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.

Working with diagrams

$134 million to zero in 3 seconds The sweet smell of burnt kerosene hung in the air. It was one of those warm and pleasant days in the Mediterranean. The Royal Navy's new supercarrier, Queen Elizabeth, powered across a stunningly blue clear and calm sea. Salutes were exchanged as another of the carrier's new [...]

By |2022-11-07T09:39:35+01:00January 26th, 2022|draw.io, productivity, security|

What makes a diagram a good diagram

Moviemakers are masters of visual communication Next time you watch a movie, if the camera slides or moves sideways from left to right, the scene is safe. But, if the camera slides in the opposite direction (from right to left), then the space monster or bad guy will usually appear, and something terrible is [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:36:35+02:00January 18th, 2022|draw.io|

Brainstorming with draw.io

Back in the mists of time, well roughly two years ago, we had a tool that at times provided invaluable when a crisis arose, the Brainstorm. Worried department heads would call a meeting, team members were corralled coffee cups in hand into the meeting room. Faced with a blank whiteboard, problems were explained and [...]

By |2023-08-01T13:29:38+02:00January 14th, 2022|learning, productivity, use cases|

draw.io Whitepaper: Improve Productivity

There are many-many reasons why draw.io is a must-have for you and your company. To start with the basics, visualization is quite simply one of the most effective tools available for communicating concepts to others. And draw.io is the easiest way for Confluence teams to collaborate using diagrams. It helps you build diagrams ranging [...]

By |2022-10-18T17:36:38+02:00January 6th, 2022|learning, productivity, use cases|

Explore the libraries in draw.io for Confluence

draw.io - Go explore It's time to explore the libraries. draw.io is your swiss army knife when it comes to visualizing content. If there is a will, there's a diagram. draw.io comes with a selection of default libraries to visualize the most important use-cases. This blog post shows you how to access these libraries [...]

By |2021-12-23T12:34:45+01:00December 15th, 2021|customization, learning, use cases|

Value Stream Mapping in draw.io for Confluence

draw.io is constantly updating features and content for a variety of use cases and amongst these new additions is a library for those who use Value Stream Mapping. What is VSM? It is the visual mapping of processes or production lines to understand what's happening or to put it more simply. The first [...]

By |2021-12-23T11:56:53+01:00December 9th, 2021|customization, productivity, whiteboard|

Why diagrams are essential for your company audits

We were promised flying cars Back in the day, the year 2000 was heralded as our space-age future. We were promised routine space travel and flying cars. Instead, we experienced an explosion in IT and, as a consequence, how we did business. But this new way of online working also brought several very high-profile [...]

By |2021-12-23T12:35:30+01:00December 2nd, 2021|productivity, security|

Add a free draw.io subscription to your Atlassian Cloud sandbox

Life just became a little easier for those Atlassian users now using the recently added sandbox feature within the Confluence and Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise plans. As you know, sandboxes enable you to test and experiment with your various instances in an isolated safe area. In addition, you can [...]

By |2021-12-01T10:34:05+01:00November 18th, 2021|news|