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I like conceptfeedback.com where users post their opinions about a webpage. However the critiques are mainly about a page's layout and visual design. Are there similar sites where critiques go beyond a page's layout. For example giving feedback about the Javascript interaction, form elements and validation, proper use of certain types of UI elements for displaying certain data (dropdown in place of radiobuttons for example), clicking, hovering, lightboxes, proper use of AJAX, performance,..etc. Stuff which go beyond layout, fonts, text size, colors, alignment.. etc which are typically mentioned at conceptfeedback.com
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I think what you're looking for isn't a feedback website where the person doing the reviewing only really has access to a screenshot or something similar and can therefore only really review that, but a full-on performance, usability, design and accessibility expert review. I doubt you'll find a site where people are willing to do that for prices like $99 (which is what conceptfeedback charges for 1 expert's feedback). For comparison, my company charges hourly rates and expert reviews usually take 2 days of work (at least), so that could easily cost several thousand USD.
Perhaps you should adjust your expectations, or hire someone to give you professional, in-depth feedback :-)
You might consider uTest, which claims to offer usability feedback from 'professional' testers.
You may also consider sites such as userlytics and usertesting.com, although, as ever, the results you get from crowd-sourced usability testing will be determined by the questions you ask, the types of tests you compose, and the demographics you pick.
I agree with Rahul, you can't really find that support in a website because the things you want to check align very much to usability issues which can't be measured properly by an algorithm. Decision about when to use drop-down and when to use radio button have to be decided by case in addition to the partially technical feedback you need you should consult a usability expert with technical background to make an expert review of your website. If you want to do it on your own and want to structure the way you evaluate, you could have a look at the ISO 9241-110 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9241#ISO_9241-110. On part of it is for example, to ensure conformity with user expectations.


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Standing Up to Cyber Bullies
It used to be that bullies could only flex their muscle during school hours, and the ring of the school bell released would-be victims to the safety of their homes, removed from conflict.
But today, technology contributes to cyber bullies having the 24/7 ability to expose hateful, personal or humiliating attacks before a virtual public platform, making the threat nearly impossible to get away from. Tragically, as mourned by recent news headlines, several bright and talented young victims of cyber bullying have felt that the only true escape was to take their own lives.
What resources are available to help protect kids and young adults from the dangers of cyber bullying?
Earlier this year The Salvation Army partnered with Enough is Enough (EIE), the nationally leading organization in making the internet safer for children and families, to launch the Internet Safety 101 Program. It offers educational materials and online tools at www.internetsafety101.org to help adults and kids guard themselves from online dangers.
EIE President Donna Rice Hughes stated in an op-ed that 42% of kids have been bullied while online. That's 42% too many.
Join with The Salvation Army in saying, "Enough is enough!" Visit www.internetsafety101.org or EIE's website www.enough.org today.

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Saturday, 23 August 2008
Simultaneous Green
What's more, cyclists usually get two green phases per complete sequence of the lights, meaning that they wait for less time behind a red light. This leads to cyclists getting past the lights quicker than drivers. It works very well indeed.
A couple of days ago I made a video of riding across such a junction when I visited Groningen. Also there is a video of the same junction made by the fietsberaad, the Dutch panel of experts in cycling, which demonstrates the same junction from different angles.
Please also read other later / better blog posts about simultaneous green traffic lights. Also see many other examples on this blog of infrastructure which makes cyclists' journeys faster.
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- Matt Polaine said...
I highlighted this option in April 1998 to the Cambridge Cycling Campaign which in turn may have been noted by local highway engineers.
Nothing happened.
Cambridge in the UK continues to have some of the worst cycle infrastructure in Europe, indeed much of it is worse than none at all.
This does not stop the local authority promoting the city as the bicycle capital of the UK. The high level of cycling (for the UK)takes place in spite of the road layouts, not because of it.
And the Cambridge Council parties that come over to Netherlands to learn how to do it correctly? Still not able to get it anywhere near right.
Clearly some key staff in the Highways Departments for County and City of Cambridge need to be replaced for any progress in this area.
It is a very, very frustrating place to cycle, and no wonder David has moved to the Netherlands.
My brother lives in Offenburg, also a good example of proper cycle infrastructure. I may move there some day, to regain my sanity!
- 8 September 2008 at 12:14
- Anneke said...
In our city crossings are upgraded and improved, and while their working on the crossings for motorists, they simultaniously update the ones for bicyclists. Most of the crossings are now fitted with simultaneous green lights for bikes, a countdown at every light showing how long you have to wait and some crossings even have loop detectors for bikes now (no pushing buttons anymore).
- 31 October 2008 at 14:34
- David Hembrow said...
Anneke, I'm surprised that you say "no pushing buttons anymore", as this suggests you used to have to do so.
Perhaps I've mainly ridden in places where the upgrades have already happened, but in my experience here most crossings I come across generally have both buttons and a loop detector.
Not pressing the button makes no difference unless the loop detector is faulty and doesn't pick up your bike.
If nothing else the post with the button provides a handy thing to hold onto while waiting...
It is a source of irritation to cyclists in the UK that loop detectors in the roads often pick up cars but not bikes. So, you ride up to a red light and wait, and wait, and wait, until a car comes up behind and then the light will go green. It's one of the many minor problems that cyclists face with infrastructure designed for cars.
- 31 October 2008 at 14:55
- workbike said...
Thanks David- are there any cases of this on a T-Junction?
- 5 November 2008 at 11:14
- David Hembrow said...
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be on a T junction, but I can't think of an example right now. If I see one I'll try to get a picture of it for you.
There is an example of a junction like this on an upcoming blog post which is on a very asymmetrical junction, that'll be up in a few days.
- 5 November 2008 at 11:41
- Anneke said...
Hey David, I was reading some of the archive posts, so I only just saw your reaction. Anyway, yeah we used to have buttons everywhere, the last time the bikepaths (and the roads btw) were upgraded was in the 80s I guess. Not very recently anyway, so I think the buttons are from the time from before the loop detectors, and haven't been improved since. It's not bad at all to have buttons, I mean, how much effort does pushing a button cost, after all. Loop detectors are better of course.
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Beacon, New York— The fourth in an ongoing series of exhibitions devoted to Agnes Martin's work organized by Dia Art Foundation, "A Field of Vision: Paintings from the 1980s" will be on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, from August 3, 2006, through March 5, 2007. Dia's exhibition of eighteen paintings from this significant period in Martin's career is organized as part of the exhibition program at Dia:Beacon.
Dia's retrospective began in May 2004 with "…going forward into unknown territory…," which featured works from the decade 1957 to 1967, when Martin lived and worked in New York City. The second installment, "…unknown territory…," highlighted paintings from the mid-1960s. "To The Islands," the third in the series, explored the period from 1974 through 1979, when Martin resumed painting after a hiatus. The latest exhibition in the series, "A Field of Vision," will be followed in 2007 by the fifth and final presentation dedicated to works made from the 1990s to her death in 2004.
"A Field of Vision" focuses on an exceptionally productive decade in Martin's career. During the 1980s, she experimented to an unprecedented degree with the boundaries of geometric abstraction. Living again in New Mexico, where she had first settled in the late 1960s, Martin now worked in relative seclusion. Pushing the boundaries of her artistic practice, she increasingly explored the possibilities of surface and color, while retaining the format of the six-foot-square canvas first employed in the 1960s. Known for her continuous, allover grid paintings, in the1980s Martin concentrated on horizontal divisions of the canvas almost exclusively, finding ever-new permutations by dividing canvas with pencil lines and varying the choice of colors and tonal range in increasingly fine, calibrated sequences. Rejecting the translucent washes of faint color seen during earlier periods, she alternated between a palette of pale pastels and somber grays, as she layered paint to create more robust, opaque surfaces.
"A Field of Vision" will be installed in a trio of newly configured galleries at Dia:Beacon. A brochure with color images of Martin's paintings and an essay by Dia Art Foundation curator Lynne Cooke will accompany the exhibition.
Dia Art Foundation's collection of Agnes Martin's work comprises some twenty paintings, which range from her formative works to her later canvases. Dia has received promised gifts and long-term loans from a variety of sources, including Lannan Foundation, Louise and Leonard Riggio, the artist, and anonymous donors. Among the highlights of these gifts is the Innocent Love series, a nine-part suite of paintings made specifically for Dia, on long-term loan from Lannan Foundation.
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Dedalus Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. She grew up in Vancouver, then moved to Bellingham, Washington, in 1932. Martin gained a BA in 1942 and an MA in 1952 from Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, while intermittently living in New Mexico. In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, where her neighbors included the artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Leonore Tawney, and Ann Wilson. Martin had her first one-person exhibition in 1958 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. After ten years in Manhattan, she returned to the Southwest and lived and worked in Taos, New Mexico, until her death on December 16, 2004. Surveys of Martin's work have been presented at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1973), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992). She was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and a National Endowment for the Arts Nation Medal of Arts in 1988, among other awards. In 1997 the Agnes Martin Gallery at the Harwood Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico was established.
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation's museum in the Hudson Valley, presents a distinguished collection of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. Situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, the museum occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility, which was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architect OpenOffice.
Dia:Beacon's expansive galleries comprise 240,000 square feet of exhibition space illuminated by natural light. The museum houses works by a focused group of some of the most significant artists of the last half century, including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.
Programming at the museum includes a series of year-long temporary exhibitions as well as public programs designed to complement the collection and exhibitions, including monthly Gallery Talks, music performances by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Readings in Contemporary Literature, Community Free Days for neighboring counties and an education program that serves area students at all education levels.
Dia:Beacon is easily reachable via Metro-North Railroad. The Hudson Line station in Beacon is within walking distance of the museum. Trains depart hourly from Grand Central Terminal in New York City. For schedule and fare information, please visit the MTA's website at www.mta.nyc.ny.us. The museum is also reachable by major roadways. Driving directions are available on Dia's website at www.diaart.org. Admission is $10 general, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Dia members and children under 12. Current summer hours are 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday–Monday, through October 16, 2006. Winter hours are 11 am to 4 pm, Friday through Monday. The public information line for the museum is (845) 400-0100.
Dia Art Foundation
Dia Art Foundation was founded in 1974. A nonprofit institution, Dia is internationally renowned for initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects. Dia presents public programs and its permanent collection of works from the 1960s through the present at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, in New York's Hudson Valley. Dia has also proposed a plan to relocate its contemporary exhibition program in New York City to a new facility located at the future entrance to the High Line public park in downtown Manhattan. Additionally, the foundation maintains long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, in New York City, and on Long Island.
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At time there are talks about quantum computers and lot of talks and discussion on its exponential speed. But studying in some more details it makes reference to "Heisenberg uncertainty principle", which simply says that either position or momentum can be calculated for any electron. If we already know the limitation, then in which direction this research is going?
Quantum Computers can process information in a different way then classical computers the main isuues is how to use classical input to "convince" the qbit to process what we are asking and then give an answer that we can use in a positive way. Research is progressing towards a quantum level interface that can account for decoherence between the information we give and a understandable answer coming out.
In other words the language barrier between classical people and quantum interpretation. There is no technical limitation to QC's at this time only a limit of our ability to minipulate qbit s the do What we want.
http://www.cra.org/ccc/docs/init/Quantum_Computing.pdf is a PDF document link to the currently imposed limitations of quantum computers.


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Pinehurst continues prep for back-to-back US opens
(AP) PINEHURST, N.C. - Pinehurst is getting ready to make history next year with the first double-dip of U.S. opens.
USGA Executive Director Mike Davis said Friday the resort's renowned No. 2 course will be set up roughly the same way for the men's and women's opens when they are held there on consecutive weeks in June 2014.
The course will be slightly longer for the men and the greens will be a touch softer a week later for the women.
Davis says No. 2 will play at roughly 7,500 yards for the men's event and approximately 6,800 yards for the women. Par will be 70 for both. He says the greens will be roughly 11 1/2 to 12 on the stimpmeter.
"Our goal really is to have the women hitting roughly the same kind of shot into the greens and roughly the same kind of shot off the tees," Davis said.
No. 2 has hosted U.S. Opens in 1999 and 2005. The U.S. Women's Open has been held at nearby Pine Needles three times since 1996 _ but never at Ross' signature course.
"For us, 2014 is really about the opportunity to make history," said Reg Jones, managing director of the U.S. Open.
By next year, the USGA will have held 12 championships in 20 years in the North Carolina sandhills, with the most recent at No. 2 being the 2008 U.S. Amateur.
The course underwent a yearlong $2.5 million facelift three years ago, a project led by Ben Crenshaw that restored the layout closer to Ross' original design.
Eight tees were added to the championship course, lengthening it by 271 yards to 7,485, and the fairways were widened by an average of 50 percent to give players more options.
"I think it's fair to say they hit an absolute grand slam," Davis said of the renovations.
The most noticeable tweak was the complete removal of the rough.
The U.S. Open has always been known for having challenging roughs, but this will be different. This course only has two cuts of grass _ fairway and green _ while the rough was replaced by areas of hardpan, sand, pine straw and wiregrass _ all components of its original design.
"We've always had U.S. Open roughs with U.S. opens," Davis said. "So in this case, you're going to have a U.S. Open that, when you miss a fairway, you're going to get all kinds of different lies."
Davis said the USGA is taking a wait-and-see approach to next year's doubleheader before it decides whether to contest both opens at the same site in the future.
"There has not been discussion in-house about, `Let's name another back-to-back Open site,'" Davis said. "I really do think we want to see how this goes and take it from there. It could be a giant hit and we say, `This is great for the game.'
"There's things that can go wrong on this, too," he added. "I do think we're very bullish on this. There's a lot more upside to this than downside, but there certainly are risks and we knew going into it."
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The Stockton Unified School District confirmed Wednesday that a fight between a teacher and a student broke out inside a high school classroom.
A Chavez High School female student was arrested and a female teacher was placed on paid administrative leave because of the brawl, district officials said.
The student was also suspended from school for five days and will meet with the school's principal Thursday to discuss possible expulsion, a school official said.
The entire brawl was caught on video and uploaded onto YouTube Wednesday.
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Dear community,
there is relative index theorem due to Gromov and Lawson (Thm. 4.18 in POSITIVE SCALAR CURVATURE AND THE DIRAC OPERATOR ON COMPLETE RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS) which states that \begin{equation} ind_a(D^+_1,D^+_0)=ind_t(D^+_1,D^+_0), \end{equation} where $D_0$ and $D_1$ are Dirac operators on complete Riemannian manifolds $X_0$ and $X_1$ which are strictly positive at infinity and coincide outside a compact set.
My question: Is there a $Cl_n$-version of this statement, i.e. does the theorem hold without further modifications for $Cl_n$-linear Dirac operators (then the equality above takes place in $KO_*$)? Is there a nice reference for the $Cl_n$-version, and/or should one simply study the proof in the paper above because it is more or less obvious how the generalization works.
Many thanks for any comments in advance.


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So, I understand that a tilt-shift lens solves certain problems with shooting buildings and getting straight lines and such, but what I've not understood is why. I'm looking for the technical reasons (maybe diagrams?) as to why tilting and/or shifting has this effect or other desirable (or undesirable) effects.
You don't use the tilt element of tilt-shift lenses to fix perspective, only the shift element.
Tilting tilts (or swings - that's the term for a horizontal tilt) the plane of focus. It's mostly used for increasing apparent depth of field. Imagine you're taking a picture of a football field. You want the entire field to be in focus but you're using a large format camera and you can't stop down too far. Thanks to movements (tilt/shift) you can tilt down your plane of focus, so instead of vertical, it's tilted forward covering the field. You lose focus on the sky, but that doesn't really need to be in focus anyway, right? What's funny is that although you tilt part of the lens, the scene you're framing never actually changes.
All this is covered in this fine wikipedia article on the Scheimpflug principle.
Shifting is pretty simple. Inside your camera, your lens works a bit like a projection lens works on a movie screen. This is why longer focal lengths give you more "zoom" - the same thing happens when you move your projector away from the screen. Your lense projects and image onto your sensor or film - just like you have it projected on a screen in a movie theater. With 99% of lenses, the position of the lens is fixed and the image shown on your sensor is just big enough to cover it... or sometimes, not, that's when vignetting happens. With shift lenses, your circle is much bigger, so when you shift, you really just move the lens around in front of your sensor, as if you were moving a projector.
Shooting large format really helps you understand that a camera isn't a fixed object, it's really two planes that can interact with each other in a huge number of ways.
This is my intuitive understanding of the shift lens, based on the Wikipedia article, and especially the first diagram from that article:
Let's say we want to shoot a tall building, where we stand at the base level. Our field of view doesn't allow the whole building to be captured in the frame. In fact, when the camera is level, half of the frame is "wasted" on image of the ground.
It is obvious why, if we tilt the camera so we do capture the whole building, we get the converging vertical lines due to the perspective effect.
If we had a bigger film (sensor), then the FoV was bigger and we could capture the whole building. So, shifting the lens up relative to the image center effectively "extends" the frame in the opposite direction, so now we have a bigger "half frame" and we capture the whole building while at the same time we reduce the other "half frame" and eliminate the ground!
As for the tilt part - consider that in optical geometry is more or less symmetrical around the lens center. Now the plane of sharp focus is parallel to the lens. So, when you shoot, say, the ground, which is not parallel to the lens, you see the effect of DoF. Now, if you tilt the lens, then the plane of sharp focus is tilted as well. This way, you get on the film a much deeper DoF from the non-parallel plane that you are shooting.
If your film plane is parallel to the subject then no lines on the subject are distorted. Conversely if you angle the film plane so its no longer parallel to the subject, lines converge towards the further away edge of the film plane and diverge from the closer edge of the film plane.
Using a tilt shift lens you can keep your film plane parallel to the subject and just move the lens about to change what is in the field of view.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_control_lens
Let me first explain the tilt portion. An image is projected straight from the lens to the camera. If the lens is tilted relative to the sensor, then different parts of the image will be in focus at different lengths. The location in focus depends on 3 things. The first is the distance of the lens to the sensor. The second is the distance from the lens plane to the object of interest. The third is the focal length. What's happening in the tilt portion is that there is different lengths from the sensor to the lens plane. Thus since the focal length remains constant, the location of the in focus part must change.
The shift part is a bit more difficult, but let me give it a shot. What happens is you are moving the lens up and down. This causes a different area to be in focus, but the lines still remain as you have it originally.
The other answers are great but I wanted to add one more thing.
You can do the same correction in Photoshop or with various other tools (some panoramic tools can be used this way, such as Autopano Pro).
So why bother with tilt-shift lenses anymore? Because when you correct this in software, the results may leave some areas far less sharp than others - because when you correct distortion you are literally "stretching" some pixels greatly, and those areas will be much less sharp (while in other areas you are compressing pixels and throwing out detail).
If you look around you can find third-parry tilt/shift lenses for most mounts, if you really want to explore using one. Or you might be able to rent one for your camera.


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I've modified my .profile to include a folder if a flash drive is plugged in. When running the command as the user it works fine but tells me the scrip must be run by sudo (this is what i want). However, when i try to run it with sudo i get "command not found"
I have a symlink (flash) in my /var/www folder pointing to my /media/flash drive. (nevermind this setup since is just for dev)
this is my user's .profile :
# set PATH so it includes flash scripts
if [ -d "/var/www/flash/scripts" ] ; then
when trying to run as sudo i get:
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Fusion Applications Single Sign On - Business User perspective
By Kiran Mundy-Oracle on Apr 11, 2013
Common Use Cases & How to implement them (SSO Pilot Website)The post outlines some of the more prevalent Single Sign On (SSO) use cases Fusion customers are currently using. It also provides an outline of work necessary to enable each of these use cases & links to more detailed technical information.
Case #1: From Corporate PortalEmployees, already authenticated into your corporate portal, should be able to click on the Fusion Apps link and get access without being challenged for their username/password as shown below.
Figure #1: SSO from Corporate Portal
Software you'll need:Most companies will already have a directory (LDAP) that they are using to store their employees identities. If you already have Single Sign On configured for any of your applications, then you probably already have a "Federation Server" inhouse.
If your federation server is:
- ADFS (Active Directory Federation Server) 2.0 from Microsoft
- Oracle Identity Federation 11g
If it's some other Federation Server capable of issuing a SAML 2.0 token, this is subject to approved by Oracle.
Configuration / Integration Work Needed:Creating Employees in Fusion Apps: First thing you'll need to plan is how to create your employee identities in Fusion Applications and how to assign them the appropriate roles in Fusion Applications (this is required before Single Sign On will work). For testing purposes, you can just create the users using the Fusion Applications "Manage Users" or "New Person" screens and typing them in. If you're a small company, you can continue to do this for new hires. If you're a large company, refer to the "Employee/Role data flow" page - this might reflect the flow you need. If it does not, let us know.
When creating the employee in Fusion HCM, the value that you enter as the "HCM username", should be a unique value also present in your Federation Server for that employee, as you will need to configure your Federation Server to send this value as the "Name Id" when it issues the SAML token for Fusion Applications to consume. [The "Name Id" is just a unique value that tells Fusion Apps who this user is].
View Co-existence and SSO Presentation for more details.
Configuring your Federation Server & Fusion Applications (Cloud): Then it's simply a matter of doing some configurations in your Federation Server and for Oracle's Cloud Operations team to do some configurations in your Fusion Applications Pod. This part is done via filing a Service Request. The details of all this are available in My Oracle Support under Note 1477248.1.
Embedding URL: Finally you will embed the url into your corporate portal and your authenticated users will be able to click on the Fusion Applications link and be taken directly into Fusion Applications without being challenged again.
Case #2: From a 3rd Party ApplicationEmployees already authenticated to a 3rd party SaaS Application should be able to click on a Fusion Applications URL and access Fusion Applications without being challenged for their username/password.
Figure #2: SSO from 3rd Party Application
Software you'll need:If your employees are already configured for SSO into the 3rd party Cloud App, then you probably already have all the On-Premise Software needed in place (LDAP & Federation Server). Refer to Corporate Portal page.
Configuration / Integration Work Needed:Creating Employees in Fusion Applications: Exactly the same as the "Corporate Portal" use case above.
Configuring your Federation Server & Fusion Applications (Cloud): Exactly the same as the "Corporate Portal" use case above. Single Sign On will operate between your On-Premise Identity Provider and Fusion Applications in exactly the same manner, but your end user will experience Fusion Applications embedded within your 3rd party Cloud Application (as long as the 3rd party Cloud Application supports embedding the URL).
Embedding URL: You will embed the URL into the 3rd party Cloud Application and your authenticated users will be able to click on the Fusion Applications link & access Fusion Applications screens without being challenged again.
Case #3: Accessing Fusion HCM & TaleoEmployees authenticated against Fusion Apps via SSO, should be able to access Taleo without being challenged for their username/password.
Figure #3: Accessing Fusion HCM & Taleo
If you wish to Single Sign On into Fusion HCM, you will need to configure that as outlined in the "Corporate Portal" use case above.
Then you follow the configuration steps to get Taleo SSO working with your On-Premise IdP. This includes a step of ensuring that the employees that need to access Taleo are already created in Taleo.
Now once your users are logged into Fusion HCM, they can bring up an additional tab for Taleo and will be automatically logged into Taleo.
Case #4: Access from HomeAll the use cases above should also work when the employee logs in from home (outside work network).
Figure #4: Access from Home
Case #5: SSO plus Non-SSOSome of your employees (contractors etc) or partners are not present in your LDAP and need to be authenticated by Fusion Applications. All the others need to be authenticated via SSO. NOTE: This is supported as of Release 7 only.
Figure #5: SSO plus Non-SSO
As of Release 7, when you click on the Fusion Applications URL, you will be able to choose between SSO authentication and authentication via Fusion Applications. Contractors and Partners can choose to authenticate via Fusion Applications and employees via SSO.
The SSO setup & configuration remains the same as in the "Corporate Portal" use case above.
ReferencesCo-existence and SSO Presentation
My Oracle Support (MOS) Interlinked documents on Fusion Apps SSO
MOS Note on Configuring Taleo Business Edition
Employee/Role data flow (from SSO Pilot Website)
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Send congratulatory greeting by honoring the heritage that makes them unique with this Jewish "Mazel Tov" card! Blank inside with a matching envelope. Printed on quality, uncoated board, packaged individually in a clear cello sleeve. SIZE: 4.3" x 6.25" (111mm by 160mm) per card (envelopes are 4.6" by 6.5" (117mm by 166mm).
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DVD Ripper Platinum Version100% off - 24 Hours Only for $0
This deal only lasts for 24 hours on BitsDuJour.
Wait for this winx's DVD ripper discount for a long time. This is the platinum version winx DVD ripper which enables you to convert protected DVDs to general videos for playback on iPhone, iPad, Android.
For more detail introduction, u can go to: http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper-platinum/
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This deal really is free. To get the Platinum version free, click on the Free Deals tab on the top of the page.
kinda surprised i didn't have to give them a card, my left arm, or 33 verifiable pieces of information.
couldnt find much information on this site, so I am sure I am goig to have a full inbox tomorrow.
I also went for the deal. Very easy process and the software looks very nice. Hopefully it will work as good as it looks.
Snagged. Believe it or not this is actually pretty good warez. Use with DVD Fab and you get nice ripz for your media player.
Grabbed it!
I just got it also!! Nice!!!
You need a valid email address for the activation code. You might to grab a disposable one for this.
Got mine. Now to find the time to try it.
Deal Expired!! AAaawwww!! :-(
This 100% OFF promotion license doesn't support free upgrade to future versions. But once you registered, you can keep the current version for life time and enjoy full functions.
Still active at 11am EST. :) Try again.
Deal is still on, just snagged one.
Awesome deal!
I just got a copy, and I followed the advice of getting a dump email address. I used Yahoo and it was quick and easy to set the email address up.
Download of the ripper software was easy....I am running the software even as I type...
It's still working! google search '10-minute email' and install it right away, open it and plug in your license number and you're good to go. Looks like a pretty full-featured product.
I have dealt with bits du jour before and you supposedly can opt out from the Emails they send you but I have not yet done so. The software Installed perfectly.
Ok, I see the promotion tab but the only Free deal I see was from may 25th or there is something for developers, Facebook and twitter. Is it expired? I don't see where I can enter an email address....
@chelget: It should be the first deal right after you click Free Deals.
This direct link may work as well: http://www.bitsdujour.com/ajax/buy.aspx?review=winx-dvd-ripper-platinum-3
How long did it take for you guys to get your registration codes? I've got the 10 minute mail and I've had to re-up the 10 minutes a couple times already.
I got my receipt with registration code in less than a minute.
my confirmation showed up before I even opened up my email.
use this for anyone worried about spam
It's dead, Jim.
It is not dead.
Click the bitsdujour link, not the Winx link.
Y'all do realize you can get programs like these for free LEGALLY all the time???
@gregchico: Interesting. The deal shows up on the winx link, but shows up dead. My bad!
I didn't see this until I got my registration code email:
"Use this registration code to unlock the software after installation. You must install/register the software within 7 days, and cannot do so afterwards."
just download handbrake from your favorite bit t
So I thought this was an all-in-one suite that would both rip the disc and either create a DVD video directory stucture if not actually recoded the disk for me. All this seems to do is rip it to a file. Fine if you're trying to load it on portable digital devices, but not if you're just trying to make backup copies of your kids movies.
It looks like it's just a trial copy. Does it say you can only burn 5 mins. per disc for evaluation purposes?
That's what I thought I read when I got my password code.
@gingerdlu: You download the trial copy and then register it using the code they give you to unlock it :)
Wow, still going. That's pretty gangster. Thanks!
Got the code quickly! But the software has to be install and activated in the next seven days. :(
I just snagged this -- thanks! I'm really glad I saw this before the time ran out.
I received the email with the code quickly, and it installed fine. I haven't used the software yet.
An hour left and still working. Thanks!
Be sure to get the registration code in the next 1 hour 15 minutes to go.
Just worked for me. Took about 2 minutes for the registration code to arrive by email.
I tried using this on a the Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame DVD and it took nearly 24 hours and was not successful at eliminating the copy protection. So I guess it was good that it was free.
@pcnetwrx: did u select the right DVD title to rip? i mean the DVD main content title. u can firstly play your DVD on a DVD player and record the title number, then manually select the title in winx's.
i think u'd bertter ask winx's support team. the support is free too lol


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I want to be able to ride my mountain bike on roads, but the sound of the mountain tires on the road is annoying. Can I just buy rims that will fit cyclocross or road bike tires? My bike has disk brakes.
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Are there any cyclocross/road bike rims that I could buy that will fit on my Cannondale F600 mountain bike?
It looks like the Cannondale F600 mountain bike has the typical 26" mountain bike tires. It's very unlikely that the larger diameter ("700c") rims used on typical cyclocross or road bikes would work well. There are road bikes with 26" rims, typically made for shorter people (especially women and children), so it would be possible to find rims in that size (but would make more sense to simply buy new wheels than to build wheels with new rims).
However, you can buy smaller, thinner, smoother, higher pressure tires for a 26" rim, and that would solve your problem quite handily. It would also be much cheaper ($20-$50 per tire) than replacing the rims (or whole wheels).
Do you mean rims or wheels?
Many cyclists have a second set of wheels for their bike, because it's a lot cheaper than having a second bike. Buying a set of 26" disk brake wheels with narrow rims and putting slicks on them is a pretty common thing for MTB owners who commute on their bike. You might also choose a slightly higher-geared cassette for the road wheels. You will need a second cassette on the new wheel, and a second pair of disk rotors. Two complete wheels, in other words.
If you are talking about rebuilding your wheels with narrower rims that's expensive and I think pointless - it will not be much cheaper than getting a second set of wheels, and will limit your choice of offroad tyres. You can mount fairly narrow tyres on most MTB rims, especially on newer bikes as there's been a fair bit of work on making fat tyres work on narrow rims, so racing cyclists can have narrower rims (because they're lighter).
The cheapest option is to just buy skinny tyres, but that means swapping tyres every time you want to go off road. Which is why many riders buy extra wheels. Another cheap way is to get a second hand road bike (but be aware that that is a slippery slope and many of us have more than two bikes)
If your bike takes 26" wheels, then road/CX wheels won't fit, they're too big. There's also the width of the rear hub; on most mountain bikes it's 135 mm, on road bikes it's 130.
Just get some skinny 26" tires, most shops will have them.


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I have created an FME workspace which inputs a pipeline as well as other linear features which cross it (waterways, roads, railways, fences, other pipelines, etc). The output is a point file which contains the crossing type. What I would like to do is calculate the distance along the pipe from the start of the pipeline for each intersection. So, as you travel along the pipeline, the distance attribute will increase.
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4 Prettiest Ways to Style Wet Hair
These wet hairstyles are so pretty (and easy!), your blow dryer just might start collecting dust
During these rushed mornings, one of the biggest time sucks is washing, blow drying, and styling my hair. And while the shower is typically a must, it is totally possible to skip the whole hair drying ordeal.
With wet hairstyles evolving from more than just disheveled ponytails and crunchy gel looks, there are loads of options to try. Plus, wet hair is way easier to work with and manipulate than dry hair, making the whole styling process go a lot faster. So, let's do the math: skip the blow dryer, save time, and pull off a jaw-droppingly gorgeous hairstyle? In my book, that's what we call a win-win situation.
We've come up with our four favorite wet hairstyles that look sophisticated and intricate, but are actually fairly simple to pull off. And we've broken it down, step by step so you can stash your blow dryer and get out the door faster than ever.
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Pretty haistyles!
by yestfl Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 01:49PM Report as inappropriate
pretty..but still seems like u need practice and time....my go to quick style is straightening....super easy.
by 92jess11 Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:51AM Report as inappropriate
Thinking I will just stick to my hair dryer I just need to push a button. Now that's easy.
by Alana_Danes Friday, April 26, 2013 at 08:01AM Report as inappropriate
yeah, I would rather just blow dry my hair
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These are some beautiful looks, but I'm afraid I'd be "all thumbs" when it comes to doing them.
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I sometimes braid my hair when it's wet, but when it dries I take the braid out and wear it wavy.
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these are all incredibly difficult... i can even french braid my own hair, but tgose buns are still HARD! let alone that headband thing!
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Was searching for quite some time now about this and would like to know what is the differences between multitasking and multiprogramming?
Multitasking and Multiprogramming?
Multiprogramming is running multiple programs and they may not be under the same CPU but different CPU where as multitasking is many tasks are queued up for the CPU(s) and some CPU timing is given to each task giving the user an impressions that many tasks are being performed simultaneously but CPU switches between tasks to give such an impression.


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In cooperation with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National trends network (NADP), we have developed real-time PCR assays to detect spores of Puccinia graminis and Phakopsora pachyrhizi in rain. The basic assay is easily adaptable to other rust fungi. The work on the detection of P. graminis in rain utilized 19 NADP sites along the Puccinia Pathway in the wheat growing regions of the Great Plains states. In 2005 and 2006, 110 NADP sites were monitored across the eastern half of the US for the soybean rust pathogen, P. pachyrhizi. We have also developed and deployed an inexpensive and portable collector with an open top that collects wet and dry deposition. This collector (JB collector) has been used to monitor for P. pachyrhizi in 25 Minnesota counties and the southern regions of Ontario Canada.
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Best birthday present ever.
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Best birthday present ever.
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My dad feels the same way when he's asked to prove he's eligible for the senior citizens' discount. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
You've got a ways yet, girl. :)Delete
Enjoy it. I got carded right up until something happened. Like maybe I aged forty years overnight? And then suddenly, instead of being carded, I was being asked if I wanted the senior discount. I'm still reeling. But hey! That senior discount is awesome!ReplyDeleteReplies
That's coming 'round the mountain...Delete
Congratulations on being carded. What a glorious birthday gift!ReplyDelete
And congratulations on your SITS day yesterday. Sorry I'm late. I hope it was awesome!Replies
It was! Thank you. xoDelete
Happy birthday, Lisa! I hope you celebrated with chili fries. (Bar kitchens where live music plays always make the best ones.) :)ReplyDeleteReplies
We had pizza by the slice at the place next door. (There's always a place next door.)Delete
You should see the goofy smile on my face. It's almost as big as my head. Rock ON, woman! (I'm just happy when I don't get called "sir." Rockin' this short hair has its disadvantages.)ReplyDelete
I'm getting in my car now so you can take me to that club. I need it after the last show, where they carded my 37 year old friend and said to me, "YOU'RE over 21, aren't you sweetheart?"ReplyDelete
How DARE he? How dare he?Delete
Need club's address.ReplyDeleteReplies
Meet you there. Going back ASAP.Delete
Oh that is awesome. And I would totally card you too!ReplyDeleteReplies
It was. And so are you. xoDelete
My favorite is when they apologize for asking to see my ID. Like it bothers me, it actually makes my day!!! And I am jealous, I don't remember the last time I went to club.ReplyDeleteReplies
More ways I know I'm old: I want to shush the people who are talking during the music.Delete
48, that's an exaggeration, right? Because there is no way that's actually true.ReplyDeleteReplies
Sharone, you are my new favorite human.Delete
Can you recommend a skin care regimine? Cause, seriously, I haven't been carded in about 10 years. You go girl!ReplyDeleteReplies
Cover of night and darkness is the best makeup ever.Delete
I love getting carded, makes me feel so good!ReplyDelete
Happy soon-to-be birthday to you...and congrats on getting carded - always an amazing feeling! I am a day late, but I hope you enjoyed your SITS day yesterday and all the extra loved you received!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Kim. It has been an outstanding couple of days.Delete
I love it! I always say thank you!ReplyDelete
Some girl said to me once, "You know, some people get annoyed."
Yeaaaaah, not me! Not ever!
That is awesome. I can't remember the last time I was carded. Happy early-birthday!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Kim! xoDelete
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Right? I am still quite pleased.Delete
well to be honest u don't look a day over 30 :) and u definitely have the spirit of a childReplyDeleteReplies
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Hope you had a great Birthday!!! yay for being carded!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Lauren! xoDelete
I have enjoyed reading your blog for a few years now, and you have introduced me to so many other wonderful bloggers, bands, videos, and other crazy miscellany.ReplyDelete
I am really excited to see Jeff's band while he is swinging through Philadelphia. He is playing in a friends neighborhood, and I hope to make the trip to see him.
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I've been looking at Wordpress plugins for photo galleries (so maybe this is for superuser.com), and I've been very frustrated so far. It seems like what I'd like to do would be a very common use case:
- Admin: Be able to upload multiple pictures (at a time)
- Admin: Be able to assign a "gallery" to those pictures as I upload them
- User: Be able to go to a page with a (paged) list of all galleries
- User: Be able to click on gallery and view the images (again, probably paged) in that gallery
- User: Be able to click on an image to get larger/largest sizes
- User: Be able to leave comments on individual pictures (this is a "nice to have")
The images/galleries could be totally independent of posts/pages, but it would be nice to be able to embed those images/galleries into posts/pages when necessary.
Is there anything out there like this that I'm missing? I've tried a handful of plugins and none of them seem to be for a use case anywhere close to what I'm looking for. One of the reasons I'm trying to use Wordpress is to reduce time spent coding everything I want.


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Eugene Monroe or Jason Smith is who I am leaning toward.
I'm having a hard time getting a handle on Seattle, I've seen Crabtree and Raji and I'm not sure that works with what they've done in offseason.
Eugene Monroe or Jason Smith is who I am leaning toward.
I'm tweeting, and you like it.
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I still think it is Crabtree because none of their other receivers can be counted on and we don't know hoe TJ will make the transition because he is not a sure thing either
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
They probably don't think they will pick this high anytime soon so they might not pass on the elite LT prospect. I think they go Crabtree and get their future wide out. He could help them win now which they probably think they could do. They could cut Burleson if they don't want to pay all of them.
I agree with Matt on this one, they have too much money tied up in QB and OT. Other than that, I don't have a feel.
So everybody agrees it's Orakopo. Does seem to lean to Crabtree.
No way on a QB?
Change in head coach. Who knows what he does, he's not the GM. Orakpo/Raji can't be ruled out. Crabtree makes sense if you cut one of the less producing/higher paid WR.
Do you realize how much they have invested in that d-line already? They already took Lawrence Jackson last year in the 1st I just can't see d-line in the top 5 this year
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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
Left tackle or Crabtree.
2014-2015 Kentucky Wildcats (38-1)
Congrats to Wisconsin. Even more congrats to UK haters.
No Orakpo. They drafted Lawrence Jackson in the first round last year.


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Music sets the atmosphere; consider carefully the soundtrack for your party. If you can, coordinate your music with your party's theme: country/western for barbecues, disco for disco parties, and swing for martini parties. Also think about the types of activities you'll feature, and coordinate your soundtrack to reflect the mood you'll want to set. For example
- For a seated dinner, plan a few lively CDs for pre-dinner festivities. When the guests move to the dining table, switch to mellow music classical, vocals, or ambient house music so you can hear conversation without shouting. Also remember to adjust the volume accordingly.
- A casual mixer will fare well with classic or contemporary rock, country, bluegrass, or R&B just make sure to keep the volume loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to encourage chatter.
- If you're having a cocktail party, opt for smooth jazz, swingy '60s vocals (Peggy Lee or Frank Sinatra) or low-key house music. Again, watch the volume.
After you select your party soundtrack, check each CD to ensure there aren't any scratches. Also, make sure you keep the remote in your pocket at all times, just to make certain the volume fluctuates with the party.
If you're on a budget and your CD collection reflects it, visit used CD stores, where you can find great albums at rock-bottom prices. Also considering visiting your local public library, where you will find many great CDs free!
Whatever your soundtrack, select your CDs ahead of time. You don't want to waste valuable party time fumbling with CD cases or rifling through your collection. Stack up about 10 CDs next to the player, in the order you'd like to play them. Toward the end of the party, as things wind down (or get nuts!), take requests.
Incorporating Activities
Party games and other activities might seem passé, but really, they aren't. When presented with the proper attitude mirth, optimism, and a tongue-in-cheek attitude games and activities can add an element of fun to even the stuffiest gathering. You might be surprised by how many guests will demand games and activities at your next party.
Although you'll do best wandering through a game store or consulting a party activities book (yes, these do exist), keep in mind a few options that have worked well for me:
- Adult party games Allowing guests to showcase their particular talents, knowledge, and skills, adult party games can bring disparate guests together into a cohesive group. Although you probably don't want to pull out the Trivial Pursuit game for a party of 40 people, smaller gatherings are perfectly suited for an hour or two of challenging mind games. See the sidebar for specific ideas about which games work well.
- Scavenger hunts This childhood favorite can become a favorite with adults when given a mature spin. At the beginning of a destination party, hand the guests a list of items (perhaps a few naughty items?) they should be able to locate throughout the evening. You also can host a video or musical scavenger hunt, or plan an entire party around a city-wide scavenger hunt.
- Shower games Although some guests will claim to abhor the silly little games played at wedding and baby showers, I adore them. Keep it simple, no more than two or three games per party, and offer fun prizes. If you adopt a festive spirit, your guests will, too.
Before your party, make sure all your boxed games contain all the pieces and that any tools you'll need are on hand.
If you can't afford a bunch of adult games most cost around $25 don't despair. Hit the kids section of your local Target or Wal-Mart and select a few lower-priced options, such as Uno, Yahtzee, or Operation. Look for games that allow several players, and don't forget to hype up the kitsch value!
Please offer prizes for winners! Although selecting and wrapping these small gifts might seem like one extra chore, prizes make the games even more fun, giving guests something to vie for. The prizes don't have to be expensive scented candles, a CD or DVD, or a funky coffee mug but they should reflect some thought. Don't forget to remove the price tags!
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An IT company is trying to sell me netbooks, but because they're "business" rather than "home" they're twice the price for less than the same specs. Adding insult to injury, we're quoted separately on power adapters, which add about 10% to the unit cost.
Do they really not come with power adapters? Am I the only one who thinks that's ridiculous? Is that a standard thing from Asus, HP, etc.?
The only other difference I can see is that they come with XP Pro instead of XP Home...but even that's not the case for all the units.
Is there different hardware? Is there even really a different class of netbook for businesses, or is it all made up? (Re: made up: For instance, we have Bell "Business" DSL at work, and they shipped us a DSL modem labelled "SpeedTouch HOME". Since they're service doesn't have any more uptime than I get at home, I assume they're just charging double because we're a business and they're therefore allowed to force us to buy "business" service even if it's exactly the same as their home service.)


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April 19, 2013
World of shadows – Flickr pic of the day
This image of a picture-perfect sunset at Signal Hill was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Mujahid ur Rehman, aka Mujahid's Photography.
Mujahid says: "After viewing an amazing sunset, I was on my way back from Signal Hill and I saw two photographers taking photos of the city lights. I said to myself, 'Sometimes we forget what is at our backs.'
"It is a hand-held shot with slightly raised ISO to compensate for lack of tripod. I love the shadows, deep blue sky and lovely colours drawn by a drowning sun."
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I have heard that weight training can be a good strategy for reducing body fat. If one's goal is to reduce total body fat, should one's weight training program be aimed at muscle hypertrophy or building muscle strength?
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It would have to be a multi-pronged approach, but to cut to the chase the answer is "neither". I'll get in to why in a bit. First, you'll need to attack the problem from multiple areas:
There's a reason for all of this. Two things will happen when you are on an energy deficit, which is what you need to lose weight:
The main thing is that you set your expectations properly before you begin. If you have a solid start and end date, it makes it easier to plan and easier to resist temptation knowing that you have a relative reprieve when you are done. If you didn't lose everything you wanted to lose, give yourself a month to maintain the weight before you go at it again.
Here's what the program would need to look like:
Here's the trade-offs, and the exception:
Doing the volume work that bodybuilders do would build size, but what happens if you are reasonably trained is that you do well to maintain weight while the muscles get bigger. Yes, you are losing fat and replacing it with muscle, but if your goal is to reduce fat as quickly as possible you need to focus on losing fat. That means, do enough to preserve your muscle, but focus on burning fat. When you get to maintenance, go for the bodybuilding work, or whatever type of training you prefer.
Focusing on intensity will leave you beat down and broken feeling the entire time. You'll be angry and frustrated, and put your body under more stress than it would have otherwise. This increases cortisol levels, and ends up working against the fat loss. It's a lot harder to recover from heavy weights when you have less food to do it with, and you can't really induce enough of a stimulus to burn calories--which is part of the equation for losing weight.
The goal behind the weight training as outlined above, is merely to preserve your strength in a way that is easy to recover from... even with the calorie deficit. Now, in order to pull a program like this off, don't go below 10 Calories per pound total body weight. The conditioning work and strength training will make up whatever balance is needed to lose the fat. In fact, 10 Calories/pound on light days and 12 Calories/pound on heavy days is a reasonable target during the fat loss program.
The exception to all of this is the brand new lifter. A brand new lifter is so far away from truly taxing themselves that they really don't require as much recovery so they can train however they like on a deficit. Just know that you very well may see no movement on the scale even though clothes fit better. For a while. When that no longer works, or you have done all you can as a new lifter, you'll have to change things up.