Category: Web

A regular expression, regex or regexp A regular expression, regex or regexp is, in theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern is then used by string searching algorithms for “find” or “find and replace” operations on strings, or for input validation. From Wikipedia.

Create a tour Use Google Tour Creator to create and publish virtual reality tours. You can use Google Street View panoramas, add your own images from 360 cameras, and annotate the tour with details and facts, to create immersive experiences. Help information here. You need to have a google account to have tours. Refer help

A few words of jargon in the Text Mining area. Corpus. In linguistics, a corpus or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts. They are used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules within a specific language territory. Token. Tokenization is the process of demarcating and

Reports Standard reports The out of the box (OOTB) Asset Report is pretty standard, not too many field, as in, none of the custom fields that you have added come through. You have 2 options, the Asset by ID Tag  or Asset by Tag with Pictures. (screenshots 1 & 2 below). Both show you all

Linking If you look at the video on linking (bottom left video link) you can see how assets can be linked together. I wondered whether this could be a useful tool for linking lots of assets together, say, for a room. You can do this linking process within the browser, selecting one asset at a

After writing the initial post which I wrote whilst setting up and populating the database I had a further play, using the Mobile App, or rather, I didn’t get very far at all. The company who set up the free Asset Management Site make Bar Code tags, so the accessing of data would be by

Dear visitor, I hope you have enjoyed some of the posts or got some useful insights/help that have assisted you in your work or interest. I have enjoyed writing most of these and learning some varied skills along the way, not all in the areas I expected when I started the journey. One thing that

The AlternativeTo website popped up Asset Tiger as a free asset management tool when I typed in Alternatives to OpenMAINT. It is a cloud based tool and has a mobile app so that you can use it on your smartphone or tablet which is good too, as its free (the OpenMAINT one isn’t). Asset Tiger

I have been interested in displaying tabulated data on a web page from a Database, exploring what is out there to use. WordPress has a couple of Free Table add-in’s but they are usually only available for uploading static data to your website (or from Excel/CSV). There is one WordPress Add-in that read from a

After writing the previous post on web scraping and the example given of using Google Spreadsheet to obtain a web table I started wondering about Excel. I was aware that it had a web connection so decided to explore those. This first video shows how to automate the data scraping  from websites into Excel: Then