FreeRADIUS: Working with Authentication Methods

Authentication is a process where we establish if someone is who he or she claims to be. The most common way is by a unique username and password. This article by Dirk van der Walt, author of FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide, teaches authentication methods and how they work. Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is covered later in a dedicated article.

In this article we shall:

• Discuss PAP, CHAP, and MS-CHAP authentication protocols
• See when and how authentication is done in FreeRADIUS
• Explore ways to store passwords
• Look at other authentication methods

Unity 3: Building a Rocket Launcher

Only Unity fits the bill of being a game engine that allows you to create a full 3D game for free, and with phenomenal community support.

In this article by Jate Wittayabundit, author of Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot, we will learn how to create a rocket launcher. Here, we will first use the FPS camera and controller from the Unity built-in FPS package, but we will tweak our camera view to see from the character's shoulder as in Resident Evil 4 or 5. Then, we will adapt the built-in FPS controller script to be able to play the animation of the character, and make the controller similar to the Resident Evil style controller. Next, we will create a rocket prefab and the rocket launcher script to fire our rocket, which will also include the use of the built-in fire explosion particle and custom smoke particle effect from the launcher when we fire.

NHibernate 3: Creating a Sample Application

In this article we will see how easy it is to use NHibernate in a real world application. We will create, with minimal effort, a fully working sample that allows us to write to and subsequently, read data from a database.

In this article by Dr. Gabriel Nicolas Schenker, author of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide, we shall:

• Prepare our system to enable development of applications using NHibernate
• Create a simple model of a problem domain
• Create a database and define a mapping between the model and the database
• Write and read data to and from the database

HTML5 Games Development: Using Local Storage to Store Game Data

Local storage is a new specification from HTML5. It allows a website to store information in the browser locally and access the stored data later. This is a useful feature in game development because we can use it as a memory slot to save any game data locally in a web browser.

In this article by Makzan, author of HTML5 Games Development by Example - Beginner's Guide, we are going to add game data storing to a CSS3 memory matching game. Besides storing and loading the game data, we will also notify the player for breaking a record with a nice 3D ribbon with pure CSS3 styling. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

• Storing data by using HTML5 local storage
• Saving the object in the local storage
• Notifying players for breaking a new record with a nice ribbon effect
• Saving the entire game progress

Yii 1.1: Using Zii Components

Yii is a very flexible and high-performance application development framework written in PHP. It helps building web applications from small ones to large-scale enterprise applications. The framework name stands for Yes It Is.

In this article by Alexander Makarov, author of Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook, we will cover:

• Using data providers
• Using grids
• Using lists
• Creating custom grid columns

Plone 4 Development: Creating a Custom Workflow

Plone is a web content management system that features among the top two percent of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model, and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customizing and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.

In the previous article by Martin Aspeli, author of Professional Plone 4 Development, we took a look at the building blocks of Zope security.

In this article we will:

• Demonstrate the use of workflow, the primary mechanism for managing permissions in Plone
• Build a custom workflow for the Optilux website and add it to the policy package we created in the article Professional Plone 4 Development: Developing a Site Strategy.