Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D: Setting Up Our Tools

Adobe's Stage3D (previously codenamed Molehill) is a set of 3D APIs that has brought 3D to the Flash platform. Being a completely new technology, there were almost no resources to get you acquainted with this revolutionary platform, until now.

In this article by Christer Kaitila, author of Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Game Programming, we will:

• Obtain Flash 11 for your browser
• Get all the tools ready to compile Stage3D games
• Initialize 3D graphics in Flash
• Send mesh and texture data to the video card
• Animate a simple 3D scene

Advanced aspects of Inserting and Deleting data in MySQL

In this article, by Daniel Schneller & Udo Schwedt, authors of MySQL Admin Cookbook

• Inserting new data and updating data if it already exists
• Inserting data based on existing database content
• Deleting all data from large tables
• Deleting all but a fragment of a large table's data
• Deleting all data incrementally from large tables

Advanced Blog Management with Apache Roller 4.0: Part 2

Read Part One of Advanced Blog Management with Apache Roller 4.0 here.

Advanced Collaboration using Alfresco Share

In this article by Munwar Shariff and Vinita Choudhary, you'll learn about Alfresco Share. We will walk you through The Alfresco Share User Interface, creating and managing collaborative web sites, customizing and managing your dashboard and a lot more.

Advanced Effects using Blender Particle System: A Sequel

In the previous article by Reynante Martinez, we saw the disintegration effect in Blender's Particle System. In this article we will tackle some more features of Blender's particle system which are as follows:

• Multiple particle systems
• Boids

Advanced Indexing and Array Concepts

In this article by Ivan Idris, the author of NumPy Cookbook, we will learn some of NumPy's more advanced and tricky indexing techniques. NumPy has very efficient arrays that are easy to use due to their powerful indexing mechanism. NumPy is famous for its efficient arrays. This fame is partly due to the ease of indexing. We will demonstrate advanced indexing tricks using images.

In this article, we will cover:

• Installing SciPy

• Installing PIL

• Resizing images

• Comparing views and copies

• Flipping Lena

• Fancy indexing

• Indexing with a list of locations

• Indexing with booleans

• Stride tricks for Sudoku

• Broadcasting arrays

Before diving into indexing, we will install the necessary software — SciPy and PIL. Some of the examples in this article will involve manipulating images. In order to do that, we will require the Python Image Library (PIL); but don't worry, instructions and pointers to help you install PIL and other necessary Python software are given throughout the article, when necessary.

Advanced Matplotlib: Part 1

In this article by Sandro Tosi we are about to explore some advanced aspects of Matplotlib. The topics that we are going to cover in detail are:

• Matplotlib's object-oriented interface
• Subplots and multiple figures
• Additional and shared axes
• Logarithmic scaled axes
• Date plotting with ticks formatting and locators
• Text properties, fonts, LaTeX typewriting
• Contour plots and image plotting

Advanced Output Formats in Python 2.6 Text Processing

In this article, by Jeff McNeil, author of Python 2.6 Text Processing Beginner's Guide, we'll look at some advanced techniques for generating richer text formats. Up until now, we've largely concerned ourselves with plain text output. Here, we'll shift a little bit. Instead of outputting plain text, we'll look at a few commonly used rich formats.

Specifically, we'll look at how to do the following:

• Build simple PDF output using the ReportLab Toolkit's high level PLATYPUS framework.
• Generation of true Microsoft Excel output using the xlwt module.
• Programmatically create and save OpenDocument files. This is the file format used by Open Office and quite a few other applications. Microsoft Word 2007 supports this format (though not by default).
• Open and edit existing OpenDocument files so that we can use them as templates sources.

Advanced Theme in Liferay User Interface Development

Advanced Theme, provides details about what can be done for advanced themes. It covers how to change the value of the theme.parent property for theme creation, and addressed how to add color schemes, how to use Configurable settings in a theme and Pre-defined theme settings, how to embed portlets in a theme, and other topics like theme upgrade, creating a FreeMarker-template theme, brower compatibility, Liferay IDE, and other development tools.

A typical portal page consists of a theme, a layout template, and one or more portlets.

In this article, by Jonas X. Yuan, Xinsheng Chen & Frank Yu, authors of Liferay User Interface Development, we will explore some aspects of a theme in depth and elaborate on the following theme topics:

• Changing the value of the theme.parent property for theme creation
• Adding color schemes
• Configurable settings in a theme
• Pre-defined theme settings
• Embedding portlets in a theme
• Theme upgrade
• Creating a FreeMarker-template theme
• Brower compatibility
• Liferay IDE and other development tools

We will have some lab activities of adding color schemes to a theme and upgrading a theme to Liferay Portal 6.