Adding Geographic Capabilities via the GeoPlaces Theme

In this article, by Yuxian Eugene Liang, the author of WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap, talks about creating a location-based directory via the GeoPlaces theme. It covers the setting up and addition of sample geographic data into your WordPress site. We'll add geographic capabilities to our WordPress site by leveraging on the GeoPlaces theme.

The major topics we will cover in this article are:

• Introduction to the GeoPlaces theme

• Populating the site with sample data from GeoPlaces

• Managing place listings from the frontend side as well as the admin side of the site

For a start, we'll be using a premium theme called GeoPlaces, by Templatic. At the time of writing, a single user license is priced at USD 99 while a developer license is priced at USD 179. For the rest of this article we will be using the GeoPlaces theme to do the bulk of the heavy lifting of geographic functionalities, since Google Maps are built directly into the GeoPlaces theme.

Before we move into this article officially, you might be wondering where it will lead us. To begin with, since our mobile app's content is dependent on our WordPress site, we need to add basic content (in this case, place listings and other article-like information) to the site.

Adding Interactive Course Material in Moodle 1.9: Part 1

In this three-part article series by William Rice, we will learn how to add Interactive course material in Moodle. Interactive course activities enable students to interact with the instructor, the learning system, or each other. Note that Moodle doesn't categorize activities into 'Interactive' and 'Static'. In Moodle, all activities are added from the Add an activity... menu after turning the editing on. We use the terms 'Interactive' and 'Static' as a convenient way to categorize the activities that Moodle offers.

Adding Interactive Course Material in Moodle 1.9: Part 2

Read Part One of Adding Interactive Course Material in Moodle 1.9 here.

Adding Interactivity and Completing Your Site

HTML5 Boilerplate is the number one choice for many web developers to get their projects going. It allows you to deploy quality websites successfully and quickly while also ensuring robust cross-browser performance.

This article by Divya Manian, author of HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development, will help you discover how to do feature-detection, add some interactivity with JavaScript, and finalize your website implementation.

Adding Pages, Image Gallery, and Plugins to a WordPress Blog

WordPress offers you a lot more than simply posts, comments, and categories. In this article by Hasin Hayder and April Hodge Silver, we will explore and control all of the other content types that WordPress already has. You'll be able to create static pages that aren't a part of your ongoing blog, bookmark links that will drive visitors to your friends, and add and manage built-in image galleries to display photos and other images. You'll also learn how to add plugins, which will enhance the capabilities of your entire website.

Adding Sound, Music, and Video in 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Part 1

In this article by Gastón C. Hillar we will add sounds, music and videos to the game. By reading this article and following the exercises, we will learn how to:

• Add background music to the game
• Generate sounds associated to the game events
• Take advantage of multiple channel audio
• Control the reproduction of concurrent sounds
• Organize the media elements for the game
• Prepare our media elements for their use in Silverlight applications
• Take advantage of Silverlight 3 performance enhancements for videos
• Reproduce videos combined with animated projections

Adding User Comments in Agile

The ability for users to engage in a dialogue about project issues is an important part of what any issue tracking tool should provide. One way to achieve this is to allow users to leave comments directly on the issues. The comments will form a conversation about the issue and provide an immediate, as well as historical context to help track the full lifespan of any issue. We will also use comments to demonstrate using Yii widgets and establishing a portlet model for delivering content to the user (for more information on Portlets , visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlet ).

In this article by Jeffery Winesett, author of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5, we will focus on some of the nice-to-have features in our TrackStar application. The first of these features that we will tackle is the ability for users to leave comments on project issues.

Adding Worksheets and Resources with Moodle

In this article by Mary Cooch, we will learn how to save energy. Not only our own, but the world's too! Moodle's main attraction, to many teachers, is the fact that you can upload all of those worksheets that you hand out in class (and that your students lose). When you've done it once, they are there for as long as you need them—so you don't have to find and print them off the next time you do that topic, and fewer trees will be felled in the name of education!
In this article, we shall:

• Put an information sheet about the River Thames into Moodle
• Load a whole week's slideshows about River processes into Moodle in a neat folder
• Make a click here type link (this is known as a hyperlink) to the River Thames web site
• Create a worksheet about flooding by typing it straight into Moodle
• Make our page a bit prettier now that we've got some real stuff on it

Adjusting Key Parameters in R

The R base library has very powerful graphical capabilities. While you can produce pretty much any type of graph with a couple of lines of code, the default layout and look of the graph is often very basic. Sometimes, you may run into problems such as axis labels and titles getting chopped off at the edges or the legend size or position may mask part of your graph. Sometimes, the default color combinations may not be suitable for presentation or publication.

In this article by Hrishi V. Mittal, author of R Graph Cookbook, we will cover:

• Setting colors of points, lines, and bars
• Setting plot background colors
• Setting colors for text elements: axis annotations, labels, plot titles, and legends
• Choosing color combinations and palettes
• Setting fonts for annotations and titles

Let’s get started!