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FileMaker: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Training Lynda.com If you're comfortable with FileMaker basics, you're ready for the next step. Learn tips, tricks, and advanced techniques for FileMaker 17—the latest version of the FileMaker platform used all around the world. FileMaker expert Cris Ippolite reveals solutions to maximize your efficiency and make your FileMaker apps more dynamic and sophisticated. Explore advanced techniques using scripts, calculations, reports, and layouts. In addition, you can explore important security tips and learn the publishing options offered by FileMaker Server, including FileMaker WebDirect. Cris also shows you how to connect to other databases and exchange data with APIs using JSON code. |
Fluent API Development in C# Training Lynda.com Fluent APIs use method chaining for maximum readability and flow. They may be slightly more complicated to write, but are much easier to understand and solve specific complex programming challenges that general-purpose languages can't. This training course teaches the what, why, and how of fluent API development using C#. Learn the history of fluent APIs, beginning with the coining of the phrase "fluent" by Martin Fowler. Next, learn how to decide if fluent APIs are right for your project, and how to go about designing them. Instructor Robby Millsap also reviews some popular fluent libraries such as LINQ and Azure Management. Lastly, he takes a simple console application and shows how to refactor it to use fluent prose. |
Foundations of Enterprise Content Management Training Lynda.com The amount of content companies need to create, distribute, and manage gets bigger every day. Learn the foundational principles behind crafting a content management solution for an enterprise business. In this course, Phil Gold breaks down the tools, systems, procedures, workflows, and best practices for crafting an effective content management strategy for medium to large businesses. Phil explores how these tools can support company culture and objectives, while providing employees access to the information and documents they need to do their job and collaborate with different departments across the globe. Discover what a content management system (CMS) will and won't do, and what to look for when choosing a solution for your business. Phil also compares the advantages and disadvantages of open-source platforms like WordPress and proprietary solutions like SharePoint, so you can better understand their strengths. |
Google Slides Essential Training Training Lynda.com Learn how to create high-impact presentations with Google Slides. Follow along with staff instructor Jess Stratton as she shows how to plan and build a presentation. Jess shows how to get started with a template or create a new slideshow from scratch. She covers adding and formatting text, working with images and shapes, and inserting video, diagrams, and charts. She also shows how to increase engagement with animation, collaborate with others in real time, download slides to your desktop, and use Presenter view to run the show. |
Consulting Professional Weekly Tips Training Lynda.com Spend five minutes each week learning valuable, insider tips on being a successful consultant with Mike Figliuolo, business trainer and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. Mike provides a new consulting tip each Monday, covering topics such as staying connected with clients, setting pricing, blogging to increase your audience and client base, and scaling from an individual consultancy to a consulting partnership or team. Use these tips to launch and grow your business, form stronger client relationships, and plan for the future. |
Creating and Managing a YouTube Channel Training Lynda.com By creating and curating a YouTube channel, you can build your online identity as you share your content with the world. In this course, learn how to set up a visually compelling new YouTube channel, build up your subscriber base, and convert clicks into action or commerce. Throughout the course, instructor Rich Harrington shares essential strategies for channel creation. Rich explains how to design artwork for your channel and shares tips for using YouTube cards and captions. He also dives into building a YouTube community, managing your channel in Creator Studio, live streaming, and more. |
Creating Online Video with the iPhone Training Lynda.com Looking to create great video content without a big budget or a lot of experience? You don't have to look much further than your iPhone. Mobile devices have transformed video production, making it possible to capture new angles and perspectives without a large crew or lots of additional equipment. This course teaches you the fundamentals of shooting great-looking video with an iPhone. Instructor Nick Harauz shows you how to shoot talking heads and support material like B-roll, and capture slow-motion and time-lapse footage. He explains how to keep your shots organized, on and off the set, and walks through a post-production workflow for editing your videos either directly on the iPhone or on a computer. He also introduces a variety of iPhone apps that allow you to create effects like hyperlapse and the "golden hour" look. Finally, Nick shows how to upload your final videos for sharing on YouTube or Instagram. |
Learning BIM 360 Field Training Lynda.com Discover how to take BIM to the construction site using BIM 360 Field. This web-based program—which is part of the Autodesk 360 suite—was designed to track day-to-day construction activities using both BIM and traditional drawings. In this course, learn how to manage a project by utilizing the cloud. This process enables you to stay on top of your construction management tasks by allowing you to view project models and manage your workflow efficiently when you're on the go. Discover how to set up a project, including how to merge Revit models in BIM 360 Glue and share models from Glue to BIM 360 Field. Plus, learn how to create a library, add daily updates, create reports, and more. |
Learning Cisco Spark Training Lynda.com Make better connections across your organization using Cisco's new enterprise collaboration tool, Spark. Spark allows you to chat, call, and videoconference with colleagues over a large geographic area, and use the file sharing, meeting spaces, and whiteboard features to get work done in real time. In this course, Phil Gold shows how to set up a Spark account and start collaborating with your team. Learn how to adjust important settings and permissions, add people to chats and calls, store and share files, and create new teams and spaces. Plus, find out how to collaborate on the go with the Spark mobile app. |
Learning Cloud Computing: Cloud Security Training Lynda.com Understand the basics of cloud security—a core component of cloud computing. Beginning with the basics, instructor David Linthicum explains the business case for cloud security and the levels and models available, including infrastructure-, application-, and data-level security; identity and risk management; encryption; and multifactor authentication. He then dives into the services offered by the top three cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. He reviews the compliance issues that affect specific industries, including health care and finance, and reviews the points you need to consider when identifying your security requirements and the security tools, services, and software to best meet those needs. |
Learning Digital Business Analysis Training Lynda.com More and more organizations are making investments in digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. These new technologies have sparked changes to business models, business operations, and customer expectations and experiences. This course was designed to help business analysts and project professionals grasp what these changes mean and how to implement them from a business perspective. Angela Wick explores natural language generation, speech recognition, swarm intelligence, blockchain, and other exciting new technologies, laying out how each one can fit into your business processes. Plus, she covers how these innovations can impact traditional business analysis practices and explains how the customer journey is affected by digital and AI projects. |
Learning Docker Training Lynda.com Docker is the next step beyond virtualization. A Docker image contains everything it needs to run, independent of the Linux server on which it lives: a copy of the operating system, a database, code, configuration files, dependencies, and so on. Images can also be packaged and shared with other Docker admins. Arthur Ulfeldt uses Docker to run complex systems with millions of users and hundreds of containers. Here, he shares his knowledge with you. He introduces the basics of Docker, including its containers, Dockerfiles (or base images), and capabilities for networking, data management, infrastructure optimization, and more. Watch and learn how to build your own containers, as well as how to network and link containers. |
Learning FARO PointSense Basic Training Lynda.com FARO PointSense Basic allows you to take scan data from a variety of sources— including laser scans and photogrammetry—for use within AutoCAD or Civil 3D. In this course, learn how to work with FARO PointSense Basic. Instructor Irene Radcliffe steps through how to configure your project, work with the powerful sectioning tools, create slices, and digitize your scans. Plus, she helps to familiarize you with the available drawing tools and shows how to use your scan data with VirtuSurv, FARO software for producing realistic and intuitive views of scan data. |
Learning FARO PointSense Building Training Lynda.com The FARO PointSense Building plugin for AutoCAD allows you to take scan data from a variety of sources—including laser scans and photogrammetry—and build architecturally compatible 2D plans. In this course, you can learn how to create 2D floor plans with PointSense Building and AutoCAD. Instructor Irene Radcliffe walks you through the entire process, from configuring your project and scan data, to sectioning and slicing, to digitizing your scan. Get familiar with the drawing and modeling tools available and learn how to use VirtuSurv, the FARO software for producing realistic and intuitive views of scan data. Then discover how to use the PointSense analysis tools to look for deviations and see how your linework and models fit the point cloud. Plus, find out how to use VirtuSurv macros to speed up your workflow and learn how to add construction details and dimensions to your drawings. |
Learning FARO PointSense Pro Training Lynda.com FARO PointSense plugins allows you to take scan data from a variety of sources—including laser scans and photogrammetry—and capture the as-built conditions of job sites with the highest degree of accuracy. The Pro version provides additional tools for 2D and 3D modeling in AutoCAD. In this course, you can learn how to work with FARO PointSense Pro, from configuring your project and scan data, to sectioning and slicing, to digitizing your scan. Get familiar with the drawing and modeling tools available and learn how to use VirtuSurv, the FARO software for producing realistic and intuitive views of scan data. Plus, learn how to use PointSense Pro analysis tools to look for deviations and see how your linework and models fit the point cloud. |
Microsoft Cognitive Services for Developers: 2 Speech Training Lynda.com Microsoft Cognitive Services opens up artificial intelligence to every developer. Cognitive Services gives us access to powerful AI algorithms that allow our apps to hear, speak, identify, and interpret information using natural methods of communication. This course explores the speech APIs, which are responsible for text translation, text to speech, and speaker recognition. Instructor Sahil Malik shows you how to configure Cognitive Services and use the speech capabilities to translate text, convert text to speech and speech to text, and identify and authenticate multiple speakers. Along the way, he covers various APIs, including Translate Text, Bing Speech, and Speaker Recognition. |
Migrating from React to Angular Training Lynda.com Learn how to convert a React application into an Angular app. Drake Boley starts with preparation steps: installing the Angular CLI, evaluating the structure of an app's code, and using generators. Next comes the conversion process, including how to handle types, interfaces, components, styles, and controllers. Then, directives and pipes transform templates. Finally, services and routing are explored as alternatives to flux architecture. |
MySQL for Advanced Analytics: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques Training Lynda.com MySQL is an excellent database for advanced analytics, but few analysts use it that way because they aren't fully aware of its capabilities in this area. Analysts end up writing code to perform common tasks—which can be time-consuming—rather than using MySQL to do the same work. In this course, learn tips and techniques for using MySQL for advanced data analytics. Kumaran Ponnambalam walks through the different stages of analytics, from data ingestion and transformation to generating statistics. In each stage, Kumaran focuses on letting MySQL do the heavy lifting rather than writing code in Java or Python. Discover how to perform data cleansing through MySQL update commands, find peak usage of any resource, perform centering and scaling of data to prepare for machine learning, and more. Plus, Kumaran shows how you can link MySQL with Microsoft Excel to get the best of both worlds. |
Navisworks Essential Training (2019) Training Lynda.com Navisworks spans the design and the construction worlds. This course was designed for residents of both: construction personnel, architects, and engineers who are looking to integrate design with the as-built world. Learn how to use Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate to gain control and get a holistic view of your projects. Eric Wing shows how to manage models, clash the models for interference, and virtually construct a building using a construction timeline. He also shows how to create material takeoffs and conduct live, interactive walk-throughs with clients and contractors. On the surface, Navisworks might look like just a file viewer, but with this course, you can learn things about its analysis and simulation tools that would be either impossible or impossibly expensive any other way. |
Integrating Temporary Workers and Third-Party Employees Training Lynda.com Contractors and temps are an ever-larger percentage of the workforce. Flexible staffing has tremendous advantages—including eliminating risks and reducing costs—but it needs to be used intelligently if you want to maximize your return on investment. In this course, Barbara Bruno shows how to find, hire, assess, and track temporary workers and third-party employees and integrate them into your workforce. First, understand the new business model of surrounding core employees with flexible staff, and the pros and cons of hiring temps and contractors. Learn how to determine the organization's needs and how to hire people who will succeed. Barbara also shows how to conduct the interview process, onboard new hires, and evaluate their performance once the job is done. Finally, learn how to determine your ROI for contractors and temps and optimize your hiring strategy. |
Introduction to LEED Certification Training Lynda.com The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system evaluates buildings for their environmental performance and encourages the use of green building practices. Designs with LEED certification may qualify for tax breaks and incentives, as well as industry awards and recognition. If you have been looking for more information about the LEED rating system and certification process, this is the course for you. It provides everything you need to know about LEED in one place—from a seasoned practitioner's view. Instructor Fulya Kocak Gin is a LEED Fellow who has certified a wide variety of projects. She explains exactly what it means to build green, and how you can leverage your hard work by achieving a LEED certification. Learn about the various LEED ratings, adaptations, versions, credits and prerequisites, and categories. Fulya then dives deeper into each category, exploring the range of credits and relevant strategies you can pursue, from sustainable sites and water efficiency to green materials and environmental quality. |
iOS Development: Auto Layout Programmatically Training Lynda.com Auto Layout offers a constraint-based design approach that allows iOS developers to create user interfaces for multiple devices. If you're using Swift Playgrounds or need portable and modular code, programmatic Auto Layout is your prime choice. In this course, instructor Steven Lipton talks about the different options you have to create constraints programmatically in Swift—and how to use each one. He also shows how to use size classes, stack views, and priorities for the fastest, most adaptable UI on any iOS device. |
Practical Software-Defined Networking: 6 The OpenFlow Protocol Training Lynda.com Explore the fundamentals of the OpenFlow network communications protocol, which allows network controllers to determine the path of network packets. Explore the theory behind OpenFlow and dive into the details of OpenFlow messages. Get a practical demonstration of how to capture OpenFlow messages using the Wireshark network protocol analyzer. Plus, discover what happens when a software-defined networking (SDN) controller fails. |
Leading Productive Meetings Training Lynda.com Feel like you're having too many meetings? Wonder if they're as effective as they could be? In this course, productivity expert Dave Crenshaw demonstrates a simple, usable framework that can help you get the most from your meetings—turning them into productive avenues for communicating, connecting, and accomplishing real work. Dave provides insight into how to effectively schedule, conduct, and follow up on meetings with minimum time and maximum results. LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here. |
Lean Six Sigma Teams: Analyze, Improve, and Control Tools Training Lynda.com The Green Belts or Black Belts that lead Lean Six Sigma projects are well-trained and ready to guide your project to the finish line. But what do you, as a team member on a Lean Six Sigma project team, need to know to be effective? In this course, Dr. Richard Chua provides coverage of fundamental Lean Six Sigma tools that can help you add value to your project. Here, he focuses on the Analyze, Improve, and Control phases of the DMAIC—Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control—approach. Discover how Lean Six Sigma integrates lean into DMAIC. Then learn how to conduct analysis using tools like cause-effect diagrams, multi-voting, scatter plots, correlation, and regression. Discover how to improve processes using methodologies such as FMEA and Kaizen. Finally, find out how to implement controls and value-stream management practices. For information about the first two phases of DMAIC, make sure to check out the previous installment of the Lean Six Sigma Teams series. |