Suppose you need to set up or maintain a simple but professional looking website on Windows (maybe even on a budget), be able to develop using tools like PHP, have it all work even when you don’t have web access, and then once you’re done, wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to compile,…
Read MoreCongratulations on finishing your first tutorial video! So now you can put it on your corporate web site, and maybe email or tweet out a link to it. But what about visibility? If your business is large enough to have a marketing department, you (or they) will likely want your tutorial videos to be part…
Read MoreIn my previous blog post we looked at how to use a green screen to add an extra touch to the tutorial videos you upload to YouTube, particularly focusing on the ambient space for filming, the lighting (both the screen itself and the subject), and the necessary audio and video equipment. The goal of using…
Read MoreIn my last blog post we looked at practical suggestions for improving the tutorial videos you upload to YouTube, focusing on tips for audio recording, video recording and editing, writing the script, and uploading them. Now suppose you want to take the next step that will (hopefully!) add some impact to your tutorials: putting yourself…
Read MoreIn my previous post I described the kind of tasks, resources and software that we had to master in order to create YouTube IT tutorial videos like the 20 Alyvix videos we made in 2020. As we looked back to compare the first few videos we made with the last few, it was easy to…
Read MoreIn a recent blog post I described our new Alyvix YouTube channel that contains the 20 Alyvix tutorial videos we’ve created this year. Each video is a self-contained tutorial that showcases one aspect of how Alyvix can be used for visual monitoring, both practical application examples and for learning basic concepts and operations. Since one…
Read MoreThis year we introduced an Alyvix YouTube channel to complement the written Alyvix user guide. It now contains a number of videos that explain how to monitor specific tasks as well as explaining background knowledge about the building blocks you can use to create your own Alyvix test cases. At the end of this year…
Read MoreMost small open source documentation projects use Markdown to create their project documentation. After all, it has a minimalistic and thus easy-to-learn syntax, does all the basics well, renders very quickly (even quickly enough to create a real-time WYSIWYG viewer), and is almost universally supported across popular web platforms like GitHub. At some point, though,…
Read MoreThe official Icinga 2 user guide is quite extensive, but it’s not always complete. That’s normal in today’s world of fast changing software where the focus is on delivering new capabilities quickly. Even here at NetEye most of the documentation we produce for our user guide is written when we add new modules and features,…
Read MoreEvery software suite needs documentation. But the more features we add to NetEye to meet customer needs, the larger the user guide becomes. Over time, it’s important to make sure that the guide continues to meet the needs of NetEye users despite this. In particular, modern methodologies like Agile that we use in NetEye often…
Read MoreIn my last user guide blog I showed you how to create your own menu item, create a space on the file system, write a sample page, and store an image for that page, all in a way that will survive future updates. This time I want to show you how to use your custom…
Read MoreIn my last post, I showed you how to set up your own customized documentation in NetEye 3 so that it won’t be overwritten when you upgrade. Doing the same thing in NetEye 4 is also possible even though there isn’t a dedicated link for external documentation like in NetEye 3’s DokuWiki, and there isn’t…
Read MoreWouldn’t it be great to have quick access to your favorite pages in the NetEye documentation? To make customized thumbnail pages of your most frequent screenshots? To create your own alternative documentation index with categories reflecting your mindset? To add your own notes, comments, or FAQ with pointers into the existing NetEye documentation? That would…
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