Running a simple game using Pygame

In this article by Ivan Idris, author of Instant Pygame for Python Game Development How-to , we will create a simple game. As is traditional in the world of programming, we will start with a Hello World! example. It's not a game per se. It's important to notice the so-called main game loop where all the action happens and the usage of the Font module to render text. In this program we will manipulate a Pygame's Surface object, that is used for drawing and we will handle a quit event.

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Animating a built-in button

This article by Nick Polyak, author of Instant Silverlight 5 Animation , will describe the process involved in animating a built-in button.

A Silverlight button has the following mouse-driven states:

• Normal

• MouseOver

• Pressed

Getting Started with the Citrix Access Gateway Product Family

This article by Andrew Mallet, author of Citrix Access Gateway VPX 5.04 Essentials, we will explain Citrix Access Gateway in detail.

If you have ever tried navigating the range of products and vendor websites, you will be able to sympathize with those poor souls trying to come to terms with all of the different options that Citrix has for the Access Gateway products. So many choices! Soon, you will also find out that the costs of these products will vary from nothing to many thousands of dollars. The aim of this introduction is to help you become familiar with the range and make some informed decisions about which product is right for you. We will work with the VPX edition (virtual appliance); however, most of the configuration remains consistent between the models. Additionally, at this stage, we also need to show you where Citrix Access Gateway (CAG) will fit into your corporate remote access and security environment.

Specifically, in this article, the following topics will be looked at in detail:

• Security and Remote Access solutions addressed by CAG

• Citrix Access Gateway hardware

• Citrix Access Gateway specifications

• Citrix Access Gateway versions

• Citrix Access Gateway VPX

• Designing a secure Remote Access solution

Responsive techniques

In this article by Remo Laubacher, the author of Creating concrete5 Themes, we will learn about responsive themes that we can add to our themes and how media queries are an important part of responsive layouts. This article will also help you on how to scale pictures on different types of devices. It also covers areas regarding what it takes to display websites for retina screens.

Before we start adding responsive elements to our theme, let's have a look at the basic techniques we're going to work with. When building a site for a device with a small screen, we have to make sure our elements scale relative to the size of the screen. We might also have to create a different navigation. A wide drop-down navigation would probably not work well on a cell phone.

Doing it with Forms

Ext JS comes with powerful widgets to collect and edit data; we have the form component and many types of input widgets. These include textfields, textarea, radios, checkbox, combos, sliders, and many more.

In this article Crysfel Villa and Armando Gonzalez, authors of Learning Ext JS 4 , we are going to learn about the components we can use to collect data from our users. Also we are going to be working on our final application as well as creating the required forms in the wireframes.

We are going to cover the following topics in this article:

• The form component

• The available field types

• Field container

• Submitting the data

Managing Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle Business Intelligence is an integrated solution that addresses business intelligence requirements, such as enterprise performance management, data integration, financial performance management, data warehousing analysis, and reporting.

Oracle Business Intelligence includes Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting and Publishing, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

This article by Dhananjay Papde, Vipul Patel and Tushar Nath, authors of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook describes the steps to configure OEM 12c to manually discover the Oracle BI EE targets.

Connecting with people

In this article by Ralph Roberts, the author of Yammer Starter , will help us increase our interaction with people by experimenting with several tasks on Yammer.

In this article, we will cover the following topics:

• Posting an update

• Posting a photo or other graphics

• Commenting and complimenting

• Yes we LIKE that

• Learning more

• Receiving notifications

• Searching

• Using the bottom line