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HP Client Management 24 Sep 2021
Provisioning a HP Sure Recover Custom Image in a Modern Managed Cloud Environment

The hybrid working environment, where users are working from home or not at a fixed desk location poses additional challenges for IT resilience. One of those areas is the recovery of a non-functional device that requires a fresh Windows image to get the end-user productive again. HP Sure Recover is built into the hardware & firmware of selected HP business devices and helps to securely install the operating system from a network location.
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HP Client Management 22 Sep 2021
Preparing Windows Systems for Autopilot Deployment

Configuring new devices for company use is traditionally a complicated and time-consuming process. Windows Audit mode condenses the number of steps it takes to get new devices up and running through hardware-agnostic configuration profiles that can be deployed anywhere with internet access. Devices can be sent from HP straight to users, who, once registered with Autopilot, just need to log in with their work email to get quickly provisioned and start work.
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HP Client Management 09 Sep 2021
Using HP Image Assistant with Microsoft Endpoint Manager

HP Image Assistant (HPIA) is a vital tool that assists IT admins to manage their fleet more efficiently with a simpler setup and execution process.In this blog post we will cover how you can setup HPIA in a Microsoft Intune environment and push it to all your client devices with a few simple steps.
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Omnicept 13 Jul 2021
What is Cognitive Load?

Dr. Erika Siegel of HP Labs has been studying human cognition for 15 years. In this engaging video she explains cognitive load and why HP Omnicept is a useful tool in a VR developer's toolbox.
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Omnicept 02 Jul 2021
New Omnicept course for Unity developers!

Sergi and Lauren will be leading an Omnicept SDK Unity Plugin course for free on Circuitstream.com!   This class will include an overview of what is Omnicept, how to access VR headset and controller functionality as well as a developer focused walkthrough on a simple game that utilizes Cognitive Load readings to adjust the difficulty.  You are welcome to join us!
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Workpath SDK 19 May 2021
Workpath Partner Award Winners Announced

Workpath Partner Award Winners Announced This year's Workpath Partner Award winners were announced today at the close of the HP Developer Partner Conference 2021.  Congratulations to the winners!
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Omnicept 05 May 2021
Introducing HP VR Spatial Audio

With the launch of the HP Omnicept SDK, HP introduces VR Spatial Audio, which gives VR applications an immersive sound environment. Users perceive sound sources to originate from their relative position in the virtual environment. A Machine Learning approach provides a more realistic audio experience.
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Omnicept 03 May 2021
HP Omnicept Cognitive Load Dataset is live!

You are invited to familiarize yourself with the methods and dataset used in creating the HP Labs Omnicept cognitive load inference engine.   Start with the link below for the ReadMe which will give an overview of the experiment, procedure and the data descriptions.  You must login or create an HP ID to download the data set.
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HP Client Management 11 Nov 2020
Secure BIOS with HP Sure Admin and CMSL - (Upd 2/9/2021)

In order to provide a more secure access to the BIOS, HP introduced Sure Admin on commercial systems. HP Sure admin depends on a cryptographically secure infrastructure, the Secure Platform Management (SPM), previously released in the BIOS to support features such as HP Sure Run and Sure Recover. 
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 06 Nov 2020
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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Workpath SDK 25 Sep 2020
Android 10 Beta2 Feedback Period Extended

The Android 10 Beta2 feedback period has been extended through October 9 to provide app developers more time to test their apps. Please don't miss out on this final opportunity to provide feedback or report issues before Android 10 is released to the public in the next major FutureSmart firmware upgrade.
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Workpath SDK 02 Sep 2020
Android10 Beta2 Starts Now

Moving the HP Workpath Platform to API 29 will require additional testing on your part to check for compatibility with your app. And in some cases, code changes and resubmission for App Center V&V will be required. Download the Android10 Beta2 firmware from the Download page now and take it for a test drive with your app.
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Workpath SDK 01 Sep 2020
Improving the Validation and Verification Process for Workpath Apps

HP continues to invest in our platforms and process to help developers innovate with speed and security on the HP Workpath Platform. We are excited to announce a major improvement to the VAV submissions process, migrating from a date-driven submission period to an On-Demand VAV process completing reviews within 72 hours. Developers wanted the VAV process to support fast innovation, customers’ needs and the occasional bugfix. So now as a developer you can submit your app for VAV anytime you wish, and we will target 3 business days to complete the security review of your Workpath app! 
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XR 28 Aug 2020
HP Labs: Cognitive Load

The HP Omnicept VR platform is a ground-breaking collaboration between HP’s VR software team and scientists at HP labs. Driven by research in neuroscience, psychology, and affective computing, Omnicept VR combines physiological sensing with cutting edge machine learning to create human-centered, AI solutions.
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Workpath SDK 02 Aug 2020
Android 10 Beta Feedback Period Extended

Android 10 Beta Feedback Period Extended The Android 10 Beta feedback period has been extended through August 14 to provide app developers more time to test their apps. The feedback we have received from the developer community so far has helped identify some important backward compatibility issues. The platform team is now hard at work fixing those issues to minimize disruption for our customers when they upgrade to Android 10 in the future.
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HP Client Management 21 Jul 2020
Automating Maintenance of HP Image Assistant Repositories (Upd 8/10/2021)

HP Image Assistant can install/update drivers and other components from an offline repository that has been populated with Softpaqs for HP supported business systems. A Repository folder, if to be used by HPIA, requires to be configured correctly. Configuring can be done with HP's Client Management Software Library.
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Workpath SDK 14 Jul 2020
August Submission Deadline Change for HP Workpath app VAV

For the week of August 10-14 HP will have a company-wide required time off period for all employees. This will impact the August Workpath app VAV Submission Period. We will be consolidating round one and round two VAVs for August into just one VAV submission period. The new submission deadline for VAVs in August will now be August 20th; with completed VAVs starting August 24th.
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Workpath SDK 06 Jul 2020
Android 10 Beta Starts Now! It's time to test your apps.

During our Virtual Partner Conference, we announced significant improvements to our HP Workpath Platform for Summer and Fall of 2020. One of these key enhancements include implementing Android 10 (also known as Android Q) on our upcoming FutureSmart 25.1 firmware (slated for Oct-Nov release). Today, we are excited to provide all Workpath app developers access to a Beta version of FutureSmart 25.1 running Android 10. When FutureSmart 25.1 is officially released, we want to ensure quality and app stability for this exciting Workpath platform release. 
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HP Client Management 04 Jun 2020
Optimized Windows Power Profiles with HP System Default Settings

Modern Standby: Why HP System Default Settings The HP System Default Settings Softpaq was developed to optimize settings and battery utilization on HP systems. HP recommends the Softpaq be installed on all supported mobile platforms, with and without Modern Standby support.
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Workpath SDK 01 Jun 2020
HP Workpath SDK 1.4.1 (Rename Preview) Now Available

HP is pleased to announce availability of the HP Workpath SDK version 1.4.1  (Workpath name change preview) As we announced in December, HP has been working to implement the name change from “HP JetAdvantage Link for Device” to “HP Workpath” throughout our ecosystem. And while not all of this work is complete, we are pleased to announce the availability of the first HP Workpath SDK package with the new naming implemented throughout, including the APIs (namespaces, types, methods, etc.) -- HP Workpath SDK v1.4.1.
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Workpath SDK 21 May 2020
Remote App Configuration Now Available for All HP Workpath Apps

HP is pleased to announce that Remote App Configuration is now available for all HP Workpath apps. HP has been working hard to enhance app deployment through HP Command Center (HPCC). A few months ago, we introduced the ability to create and deploy app configurations remotely from within HPCC for several HP developed apps. We have used the intervening time to test and improve that feature under production conditions.
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HP Client Management 30 Apr 2020
Packaging UWP drivers for deployment in MEMCM

Installing Driver Appx packages during MEMCM/OSD 4/30/2020 The implementation of the UWP driver model by Microsoft imposes restrictions on how a complete driver package can be deployed when a PC is (re)imaged. Drivers with a control UWP application are split between the hardware-enabling driver and an appx package, typically installed with DISM.
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Epic Stories 22 Apr 2020
How to use Anchore Inline Image Scanning

Anchore is a tool that scans Docker images for common vulnerabilities and not so common vulnerabilities if you purchase the paid version. However, the free version is useful and should still be used on your team to avoid the common vulnerabilities.Thankfully, the Anchore team is nice enough to have created an entire shell script to both install the Anchore Database locally and run the Anchore CLI all in one line.
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HP Client Management 20 Apr 2020
Using HP Image Assistant for driver updates in MEMCM

HP Image Assistant (HPIA) has become a useful tool for IT shops helping to automate the deployment and updating of PCs in an Enterprise. HPIA can be used to (not-including capabilities such as, quick access to Readme and CVA files, Advisories and Bulletins, etc.):
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HP Client Management 12 Apr 2020
Driver injection with HP Image Assistant and HP CMSL in MEM CM (upd. 4/27/2021)

HP Image Assistant (since version 4.5.4) and the HP Client Management Script Library (since version 1.4.0) can team up to deliver intelligent and efficient installation of HP drivers, bios, and other HP software in a Microsoft Endpoint Management Configuration Manager (MEMCM), or other similar management environments.
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Workpath SDK 07 Jan 2020
Oreo is here! FutureSmart firmware and Link for Device SDK 1.4 Now Available

HP is pleased to announce the release of Oreo and version 1.4 of the Link for Device SDK. In June of last year at the 2019 HP JetAdvantage Partner Conference, HP announced our intention to upgrade the HP JetAdvantage Link for Device platform to API version 26 (a.k.a. Oreo) within a year. We are happy to announce that the implementation is now complete, and is included in the latest FutureSmart Bundle (4.10). Thank you to those of you who participated in the Oreo Beta program, helping us ensure the quality of the platform. To enable all the new features in API version 26, we are also pleased to announce the release of the JetAdvantage Link for Device SDK version 1.4 (associated with the release of FutureSmart Bundle 4.10 device firmware).
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Print Fundamentals for Developers 01 Jan 2020
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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Epic Stories 01 Jan 2020
Adding Elasticsearch to legacy applications using Logstash

Elasticsearch can store, scale, search and analyze humongous amounts of data in near real time. It is usually used in applications that have complex search features. But it can also be used to retrofit legacy apps that lack heavy duty search. You can add search to a legacy app running on a MySQL database by bringing up Elasticsearch as a secondary data store to handle the search load. The relational database remains the single source of truth while Elasticsearch rips through searches, giving a legacy database value that it never had before.
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Epic Stories 04 Dec 2019
How to use Regex expressions when working with AWS WAF CloudFormation template

In the summer of 2019, AWS announced support for using Regex Expressions for their WAF CloudFormation Templates. However, at introduction, no one had figured it out from a solely CloudFormation solution. In this post Toul DeGuia-Cranmer explains what can (and cannot) be done through editing the CloudFormation WAF template.
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Workpath SDK 16 Oct 2019
Oreo is coming! Are you ready?

Oreo is coming! Are you ready? The JetAdvantage Link platform development team has been working hard over many months to update the core of our device platform to conform to API version 26 (commonly known as Oreo, or 8.0). Having concluded internal testing and a limited-release beta (Beta1), we are now ready to share our work with the entire app developer community for your evaluation and feedback (Beta2) and most importantly to give you time to adapt your apps if necessary prior to its official release.
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Epic Stories 25 Jul 2019
Cloud Security for novices (who are no dummies)

I recently took on the role of Cloud Security advocate for HP's Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) team. I saw first-hand that preparing a team to be interested in security is a daunting task, especially when the team’s imperative is to deliver software fast. Here are some simple steps that you can follow to get your team engaged.
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Workpath SDK 22 Jul 2019
Lighthouse Apps for JetAdvantage Link now Available

  HP is pleased to announce the release of Lighthouse Apps for JetAdvantage Link Lighthouse apps are: An open source collection of HP authored Link apps​ Scan To… Apps Scan to Email Scan to FTP Scan to SMB (Network Folder) Cloud Storage Apps HP for Box HP for Dropbox HP for Google Drive HP for OneDrive HP for OneDrive Business
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Workpath SDK 11 Jul 2019
Link for Device SDK Version 1.3.0 Now Available

HP is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.0 of the Link for Device SDK.   In August of last year HP announced the Developers Release of JetAdvantage Link for Device SDK 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 even more capabilities on our platform in our latest release, JetAdvantage Link for Device SDK version 1.3.0 (associated with the release of FutureSmart Bundle 4.8.0.1 device firmware).  
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PrintOS 27 Jun 2019
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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Epic Stories 17 Jun 2019
How to add security to a kops provisioned Kubernetes cluster in AWS

Kops is a popular open source tool that makes it easier to provision and deploy Kubernetes clusters in Cloud Service Providers. However, Kops probably cannot achieve a one-size-fits-all security solution. Use of kops may vary, so you should be aware of default security choices and know how to configure the security to your needs. In this article I'll show you how to run kube-bench against a kops provisioned cluster and how to change the cluster spec to add additional security to the provisioned k8s cluster.
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Epic Stories 10 Jun 2019
Don't let your "data lake" turn into a swamp

The world is awash in data. It is overflowing data centers and pooling into data lakes. There is a tendency to dump everything into the lake – device data, usage data, financial data. As homes get smarter - we may soon put everything, even the kitchen sink data, into our data repositories.  A data lake can quickly become enormous, but if it is all unstructured, 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 to enable Artificial Intelligence implementations.
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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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Workpath SDK 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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Workpath SDK 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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