Any thoughts, to me it looks really light but I have 10+ years of experience. To the outside eye, do I look inexperienced? It's exactly one page, covers the general info, but not sure if it screams "management" as it should.
https://preview.redd.it/8h9mffl8y4ta1.png?width=1106&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa5357d3641928ea274efbc611dbce98a059305c

What did you use? What did you love? What did you bring and never use? What issues did you have? Anyone get repairs done? What were the most frequent uses for your personal devices, aside from word, email, slides, video conferencing, and internet access?
For those of you who have studied abroad and/or taught in Spain recently, what kinds of devices did you bring and love? I use apple products personally and Google and Microsoft at work (and nothing I do really highlights the differences between the three, I just found Apple easier as an undergrad for specific programs/assignments and haven’t replaced anything since then). Did you find that a tablet was really handy? Or that it was really difficult to get certain brands repaired if something does happen to it? I’m a teacher in the US, so I’m assuming we really just need email, word/docs, slides, and internet access. If you use something else, please let me know! I’m good in Canva, procreate, Lucidchart, etc. I have reached out to my coordinator and school, but appreciate experience and knowledge from your perspective.
I was thinking about getting an iPad because I do travel a lot and a data plan would be useful— unless I’m mistaken. I also love digital photo editing and drawing so it’s something I thought would be fun just personally. I have a keyboard and mouse for it too.
I have a 2017 (maybe later) MacBook Air that I love, but I read in different aux resources (maybe outdated) that apple stores are limited for repairs and some schools prefer Windows.
I don’t love the idea of another device but if windows or chrome is easier, I’ll buy one and donate it to a student when I return, or use it to do work at home (I never login to work resources on my personal laptop or phone because of my states public records policies). I don’t want to be wasteful or frivolous, but I got started on Apple because of my university program requirements, so I understand that sometimes, you just have to follow the tech norms, even if it seems silly in this day and age (at least for what I do).

Hi Reddit, it seems like Chrome Sync is breaking my ability to use the browser. I have two computers, a Windows desktop and a Macbook Pro that I just got. I have sync turned on for both of these computers on the same Google account. It seems when I turned sync on in the Macbook, it broke my ability to use Chrome. Some examples of what I mean:

• I can no longer access Fidelity's website. Anytime I open their site, they tell me an error occurred and I cannot do anything on the website.
• I cannot login to Twitch. I can access the website, but when I try to login, and I press "Login" button after I input my credentials, nothing happens.
• Same thing is happening to me with realtor.com
• LucidChart cannot load any of my documents, it says an error occurred trying to load my documents.

I know it's related to Chrome because I am unable to reproduce these symptoms in Incognito Mode, nor in other web browsers. I have tried clearing all web browser data, but this did not fix the issue for me. I have also tried re-installing Chrome.
I know it's also because of Sync because when I sign out of sync, everything on Chrome works fine.
It seems like my Sync data got corrupt when I signed into Chrome on my new Macbook. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,
I just finished Software II! It took me 17 days, no coding background (former music teacher), and passed on my first submission. I really enjoyed this project and learned a lot. Here is how I tackled this class:

1. I started with reading the textbook. I recommend not starting here! I wasted about 3 days trying to just read it and decided to abandon it until I needed it for a reference (which I didn’t do anyway, because Google).
2. Watch the webinars and follow along, making new projects along with the lesson. I referred to the code I wrote in the lessons while making the project. A few of the webinars did not load for me (like Converting TimeZones) so I did not watch those unfortunately.
3. Build the GUI. I looked at the rubric and decided how I wanted to lay out my GUI. I created my project in Netbeans and started adding FXML documents to represent my screens in the GUI. I edited these in Scene Builder. Without trying to code any functionality, I just coded the scene changes by clicking certain buttons. My GUI consisted of:

- Login Screen
- Main Screen (where the “calendar” was located)
- Add Customer Screen
- Modify Customer Screen
- Add Appointment Screen
- Modify Appointmet Screen
- Reports Screen (with a textarea to show the reports)

1. Next I coded the functionality for each screen in this order: Login (including the change of language), Add Customer, Modify Customer, Add Appointment, Modify Appointment, Reports, and lastly Main Screen (mainly, the calendar aspect). These all required SQL statements and alerts to prevent the user from entering blank or incorrect information. At this point, I had NOT incorporated timezones or my 2 lambda expressions. So I knew I would need to go back and incorporate the timezones.
   
2. Learned about TimeZones through Google and Github. The “start” and “end” columns in the appointment table (in mysql) need to be stored as UTC time. But when the user logs in, the times that appear on screen when they see their appointments should show in their local time. For example, in Ohio, it is EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), and 7:00AM EDT is 11:00AM UTC. Therefore, I would see all my appointments in EDT, but they were stored in the database at UTC. This also is important when adding/modifying appointment times, making sure to translate the start/end times chosen into UTC before adding to the database. This is also when I set up my “business hours” and only allowed appointments to be scheduled between 9:00AM-5:00PM UTC.
   
3. Lambdas – I saved this for last since I understood how to use it in the project the least. I ended up creating 2 interfaces, one called LocalDateTime_Interface and another one called TimeZone_Interface. The first one helped me transform the user’s selected start and date time from a string to LocalDateTime in UTC. The second helped change a label I made on the Main Screen above the calendar that shows the user their timezone. I made the second one right before I submitted and was really simple.
   

These were the difficult parts of the project:
- While there are a lot of requirements, it is much less structured compared to Software I. This gives you some freedom to code a lot of it how you want (you do not have to code specific functions and have specific variables like you did in Software I). This freedom made it kind of hard to start the project, but once I started designing the GUI, things started to make more sense as I went along.
- Part C and E – Adding and Updating appointments were tricky due to the timezone aspect.
- Part D – the calendar. It was hard to conceptualize how to make a calendar in a tableView. I needed radio buttons (View All, View by Month, View by Week) and a Date Picker to make mine work.
- Part G – finding areas to put 2 lambda expressions
Resources I used:
· u_lynda’s post about this course
· Webinars from the course instructor
· Check off list (from Couse Instructor) - I did not do everything on the list, like the lucidchart stuff
· Common Fail Points list (from Couse Instructor)
· Checkoff List Before you Submit (from Couse Instructor)
· Github
· Google
· Youtube (login functionality)
​
EDIT: I also submitted a word document along with the zip file submission (as recommendation from u_lynda) that outlined each requirement and I wrote where this was completed in my code. I only included line numbers for the lambda expressions.

https://www.lucidchart.com/invitations/accept/74564e9f-4d85-422f-b217-a4ae4db92c0b
Above is My Lucidchart ERD which you can modify, if you do please make notations.
JPG: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cN7nyYYlKG1D0HXCAWzSTM5xqAXoA0gK
Above is the ERD of the flask webapp i am developing. I am really new to python, flask and databases. So far i have only the listing table setup where i have several scrapers daily enter data into the table.
That side of my projects works as i want. Now i am creating a GUI webapp to visualize the data. Did some testing and have a bootstrap layout working. Now i have to rebuild the database from all the lose parts i have. I want to do this right this time so i dont waste any time forward with bad design.
So this is the setup. Scraper scrapes specific url from a brance, this brance is a child of a company because some companies have serveral brances.
The scraper puts the new found listings in the listing table, and updates the remove/sold date if it can't find the listing or finds a soldmarker on the listing. The new thing i added is a sperate table for pricechanges so i can track if there are pricechanges and retrieve when.

• Every Listing has a brance and company
• Every company has a brance (even if they only have one) but not every compay has listings (if i don't track their listings but they subscribe to track others(targets))

I have the website login seperate because i like to keep it like this, it would let me add users without whole companies.
Did i choose the right 'intermediate' table for the price changes and for the targets (a companie can track several brances). ?
Also did i use the right crowfood notation? I am studying my ass off for 2 days on database/design and modelling them in sqlalchemy and i has been very hard to grasp it fully.

https://www.lucidchart.com/invitations/accept/74564e9f-4d85-422f-b217-a4ae4db92c0b
Above is My Lucidchart ERD which you can modify, if you do please make notations.
JPG: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cN7nyYYlKG1D0HXCAWzSTM5xqAXoA0gK
Above is the ERD of the flask webapp i am developing. I am really new to python, flask and databases. So far i have only the listing table setup where i have several scrapers daily enter data into the table.
That side of my projects works as i want. Now i am creating a GUI webapp to visualize the data. Did some testing and have a bootstrap layout working. Now i have to rebuild the database from all the lose parts i have. I want to do this right this time so i dont waste any time forward with bad design.
So this is the setup. Scraper scrapes specific url from a brance, this brance is a child of a company because some companies have serveral brances.
The scraper puts the new found listings in the listing table, and updates the remove/sold date if it can't find the listing or finds a soldmarker on the listing. The new thing i added is a sperate table for pricechanges so i can track if there are pricechanges and retrieve when.

• Every Listing has a brance and company
• Every company has a brance (even if they only have one) but not every compay has listings (if i don't track their listings but they subscribe to track others(targets))

I have the website login seperate because i like to keep it like this, it would let me add users without whole companies.
Did i choose the right 'intermediate' table for the price changes and for the targets (a companie can track several brances). ?
Also did i use the right crowfood notation? I am studying my ass off for 2 days on database/design and modelling them in sqlalchemy and i has been very hard to grasp it fully.

I'm in high school, so this applies to that, some might work for your uni too. Public schooling system, I'm not sure if private gets their own *@education.nsw.gov.au. Probably tafe too, not sure.
Please let me know
Lynda

1. Click Log In
2. Click Organisation Login
3. Type in www.det.nsw.edu.au, and if that doesn't work, try www.dec.nsw.edu.au
4. Log in with first.last1 (replacing first and last and 1 with your first name, last name and your number, if applicable), and you're ready!

Windows, Office and some Adobe Software

1. Register with your school email
2. Verify your email
3. Log in
4. Choose software you want
5. Add it to cart and "check out" (if your cart is only from the first 2 tabs, you don't need to pay for anything)

UPDATE: YOU CAN NOW GET CREATIVE CLOUD HERE TOO

Note: I highly recommend emailing yourself the key or keeping it somewhere safe, as they hide your key after a month. Your key will still be valid, but it'll be hidden. The download server from the site is pretty shit so I recommend downloading the software from Microsoft/Adobe themselves, and using the key from the student site.
GitHub Education (Includes Visual Studio and Travis CI stuff too, and some more)

1. Add your school email to your GitHub account
2. Go to the site I linked
3. Choose your school email
4. Verify your email
5. Provide any reason that doesn't sound absolutely stupid. They validate most of them in like 5 seconds, so I doubt they read them at all.

Jetbrains (IDEA, PyCharm, etc.)

1. Click the button that says apply now
2. Type in your school email
3. Click apply
4. Verify your email
5. Choose a username and stuff
6. (Optional) Open your account settings and change your email. You can change it back every time you need to revalidate that you're in school, but you can always change it back to your real email after.

Autodesk (3DS Max, some other stuff)

1. Make an account with literally any email. They don't check anything.

Really annoying watermark though.
Dreamspark

1. Do stuff. I honestly don't remember how to do this one.

6 Months Lastpass Premium

1. Use your education email on the link
2. Use the code sent to your education email to make your actual account have 6 months lastpass premium.

ArchiCad Thanks superjjskate
LucidChart Thanks m_i_t_t
Unreal Engine Thanks akkatracker
Siemens SolidEdge Thanks akkatracker
Tableau Thanks h-ugo

I'm a IPsec noob. I know I can connect IPsec tunnels using routers at the edge. (I usually do this with Edgemarc or Mikrotik routers), however, I have a situation where I'd like to establish a IPSec tunnel with one side behind a consumer NAT router. Is there a way to make this happen?
Assuming one would have to login to the consumer router and set up the port forwards for IPsec?
Example of how I want to set this up.
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I'm compiling a list of "pocketknives" for game developers, in that they're tools (not just resources) that:

1. do One Thing Well
2. are portable, as in, permissive license, exports usable data, and fits in any workflow.
3. are free web apps, so there's no cost, no download time, and no cross-platform issues.

After reading the comments, I've loosened the 'web app' criteria, (marked with an asterisk) as long as they're still free & cross-platform. And as great as downloadable tools like Audacity & Blender are, I'd like to keep the spotlight on the lesser-known gems.
Here's what we've got so far:
Art

• Spritesheet Cutter: http://spritecutie.com/ (created by Rezoner)
• Turn photos to 8bit: http://superpixeltime.com/ (created by FamousAspect)
• Simple 3D Modeller: http://www.3dtin.com/ (Thanks TannerNetwork!)
• SVG Vector Art: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editosvg-editor.html
• Photoshop-like Webapp: http://pixlr.com/edito (Thanks 2Fort!)
• Pixel Art: http://makepixelart.com/free/
• Pixel Art Analyzer: http://hivemind.in/pj/specs/ (Thanks MoarThenFeeling!)
• Pixel Animation*: http://www.pickleeditor.com/ (Thanks LoveDuckie!) *Adobe Air app
• Pixel Tileset*: http://pyxeledit.com/ (created by Danik112, suggested by InlineVoid) *Adobe Air app

Audio

• Make Music #1: http://soundation.com/studio (Feels like GarageBand. Thanks optimality!)
• Make Music #2: http://www.audiotool.com/app (If you like sliders and knobs)
• Make Music #3: http://www.beepbox.co/ (Super-simple chiptune loop creator. Thanks Spajder!)
• Sound FX #1: http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfx
• Sound FX #2: http://www.bfxr.net/ (Newer revision of sfxr. Thanks ethicszen!)
• Sound FX #3: http://www.leshylabs.com/apps/sfMake (An HTML5 version of sfxr by LeshyLabs)
• Convert OGG/MP3/WAV: http://media.io (Thanks Bionsuba!)
• Convert WAV to MP3: http://audioformat.com/wav-to-mp3 (Thanks RyeBread761!)
• Procedural Tunes*: https://github.com/wibblymat/ld24/blob/masteautotracker.py (Thanks Cosmologicon!) *Python script
• Wolfram Tones: http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/ (MATHEMUSICAL. Thanks BluShine!) Turns out Wolfram has a non-permissive license for the tunes it procedurally generates, so you can't use them in your games. Uncool. Thanks to ethicszen for the correction!

Data

• Placeholder Kittens: http://placekitten.com/ (To test loading external images / image manipulation.)
• data:text/html, (Paste into your address bar for an instant in-browser notepad)
• JSON Prettifier: http://jsonsh.com/
• JSON Lint: http://jsonlint.com/ (Thanks Skjalg!)

Design

• Tile Maps: http://elias-schuett.de/git/Online-Tile-Map-Editor
• UI Wireframing: https://moqups.com
• Flowcharting game flow: https://www.lucidchart.com (Thanks MX-Chronos!)
• HTML5 Level Editor: http://www.craftyy.com (Full disclosure: CosmicJC & I made this.)
• Game Mechanics: http://www.jorisdormans.nl/machinations/ (Thanks Quantanamo!)
• Grid Map Editor*: http://www.arraypainter.com (Thanks oldsecondhand!) *Standalone Java app
• Tiled Map Editor*: http://www.mapeditor.org (Thanks KillaW0lf04!) *not web app

Production

• Organization: http://corkboard.me/ (Automatically creates your organization "corkboard", no login needed!)
• Collaboration: https://trello.com/ (Thanks MatticusRex & Reaner!)
• Screenrecording*: http://www.screenr.com/ (Screencast without downloading anything) *Warning: It uses the Java web applet, which hasn't had a great track record with security issues.

Programming

• Regex: http://regexpal.com/ (Thanks Noctune!)
• Collaborative Coding: http://collabedit.com/ (Like Google Docs for programming. Thanks BluShine!)
• Gist: https://gist.github.com/ (Good for sharing snippets of code)
• Pastie: http://pastie.org/ (Pastebin with plugins available for Sublime & TextMate. Thanks agmcleod!)
• Making JS+CSS+HTML #1: http://jsfiddle.net/ (Thanks MurderOfCrows!)
• Making JS+CSS+HTML #2: http://codepen.io/ (Thanks Azeirah!)
• Making JS+CSS+HTML #3: http://cssdeck.com/ (Thanks Rezoner!)

Resources (Not really "tools", but they're still quick one-stop websites.)

• Open Game Art: http://opengameart.org/ (of course)
• Pocketknives for Javascript: http://microjs.com/
• Game-specific UI Icons: http://game-icons.net/ (Thanks AutumnGecko!)
• General UI Icons: http://thenounproject.com/
• Fonts #1: http://www.google.com/webfonts (Free, open-source, and you can simply embed them)
• Fonts #2: http://www.dafont.com/ (Licenses vary, mostly free for personal use)
• 3D Textures: http://www.cgtextures.com/ (Thanks Brother_Clovis!)
• Sound effects: http://www.freesound.org/ (Thanks Connerses!)

Surely I've missed a few. If you know of a good "gamedev pocketknife", leave it in the comments, and I'll update the list above! (and credit you for the suggestion) Or, if you want to request a type of tool, I'll add it to the list below. Don't worry about being too specific!
Does anyone know of free web apps for:

• Vector graphics (http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editosvg-editor.html)
• 3D Tools (http://www.3dtin.com/ found by TannerNetwork)
• Tween Animations
• Non tile-map level editors
• Character creation
• Dialogue branching
• Story
• Texture Generator
• A tool to make tools because why not

SAY WHAT? #1 Post of All-time on gamedev?
Thank you all for the overwhelming response! Just today, this list has grown from ten entries to dozens of tools. Making this list has surely helped me, and hopefully it's helped some of you too! There's also a lot of great discussion in the comments below, ranging from web apps to Wolfram.
Stay awesome, gamedev.