Welcome to a lovely spring edition of What’s Up Wednesday

FME World Fair

The FME World Fair schedule is now live! See what presentations you’d like to attend. Be sure to register to get the full agenda once it’s released directly into your inbox (it’s free!). 

Articles

• Getting Started with FME Server and Docker: Learn how to get started using Docker to deploy FME Server and learn why this solution might work for you. 
• Useful commands for FME Server for Docker: Recently updated for 2021.0 to include troubleshooting commands. If you are using Docker to deploy FME Server, see this article to learn useful commands. 
• FME Server - Host System Sizing: If you’re considering upgrading your hardware to improve your FME Server performance, see this article for recommendations. 
• How to Fix XML Files with Bad Encoding: Recently updated for 2021.0, learn how to re-encode an XML file with bad encoding using FME and the Text File reader/writer. 

FME Training

The free online course Getting Started with the FME Platform is happening next week on April 12th and will be using FME 2021 as well as a new FME Desktop scenario. Check it out! 

Other course offerings:

Getting Started with the FME Platform - May 26th, 2021, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Integrate Data with the FME Platform - June 22nd - 23rd, 2021, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Blog

There’s a new blog post about Connecting to APIs and Webhooks in No Time (with No Code). It’s also a great read if you want to learn the difference between APIs and Webhooks!

March FME Hub Contributions

Last month the FME Hub saw six new contributions:

• Azure Event Hubs: A package that contains the AzureEventHubsConnector which publishes or receives messages asynchronously on the Azure Event Hubs service.
• AddressStreetSuffixAbbreviationExpander: This transformer converts street suffix abbreviations in an address.
• DWGEntitySetter: This transformer creates the format attribute autocad_entity and sets it to the value chosen by the user.
• HTMLLabelsDemo: An example of using wkhtml2image command line tool for creating raster labels for texturing 3D geometries. The output goes to FMEAR format used with FME AR app.
• SingleCharacterAttributeSplitter: This transformer splits a string into a list with each element a single character of the incoming attribute.
• StringInserter: This transformer lets you insert a new section of string into a particular part of an existing string.