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Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery
Chapter 6: Modeling Furniture
Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery will show you how to create realistic architectural models in Blender. Blender is an open-source 3D animation program released as free software. It can be used for modeling, texturing, skinning, animating, and so on. It runs on all the important operating systems (including Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Beginning Fedora
Chapter 4: Preinstallation Steps
Installing any kind of operating system is a big move and can come as something of a shock to your PC. However, Fedora makes this complicated maneuver as easy as possible. Its installation routines are very advanced compared to previous versions of Linux, and even compared to other current distributions.
Why Community Shows Rule
A look at the Utah Open Source Conference
On August 21 this year, Royal Pingdom ran a report on Linux popularity around the world, based on Google searches. One of the interesting data points was that Utah had a higher than expected interest in open source. I had a chance to confirm that result a week later when attending the Utah Open Source Conference, held from August 28 through August 30 at the Salt Lake Community College, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
Ed Schaefer reviews the newest edition of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation.
Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
Chapter 1: Expressive JavaScript
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Django Reloaded, Workshop, Part 1
Programming with the Python Django web framework
The screencast is from Douglas Napoleone of the Python Software Foundation, programming with the Django Framework.
Django Reloaded, Workshop, Part 2
Programming with the Python Django web framework
The screencast is from Douglas Napoleone of the Python Software Foundation, programming with the Django Framework.
Django Reloaded, Workshop, Part 3
Programming with the Python Django web framework
The screencast is from Douglas Napoleone of the Python Software Foundation, programming with the Django Framework.
Django Reloaded, Workshop, Part 4
Programming with the Python Django web framework
The screencast is from Douglas Napoleone of the Python Software Foundation, programming with the Django Framework.
Django Reloaded, Workshop, Part 5
Programming with the Python Django web framework
The screencast is from Douglas Napoleone of the Python Software Foundation, programming with the Django Framework.
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