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Human Machine Interface (HMI): The Art of Making Technology Easy

By Dick Weisinger

Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) combine hardware and software to assist humans to better interact with automated systems.  Examples of HMI are humans controlling automated vehicles and interacting with plant floor automation.  In a plant control environment, for example, HMI systems…

Technology: Internet Addresses Running on Low

By Dick Weisinger

A serious pinch to the every expanding internet is expected to hit this summer.  The supply of Internet Protocol addresses has been dwindling and will totally dry up this summer.  An IP address is a short series of numbers with…

Container Technology: Startup Datawise.io Simplifies On-Premise Management of a Clustered Container Environment

By Dick Weisinger

Container technology is hot.  Docker is hot.  Containers provide a way to package up and encapsulate everything needed by a single application to run. Containers basically contain the entire runtime environment and all application dependencies, and because of that, containers…

APIs: Virtual Assets that are the Key to Driving a High Tech Business

By Dick Weisinger

Companies like Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Alibaba, and Paypal are examples of businesses that have high valuations but which don’t have any physical assets.  One thing these businesses do have though is software and these businesses are experts in using Application Program Interfaces…

HTML/2: Blueprint for Speedier and More Secure Internet Communications

By Dick Weisinger

In February 2015 an overhaul of the HTTP protocol was approved, the first change since HTTP 1.1 was adopted in 1999.  The new protocol is being called HTTP/2. The new protocol was in development for two years by the IEFT…