HP Developer Community Blog

Epic Stories 16 May 2019
"Alexa...turn off the garage door!"

Have you ever laid in bed at night and realized the garage door was wide open? HP Tech Lead C.K. Fong decided he should be able to control his garage door using Alexa for far less than the cost of commercial voice controllers. So as a software R&D engineer who likes to automate his house, he used a Wemos D1 Mini microcontroller, similar to the popular Arduino Uno, to trick Alexa into thinking the garage door was a light bulb. "Alexa...turn off the garage door."
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Epic Stories 16 May 2019
How to "build a better mousetrap" by adding a wireless camera

One of the oldest axioms about innovation states, "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." HP developer C.K. Fong shows how he reinvented the trap by adding a remote control IP camera, a mobile app, and automatic email alerts.
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Epic Stories 28 Apr 2019
How to Create Human-Friendly Shortened URLs

Humans have great difficulty reading and transcribing shortened URLs that contain a random assortment of numbers and letters in upper and lower case. To give users URLs that are easy to type and transcribe, avoid switching keyboards and types of characters more than once, use a separator character to create subgroups, and eliminate ambiguous characters. Human-friendly URLs are ideal for printed materials and anywhere shortened URLs are needed.
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Epic Stories 23 Apr 2019
HP 3D developer Will Hertling speaks at 71st World Affairs Conference

In early April 2019, Will Hertling, a 3D printing developer for HP Inc. and an accomplished science fiction author, delivered a message of technological disruption to the 71st annual Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colo. In nine panel discussions, Hertling spoke about the promise and perils of technological innovations in social networking and Artificial Intelligence.
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Epic Stories 19 Mar 2019
Cut-and-paste Software Development: Learning through Lazy Mimicry

HP Developer and science fiction writer Will Hertling has been watching how new people on his team pick up software development -- specifically Ruby/Rails. He sees two markedly different approaches, which he calls Surface Learning and Deep Learning. Both have their place.
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Epic Stories 24 Jan 2019
When NOT to use microservices and test-driven development

Most web service are built on a microservices architecture with test-driven development. That makes sense for most large-scale, mature applications, but it may by counterproductive for rapidly evolving prototypes. Senior software engineer and science fiction writer Will Hertling explains why. 
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Epic Stories 23 Dec 2018
Design before you code. Full lifecycle API engineering

The idea that you can design an API without writing code seems somehow backwards, like putting the cart before the horse. But “full lifecycle API engineering” is an emerging field with a new set of tools that let you do just that. You don’t need to hammer nails to design a house. Neither do you need to code to initially design and document an API.
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JetAdvantage Link for Device 11 Dec 2018
Link for Device SDK Version 1.1.0 Now Available

HP is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.0 of the Link for Device SDK.   In August of this year HP announced the Developers Release of JetAdvantage Link SDKs on the Developer’s Portal, providing developers powerful and simpler ways to create print and scan integrations for end-users. We are excited to add more capabilities on our platform in our latest release, JetAdvantage Link for Device SDK version 1.1.0 (associated with the release of FutureSmart Bundle 4.7 device firmware).  
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JetAdvantage Link for Device 11 Dec 2018
App Gallery disabled in FutureSmart Bundle 4.7

The App Gallery has been disabled in FutureSmart Bundle 4.7   The on-device App Gallery has been disabled in FutureSmart Bundle 4.7. If usage is attempted, a message stating “This app has been disabled” will be displayed. Please do not report this as an issue to the SDK support forum. App Gallery will return in a future FutureSmart release as a tool more tailored for use by resellers (not end users). Among the changes being considered, a verified reseller login may be required to use the App Gallery.
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Epic Stories 14 Jun 2018
Augmented Reality: Advice from an AR Creative Director.

In his years pioneering Augmented Reality at Aurasma and now HP Reveal, Chris Burgess has watched companies struggle to measure ROI – how Augmented Reality can improve the company's Financial Reality. As with any new technology, there is confusion around what AR can and can't do. In this blog post, originally published on LinkedIn, Chris shares lessons learned and wise advice for anyone using – or thinking about using – Augmented Reality.
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Epic Stories 14 Jun 2018
Will ARKit & ARCore ruin augmented reality for the rest of the industry?

When Pokemon Go came onto the scene, Augmented Reality finally received the prominence early adopters like HP's Chris Burgess had been expecting. With the arrival of ARKit and ARCore, the world really went AR mad. Apple and Google unleashed their latest tech for developers to start demonstrating what they can do, and so far it seems the possibilities are endless. However, Burgess wants to see AR content generation made even easier for "non-techies."
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Epic Stories 22 May 2018
Don't let your data lake turn into a swamp

As data warehouses burst at the seams and become data lakes, there’s a tendency to dump everything into the lake – device data, usage data, financial data and - as homes get smarter - even kitchen sink data. A data lake can quickly become enormous, but if it’s all garbage in there, it isn’t a lake. It’s a swamp. Cloud Software R&D Director Gaurav Roy explains how HP is keeping its data lakes clean in preparation for AI implementations.
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3D Printing 20 May 2018
Index of the official HP 3D printing blog (plus videos and whitepapers)

This page is your "one stop shop" for information about Jet Fusion, HP's 3D printing technology. This Dev Portal page points you to the official blog posts, public videos, and white papers from HP Labs. The blog, titled The Shapes of Things to Come, is hosted by Vice President J. Scott Schiller.
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Mobile Print 01 Feb 2018
OS printing advances allow deprecation of Mobile Print SDK

At HP we work tirelessly to improve the print experience. We thank everyone who integrated our Mobile Print SDK. You demonstrated print's impact on usage and engagement and helped us evangelize a streamlined printing experience. Now that print is integrated into iOS and Android Oreo, we are moving into the next phase of our print API journey and deprecating the Mobile Print SDK by February 28, 2018.
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3D Printing 22 Sep 2017
HP Steps Up with 3D Technology to Revolutionize the Footwear Market

You might say that HP 3D printing just hit the ground running in consumer retailing. HP Inc. announced a partnership with Superfeet stores to scan customers’ feet and walking gait, then 3D print custom insoles using Jet Fusion technology. HP has created a foot scanning station, called “FitStation powered by HP,” that scans each foot to create a personal profile. FitStation is the next step in HP’s journey to reinvent how the world designs and manufactures with commercial 3D technologies.
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Epic Stories 16 Aug 2017
PicCollage passes 1M prints in 6 months. Mobile Print key to retention.

When PicCollage passed the 100 million downloads mark, Ching-Mei Chen and her team realized they had an engagement and retention issue. They didn't have 100 million users. Adding a "Print at Home" button gave PicCollage new options for engagement. It triggered 1 million prints in six months and, surprisingly, boosted orders. Users who got in the habit of printing at home also ordered more print merchandise.
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HP Labs 10 Aug 2017
Who earned 2017 internships at HP Labs?

A high school senior within biking distance of the famed HP garage, an aspiring Mechanical Engineering undergrad across the continent, and Ph.D. candidates in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Southern California, each landed one of the most interesting summer jobs in technology – intern at HP Labs. As they are inventing themselves, they are helping to reinvent HP.
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3D Printing 26 Jun 2017
Exclusive: HP gives details about Jet Fusion 3D printer

Editor's note: In June 2017, HP's Ramon Pastor, vice president and general manager for 3D printing, gave an exclusive interview to Michael Petch, the editor-in-chief at 3DPrintingIndustry.com (3DPI). Pastor and other leaders in HP's 3D Jet Fusion talked technology, business, and strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Epic Stories 14 Jun 2017
Open source Istio brings "service mesh" to micro-services architecture

HP's Galo Gimenez, a Distinguished Technologist in the HP CTO's office, introduces Istio, a new open source project announced by Google, IBM, and Lyft. Istio is developing a high-level network fabric to provide key capabilities uniformly across services, regardless of the language the service is written in.
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3D Printing 09 Jun 2017
HP Jet Fusion 3D printing wins "Innovation of the Year"

One year and one day after it introduced the world's first production-ready 3D printing solutions, HP's Jet Fusion 3D printing technology was crowned "Innovation of the Year" at the inaugural 3D Printing Industry Awards in London.
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Immersive 23 May 2017
Pianotime for Sprout gives Arduino bots a voice in Oregon

At the Calapooia Middle School in Albany, Oregon, the Makers Club ordered Arduino bots named Buzz from SolderingSunday.com. When the kids plugged their Buzz bots into their Arduino boards, they knew they would learn about programming. The surprise was how much they learned about music.
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Immersive 18 May 2017
The Beauty of Interacting with the Sprout Pro (a Sprout Walk-up Story)

The San Jose Museum of Art, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, wanted to add something cyber to an exhibition about Beauty. An HP Sprout, running as a walk-up kiosk, allowed museum visitors to express their own visions of beauty. This story shows how the museum's staff discovered Sprout and why the Sprout has a promising future at the museum.
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3D Printing 15 May 2017
HP makes major announcements at RAPID, additive manufacturing's largest conference

At RAPID 2017, the giant additive manufacturing show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, HP unveiled a new 3D Printing global reseller program, service bureau installations, and reference and experience Centers. HP is expanding its Open Materials Ecosystem to collaborate with companies that want to create innovative powders that work in HP's Jet Fusion printers.
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Epic Stories 20 Apr 2017
HP wows young and old at Corvallis Maker Fair (The CO-2017)

Two-year-old Ava stood transfixed in front of a plasma screen at The CO·, the fourth annual Corvallis Maker Fair hosted by Oregon State University. She didn’t know it, but Ava was watching a flashy show about 3D printing, a technology that will transform her world as surely as computers changed her parents’ lives.
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Epic Stories 06 Mar 2017
HP stretches International Women's Day into a week of events

On Wednesday, March 8, the world will observe International Women's Day. HP is stretching the day into a full week of events. Here on the HP Developers Portal, we highlight the contributions of three women who pioneered computer technology: Admiral Grace Hopper who taught a generation of military leaders about computing; Margaret Hamilton, whose software guided the Apollo space missions; and Dorothy Vaughan, a black woman in Alabama who taught herself Fortran and was portrayed in the hit movie Hidden Figures.
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Epic Stories 27 Feb 2017
PicCollage photo app tops 5 million at-home prints, shares insights

Users of the PicCollage app (a Top 10 mobile photo/video app) have printed 5 million photos and collages since the app added a Print at Home button 18 months ago. PicCollage used the HP Mobile Print SDK to add the button. The immediate demand for at-home printing was a pleasant surprise for app co-founder Ching-Mei Chen. The Print at Home button also boosted orders for photo products, like phone cases.
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Immersive 22 Feb 2017
"Sprouts in the Community" delivers special tech for special needs

To discover innovative uses for the Sprout Pro, HP turned to its employees. The company set up the "Sprouts in the Community" program and asked employees to suggest worthy organizations that would benefit from a Sprout. Christopher Huffman helped Mighty Oaks Children's Therapy Center win one for special needs education.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 08 Feb 2017
Google I/O: Why mobile printing?

At Google I/O 2016, members of the Android Framework team explained Android's printing architecture and shared make-it-easy code for printing from mobile Android devices.
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3D Printing 23 Jan 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and you

The 1st Industrial Revolution was steam engines and water wheels. The 2nd revolution was electrical, giving rise to mass production. The 3rd Industrial Revolution was the rise of electronics and computers. Now economic leaders from around the world are meeting in Davos, Switzerland to try to understand the 4th Industrial Revolution: 3D printing.
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Epic Stories 20 Jan 2017
Design before you code: full-lifecycle API engineering

The idea that you can design an API without writing code just seems somehow backwards, like putting the cart before the horse. But “full lifecycle API engineering” is an emerging field with a new set of tools that let you do just that.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 20 Jan 2017
Preserving the original Print Developers Community

Join the HP Developers Portal team in giving a salute to the first website dedicated to Print Developers:  www.print-dev.com. The new HP Developers portal has saved the best of print-dev.com com and will carry forward Will Hertling's vision of developers sharing their best code for printing from mobile, web, and PCs.
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Immersive 05 Jan 2017
Sprout Pro G2 gets solid review at CES 2017

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the second generation of the Sprout Pro by HP caught the attention of Melissa Riofrio, executive editor of PC World. She concluded, "HP’s Sprout Pro is here to remind us that Microsoft’s Surface Studio is not the original creativity-oriented PC, let alone the most creative. Now, the Sprout Pro brings an upgraded set of talents to a market that may finally be ready for it.”
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Epic Stories 20 Dec 2016
HP's JetAdvantage On Demand is like an "app portal for print"

Downloading a cloud-based app to a smart phone has become so easy that most children can do it. That same behavior is coming to HP office printers. HP has launched JetAdvantage on Demand, the printing industry's first Software as a Service solution management platform. "Think of it as the app store for printing."
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Epic Stories 07 Dec 2016
Hour of Code fuels "Growth Mindset" for Mrs. Hicks' 2nd graders

What happens when Hour of Code – a worldwide initiative by Code.org to teach the basics of coding – shows up in a 2nd grade classroom that champions a "Growth Mindset"? HP Corvallis volunteers in Mrs. Hicks' classroom may have witnessed the start of something big.
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HP Labs 21 Nov 2016
HP sponsors new chair in cyber security at the University of Birmingham

A celebration held November 2nd at the University of Birmingham marked the inauguration of the university’s new HP Chair in Cyber Security, the result of a partnership between HP and the university that paves the way for innovative, high impact research into cyber security in the age of the Internet of Things.
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Epic Stories 12 Nov 2016
HP Developer feeling irked: "Not coding makes me cranky"

Melanie Robertson, a software engineer for HP's Link Technology team, got fed up with constant interruptions. She decided to "fight for her right to code" without incessant interruptions. But how to do that? Read her solution in "Not coding makes me cranky."
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Epic Stories 11 Nov 2016
HP Developers Portal celebrates first anniversary

In the history of the new HP Inc., 2016 will stand out as the year the company was created, shipped its first Jet Fusion 3D printers, and launched a public developer portal so developers can create apps for HP hardware.
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Epic Stories 11 Oct 2016
HP CTO wishes for time travel in HP Innovation Journal for Fall 2016

In the fall issue of HP's Innovation Journal, CTO Shane Wall wishes he could bring back Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, who founded HP in 1938 and sparked all of Silicon Valley. "Time travel is one innovation our Labs team hasn’t cracked yet. Just now, I wish we had." Read what Bill and Dave could never have imagined.
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HP Labs 26 Sep 2016
Innovative malware detection in a changing threat landscape

Malware Lab at HP's Bristol-based Security Lab The landscape of software attacks is both evolving and growing, as an ever wider variety and quantity of advanced malware is developed and released. It’s no longer enough for security solutions to track the signatures of known malware and their derivatives.
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3D Printing 22 Sep 2016
Why 3D Printer Vendors Need to Be More Materialistic

Back in the 1990s, Tim Heller toured the United States with a 3D printer in the back of a van. Now, as Director of 3D Printing for the Americas, Heller is evangelizing HP's 3D Jet Fusion technology. In a post published on LinkedIn, Heller calls on all 3D printer vendors to be "more materialistic" – inventing new materials that work with 3D printers.
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3D Printing 13 Sep 2016
The Next Industrial Revolution: Realizing the Full Potential of 3D Printing

If you think of 3D printing as cool technology that’s practical for only one thing — prototyping — think again. Ramon Pastor, HP's vice president and general manager for 3D Printing, said 3D printing is finally on a path toward reaching its full potential. Read his analysis in Manufacturing Business Technology magazine. 
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3D Printing 12 Sep 2016
What 3D printing means to software devs. HP and Intel headline TAO panel.

Join the Technology Association of Oregon for a talk about 3D printing and the future of manufacturing for software developers. Mike Regan, a 3D lab manager, and HP software architect Bob Taylor will join Intel's Shashi Jain for the 4 p.m. talk on Oct. 13 at Vacasa (926 NW 13th Ave.,Suite #300, Portland, OR). The event ends at about 7 p.m. 
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HP Labs 25 Aug 2016
Summer 2016 interns at HP Labs – Fu Jiang

Fu Jiang recently completed his M.Sc. in Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and this fall begins studying for a Ph.D. in Color Science, also at RIT. Jiang grew up in Huaian, China and received his B.Sc. in Physics from the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
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HP Labs 22 Aug 2016
Rapid Urbanization: Q&A with Andrew Bolwell

Andrew Bolwell is the Global Head of Technology Vision and HP Tech Ventures. In this role he is responsible for driving HP’s long-term innovation and technology vision for HP, as well as for HP's venture activities, working across start-up and venture capital communities to identify, source, commercialize and invest in early-stage disruptive technologies.
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HP Labs 15 Aug 2016
@HPLabs Twitter Takeover

Join us on Twitter on August 23 at 2:30 ET/11:30 AM PT when Shane Wall takes over HP Labs! In this live half-hour chat, he’ll be answering your questions, sharing his thoughts on innovation in the workplace, and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at HP Labs. “Innovation in the workplace is an important topic because I’ve always believed that innovation is culture.
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HP Labs 20 Jul 2016
Summer 2016 interns at HP Labs – Cody Carlton

Cody Carlton had never taken a course in computer science before arriving at college. But he decided to try programming in his freshman year at Stanford University and ended up taking three CS classes. Now a rising sophomore, he’s thinking about majoring in either computer science or management science and engineering.
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HP Labs 14 Jul 2016
Summer 2016 interns at HP Labs – Swetha Revanur

Swetha Revanur only just graduated from high school in San Jose, California, but has already co-authored a paper in Nature Communications, built a health education app, interned at the National Institutes of Health, and placed first in bioinformatics research at the 2015 and 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fairs.
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HP Labs 10 Jul 2016
Summer 2016 interns at HP Labs – Camille Eddy

Camille Eddy has wanted to be an astronaut since the age of twelve. That led the native of Idaho to focus on engineering and computer science as she was home schooled through high school and then to major in mechanical engineering at Boise State, where she’s a rising senior.
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HP Labs 29 Jun 2016
Summer 2016 interns at HP Labs – Xi Liu

Michigan State University Ph.D. student Xi Liu is interning this summer in HP’s Printand 3D Lab, where she’s excited to be taking on new challenges in data mining, her main area of research interest. “Some companies just tell their interns what to work on,” she notes.
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HP Labs 29 Jun 2016
Summer 2016 interns at HP Labs – Baris Unver

Baris Unver was born in Istanbul, Turkey, where he began coding and building electronic systems as a young teen. He attended the Kuleli Military High School and Turkish Military Academy, receiving a BSc in systems engineering, before embarking on twelve years of military service in the Turkish Gendarmerie’s Signals Corps.
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PrintOS 27 Jun 2016
PrintOS Device APIs: A Short Introduction

HP PrintOS is a cloud-based system that connects HP's Graphics devices. In this short, introductory video, Dave, our PrintOS architect, shows how device manufacturers can connect their devices to PrintOS and send real-time status.
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Link Technology 09 Jun 2016
Link architect Bob Taylor envisions Drupa for developers

Bob Taylor, an architect for HP Link Technology, was one of a handful of HP developers who traveled to Germany for Drupa 2016, the world’s largest printing expo. HP was showing off its finest, biggest digital printing hardware. But Bob sees software and APIs in the future for Drupa 2020.
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PrintOS 08 Jun 2016
Dave Staas goes to Drupa to debut HP PrintOS APIs

Drupa is the Olympics of printing - a giant trade show that happens every four years. Dave Staas, chief architect for HP PrintOS, HP's new cloud-based operating system for print shops, traveled to Drupa 2016 to debut PrintOS APIs.
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3D Printing 07 Jun 2016
The wild world of 3D printing

Scientists, engineers, doctors and creative makers are developing printers for advancements in health care, city planning and space travel. Now you can even 3D print sneakers and pizza. Here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest developments in the 3D printing world.
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3D Printing 31 May 2016
Partners that are 3D printing with HP Jet Fusion technology

With HP's release of its first industrial 3D printers using Jet Fusion technology, HP also announced an open platform for development. Here is a list of the select partners working on that open platform: BMW, Nike, BASF, Arkema, Evonik, Lehman&Voss& Co., Materialise, Proto Labs, Siemens, Jabil, and Johnson & Johnson.
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HP Labs 19 May 2016
UK Member of Parliament visits HP Labs Bristol

HP Labs Bristol recently hosted its local parliamentary representative, Jack Lopresti, member of parliament for Filton and Bradley Stoke, the area North West of Bristol where HP’s UK lab is located.
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Epic Stories 15 May 2016
What's working in Mobile Photo? Top 10 app PicCollage and Kite share insights

PicCollage, a Top 10 photo app, added a Print at Home button and learned four key lessons: Millennials love to print photos and collages (nearly 2 million in 8 months) HP's Mobile Print SDK is printer agnostic and took just 10 minutes to integrate.  Print-at-home users are 7 times more likely to order photo products from Kite, a data e-commerce platform for print In-home photo printing boosts engagement and retention
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HP Labs 13 May 2016
Megatrends: HP’s future technology vision

Andrew Bolwell is VP and Global Head of Technology Vision and Venturing for HP. In this role he is responsible for driving HP’s long-term innovation and technology vision for HP, as well as for HP's venture activities, working across start-up and venture capital communities to identify, source, commercialize and invest in early-stage disruptive technologies.
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HP Labs 11 May 2016
HP Labs research team wins best paper award at LILE2016

A paper presented by Lei Liu of HP Labs and Shuting Wang of Pennsylvania State University shared the Best Paper award at LILE2016, a workshop for data-based educational research convened last month in Montreal, Canada in conjunction with WWW2016, the 25th international World Wide Web conference.
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Epic Stories 10 May 2016
HP launches Tech Ventures group to invest in startups

May 10, 2016:  Today HP Inc. announced the creation of HP Tech Ventures, a corporate venture group dedicated to finding "early stage companies with cutting edge technologies." The team, led by Andrew Bolwell, HP's "Chief Disrupter," will be looking for disruptive technologies in: 3D transformation, immersive computing, hyper-mobility, the Internet of things, artificial intelligence, and smart machines.
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PrintOS 18 Apr 2016
PrintOS Cloud Service releases first APIs

Print Service Providers and 3rd party developers that want to improve their operations and profitability can now tap HP’s new PrintOS APIs, available through the HP Developers Portal. Two APIs – "Box Submission" and "Site Flow" – are now available on this Developers' Portal.
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HP Labs 15 Apr 2016
Such a Weigh with Words

This is another blog in our series on how the HP Way and the combined weight of HP’s research, business practices, and heart – what I call “the HP Weigh” - can contribute to a better future.
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Epic Stories 14 Apr 2016
Facebook announces HP Print Bot at F8

HP was one of the eight business partners selected by Facebook for its release Tuesday of the Facebook Messenger platform. The result of the collaboration is an HP Print Bot that will make it easy to print from Facebook. 
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OXPd JavaScript 13 Apr 2016
HP JetAdvantage Partner Program...Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Fleets of HP LaserJet printers are deployed in enterprises around the world. Many have special software functions – customized buttons on the control panel – that are the work of developers who have joined the HP JetAdvantage Partner Program. The JetAdvantage program is welcoming more developers to its Open eXtensible Platform for devices (OXPd).
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HP Labs 10 Apr 2016
Exploring hybrid solutions for immersive learning

Despite the easy availability of digital multimedia, students still like to read instructional materials printed on paper, notes Yang Lei, a research scientist in HP’s Print and 3D Lab where the future of education has been a major avenue of inquiry for the past few years. “When we survey people, many say they prefer to read print books,” Yang explains.
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Immersive 23 Mar 2016
Sprout picked as one of the Top 15 "coolest new tech gadgets" by Cool Mom Tech

It's more than unusual for a Windows PC to make a list of "coolest new tech gadgets," but the Sprout by HP is much more than the usual Windows PC. It's also a projector and 3D scanner -- basically an input device for home 3D replicating. That's why Cool Mom Tech picked the Sprout as one of "the 15 coolest new tech gadgets of the year." 
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Epic Stories 10 Mar 2016
International Women's Week: HP Developer diagnoses drop in CS majors

Noha Elarief, a developer on HP’s mobile print program, has personal experience with the decline of women in Computer Science courses in the United States. It wasn’t that way in Egypt. “When I came to the United States to earn a Ph.D., I was shocked when I saw how few women were in my classes.”
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Epic Stories 09 Mar 2016
HP International Women's Week: Women in Computer Science dropping since 1980s

 To recognize and honor the contributions of women in society and technology, HP has expanded International Women's Day (March 8) into a full week of worldwide activities. Nothing shows the structural challenge that women face in Computer Science better than a chart published by the National Center for Educational Statistics.
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Epic Stories 26 Feb 2016
Bridging from DevOps to Central Ops - a mini-whitepaper

In the world of Agile software development, embedded DevOps teams have proven their worth. But what happens when a project matures and joins a large company's portfolio of established services. Then the project must bridge to Central Ops to save money. Developer Joe Teibel, an HP veteran, explains how crossing that bridge is all about constraints.
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Epic Stories 24 Feb 2016
Shane Wall, HP CTO, foresees 4D printing and Industry 4.0

"Good morning Berlin!" HP CTO Shane Wall greeted the hub conference. For 25 minutes he shared HP's vision for not only 2D and 3D printing, but also 4D printing. He set these advances against a backdrop of three key megatrends: urbanization, hyper-globalization, and technology disruption.
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Epic Stories 18 Feb 2016
7 reasons Scala is better than Java ... so why is Java winning?

Joe Teibel, a veteran HP developer with deep knowledge of cloud services and application development, has strong opinions about agile development, scaling software projects, and the "right way" to do Ops. Here he explains why he thinks Scala is superior to Java. 
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HP Labs 11 Feb 2016
The HP Weigh: Diversity and the Hardy-Weinberg Principle

This is the second in a series of blogs on how the HP Way and the combined weight of HP’s research, business practices, and heart – what I call “the HP Weigh” - can contribute to a better future. Feel free to weigh in! Driving diversity is a hot topic in board rooms, leadership conferences, and STEM classrooms.
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HP Labs 11 Feb 2016
The rebirth of manufacturing and “the HP Weigh”

This is the first in a series of blogs on how the HP Way and the combined weight of HP’s research, business practices, and heart – what I call “the HP Weigh” - can contribute to a better future. Feel free to weigh in! 3D printing (3DP) flew off the peak of the hype rollercoaster last year and remains mid-pupil in the public eye.
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HP Labs 10 Feb 2016
Interaction designer Ji Won Jun joins HP’s Immersive Experiences Lab

Ji Won Jun is one of the newest members of HP’s growing Immersive Experiences Lab, joining the team as a research engineer at the start of the year. Originally an interaction designer, Jun moved into Human-computer interaction research driven by an interest in technology and how we think about the future.
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HP Labs 04 Feb 2016
Multimedia and the future of knowledge

Last November, I was invited to speak at the Bay Area Multimedia Forum. The weekend before the event, I had complete pharyngitis, to the extent that I couldn’t speak Saturday or Sunday at all. While this made my family and friends enjoy a nicer weekend than usual, it meant I was worried I would have to cancel the talk.
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HP Labs 03 Feb 2016
Coded Apertures and Precision Dairy

Dr. Daniel Lau of the University of Kentucky was recently in the Bay Area and stopped by HP Labs in Palo Alto to give a hosted technical presentation. The conversations ranged from coded apertures to precision dairy.
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HP Labs 25 Jan 2016
HP Labs devises a new, handheld ink calibration tool to advance next generation commercial printing

At the heart of HP’s successful HP Indigo commercial printing business is a sophisticated ink – known as ElectroInk – that contains electrically chargeable particles that help ensure that Indigo’s presses achieve very high levels of print quality, stability, and durability at high marking engine speeds Maintaining those levels, however, is a challenge, says Omer Gila,
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 21 Jan 2016
Kai Turner of MOO sees the future of paper in the Internet of Things

When engaged in an epic battle, it's great to find an ally. Here at HP, we have found like-minded thinkers at MOO Inc., a paper-loving design company. In a blog post, Kai Turner, MOO's Senior Product Manger, explores the "physical-to-digital space and the future of paper." Like HP, Kai sees paper going digital and joining the emerging Internet of Things.
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HP Labs 15 Jan 2016
Lei Liu is dreaming big at HP Labs

When HP Labs research scientist Lei Liu was a child in XianYang, China, he read a newspaper article detailing how HP originated in a garage in Palo Alto. “That inspired me,” he recalls. “Silicon Valley was clearly somewhere where you could have a dream, incubate it, and see it come true.” Today, Lei is living that dream as a member of HP’s Print and 3D Lab.
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HP Labs 14 Jan 2016
On Available Energy and Joules as the Currency

I’ve learned a lot about energy fundamentals, and about the importance of observation and inference, simply by traveling with my family – both overseas and in the USA. Observing a water tower near a railway station in India, for example, became a lesson in available energy and supply side infrastructure.
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Immersive 13 Jan 2016
Sprout goes to Quack Hack, first student hackathon at Univ. of Oregon

The University of Oregon, a school best known for its duck mascot and football play, is making a technology play Jan. 15-17 in association with Major League Hacking (mlh.io), the "official student hackathon league." The HP Developers Program is supporting the 3-day event, dubbed "Quack Hack," by furnishing an HP Sprout and a cloud-connected wireless printer. HP is also making connections between the university program and the local dev community.
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3D Printing 07 Jan 2016
Is home 3D printing practical? Let's do the Time Warp again.

Every time I see an advertisement for a home 3D printer, it’s déjà vu all over again. I am mentally transported back in time to the dawn of the home computer era, when computer gurus struggled to give a good answer to the Practical Spouse Question: "What useful things can you do with it?"
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3D Printing 06 Jan 2016
When I say "digital printing," please think outside the page

When you hear the word "printing," do you think of houses? How about cars? Drug doses? Solar panels? Most likely none of the above. And yet, all of these things are now being "printed." What began as 2D ink-on-paper 35 years ago has morphed into digital squirting, depositing, extruding, and rendering of all kinds of materials. Ultimately, printing is about software-controlled placement of materials on a scale stretching from atoms to autos to apartments.
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Epic Stories 04 Jan 2016
PicCollage mobile print templates increase engagement and retention

"There's still something special about having a physical print out of your creations to hang on the wall or send to friends and family." That's not HP talking. That's PicCollage, one of the Top 10 photo apps. Adding mobile printing to PicCollage boosted engagement and monetization — something every developer wants.
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Epic Stories 23 Dec 2015
3D Transformation: The World Can't Wait

How will 3D printing transform the world we live in? Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow and Chief Engineer at HP Labs, uses his vantage on the cutting edge of technology to predict a cradle-to-cradle lifecycle for the products we buy. 3D printing – including HP's Multi Jet Fusion – will benefit mankind by reducing the energy we use.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 14 Dec 2015
Scientific American: The brain prefers paper for reading

Value of print: A YouTube video of a toddler swiping and pressing images in a magazine fueled the popular debate between paper and digital readers back in 2011. The video, titled A Magazine is an iPad that Does Not Work, has been watched almost 5 million times. In 2013, Scientific American editors took on the debate, reviewing research that compared reading on paper to reading on screen.
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HP Labs 14 Dec 2015
Mithra Vankipuram looks out for users in HP’s Immersive Experiences Lab

Growing up, HP Labs research scientist Mithra Vankipuram was drawn equally to science, art, math, and engineering. “I’ve always liked applying ideas and building stuff,” she says. That led her to study computer science and engineering as an undergraduate at Anna University in Chennai, India, and then to move to Arizona State University to study for her M.S.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 13 Dec 2015
The watch and the printer: a tale of two comebacks

Some of the hottest holiday gifts in 2015 look like wrist watches. The keys to the watch's comeback are a cloud connection and a host of new digital tricks. The same resurgence is happening for HP printers. What can you develop that takes advantage of 40 million cloud-connected printers on the Internet of Things?
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Epic Stories 10 Dec 2015
Hour of Code family discovered in Oregon, USA

For a family in Oregon, Hour of Code classes led by HP volunteers have over-delivered. Hour of Code not only showed every child  at Lincoln Elementary School that they can code, it gave the Gilpin family something to share at home.
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HP Labs 30 Nov 2015
A look at the software that powers 3D printing

I am a research manager at HP Labs and for the past several months I and members of my team have been working on software and algorithms aspects of HP’s new Multi Jet Fusion™ technology. HP Multi Jet FusionTM technology will revolutionize the 3D printing space.
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3D Printing 23 Nov 2015
The 3MF Consortium works for industry growth

In 2015 HP joined in the formation of the 3MF Consortium. As part of our efforts to share and promote understanding about 3MF, we sent Luis Baldez, HP 3D printing Software Strategy Program Manager, to the Additive Manufacturing Conference. Luis delivered a session together with another founding member -- Alexander Oster of netfabb GmbH.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 06 Nov 2015
Paper - the Rodney Dangerfield of media

Value of print - In a world where screen media gets all the buzz, paper can lament, "I don't get no respect." Everyone says, "Paper is going away." Yet a steady 100 million printers sell every year. What can you do with a worldwide installed base of about half a billion printers?
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 05 Nov 2015
Printing HTML headers and footers

A common question I see is how to print headers and footers when printing a webpage. An old stackoverflow post posed this question:
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 03 Nov 2015
Web printing in landscape

Some content needs to be printed in landscape. This is fairly common when you have spreadsheets or data-filled reports. This can be tricky when printing from the browser, because it relies on the user to select landscape printing, which is rarely the default orientation. If you use PDF generation on the server, it's relatively easy to enforce landscape orientation.
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Immersive 02 Nov 2015
Sprout goes to World Maker Faire New York

The Sprout Tour truck, criss-crossing America to show off immersive computing and "blended reality," parked at the World Maker Faire in New York in late September 2015. Check out the video interview by Makezine.com. 
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HP Labs 29 Oct 2015
Ugmos and Einsteins at the Cheltenham Science Festival

HPLabs, Bristol, are once again proud to be one of the major sponsors of the annual Cheltenham Science Festival. We have been supporting the festival, which runs over six days, for several years. It is a fun and vibrant event, making Science interesting for everyone, there are demos, presentations and so much more to enjoy.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 29 Oct 2015
Paper going away? You decide.

Value of print - It has been half a century since Businessweek predicted the paperless "Office of the Future." Decide for yourself whether paper is going away, or whether half a billion installed printers can add value to your apps and websites.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 29 Oct 2015
Selecting regions of a webpage to print

Web Printing Tutorial: One of the most common needs when formatting a webpage to print is turning off regions that don't need to be displayed. As explained in the full tutorial, this is usually done with display: none;
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 29 Oct 2015
Generating PDFs from HTML for non-web content

Web printing tutorial: This tutorial explores the world of page layout using HTML and CSS to design printed pages. The goal is not merely a nicely printed web page, but a specific piece of printable non-web content, such as a brochure or book,
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 29 Oct 2015
Public Radio considers "The Future of Paper"

Value of Print - Eric Weiner, a reporter for National Public Radio, also used the famous not-dead-yet scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to underscore his report about the endearing, enduring durability of paper.
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 29 Oct 2015
In-browser preview of print CSS

Web printing tutorial: As a web developer working on print, I've often needed to see the impact of stylesheet changes to print media. This isn't always easy to do. It turns out you can preview print stylesheets directly in the browser on Chrome!  The basic functionality has been present for a while, but Google occasionally changes how you access this feature. These instructions work as of Chrome v.43.
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HP Labs 26 Oct 2015
Future engineers from Girls Innovate! visit HP Labs

Just before heading back to school from summer break, a group of high school girls passionate about math, science, and technology got to visit HP Labs in Palo Alto for a glimpse of how women engineers are making a difference in an industrial lab and beyond.
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HP Labs 26 Oct 2015
Reading analytics - analyzing how people read online

In the online world, there are two well-known “species” of user: “searchers” and “shoppers.” Each leaves a voluminous trail of information behind them. Web searchers mainly deposit search keywords and result clicks, while shoppers’ trails are made up of views, purchases, and rentals of products.
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Link Technology 05 Oct 2015
Developer Week 2015

Congratulations to the SNAP team for winning the Link Technology challenge at AccelerateSF Hackathon. Visit developerweek.com to read more.
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Link Technology 02 Oct 2015
HP sponsors 2015 Indie Game Con in Eugene, Oregon

At the Indie Game Con in Eugene, Oregon, USA, HP is introducing Link Creation Studio, which allows game developers to embed invisible digital watermarks on printed images, like game cards and posters. 
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