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Digital Tutors – Mental Ray Production shaders in Softimage

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 05:47 PM PDT


Digital Tutors – Mental Ray Production shaders in Softimage | 200 Mb
In this course we will explore several rendering enhancements that are available to us through the mental ray Production Shaders within Softimage.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/267124790/DTMRPS.part1.rar

Lynda.com Google Apps Calendar Essential Training

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 01:02 AM PDT


In today’s busy world, immediate access to an updated and web-viewable schedule is more important than ever. In Google Apps: Calendar Essential Training, expert Google Apps trainer Susan Cline shows how anyone can use this web-based application to manage personal and professional schedules. She shows how to invite attendees and assign resources for any event with the Scheduling tool, and how to monitor attendee responses from within the application. Meetings and events can also be accessed through other calendar applications, like Outlook and iCal. She even covers how to perform all actions with just a keyboard, so editing the calendar is a snap!

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http://rapidshare.com/files/266842893/KiemCun.Lynda.com.Google.Apps.Calendar.Essential.Training.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/266842664/KiemCun.Lynda.com.Google.Apps.Calendar.Essential.Training.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/266842654/KiemCun.Lynda.com.Google.Apps.Calendar.Essential.Training.part2.rar

Digital Tutors – Getting Started with Toxik

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 12:56 AM PDT


Digital Tutors – Getting Started with Toxik | 230 Mb
In this course we will learn how to get started using the compositing software Toxik. Using Toxik we can quickly color correct, mask, composite or animate still images and image sequences.


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http://rapidshare.com/files/266841260/DTGST.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/266841236/DTGST.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/266841166/DTGST.part3.rar

Datatype-Generic Programming

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:24 PM PDT

Datatype-Generic Programming

Datatype-Generic Programming

Product Description
This tutorial book presents six carefully revised lectures given at the Spring School on Datatype-Generic Programming, SSDGP 2006, held in Nottingham, UK, in April 2006, colocated with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2006), and the Conference of the Types Project (TYPES 2006). All the lectures have been subjected to thorough internal review by the editors and contributors, supported by independent external reviews. The volume is opened with a comprehensive assessment of different sorts of parametrisation mechanisms in programmming languages, including how they are implemented, leading up to the notion of datatype genericity. After the introduction of datatype-generic programming the volume contains the following topical chapters: comparing approaches to generic programming in Haskell; generic programming, now; generic programming with dependent types; generic programming in Omega; and, revealing the X/O impedance mismatch.

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Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:22 PM PDT

Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition

Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition

As a textbook suitable for the classroom or self-study, Michael Scott’s Programming Language Pragmatics provides a worthy tour of the theory and practice of how programming languages are run on today’s computers. Clearly organized and filled with a wide-ranging perspective on over 40 different languages, this book will be appreciated for its depth and breadth of coverage on an essential topic in computer science.

With references to dozens of programming languages, from Ada to Turing and everything in between (including C, C++, Java, and Perl), this book is a truly in-depth guide to how code is compiled (or interpreted) and executed on computer hardware. Early chapters tend to be slightly more theoretical (with coverage of regular expressions and context-free grammars) and will be most valuable to the computer science student, but much of this book is accessible to anyone seeking to widen their knowledge (especially since recent standards surrounding XML make use of some of the same vocabulary presented here).

The book has a comprehensive discussion of compilation and linking, as well as how data types are implemented in memory. Sections on functional and logical programming (illustrated with Scheme and Prolog, which are often used in AI research) can expand your understanding of how programming languages work. Final sections on the advantages–and complexities–of concurrent processing, plus a nice treatment of code optimization techniques, round out the text here. Each chapter provides numerous exercises, so you can try out the ideas on your own.

Students will benefit from the practical examples here, drawn from a wide range of languages. If you are a self-taught developer, the very approachable tutorial can give you perspective on the formal definitions of many computer languages, which can help you master new ones more effectively. –Richard Dragan

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php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:16 PM PDT

php|architects Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide

php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide

Product Description
Zend’s new PHP 5 Certification Exam represent an excellent tool for professional PHP developers who want to distinguish themselves in their field. php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide, edited and produced by the publishers of php|architect magazine, provides the most comprehensive and thorough preparation tool for developers who wish to take the exam. This book provides complete coverage of every topic that is part of the exam, including: ? PHP Basics ? Functions ? Arrays ? Strings and Patterns ? Web Programming ? Object Oriented Programming ? Database Programming ? Object-oriented Design ? XML and Web Services ? Security ? Streams and Network Programming ? Differences Between PHP 4 and 5 Written by PHP professionals and Zend Certified PHP 5 Engineers Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey, and reviewed by core PHP developer Derick Rethans, this is the perfect book for every prospective Zend Certified PHP Engineer candidate!

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MySQL Cookbook

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:13 PM PDT

MySQL Cookbook

MySQL Cookbook

MySQL Cookbook provides a unique problem-and-solution format that offers practical examples for everyday programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there’s a worked-out solution or “recipe”–short, focused pieces of code that you can insert directly into your applications. More than a collection of cut-and-paste code, this book explanation how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the techniques to similar situations.

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The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:10 PM PDT

The Game Makers Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners

The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners

The Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle gamescomplete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play.


Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you dont need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl.

The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so youll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes a CD containing Game Maker software and all of the game projects that are created in the bookplus a host of professional-quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games.

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Desktop Java Live

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:08 PM PDT

Desktop Java Live

Desktop Java Live

Desktop Java Live is written for Java developers that have some experience with desktop development and now want to take their skills to the next level. Each chapter features detailed code examples and images to walk the reader through the API being covered. Chapter 8 features a detailed discussion of how the MVC pattern and its variations can be used to write cleaner more testable applications. The chapter then details the construction of an RSS reader using these concepts along with the API’s covered in earlier chapters. Chapters: 1. Reintroducing the Desktop Application, 2. Layout Managers, 3. GUI Builders, 4. Look and Feel, 5. Threading, 6. Data Binding, 7. Validation, 8. Patterns in Desktop Applications. Upcoming Chapters: Chapter 9, Deployment: Installers and Java Web Start, Chapter 10, Desktop Application Testing Strategies, Chapter 11, JDIC & JDNC. What Readers Are Saying: Gregg Bolinger (Java Ranch Reviewer – 10 out of 10 Horseshoes), “Recently I was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of Desktop Java Live by Scott Delap (who also runs clientjava.com). Desktop Java Live isn’t your typical ‘how-to’ java book full of API references and examples of how to create JFrame’s. DJL is a pioneering book that teaches you how to write desktop applications using best practices as well as how to use a plethora of open source libraries to enhance and ease the development of your applications…” JavaPerformanceTuning.com, “I would wholeheartedly recommend you check out chapter 5 of Scott Delap’s book which implements an automatic detector of Swing threading violations – a tool that every GUI developer should include in their everyday development suite.”

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3D Imaging for Safety and Security (Computational Imaging and Vision)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:01 PM PDT

3D Imaging for Safety and Security (Computational Imaging and Vision)

3D Imaging for Safety and Security (Computational Imaging and Vision)

Product Description
The past decades have seen significant improvements in 3D imaging where the related techniques and technologies have advanced to a mature state. These exciting developments have sparked increasing interest in industry and academia in the challenges and opportunities afforded by 3D sensing.

As a consequence, the emerging area of safety and security related imaging incorporates these important new technologies beyond the limitations of 2D image processing. This is the first book that covers the current state-of-the-art in 3D imaging for safety and security. Topics addressed in this book include 3D imaging related to biometrics, face recognition, surveillance, safety inspection and robotic planning for physical security analysis and public safety. The book presents thoroughly revised versions of lectures given by leading researchers during the ‘Workshop on Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security’ in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2005 on June 25, 2005 in San Diego, USA.

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