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 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 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 Blog Management with Apache Roller 4.0: Part 2

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

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

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

Administrating the MySQL Server with phpMyAdmin

This article, Marc Delisle, author of Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.3.x for Effective MySQL Management, discusses how a system administrator can use the phpMyAdmin server management features for day-to-day user account maintenance, server verification, and server protection. The subject of how non-administrators can obtain server information from phpMyAdmin is also covered. Server administration is mostly done via the Server view, which is accessed via the menu tabs available on phpMyAdmin's home page.

Server administration is mostly done via the Server view, which is accessed via the menu tabs available on phpMyAdmin's home page.

This article specifically covers:

• Managing users and their privileges
• Database information
• Server information

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!

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