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A Video-Tutorial about; how to create a realistic Planet (Earth) in Photoshop. – using simple t Tres and standart Tools. The Video is around about 25 Minutes long, in Full HD. This Tutorial works with all kind of Textures.
The tutorial contains;
A 25 Minute, live-video – Full HD
1 layered PSD
Textures to create the Earth
Textures to create Clouds and Atmosphere
Getting started with Android can seem a slow process, particularly for developers who don’t come from a Java background. In this detailed HTML text tutorial, we take you through each step in the task of creating a battery level widget app. As well as learning how to create a widget app for the Android platform, you will learn how to update the widget using system data. The widget includes a textual and visual indicator of the current battery level on the user device.
The end result of this tutorial is a fully functioning Android widget app, and the focus throughout is on equipping you with practical skills you will be able to draw on into the future.
The tutorial works through each step in turn, with annotated code excerpts and plenty of informative images indicating key phases of the process in Eclipse. The source code (both XML and Java) is provided with additional notes and within the directory structure for the finished app.
Skills covered within the tutorial include: using receivers in widget apps; handling the manifest and application resources for an Android widget (including colors, layouts, drawables and XML data); using various Java language structures and techniques, including inheritance, conditionals, methods and instance variables.
We will work through the task of creating the battery level widget app in detail. I believe that the best way to learn programming skills is by implementing them yourself. However, it is also vital to understand what you are doing at each stage, rather than simply copying the code into your own project. For these reasons we work through the steps at a relaxed pace, and if you want to stop and go back over any of them you are free to do so.
The tutorial contains the following steps:
Create a New Android Project
Edit your Project Manifest
Create the Widget Metadata
Create the Widget Layout
Create the Widget Drawables
Define the Widget Colors
Implement a Java Class to Handle Widget Updates
This tutorial is accessible to anyone who has attempted at least one Android development project already, even a basic/ introductory app. As long as you have basic programming skills you should be able to work through the steps. How long the tutorial will take you to complete really depends on your experience level. If you already have significant Android experience you could do it in a couple of hours, but if you’re new to the platform it may take several hours. If you are a beginner I recommend taking your time and making sure you take in each technique – this way you are learning new skills rather than just getting the job done.
I work as a developer and technical writer, having originally come from a Java development background following my Masters degree in Information Technology. I’ve worked as a tutor for students learning computer programming topics so am accustomed to taking learners from beginner to intermediate/ advanced in a relatively short period of time. I particularly enjoy writing on Android development as I believe the techniques are accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds, but who are deterred by a lack of suitable learning materials.
Hope you enjoy the tutorial.
Through out this tutorial you’re going to learn much about texturing 3D objects in Photoshop CS4 Extended. You’ll create the 3D donut, and use some tricks to create the reflection and the shadow. This one will take some time to complete, i suggest you to start with a big cup of coffee.
Professional Illustrator Brian Zaikowski brings us this AMAZING Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop course covering a topic he knows plenty about: comic strip creation! Brian is an accomplished illustrator with hundreds of comic strips in publications worldwide.
Brian’s primary application in this lesson is Adobe Illustrator, so he’ll be working with vector art most of the time, but toward the end he finishes up with Photoshop for some of the shading and finishing touches. This is a fantastic tutorial and very entertaining.
You’ll also get one of Brian’s new posters of royalty free vector art! Click the screenshot to see the entire poster, which is included exactly as is in Illustrator format AND broken down into 90 different files of key characters.
The advanced flexibility of WordPress is one of the main reasons for its popularity among online publishers as it is considered as the number one blogging tool in its category. With its latest releases, it has extended its potential well beyond blogging, moving toward an even more advanced, robust and very powerful content management solution, and so much more. However, where it falls short, there are a wealth of plugins, widgets and themes that extend its limitations.
This Smashing eBook #10: WordPress Essentials is created to help Web developers as well as designers how to extend the functionality of WordPress with plugins and introduce techniques and methods for customizing themes. Several new features were added which make WordPress manage media even more practical, and this eBook is going to show you just how.
The eBook contains 9 articles that will guide you on how to add and organize media, to avoid problems with JavaScript and CSS , build themes, interact with your database, and learn how to setup AJAX — just to mention a few techniques. Social networks are a wonderful marketing tool that should not be ignored. Find out how to present your WordPress blog on Facebook, as well!
WordPress has many facets to show for those who like to explore its possibilities. Well known as a free source blog-publishing platform, WordPress also gained popularity because of its flexibility and development options through plugins, hooks and custom fields — just to name a few.
If you are already familiar with the fundamentals of WordPress, you might be searching for specific knowledge in order to become a better expert. This Smashing eBook #11: Mastering WordPress, which is packed with exclusive advanced techniques, is probably what you are looking for. After reading this eBook, you will be able to implement various hints which WordPress has to offer for your upcoming projects.
This eBook contains 10 articles which brings topics that will help you work with custom fields in WordPress, understand coding with WordPress hooks, maintain a WordPress plugin, create emails for your WordPress website, write WordPress guides and administrate layout content editor templates. Three whole chapters are destined to advise you with power tips for WordPress template developers. For instance, you will get tips which address common CMS implementation challenges without plugin dependence and cover a handful of API calls and integration with PHP codes. Also, these tips explain how to customize basic content administration and add features to the post and page editor in WordPress.
The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks within the front-end development scene has opened up the power of jQuery to a far wider audience than ever before. What began from a necessity of front-end developers to upgrade JavaScript basic API took a new direction of unified implementation between browsers and to make it more compact in its syntax. Thanks to this development, it is possible to actually apply optimized scripts now. A script to find all links of a certain CSS class in a document and bind an event to them requires one single line of code instead of ten. Also, jQuery brings to the party its own API , featuring a host of functions, methods and syntactical peculiarities.
In this Smashing eBook #14 Mastering jQuery, you will learn how to combine JavaScript and jQuery with PHP and, specially, PHP ’s GD library to create an image manipulation tool to upload an image, then crop it and finally save the revised version to the server. In addition, you will be able to create your own bookmarklets, which are small JavaScript-powered applications in link form. Typically used to extend the functionality of the browser and to interact with Web services, bookmarklets allow you to post onto your own WordPress or Tumblr blog, submit any selected text to Google’s search funtion, or modify a current CSS code within a browser — just to cite a few!
Special attention is also given to jQuery plugins, which help save time and streamline development as well as allow programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. A good plugin saves countless development hours, whereas a bad plugin leads to bugs that must be fixed and so takes more of of your time than actually building the component from scratch. With the help of this eBook, you will get the best hints on how to choose which plugins are really worth considering for your projects and which ones you should avoid.
It is not always easy for Web developers and designers to make the right decisions when having to choose the right solution. Either while building a complex Web application or even by improving a website, there are countless pre-built solutions available and picking one of them can surely be a burden sometimes. In this Smashing eBook #13 JavaScript Essentials we enlighten the most important issues you should pay attention to by all means when selecting a solution, i.e. how stable, easy to customize, usable and accessible it is, whether it can be maintained in the future, what exactly is supported and how you can extend the functionalities on your own.
One of the many important issues considered in this Smashing eBook #13 JavaScript Essentials is the importance of reviewing your code and what to avoid when you are implementing in JavaScript. Maintaining strong coding standards and withdrawing your programming away from common errors should be the basic requests for the general quality of your solutions, and the articles we have selected will explain exactly how you can achieve this. One of the sections also advises to have your code reviewed by experts and check whether they may provide other solutions to the problems you’re experiencing.
Last but not least, you’ll get to know the golden rules of JavaScript basic animations better, as well as JSON as a data format along with the native JavaScript functions (Math, Array, String), shortcut notations, and much more. Of course, we couldn’t leave out JS events that will make your webApps work, implementation of anonymous functions, module patterns, configurations, interaction with the back end and usage of libraries to specify codes. And for those of you who are rather interested in AJAX , you’ll get the information you need in case you’ve been wanting to turn your content dynamic and searchable.
You’ve probably already gathered a lot of knowledge on how to improve your WordPress skills, but applying this on your own might be a complicated process. Reading this eBook #12 WordPress Tutorials will facilitate putting all this knowledge into practice. Through the accurate methods which were exclusively selected by our editorial team, you will certainly acquire the expertise you need for your future WordPress publishing projects without any complications.
For instance, you will learn not only how to create custom post meta boxes in WordPress, but also to use them with any post type, handle with data validation, save custom meta data and retrieve meta data on the front-end. Besides, you will be able to design tabs on WordPress setting pages and develop native administrative tables the right way.
Two exclusive sections show that it is possible to go beyond simple posts and pages. You will learn how to establish a media site and how to manage it on a WordPress website. In the first part, the focus is on setup custom post types and custom taxonomies — without plugins. The second part focuses more on using custom taxonomy templates to organize and relate media. And last but not least, a detailed introduction on how to perform using an open-source software called bbPress is included, which was originally created as a standalone alternative for forums.
Includes Three XCode Templates to Publish an iOS Book App PLUS Eleven High Definition Video Tutorials Explaining the Templates and How To Get Your App in the Store!
Add in your own images and publish a realistic page-turning book to your iPad immediately! Then add a little extra code to really make your book standout for inclusion in the App Store.
The three XCode templates are…
After watching the videos you’ll know how to…
Basic Setup:
At the very least, all you need to do to setup this book is replace the already included sequential images (page0.png, page1.png, and so on) with your own images. In landscape mode your images will be 1024 by 768. You’ve also got the option to include a cover page (named “page0_with_options.png”) which can include text over your book cover which instructs readers where to swipe or press to flip the page forward and back and how to get to the index. This alternate cover page can be seen when the app first loads, but if the viewer returns to this page later, they’ll see your usual cover art ( “page0.png” ). Other than that, you’ll just need to change a variable in the Constants.h file which specifies how many pages are in your book.
Extra Features:
In just a few steps, you can publish a book to your own iPad. Getting approved for inclusion in the App Store takes just a little bit more work. We’ve included some short videos with example code to impress upon your App Reviewer that your book belongs in the App Store in the Books category. Without something extra, your book will probably get rejected with a note that it would be better off in the iBookStore. Basically meaning, it is not good enough to be considered an “app”. The iBookStore is for books created in a different format than this template, and gets far less sales and searches than the App Store. But don’t worry, it is incredibly easy to add sounds, buttons, special FX, or animation that will get your app approved. Video tutorials 7-10 go into all that.
We’ve also included an initial setup video for beginners to XCode and app development. It will give you an overview of what you need to know about XCode to setup your app, and where to go in iTunes Connect and the Development Portal to sign your application and submit it. So while it would be great if you knew a bit of programming and had prior development experience, this template does not require it. Just watch the included videos!
“HTML5 Form Validation” tutorial teaches how to do form validation at client-side (front-end) using HTML5 /CSS3 only. Additionally, the tutorial gives a brief overview of Regular Expressions and the new HTML5 features for JavaScript. The difficulty level of this tutorial is intermediate; i.e. some knowledge of HTML /CSS is required.
A great Facebook landing page can help people identify with your brand and engage with your content. In other words, rather than seeing your wall as a default, they’ll see your marketing messages and calls to action. It’s a great way to show off your latest news or offers, grab people for your mailing list, show off testimonials or awards or whatever else you can think of.
There are loads of apps out there for creating landing pages, but if you want to use your own design and content rather than a template, this tutorial is for you, complete with all the code you need.
I’ll show you how to avoid horizontal or vertical scroll-bars that eat into your content and also how to create a ‘fan-gate’. This is a nifty little trick that tells your would-be clients/customers/visitors that they must like your page to see hidden content. When they hit ‘like’, your special content is revealed. Don’t want the fangate? No problem, it’s optional!
I’ll walk you through every step of Facebook’s system, pointing out exactly what settings you need to make your landing page work – from creating an ‘app’ in their developer suite, to installing it on your page.
Please note the live preview needs to be viewed in its own window else it won’t display properly – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Healthier-Me-Apps/235958379808194?sk=app_248454678553123
Requirements
Since .NET Framework 2.0 appeared, Microsoft is providing different membership providers to deal with authentication. Those providers give you great flexibility and customization but when you indeed need that higher grade of customization, they come with few costs: long time of implementation and a lot of code to manage.
In this tutorial I will show you how to build from scratch a fully functional role-based authentication system with only a few lines of code. However, for simple login systems, I strongly recommend using the default membership provider from ASP .NET.