CMS Made Simple 1.6: Learning Smarty Basics

In this article by Sofia Hauschildt, author of CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide, you will learn the basics of Smarty. Creating professional sophisticated designs is easier using Smarty. With the powerful combination of Smarty and HTML, there are no limits to the flexibility of the sites you design.

Cloud-enabling Your Apps

This article by Darren Cope, author of Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide will show how to integrate with the cloud and will concentrate on how to use some of the storage-based solutions. Specifically you will learn how to:

• Integrate with Appcelerator Cloud Services
• Interface to a REST-based cloud service
• Send and receive data from the cloud

Client-Side Endpoint Protection Tasks in Microsoft SCEP 2012

In this article by Andrew Plue, author of Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook, we will cover:

• Locating and interrupting client-side SCEP logs
• Performing manual definition updates and checking definition version
• Manually editing local SCEP policy using the user interface
• Utilizing MpCmdRun.exe

CISSP: Vulnerability and Penetration Testing for Access Control

This article by M.L.Srinivasan, covers concepts related to vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.

In this article, we'll focus on IT vulnerabilities, the impact due to compromise, and the overall cycle of vulnerability and penetration tests. We'll also discuss some of the emerging standards in terms of vulnerability naming systems such as Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), which is a dictionary for vulnerability names; and Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Call Routing, Dial Plan, and E.164

This article by Tanner Ezell, author of Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook focuses on implementing local route groups, device pools, and route patterns. All the recipes in this article require administrator access to the Unified Communications Manager (UCM). It is strongly recommended you get comfortable performing these recipes in a lab environment before implementing them into production.

We will cover:

• Implementing local route groups with device pools for E.164 call routing
• Implementing E.164 route patterns and partitions
• Implementing E.164 called and calling party transformations
• Implementing least cost call routing using Tail End Hop Off
• Implementing call restrictions with line blocking patterns and calling search spaces

Choosing Styles of Various Graph Elements in R

With more than two million users worldwide, R is one of the most popular open source projects. It is a free and robust statistical programming environment with very powerful graphical capabilities. Analyzing and visualizing data with R is a necessary skill for anyone doing any kind of statistical analysis.

In the previous article by Hrishi V. Mittal, author of the book R Graph Cookbook, we saw how to adjust some key parameters in R.

In this article we will cover:

• Choosing plotting point symbol styles and sizes
• Choosing line styles and width
• Choosing box styles
• How to adjust axis annotations and tick marks
• How to format log axes
• Setting graph margins and dimensions

Checking OpenStreetMap Data for Problems

OpenStreetMap is a diverse project with hundreds of thousands of people contributing data and making use of it in different ways. As a result, many of the resources that mappers have created and use are scattered around the Internet, but the project data and much of the documentation is hosted at openstreetmap.org, on servers operated by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

In this article by Jonathan Bennett, author of the book OpenStreetMap, we'll look at some of the following tools you can use to check OpenStreetMap data in a particular area, and what problems they can and can't tell you about:

• The data inspection tools on openstreetmap.org
• The NoName map
• ITOWorld OSM Mapper
• Geofabrik's OSM Inspector

Some of these tools identify specific problems, while others allow you to see when changes to the data were made and by whom. In either case, all these tools can do is offer guidance, not black-and-white answers, and you always need to use judgment when checking data.

Chatroom Application using DWR Java Framework

DWR (Direct Web Remoting), is an Open Source Java framework, licensed under commercial-friendly Apache Software License v2 for building AJAX applications. DWR's main idea is to hide AJAX implementation details such as XMLHttpRequest from developers. Developers can concentrate on developing the application and business objects and leave AJAX details behind the scenes where they belong.

In this article by Sami Salkosuo, we discuss a Chatroom application which demonstrates the use of DWR. The Chatroom sample application is a very typical multi-user chatroom. The functionalities of this sample include a list of online users, automatic refresh of chat text, and the ability to send messages to the chat room.

Character Head Modeling in Blender: Part 1

In this two-part tutorial by Jonathan Williamson, we are going to look at how to model a character head in Blender. Along with basic modeling tools we will also focus heavily on good topology and how to create a clean mesh that will deform well during animation. This tutorial will take you through the whole process from setting up a background image as a reference, to laying out the topology, to tweaking the final model proportions and mesh structure.