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Murdoch Business School PhD candidate Wan Sofiah Meor Osman found the workshop boosted her confidence in her work
The Small and Medium Enterprise Research Centre (SMERC) recently hosted a vibrant career development workshop for Higher Degree by Research candidates and staff.
Titled 'Getting Published as an Early Career Researcher', the session was held on Tuesday 31 January on the Joondalup campus, attracting students and staff from several faculties at ECU as well as students and staff from other universities.
The workshop was designed to impart skills and strategies to give early career researchers the best chance of successfully publishing their research. It included a panel discussion and an open forum where participants were invited to ask questions.
The session was facilitated by academics and research journal editors, including:
- Professor Colette Henry, Norbrook Professor of Business and Enterprise at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, and founding editor of the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
- Professor Craig Standing, the Foundation Professor of Systems and Information Management in ECU's School of Management and editor of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology
- Dr Kate Lewis, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Massey University in New Zealand and editor-in-chief of the Small Enterprise Research Journal
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Murdoch Business School PhD candidate Wan Sofiah Meor Osman found that besides providing some strategies for improvement, the workshop helped to instil confidence in her work.
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At some point this week I'm sure everybody has logged into their Myspace, wait no Facebook, I think — I'm not sure anymore. With the latest system update and all the media clutter, it's official…
…Facebook has become the new Myspace.
The new update allows users to see what's going on with everyone, all the time, whether you want to or not. You see what someone said on your friend's photo that you don't know and then you're asked to befriend him or her. The new Facebook suggests people you would like to follow and shows you their status updates all the time based off some fancy calculation, and you are constantly bombarded with updates on your friends from every conceivable angle.
Admit it. We all had a Myspace at one point, but the social media network then became cluttered, messy and just overall trashy.
Then came Facebook.
Facebook offered a clean and crisp social media experience, one that was originally offered exclusively to college students. Smart move. This keeps out the immature middle and high school kids.
Facebook eventually opened up to more people, serving as a place where families could reconnect and business people could add their buddies. This, however, is no longer the case at all!
It all started with the cliché "I'm sad don't talk to me" status, which indeed makes people comment and talk to you. (This was more of a little annoyance than a problem, in my personal opinion.) Then came the ability to tag people in your photos and statuses.
At first it was a cool feature that seemed innocent, but then people figured out that you could play "games" with this. Tagging people to make other people jealous, to reveal a scandal or just to be mean. Then, the "like" feature came into the picture and people began to "like" everything, even if it wasn't worth "liking." Also, people started to flood walls and everybody else's stream with facts about me and my feelings toward you or this or that. The list goes on and on.
We all have the feature we love to hate and then the feature we secretly love.
The ultimate downfall came when Facebook allowed anyone over the age of 13 to get a profile. This is the point of no return. Doing this was also an easy way to make money with advertisements of course, but, honestly, was it worth it? It took everything that was bad and made it 10 times worse. There is so much failing in one place is not even funny.
Then mix it with your mom and family.
You know something's wrong when you have to block your mom and grandma from discovering some nonsense your friends tagged you in, that edgy status you happened to post or that crazy photo you were tagged in that you're not even in. That's just too much for the heart to handle. At least on Myspace you could block some completely.
Blocking someone on Facebook is so complicated.
There are just so many options. You can block someone from viewing a status, a post, a picture, a video, blah blah blah. I don't want to go through hundreds of block options; I just want to block someone because I don't want him or her to see my business!
It's only a matter a time before Facebook fades away like Myspace, but there is still time for the company to save itself from this fate.
If you're perturbed by Facebook's recent changes, you're going to be bewildered by the next set of changes discussed at the recent Facebook "f8" developer conference in San Francisco.
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I can't agree more ,there are a lot of hardship stories and hopefully we'll start to see more happy ones as well. My little Hazel is 13 weeks old now, and she has already changed so much since she was born. We can't get enough of how awesome of a little person she is becoming every single day. She tries to laugh and giggle also, but it comes out sounding like a dry cough instead, she's starting to get the hang of it now. She thinks animal noises are the funniest thing ever especially the ones with the "oooo" sound. She tries to copy what we're saying but it mostly comes out like excited babbling. When she wakes up in the morning all fussy for a bottle or diaper change and sees me lean over her crib she gets the biggest smile on her face...like "whew mommy is here she'll take care of it" lol. She LOVES to eat! When she assumes the position for her bottle she starts to do her coughing laugh and immediately grabs her bib or anything close and tries gobbling it down, it's actually become difficult giving her bottle to her because she's too busy trying to eat everything else lol. We're working on rolling over, she doesn't like tummy time for more than 5 minute spurts, but she can almost roll from her back to her belly, if only she could figure out how to move her bottom leg under herself she'd have it. She's almost a champ at sitting up, she just scares herself if my hands leave her then she wobbles and starts to fall over, but i can barely touch her and she's just fine, so it's mostly mental at this point. She loves the baby first channel, she'll talk to the tv and kick her legs and swing her arms about... it's been a blast watching her change and develop from day to day, i'm defiantly going to look back on these moments with tons of fond memories in the future.
What a great post! You're right. So many times we focus on the things that aren't going right and forget to focus on the things that are going right! Babies don't always sleep or eat well and sometimes that stresses us out, but they do a lot of wonderful things too! I am looking forward to reading everyone's success stories!
so, this is not my baby, but a wonderful story- One of my patients who was very premature is now 8 months old. She was on the exam table last week and while mom and I were talking we look down and she has been sitting up ALL BY HERSELF, for the very first time!!! We were so excited clapping and cheering. It just made my day to see a little one who had been through such tough times meet such a major milestone.
Yes she is a blast... Hard work, but well worth my efforts. She does the same thing with trying to eat everything in sight. She got a hold of my finger the other day and man she has a good bite for a baby with no teeth. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise that i had to stop breastfeeding lol. She is going to be cutting a tooth soon, i can feel it pushing up. So far she hasn't been too fussy, just clingy. We just bought her a new swing yesterday and every time i went to check on her she was smiling ear to ear. She has the biggest smile. she's like the best little cabbage patch kid that ever existed lol. She too loves bath time. she kicks and splashes so much that i'm considering wearing a rain jacket for bath time. She'll accidently splash her face sometimes and look startled at what had just happened then she will resume splashing furiously. It's amazing how much love you can have for a single person isn't it?
I love it!! Yes, mommyhood is full of the unexpected...but that includes good times too! My little man is 21/2 and is absolutely funny and a joy to be around. He amazes me with the thoughts he is expressing these days and the funny little songs he has learned. He is starting to understand the concept of a joke and tries to tell them to us - hilarious. I wouldn't trade all the crazy times for anything in the world. He is a sweet pea. I love reading all your stories - keep them coming!
I am one of those mom's where I can just talk and talk about my son all day long. My son Riley Samuel is almost 4 months old,(June 8th) I never thought I would be a mom, I never wanted too, however from the moment I found out my life change I was excited started to get everything ready couldn't wait to go to the store and walk threw the baby section. My son smiles and has just started laughing and rolling over (he only seems to be able to roll from his tummy to back, and not back to tummy) He is scooting, and seems to love the taste of his toes and fingers, (he never did take a binky) He is the best little baby ever and I seem to be doing a good job since I am a new mommy, living on my own with little help. I do what I can since my finance always seem to be working or not home. I just can't wait to see what else Riley leans as time goes on and he grows.
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"That's not any reason to be satisfied, and there's a lot more that needs to be done," he said. "But it's really completely misleading to compare a recession like this, caused by collapsing asset values, with the recession like the one we had in 1982 that was policy-caused in an effort to contain inflation."
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Thoughts about *How Scrum works in a fixed Price Projects"
Last Post 28 Nov 2012 02:57 PM by Ian Mitchell. 9 Replies.
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27 Sep 2012 02:28 AM
The other day, I have been asked a question about how to bring scrum into fixed price projects... Interesting though.
I would like you expert guys to give some thoughts about this.
Any experiences would be highly appropriated.
Leo Gagne
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27 Sep 2012 01:33 PM
The question can be answered this way:
"You will get what will be done up to the budget limit!" In scrum, each sprint will deliver potentially shippable increment to the product. This means that if the product backlog is well prioritized, high-value features will be done soon during the project, resulting in a product that quickly has value. Each sprint will add value to the product. When the budget is reached, normally you should have something to deliver. Maybe it will not offer all the inital features you were expecting, but maybe you could be surprised to finally deliver more, or even better, deliver something that fits the customer needs better!
Now... This question is often biased by a subsequent or underlying question: what happens if the budget is fixed, the timebox is freezed and we promissed to deliver all the functionalilities? This is what I call the "iron triangle", no variables, only solid-framed limitations... Get prepared to negociate! This is what agile tries to change!
Eric Poole
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09 Oct 2012 08:38 AM
Good morning, Leo.
(I really hate the expression "In a perfect world", but...) In a perfect world, "You will get what will be done up to the budget limit" is fine. In the real world... I have been consulting in software development for 34 years and I have never met a manager who would stand still for that.
This is a question to which I have yet to find a satisfactory, or even marginally satisfying answer.
Most engineering and manufacturing companies, that aren't pure "think tanks", when they envision a new project to develop a new product, have a time and cost budget in mind beyond which it is no longer time-effective or cost-effective to develop the product. Maybe they have to get it out into the marketplace by a certain time or they lose their window of opportunity. Maybe the product has to sell at or below a certain price point or no one will buy it.
Most Agile (upper-case "A") processes emphasize the time to complete the next increment (the next "sprint" or whatever one wants to call it) and don't pay much attention to how long it is projected to take to complete the whole project. Ditto costs... most Agile processes don't seem to pay significant attention to development cost targets.
So, precisely HOW is it that one convinces senior management of the benefits of Agile processes when the managers' major focus (it's in their job descriptions) is on time-to-market and total cost figures?
Note the difference between "Agile" (upper-case "A") and "agile" (lower case)... I consider the former to mean a defined process that conforms to the Agile Manifesto. The latter is what most people, particularly software managers, mean when they use the term... at best, they take it to mean "anything that is faster than how we have done it before" including any of the iterative processes that have been in use for decades.
Eric Poole
Joshua Partogi
14 Oct 2012 07:32 AM
Hi Eric and Usman,
Have you guys taken Professional Scrum Master Course already? The trainer will teach you about fixed price contracts in Agile.
Eric Poole
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14 Oct 2012 07:47 AM
Thanks, Joshua, but that's a little bit like saying "Buy this book and it will tell you". Forums (fora? fori?) like this one are for getting answers to specific questions, helping one another, and holding discussions, without having to go to the expense of traveling to some course or buying some book.
Philipp Eisbacher
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18 Oct 2012 08:51 AM
I'm quite new to scrum, but I'm really trying to learn by reading and reading and participating in trainings, so my thoughts are:
Scrum does not mean "no plan/no estimation" In the beginning of a product development you have to figure out what the needs of a customer are, and of course, they are estimated.
Nevertheless it is clearly stated, that those estimates are only rough estimates to get a plan how many sprints you need to deliver if you know the velocity of your team.
I know, this does not sound like scrum estimates are really exact, but in my experience with waterfall projects I found the same but with more investment in the planning, because the best IEEE-requirement-sheet always only says "it is as described if nothing changes!"
So my project planes in waterfall most of the time show something like "exact dates" but this is an illusion MS project gives me ;-)
I heard about an interesting presentation about selling this agility to the customer: Jeff Sutherland talking about "Money for nothing, Changes are free" google it, I think it's quite interesting.
So estimating (and fixed price projects are much about estimating) is always hard and the bigger the project and the more unknown a domain is, the harder it gets. But scrum does not make it harder, it makes it faster and more flexible.
may I was able to bring a few things/thoughts in this discussion.
Gunther Verheyen
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11 Nov 2012 12:14 PM
Eric, one could have a good enough Product Backlog holding requirements and other ideas to build into the product, consider expected team size, look at past velocity or comparable figures to figure out the estimated #Sprints and have an indication of timing and cost. Actual implementation is still required to validate all these assumptions. If time and budget have been fixed, scope will become negotiable. Product Backlog and progress on it (e.g. burn-down) will keep all involved informed about the feasibility of the initial plan.
The amount of detail that's put in the initial Product Backlog depends on the level of trust in general. Creating an exhaustive, fully detailed Product Backlog is not helping much but may be required. Do note that this is not an obligation posed by Scrum, but a decision taken outside of Scrum.
Gunther Verheyen
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11 Nov 2012 12:17 PM
There is always something like ("Yes, but reality"). As in my answer to Eric, always look for highest achievable. Nevertheless, if I give my honest opinion to people on the topic of fixed prices, in general everyone agrees with my statement: "Fixed Price bids. An open invitation to bribe, cajole, lie and cheat.". All my thoughts at
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13 Nov 2012 08:54 AM
My 2cents worth: The problem with Fixed Priced Bids is that it is based on a contract...and therefore the contract takes precedence over everything else. This would go against the AGILE Values of valuing customer collaboration over contract negotiation. In my experience (at various clients), once the AGILE mindset and the thinking behind scrum is explained to the client, the need or demand for a fixed bid price is dropped in favor of the client being able to continuously 'direct' the product. This is the value of SCRUM and AGILE in my world. Alas, Fixed price contracts are going to be around for a while though...
Ian Mitchell
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28 Nov 2012 02:57 PM
I recently applied Scrum within the DSDM framework to support public sector fixed price contracts. Essentially, this was done by treating a Sprint as a DSDM delivery timebox, and therefore as a trading space for negotiating requirements in or out of scope. Cost and time were fixed, but scope became variable. The tradeable scope consisted of the Should and Could requirements of a MoSCoWed sprint backlog.
Admittedly this was done before the Scrum Guide changed from sprint commitments to forecasts, but I suppose it might be possible to do something similar by placing the contractual emphasis upon sprint goals rather than upon a sprint backlog.
Fixed price work certainly presents challenges for agile practice, but I agree that it is going to be with us for a while yet.
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A question related to single sign on.
Can I pass username/password to Strobe playback as parameters so user doesn't need to be prompted for username/password for protected content? In other words, Strobe detects the need for authentication, but instead putting up a dialog box to prompt the user, it just extracts the passed in username/password and passes it along to the license server?
If no such feature is available, can someone point to a simple plug-in sample, where I can pass along username/password or a token to the license server, perhaps through the connection or stream object? I have looked at the Akamai example and it is fairly complicated with little documentation.
Thank you for your help in advance.
-- Leki
Curious, why would you want to pass the default user/pass to authentication? Doesn't that mean you wouldn't need the auth at all? If so, wouldn't it be an option to use anonymouse encrypted content instead?
One way to do this would be possibly to overwrite the Auth dialog with the fault text in it when DRMState. AUTHENITCATION_NEEDED.
Hi Ryan,
Does our suggestion require changing the osmf code or the Strobe playback code? I am hoping to accomplish this in the most non-intrusive way, like a plug-in.
Thank you so much for your suggestion and looking forward to more recommendations.
-- Lei
If SMP allows overwriting "auth dialog", then I think you can write a plugin to do so in SMP level. For that matter, Andrian would be a good person to talk to.
Doing this in OSMF to use it in SMP wouldn't seem to be a way to do so, although there is a way to do it, something like below.
In MediaPlayer level, there is "authenticated" function that passes username and password, and "authenticated with token".
Also drmState should tell you what state of your encrypted media is.
In your plugin, listens to DRMEvent . If DRMState is AUTHENTICATION_NEEDED, Pop up your auth dialog with your user/pass login.
mediaElement.addEventListener(MediaElementEvent.TRAIT_ADD, onTraitAdd);
private function onTraitAdd(event:MediaElementEvent):void
switch (event.traitType)
case MediaTraitType.DRM:
_contentProtectionTrait = mediaPlayer.media.getTrait(MediaTraitType.DRM) as DRMTrait;
_contentProtectionTrait.addEventListener(DRMEvent.DRM_STATE_CHANGE, onDRMStateChange);
private function onDRMStateChange(event:DRMEvent):void
var drmState:String = event.drmState.toString();
case DRMState.AUTHENTICATION_NEEDED:
var authDialog:AuthDialog = new AuthDialog();
authDialog.drmTrait = _contentProtectionTrait;
authDialog.metadata = event.target.drmMetadata as DRMContentData;
In your dialog, use authenticate(username, password) when a user tries to attempt auth. something like this.
private function attemptAuth(event:MouseEvent):void
drmTrait.addEventListener(DRMEvent.DRM_STATE_CHANGE, onDRMStateChange);
drmTrait.authenticate(username.text, password.text);
Thanks a lot Ryan. I will give it a try and will report back results. Sounds like a reasonable approach.
-- Lei
Hi Lei,
It is possible to create a plugin for this too. I created a sample plugin for to get started. Take the source code from here:
http://smpfmp.appspot.com/SingleSignOnPlugin.zip (I'll commit the code either to the OSMF or the SMP code repository later).
For testing you need to:
1. point the URL to an encrypted content
2. instruct FMP/SMP to load the plugin
3 & 4. set the username and password as plugin metadata
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback.swf?src=htt p://mediapm.edgesuite.net/strobe/content/test/AFaerysTale_sylviaAposto l_640_500_short.flv
Under the hood, the plugin will read the metadata, it will block the DRMTrait and will do the authentication itself. The player will not be aware that a DRM trait is avaiable at all, so it will not display the Auth Dialog.
Looking forward to your reply,
Hi Andrian,
Thank you so much for putting this together and this is exactly what I am looking for.
I will give it a try tomorrow and will report back the results.
Thanks again.
-- Lei
Hi Andrian,
Thank you so much for providing the SSO plug-in and it worked as a charm.
A follow-on question is how I can use SSO plug-in and SMIL plug-in together? For example, I want to play
a playlist of videos and use the SSO plug-in to bypass challenging username/password? I would like to
pass the usernmae/password through SSO plug-in parameters? Is that possible and how we need to
modify the SSO plug-in?
Thanks so much for tremendous help.
-- Lei
Hi Lei,
If multiple videos in a SMIL SEQuence require exactly the same username and password, the plugin should work as it is.
If this is broken, you need to trace inside the plugin and see what goes wrong (I suspect I didn't clean-up properly an event handler or over-cleaned them).
If you have a SMIL asset available it should be easy for you to trace this. Currently I'm heads down working on the new StrobeMediaPlayback features and won't be able to look at this during the next 3 weeks.
Let me know if you encounter any issues troubleshooting this.
Thank You,
Hi Andrian,
When I support both plug-ins as the following,
plugin_smil=http://localhost:8080/SMILPlugin.swf&src=http://localhost:8080/sample. smil&plugin_sso=http://localhost:8080/SingleSignOnPlugin.swf&sso_usern ame=usernamevalue&sso_password=passwordvalue
It seems like the single sign-on plug-in is ignored and I am being prompted for username/password again. Is there an easy way for me to trace where the problem is?
BTW, I can compile Strobe logically with the ANT script and thanks for your help on this one as well.
Best regards,
-- Lei
Hi Lei,
The SMILPlugin seems to have a bug when used together with a proxy plugin.
Please follow these steps:
1. Check-out the SMILPlugin source code: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/osmf/trunk/plugins/samples/ SMILPlugin
2. Open the SMILMediaGenerator class.
3. Go to line 123. You should see the following snippet:
if (!isNaN(duration) && duration > 0)
(videoElement as VideoElement).defaultDuration = duration;
4. Replace it with this snippet:
if (!isNaN(duration) && duration > 0)
// Assuming that videoElement is a VideoElement is wrong (I suppose we can find a better name for this variable?)
// since any proxy plugin will break this code. Iterating through the proxy chain until we get to a VideoElement
// We can add some deffensive code just after the while iterator, unless we should always have a VideoElement on top.
var temp:MediaElement = videoElement;
while (temp is ProxyElement)
temp = (temp as ProxyElement).proxiedElement;
(temp as VideoElement).defaultDuration = duration;
5. Check that everything works with this patch.
6. Let us know if this fixes the current issue.
7. Log the bug and submit the patch (with a link to this forum post) here: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FM
Thank You,
Message was edited by: Andrian Cucu updated the snipet so that is uses a temp var
Thanks Andrian for digging int this!
Yes, Lei please make sure to file this to Jira. We are aware of some glitches in some of plugins when they are used with other plugins and we want to get this to the bottom of it for sure. Please detail out as much as you can, and add enhancement request based on some of your exprience of using plugins in general if any.
Thanks guys.
Hi Ryan,
I will give it a try as soon as I receive my extension on our certificate. Our certificate expired yesterday and nothing really works for me at this point.
I will follow up with a Jira request when I finish testing.
-- Lei
Thanks Andrian for digging into this and I will find the Jira request after I finish testing. Still waiting on our extended certificate.
-- Lei
Thank you Lei!
Hi Andrian,
I successfully tested your fix for SMIL plug-in with SSO plug-in and everything works like a charm!
Filed a buy here,
I noticed a minor issue with duration flag for the SMIL file,
If I list the video entry as the following,
<video id="b541780b-732a-42af-bf4c-1627255cf356" src="http://localhost/media/dhttp/monster.f4m"/>
and the video plays.
But when I add duration flag and the player won't play,
<video id="b541780b-732a-42af-bf4c-1627255cf356" src="http://localhost/media/dhttp/monster.f4m" dur="30s"/>
Can you take a look at it?
For now, I am all set.
Thanks again for your help.
-- Lei
Hi Lei,
I've just checked in a fix for this into the trunk of the OSMF SVN repository if you'd like to try it out.
Info here if you are not familar with the repository:
- charles
I am Beginner to this field and don't know much.
I have few questions.
1> How i would be able to use authentication dialog box username and password in strobe media playback.
2> How i would be able to add logo image to my video running in strobe media playback. I mean where do i need to make changes to strobe media playbacksource code.
Suggest some good resource for as3.
Will be waiting for your favorable response.
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- Phone interview with a SM
- Office interview with M and SM
- Hoping to get a call for next round :)
Interview Question – None. I found all questions easy Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Not there yet
Declined Offer
Neutral Experience
Easy Interview
I applied online and the process took 5 days - interviewed at EY in November 2009.
Interview Details I had a phone interview which led to an office visit in the following week. I wasn't notified of the interview structure until I showed up. I walked in thinking it would be a first round but it was actually several back to back interviews with managers and senior managers. Final meeting was with a partner. Questions were almost all behavioral and going through the resume.
In my opinion, I believe the group was somewhat desperate for resources as the interviewers really pushed how great of a firm EY was because of its friendly culture and learning opportunities.
Interview Question – Describe a difficult situation you've been in Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Salary offered was very below market
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