About Peter Melly

Engineer, Broadcaster, Newshound, and Corporate Media Consultant. Encompassing a wide and varied career in broadcast media, starting as an installation project engineer with the BBC, working with everything from RF engineering to coding. Then moving to a live news operational position in Newsgathering, BBC N Ireland, before transitioning into journalism. A career path that encompasses both pure engineering and broadcast journalism gives Peter the ability to write engaging articles about complex technical issues with simplicity, clarity, and elegance. Peter is now a content creator for draw.io.

draw.io at Team 22 Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada USA From the city renowned for world-class entertainment and high-energy presentations, Atlassian presented Teams 22 at the Venetian convention center. It's a place where innovators, free thinkers, and software Jedi gather to promote their latest products, and draw.io was no exception. The anticipation was palpable in the atmosphere as ITSM, Dev [...]

By |2023-08-01T13:31:37+02:00April 21st, 2022|draw.io|

Romance comes to diagramming – introducing draw.io dating

draw.io dating The draw.io user base is a living thing. An international community of professionals using the application to assist in everything from coding to marketing and the social interaction between users on social media sites has not gone unnoticed. In the 22nd century, it has become more and more challenging to meet the [...]

By |2022-04-01T09:20:29+02:00April 1st, 2022|draw.io|

draw.io – unbelievable performance at an unbelievable price

There is a story about a rich businessman who would approach his bank for a sizeable loan every year. The bank would agree; after all, business is business. But insisted on some security, the businessman would bring in his prized possession a vintage Ferrari. The bank would then hold this as security on [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:34:33+02:00March 24th, 2022|Atlassian, Business, draw.io, pricing, security|

Connection Points, functionality and customization

draw.io offers two types of Connection Points, Floating and Fixed. These are the exact points on a shape that a connection line will join or snap to. Anything that can help clarify a diagram helps visualize data, ensuring you get your message across. draw.io´s Connectors are incredibly versatile and can help you in [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:34:37+02:00March 17th, 2022|customization, draw.io, feature, learning, productivity|

Why secure diagramming is essential in your business

Never before has the concept of Cybersecurity been more critical than today. A data breach can have a devastating effect on an organization's reputation and finances. Despite your own in-house security measures, it can be pretty sobering to think of who exactly can access your diagrams and confidential work when [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:34:37+02:00March 10th, 2022|Business, draw.io, feature, security|

50,000 installs in Confluence and how we got there

draw.io has just celebrated over 50,000 installs in Confluence. That's almost three times as many as our nearest competitor. So to each and every one of you - a huge thank you. No other Marketplace app has more installs than draw.io, no other app has more reviews, and we are one of the few [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:34:40+02:00March 4th, 2022|customization, draw.io, feedback, Gliffy migration, news, productivity, security|

How draw.io is evolving in the Confluence Cloud

By the late 1990s, a new buzzword was soaring in popularity in software conventions and technology seminars. I covered such a high-profile technology seminar attended by industry leaders and government ministers when the word "Cloud" was uttered. There were bemused looks among audience members, "Cloud," what did they mean? No one could have predicted [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:34:42+02:00February 24th, 2022|Atlassian, Business, integration, migration, security|

How the Jobs To Be Done approach can help your business

Back in the day, some of the best advice I ever learned was given by a deputy school principal at my middle school. An authoritative figure, he addressed our class and explained that the exams we were about to take would determine our future. He offered three golden rules in taking any exam. Read [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:34:47+02:00February 17th, 2022|draw.io, feedback, learning, productivity|

Concept Planning

One woman had a dream to change the world. A young startup in Silicon Valley promised to revolutionize the medical world with Edison. A small, desktop blood analysis machine that could in minutes run through a barrage of tests using a few drops of blood. In this blog post, we will discuss Concept Mapping [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:36:27+02:00February 10th, 2022|Business, draw.io, productivity, security, use cases|