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Getting Started with Blender’s Particle System

  • packtpub.com; By Reynante Martinez (Posted by sanjivl on Jun 24, 2010 4:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups:
In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we’ll discuss the following: * What is a particle system and where can we find it in Blender? * What are the types of Blender particle system? * Basic and practical uses of the Particle System * Creating Dust * Creating Smoke * Creating Fire * Creating Bubbles * Simulating Rock Slides * Creating Hair/Fur/Grass

Build iPhone, Android and iPad Applications using jQTouch

  • packtpub.com; By Mambe Churchill Nanje (Posted by sanjivl on Jun 22, 2010 2:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups:
With jQTouch, web developers can build smartphone interfaces for their existing web applications by simply transforming an existing Document Object Model (DOM) structure into an interface that works, looks and feels like native iPhone or Android application. In this tutorial by Mambe Churchill Nanje, we will learn how to develop such an application.

Creating an Underwater Scene in Blender- Part 3

  • packtpub.com; By Reynante Martinez (Posted by sanjivl on May 28, 2010 6:00 PM EDT)
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In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating a underwater scene from scratch. We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition.

Creating an Underwater Scene in Blender- Part 1

  • packtpub.com; By Reynante Martinez (Posted by sanjivl on May 4, 2010 5:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating a underwater scene from scratch. We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition.

Creating an Underwater Scene in Blender- Part 2

  • packtpub.com; By Reynante Martinez (Posted by sanjivl on Apr 14, 2010 12:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating a underwater scene from scratch. We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition.

Managing Data in MySQL

  • http://www.packtpub.com; By Prabhakar Chaganti (Posted by sanjivl on Mar 22, 2010 12:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: MySQL
In this article by Prabhakar Chaganti and Rich Helms, authors of MySQL Admin Cookbook, we will discuss the following: * Exporting data to a simple CSV file * Exporting data to a custom file format * Importing data from a simple CSV file * Importing data from custom file formats

Rendering Web Pages to PDF using Railo Open Source

  • packtpub.com; By Andrew Schwabe (Posted by sanjivl on Mar 12, 2010 9:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this article by Andrew Schwabe, we will learn how to setup the basic structure of a website using CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), and adding the capability to render any page as a PDF dynamically using Railo open source.

Modeling, Shading, Texturing, Lighting, and Compositing a Soda Can in Blender 2.49: Part 1

  • packtpub.com; By Reynante Martinez (Posted by sanjivl on Jan 14, 2010 5:43 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this article by Reynante Martinez, we’ll cover everything from modeling a tin can from scratch, giving it some basic shading, adding appropriate textures, finalizing the lighting schemes for the scene to lastly compositing it for a better feel.

Quality Assurance in Asterisk 1.6

  • packtpub.com; By Barrie Dempster, David Gomillion, and David Merel (Posted by sanjivl on Sep 23, 2009 11:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Quality Assurance tells us everything regarding monitoring calls, recording calls, and capturing detailed call logs. In this article you learn how to install and use these features in Asterisk 1.6.

Character Head Modeling in Blender: Part 2

  • packtpub.com; By Jonathan Williamson (Posted by sanjivl on Aug 19, 2009 10:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
This is the second part of the two-part tutorial. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to model a character head in Blender. Along with basic modeling tools we will also focus heavily on good topology and how to create a clean mesh that will deform well during animation. To read the first part, click: Character Head Modeling in Blender: Part 1

Simple Alphabetical Glossary Using jQuery

  • packtpub.com; By K.Vivekanand (Posted by sanjivl on Aug 11, 2009 5:00 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
jQuery is a JavaScript Library, where you can utilize and develop innovative web reusable components. "jQuery simplifies traversing of HTML document, simplifies event handling, animating and Ajax interactions". Using jQuery, we can develop and add robust web components to our web applications. It is very light weight—about 19KB in size (Minified and Gzipped) and can be downloaded from this location http://jquery.com/. In this article, we will explain how we can develop a Simple Alphabetical Glossary, which can be used in our web projects. A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms with the definitions for those terms. In this example, you can click on the respective alphabet to get you the definition/list of that term with highlighted blue color.

Getting a Jump-Start with IronPython

  • packtpub.com; By Darrell Hawley (Posted by sanjivl on May 11, 2009 11:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups:

As a .NET developer, you’ve probably heard IronPython mentioned in a blog post or an article, but do you know what it is? IronPython is Microsoft’s implementation of the Python language. Python is known for readability and its’ proponents claim that applications written with Python are done faster, use fewer lines of code and are more maintainable than those written using more traditional languages. The great thing about IronPython is that you get the advantages of the language, while being able to leverage your knowledge of the .NET framework. In this article, we will cover a few basic aspects of IronPython and use them to create a Windows Form.

PHP Magic Features

  • Packt Publishing; By Jani Hartikainen (Posted by sanjivl on Apr 15, 2009 2:32 AM EDT)
  • Groups: PHP
In this article we'll look at PHP's "magic" features: Magic methods are class methods with specific names, are used to perform various specialized tasks. They are grouped into two: overloading methods and non-overloading methods. Overloading magic methods are used when your code attempts to access a method or a property which does not exist. Non-overloading methods perform other tasks. Magic functions are similar to magic methods, but are just plain functions outside any class. Currently there is only one magic function in PHP. Magic constants are similar to constants in notation, but act more like "dynamic" constants - their value depends on where you use them. We'll also look at some practical examples of using some of these, and lastly we'll check out what new features PHP 5.3 is going to add.

Creating Your Own Theme - A Wordpress Tutorial

  • Packt Publishing; By Sammy Davis (Posted by sanjivl on Apr 7, 2009 4:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Wordpress is the most widely used content management system amongst bloggers for many reasons. Not only does it make site management seem like a walk in the park, but it also uses a type of shared hosting, which means that most users can afford it. It has plug-ins for any occasion and desire and finally, it has themes. For many Wordpress users, finding the right theme is a long process that often leads to endless tweaking in the code and stylesheets. However, only a few ever consider learning how to create their own. If you are one of them, this tutorial will help you learn how to built and start your own theme.

Securing Your trixbox Server

  • packtpub.com; By Kerry Garrison (Posted by sanjivl on Mar 16, 2009 11:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Even though a trixbox system is a phone system, it is still a basic computer system like any other. One of the problems that we face is that extensions and VoIP service providers typically come into the system over the open Internet; this means that certain aspects of our system are wide open to the outside world. During the week that this article was written, several new scripts came out that allowed people to scan machines over the Internet, find systems that are running Asterisk, get the list of available extensions, and then hack the passwords. Because of issues like this, it is more imperative than ever that you understand how to properly secure your trixbox server from the outside world. In this article we will focus on how to secure the trixbox server.

Working with JavaScript in Drupal 6: Part 2

  • packtpub.com; By Matt Butcher (Posted by sanjivl on Feb 26, 2009 7:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial

In the previous part of the article, we saw how Drupal handles JavaScript and we created a JavaScript tool.

In this part we're going to:

1. Create a simple theme
2. Add JavaScript to a theme.

Drupal 6 Content Construction Kit (CCK)

  • packtpub.com; By David Mercer (Posted by sanjivl on Feb 14, 2009 6:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial

It is likely that at some stage, you will want to upgrade at least some content from plain text to something that looks a little out of the ordinary. In this article we will have a look at the CCK module provided by Drupal which is used to build custom content types that can be tailored to suit your needs. In effect, it gives you control over which fields are presented to a user whenever they post content using custom content types. The term field refers to a given piece of content within a node. Conversely, a node is a collection of fields.

Taxonomy and Thesauri in Drupal 6

  • packtpub.com; By David Mercer (Posted by sanjivl on Feb 12, 2009 9:41 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial

In this article we will see how Taxonomy makes Drupal's classification system so powerful. The method of categorizing content in Drupal makes it one of the most sophisticated content management systems around. Take the time to master working with taxonomy in Drupal, because not only will this help you to work out how to manage content better, but it will also really set your site apart from others because of the flexible and intuitive manner in which the content is organized. These attributes allow you to manage a site of pretty much any size imaginable (just in case what you are working on is "the next big thing").

jQuery UI—The Dialog: Part 2

  • packtpub.com; By Dan Wellman (Posted by sanjivl on Feb 11, 2009 5:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial

In the previous part of the article, we learned how to create a basic dialog, work with dialog's properties and callbacks, and add buttons to the dialog.

In this final part of the article we will learn how to enable animations for the dialog and how to control the dialog programmatically.

jQuery Embedded in Dojo Accordion Panes

  • packtpub.com; By Dr. Jayaram Krishnaswamy (Posted by sanjivl on Feb 9, 2009 7:45 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial

The Dojo Toolkit is an Open source JavaScript toolkit which can be used to develop stunning web pages. I liked it from the very beginning. It is very fast and provides lots of tools to work with DOM, Animations, AJAX etc. The base code is lightweight (~26 KB). jQuery, even lighter, also Open Source, is the write-less, do-more, cross-browser, CSS3 compliant JavaScript library. In this article we will experiment embedding jQuery in DOJO 123's Accordion widget and try to identify if there exists any cross-code interactions. The code is also tested for cross-browser suitability.

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