Working with Drupal Audio in Flash (part 1)

In this 2-part article series by Travis Tidwell, we will cover all the necessary steps to integrate audio content into our Drupal web site by building a custom Flash application that works seamlessly with Drupal multimedia. Here is what we will learn in this article:

• Working with audio in Drupal
• Building a custom audio player for Drupal
• Creating an audio-handling class using ActionScript 3.0
• Loading and playing audio in Flash

Working with Data Application Components in SQL Server 2008 R2

In the August CTP Microsoft introduced Data-Tier Applications and several new features were introduced in the Nov 2009 CTP. Registering, Viewing & comparing and upgrading Data-Tier applications were added. This article by Dr. Jayaram Krishnaswamy, author of Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, shows how you may extract a Data Application Component from a SQL Server 2008 and then deploy the component to an SQL Server 2008 R2 Server. The process is Wizard driven and very easy to understand. DAC files in the field of DATA are like *.msi files for applications. Just as you would install an application from an MSI file, you would install a database package with the DAC file with the extension DACPAC. This article explains how it is done.

Working with CXF Tool

The CXF framework provides various tools that assist developers in creating and invoking web services. CXF provides tools to create web service clients and web service implementations from WSDL files, to create SOAP binding and service definition from WSDL interfaces, to validate WSDL files, and to integrate with the popular Apache Maven software tool for build management. In this article by Naveen Balani, we will look at some of the commonly used CXF tools that assist in web service development. We will cover the following topic in this article:

• Invoking web services using a Java client

Working with Colors in Scribus

Even though you can see lots of black-only documents (such as books and the daily press) everyday, it's true that there are more and more full-color advertising brochures being printed. So color is becoming an important printing method. An in-between approach of printing with black and only one another color is less interesting, but is still used for many documents and can be considered as a creative approach. In any case, we need to be sure that the color we have on screen matches the printed results. From this, it becomes evident that using color in Scribus is not just a click here or there but is the result of both aesthetic choices and the capacity of the printing process.

In this article by Cedric Gemy, author of Scribus 1.3.5 Beginner's Guide, we will spend some time on using some color options, and will be able to get a custom render when needed. Especially, we shall:

• Create and apply CMYK colors
• Create spot colors
• Use gradients and patterns

Working with Business Rules to Define Decision Points in Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1

In this article series by Antony Reynolds and Matt Wright, authors of Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 – A Hands-On Tutorial, we will discuss the new Rules Editor in 11gR1, including Decision Tables and how we can incorporate rules as decision points within a BPEL Process.

Read the first part of this article series—Using Business Rules to Define Decision Points in Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1- An Introduction here.

Working with Away3D Cameras

Three dimensions are better than two — and it's not a secret anymore that 3D is here to stay. Gone are the days when Flash was just used for 2D animations. In the last few years, online Flash content has undergone a revolution with the introduction of real-time 3D engines for Flash. Away3D is the big daddy of them all—which makes it the ultimate resource for top-rated 3D content development and for powering today's coolest games and Flash sites.

In this article by Michael Ivanov, author of Away3D 3.6 Cookbook, we will cover:

• Creating an FPS controller
• Creating Camera Depth of Field Effect
• Following a third-person view with a spring camera

Working with Apps in Splunk

In this article by Vincent Bumgarner, author of Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence , we will explore what makes up a Splunk app. We will:

• Inspect included apps

• Install apps from Splunkbase

• Build our own app

• Customize app navigation

• Customize app look and feel

Working with a Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 (WF) Program

WF4 is a process engine, as well as a visual program language, shipped along with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. Traditionally, when we design a long-running application, we break a large application into lots of small code blocks to address the business logic and use a database to store the intermediate data. With the growing complexity of logic, managing code blocks and authoring logic workflows becomes difficult. Now, with WF4, we can design and create distributed, long-running programs easily.

This article by Andrew Zhu, author of Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4 cookbook, provides recipes that will help us understand basic information about WF4 programming like:

• Creating the first WF program: HelloWorkflow
• Creating a WF program with C# code
• Initializing a WF program with InArguments
• Creating a WF program with OutArgument
• Creating a WF Program with InOutArgument
• Using variable in WF program
• Running a WF program asynchronously
• Customizing a MyReadLine activity with bookmark
• Converting WF program instance to XAML
• Loading up a WF program from a XAML file

WordPress: Customizing Content Display

What is the WordPress loop? The loop is a group of PHP instructions that retrieve posts from the database of your WordPress site and then displays them on the page. You can find the WordPress loop inside your themes, for example, inside index.php, single.php, or page. php. Any HTML or PHP code placed between the beginning of the loop and the end will be used for each post.

In this article by Ric Shreves, author of WordPress 3 Cookbook, we will cover:

• How to work with the WordPress loop
• How you can retrieve posts from a specific category
• How to control how many posts you display
• Retrieving posts by date
• Showing only those posts published today
• How to show posts published exactly one year ago
• How to set up and use multiple loops