Seeking advice: project sharing

For five years, I've produced a quarterly newsletter (for teh day job) that averages 28 pages. In 2014, I'm preparing to change the project by lowering print run and page count and making it monthly - so we'll be producing the same number of pages in a year, but on a radically different schedule.
To help me accomplish that, another employee will begin contributing content, including page layout. She uses our same CS5 license in the office next to mine and is comfortable but not confident (i.e. will be a full but junior partner for the first six issues while her Adobe chops catch up with her composition & design skill).
So the question, broadly, is: what advice would you give in this situation? The coworker and I have done many prjects together over the years, and I'm not at all worried about issues of ego or control. But I've been making this product myself, and have a lot of "shorthands" built in to my workflow that she doesn't necessarily have to emulate. Also, because I've answered to no one for so long, I expect some headbutting as we learn from each other - and might have use for robust version control, so we can see different principles in action on a page.
Does it make sense to break out InCopy (which we don't currently own) for such a short-distance working relationship? Is there a plug-in by which she could "check out" pages 3 and 4 from my working master, in the way that a Dreamweaver server can handle different versions of an HTML page?

Is this about Indesign or Dreamweaver?
Just wondering: so much effort for a small news letter that published only four times a year? Two people, optimised workflow, shorthands, version control?
I'm sharing my documents with a colleague who is translating them to Chinese inside Indesign. There is no other way than sending her all the INDD and footage, so she can work.
Instructions about changes have to be given. I see no way to make this more efficient and actually, there's no need to.

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Message was edited by: scooper

scooper wrote:
.. iMac 2.8 GHz Intel core 2 duo with a 320 GB hardrive and 4 GB of upgraded RAM. I have a 250 GB external drive .. Canon Vixia HV40 .. external Blu Ray burner .. Final Cut Express .. Toast 10 Pro (plus the Blu Ray plug in)
Will this work?
I'm jealous.. wow! MY set-up..
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actual price for extHDD with 1TB <100€ ..
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>Here is how project sharing should work
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform for bug reports or feature requests

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You just need an app server like Tomcat.If I'm not wrong, Tomcat is a Servlet container.
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any request for some time?
How can I deploy an application to Tomcat in order to
keep it always active?I don't know what you mean. Tomcat is an application that is always running. In what way are the Servlets deactivated?
Apache Axis: http://ws.apache.org/axis/
Yes I'm collecting some info about this... let's see
it!
Finally, to be more clearer... I don't want to start
a new application at each invocation (something like
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classes and executing them) but to call an already
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I can use Axis to get the request, but it also grants
me that my app will always be active?I think you are just using the wrong terminology here. What I think you are asking is whether the resources will be loded into memory at all times. If you want to ensure this behavior, you need to associate the data with a class. I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think Tomcat will unload classes in normal circumstances.

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I've got a fairly large number of projects, some created/edited in FCPX and others exported from FCE, imported into FCPX and edited. I often upload the projects to YouTube, but I'd like to save them on something easier to use and more dependable than YouTube. The projects are primarily home movies, three to fifteen minutes in length. I can use the share for DVD function in FCPX, but it's unclear to me if the quality is the best it can be (I don't know if there's compression or something else at play, but the files I've shared for DVD seem smaller than I would have expected). On the other hand, even at these smaller file sizes (150MB to 1GB), it won't take long to fill a DVD. I'm working on an imac i7, so BluRay, with its greater storage capacity, isn't an option unless I were to obtain an external BluRay drive.
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I know I should have been able to decode an answer to my dilemma from other posts, but I can't. I apologize in advance and would be grateful for any advice. I have a .mac apple ID from years past which has been the ID that I have used (and my three kids have used exhaustively) to purchase itunes apps, musics and other goodies (many, many purchases). It is the account linked with our collective 4 family iphones (including home sharing) and the App Store, etc. When ios5 came out, I created a cloud account using that Apple ID.
I had separately created an second Apple ID for mobile me about a year ago that would permit me to use the email feature and provide me with an additional back up email from my regular provider (and a means to transfer contacts, documents, etc from the MacBook pro I use to coordinate my existence . When I just moved from MobileMe to icloud, my macbook pro created an icloud account using that name, complete with a fair bit of generous storage for the next couple of months. My MacBook pro will not allow me to change the Apple ID, such that my computer is now syncing with the .me account and my iphone is syncing with the .mac account.
Any thoughts on how I can resolve this? I have tons of purchased apps and music on the .mac account, but my principal contacts, photo stream and essential docs are on the .me acct which actually has the space to handle my excessive collection. I would appreciate any ideas or thoughts and thank you for explaning what is probably fairly straightforward! I feel like I have an emerging split personality.

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Hello everyone,
First time posting in the forum, so I'll make this as painless as I can and hopefully I can get a hand in figuring this out.
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Not sure what exactly is going on. I just finished a project last week and used the roto brush quite a bit and had absolutely no problems!
I read every article and post I found on the roto brush tool, as well as a handful of AE Optimization articles and videos.
Not sure what else you might need to know from me, but any input or advice would be great.
Also, if there is a better way to handle adding the underside of the brim back in please let me know. I've tried a few different options, and roto brushing seemed to be the best and quickest option until this!
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It's hard to say what is causing the rotobrush show down but there may be an easy work around. Try something like this:
I applied keylight to the footage, selected combined matte to give rotobrush a nice easy area to work in, then pre-composed the keyed footage and used RotoBrush on the layer to select the underside of the hat. I added a white solid behind the rotoed pre-comp and pre composed that to use as a track matte for the original footage. Keylight was also applied to the original footage but was only used to supress color. Here's the AEP. Maybe it will give you some ideas.

IMovie on iPad won't sync the projects shared on iTunes?

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There is some confusion here, but they are not compatible as far as projects go.
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If you are trying to share a video then it's a bit hit and miss if it will work.
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Apple does have an iapp return policy if you bought it but can't use it.
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https://expresslane.apple.com/

Seeking advice for a self-teaching programme of new Java techs

Hello,
after a few years of technically poor projects (I learnt a lot in terms of process, quality, and non-Java technologies, by the way), I'd like to catch up with mainstream Java development.
I am preparing a programme to learn a few technologies I have missed over the past years. I plan to develop a couple of utilities (simple CRUD apps) on my spare time, gradually including bits and bits of the bricks I want to grasp.
I need some advice though to make this learning effective.
My first priority is to invest in reusable knowledge, so I will stick to "standard" bricks, and will aim mostly at off-the-shelf tools that work out of the box
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I could also jump directly to 1.6, ignoring its new APIs, and concentrate on
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1) The biggest issue here is to find a reliable EJB3 container.
* I've heard JBoss is EJB3-ready, but I don't think it's certified yet.
* Project GlassFish (Sun-driven open-source JEE5 container) is still in the making
* Sun SASP9 is, well, released, but I don't know how much of JEE it supports, and haven't investigated into the licensing details yet
Any feedback on what you're using as a JEE5 container?
2) As far as EJB vs JPA goes, I also have the plan to use the persistence API
outside of EJB (likely, I will develop the same simple CRUD app twice,
once as a Webapp and once as as Swing app, both over the same DB schema).
But maybe this is pointless, as the entity annotations and API are agnostic; have you experienced some difference that deserve thorough learning?
3) Obviously I will need a DB. If the EJB container includes one, fine, at least for the EJB part, otherwise I'll need to install and configure one, that will need to run on a desktop PC on MS WIndows, and preferrably include a handy SQL client console for manual verification.
I know enough of SQL to build even a sub-optimal application schema. However I know nothing of a DB administration, and I don't want to invest in that direction.
Any advice as to a simple off-the-shelf free DB that runs on Windows?
* Web UIs
The dilmena here is two-fold:
1) In term of "view" technology, I hesitate between plain JSP and JSF
If I understand correctly, JSF is a specification for reusable view components.
My local job market leaves me no oportunity to be a UI component developer, whereas I am more likely to someday be tasked to integrate 3rd-party UI components into a business project.
Is my surface understanding of JSF correct? In this case, how much of JSF should I know if I don't have to develop JSF components?
2) In terms of controller, as part of my Spring learning, I'll probably have a look into Spring MVC.
My question is, how much of the servlet/JSP API does springMVC show/hide?
Is it a good idea to use springMVC to learn servlets and JSPs, or should I stick to manual servlet+JSP?
I should add that I've worked with servlets/JSPs formerly (as of J2EE 2 or 3),
I only need to dig new servlet/JSP features.

Jim_Found wrote:
okay, so normally you would write the following if-elseif block in order to achieve this
if (MessageType.TYPE_A.equals(myMessageType)) {
// do this
} else if (MessageType.TYPE_B.equals(myMessageType)) {
// do that
} else if ...
but, if you use <this design pattern> and create this <class>, you can suppress the above block to
CoolClass coolObj = new CoolClass();
coolObj.doMagic(myMessage);Funny enough inside the doMagic() method would be something along the lines of
if (MessageType.TYPE_A.equals(myMessageType)) {
// do this
} else if (MessageType.TYPE_B.equals(myMessageType)) {
// do that
} else if ...Mel

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