REST-ish so the implementation is well documented - you can access the data as XML or JSON (Returning Json instead of XML with Umbraco Base).
Also as the implementation is REST-ish the other websites that consume the content maintained in the core site could be written in anything that can consume a REST feed eg html & javascript.
It's not 100% clear to me what setup you're after, but if you're looking to set up a traditional Authoring/Delivery configuration - one of the few paid offerings Umbraco has is called Courier. It's a very reasonably priced (~$135USD,/99EUR) deployment manager that handles syncing content between two sites, i.e., Authoring and a Delivery server.
It's a very smart tool that manages content, configuration, and dependencies. It's neat and also supports a great open-source project!
If you're looking to setup something more like a centralized product database that is used by many sites - amelvin is on good pointer with BASE. They have a nice api where you may also set up your own webservice (beyond their own webservice functaionality!).
If you need this centralized product data to notify the other sites to update their caches - i encourage you to look into the 'distributedCall' functionality.
There's a bit of documentation on distributed calls in this load-balancing tutorial that may help understand the concept a bit better.
...Hope this helps get pointed in the right direction.
I am developing an ASP.NET intranet application that needs to have an interactive map interface.
There are some pretty neat Silverlight mapping plugins that I think could work well, specifically:
ArcGIS Silverlight API: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/
DeepEarth mapping framework: http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth
There are no doubt many more plugins out there that will allow easy interaction between ASP.NET and the mapping interface (please suggest some if I've missed the major players).
My major concern however is using these tools with local data sources. What is the best option here? All I need is some basic satellite imagery of moderate resolution and some overlays of cities and country borders. Can I download a dataset of these images? I dont really care if they are up to date or not, so long as the photos were taken in the last 20 years.
I want to be able to use local data sources because external internet connections could be very slow due to the nature of the organisation's work, Intranet communication will always be much faster.
To summarise:
1.) where can I find a dataset of moderate quality global satellite imagery?
2.) Which web based mapping plugin will allow me to plug into such a data source?
If I can get something like the DeepEarth demo (http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth) but grabbing the data from internal company servers I would be very happy.
You can check out the free geodata listing at:
- http://www.freegis.org/database/?cat=1
Or have a look at:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/
where cloudmade provides downloadable openstreetmap data converted to shape files.
I'm building a little play project and I'd like to use satellite images of a town inside deepzoom, what's the easiest way to get them? I'm sure there's a MUCH better way than PrtScn, I've tried google maps downloader but it doesn't download satellite images and it's company don't seem to be offering it anymore.
Take a look at Deep Earth, unless what you're trying to build is what deep earth give you - in which case it may remove all the fun ;)
http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth
If you want to go your own way, then it used to be that you could just manually request the various image tiles directly from the MS Virtual Earth server hosting them, if you could calculate the quad keys and build the correct URL, thus bypassing their payment model. Whilst I know they were looking to cut out this loop hole, that's certainly what early versions of Deep Earth did.
Microsoft Virtual Earth has SOAP and AJAX-based services that you can use in your application. The service has a Staging and Production version. Using the Staging version is free, and could easily serve the needs of a "play project." The Production version costs money and can serve info to a large application with many users.
http://dev.live.com/VirtualEarth/
However there is some registration required to get working with the Staging sdk. You can get started here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc980844.aspx