Creating an Underwater Scene in Blender- Part 3

Packt are due to launch a new Open Source brand, into which future Blender titles will be published. For more information on that launch, look here.

In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating a underwater scene from scratch. We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition.

Read Creating an Underwater Scene in Blender- Part 2 here.

Creating an Underwater Scene in Blender- Part 1

Packt are due to launch a new Open Source brand, into which future Blender titles will be published. For more information on that launch, look here.

In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating a underwater scene from scratch. We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition.

Creating an Application

In this article by Ajit Kumar, author of Sencha MVC Architecture, we will take a step-by-step approach to create a functional application in ExtJS using the MVC architecture and the framework classes related to it. For the sake of completeness and illustration of the concepts, we will be taking up an application requirement and implementing it in ExtJS.

As a requirement, we will be creating an application, which would:

• Show the list of departments and the users

• Show the list of users for a selected department

• Allow the user to edit user information

• Refresh the users list to get all the users of all the departments

Creating an Analysis Services Cube with Visual Studio 2008 - Part 2

As noted in Part 1, OLAP presents Business Intelligence via what is known as a CUBE. A Cube has many dimensions and it provides a faster method to access the intelligence compared to the structured querying where the overhead of 'Joins' makes it inefficient. Taking the example of a 'Sales' Cube having everything related to sales we can identify the dimensions as the Sales Outlet, The Customers , the Products and the time period over which sales are being audited or looked into. We also notice that there are certain measures that we are interested related to these 'dimensions' like 'Store Sales', 'Cost of Products, 'number of units sold' etc. The Analysis Services analyzes these intricate relationship that exist in a cube. In this part we will see the process of creating a Cube in VS 2008.

Creating an Administration Interface with Django 1.0

The administration interface is a universal feature needed in any web application that stores and manages data. For this reason, Django comes with a fully fledged administration interface ready to be used. This administration interface is considered one of the coolest features in Django because it's easy to use, and yet is powerful and flexible. This article is based on the updated version- Django 1.0. The previous article on Creating an Administration Interface was on the older version of Django.

In this article by Ayman Hourieh, you will learn how to:

• Activate the administration interface
• Use the administration interface to manage content

Creating Accessible Tables in Joomla!

Tables got a bad review in accessibility circles, because they used to create complex visual layouts. This was due to the limitations in the support for presentational specifications like CSS and using tables for layout was a hack—that worked in the real world—when you wanted to position something in a precise part of the web page.

Tables were designed to present data of all shapes and sizes, and that is really what they should be used for.

This article by Joshue O Connor, shows how to build a simple table using Joomla! and the features contained within the WYSIWYG editors that can make the table more accessible.

Creating a Web Page for Displaying Data from SQL Server 2008

This article by Jayaram Krishnaswamy describes how you may connect to SQL Server 2008 and display the retrieved data in a GridView Control on a web page. Trying to establish a connection to the SQL Server 2008 is not possible in Visual Studio 2008 as you will see soon in the tutorial. One way to get around this, as shown in this tutorial, is to create an ODBC connection to the SQL Server and then using the ODBC connection to retrieve the data.

Visual Studio 2008 Version: 9.0.21022.8 RTM, Microsoft Windows XP Professional Media Center Edition, and SQL Server 'Katmai' were used for this tutorial.

Creating a WCF Service, Business Object and Data Submission with Silverlight 4

Packt are due to launch a new Enterprise brand, into which future Silverlight titles will be published. For more information on that launch, look here.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall:

• Create a WCF service and business object for receiving data
• Submitting data to the server

Creating a View with MySQL Query Browser

MySQL Query Browser, one of the open source MySQL GUI tools from MySQL AB, is used for building MySQL database queries visually. In MySQL Query Browser, you build database queries using just your mouse—click, drag and drop!

When you’re creating a query for non-technical users and you don’t want them to see the complexity of the query, you can create a view from the query. Your users can then use the view as a table; for example, they can double-click the view, which will effectively execute its complex query behind the scene.

In MySQL Query Browser, you have two ways to create a view, which Djoni Darmawikarta will demonstrate in this article:

• From an existing query
• Writing from scratch manually