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Can anyone suggest me a good papervision3D book to read? I know as3 pretty well but I'm just starting out with pv3d.
Don't know of any books currently in print, but Amazon shows a promising looking book from Wiley - Professional Papervision 3D coming out on October 19th.
Other than that, I've mainly used the resources on pv3d.org and the API docs
I have been enjoying "Papervision3D Essentials" by Tondeur and Winder. It's available now (at the end of 2009) and one of the chapters (chapter 8, on loading a Collada model) can be downloaded free.
Professional Papervision 3D looks good, too -- many of the code samples are available on the author's blog -- but it is still in the publishing pipeline for awhile.
Professional Papervision3D was released recently. But there is also another interesting book in the making by Apress/Friends of ED. It's called "Experience Papervision3D". As far as I could find out the authors will be Seb Lee-Delisle and Carlos Ulloa, two of Papervision3Ds core team, which makes it probably worthwhile waiting for its release. Unfortunately there is no information when this book will be available. To my knowledge the earliest date will be April 2010. Right now the book cannot be found on the Apress Site as well as on the Friends of ED Site. Only Amazon is listing it as "currently unavailable".
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I want to implement an opinion or customer review system, kind of Disqus, or comments for models in Django, with some extra work on processing this reviews.
I have been googling and searching in github for hours, some platform for working with customer reviews, opinions or comments.
Seems like there is a big controversy about comments native in Django. I have read many good, but many bad things so far.
I am wondering if some of you guys know something similar to Disqus but open source.
I am searching some open source platform, because there is a lot of work to do(in which actually I am working) based on processing the reviews and analyzing them and I wanted to cut off the time for developing from scratch the whole system for managing users and reviews, and focus on the text analytics part.
Any opinion is welcomed!
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I am pretty much interested in learning coldfusion technology.However the text based guide though wonderful seems to be monotonous at times and i frequently lose focus.Even though i have developed my skill in coldfusion with the textual guide i would suggest to come up with video tutorials that will grab prgramers interest.Adobe is on way to bring cf 10 and 11.How about with video tutorials??
Or else if there is any video tutorials available plz provide a link for the same.
Consider this as my suggestion.
Thanks,Tauq
Here they are, AFAIK only CF related video training available:
From Lynda : http://www.lynda.com/ColdFusion-training-tutorials/174-0.html
From VTC : http://www.vtc.com/products/Adobe-ColdFusion-8-Advanced-Tutorials.htm
After you get grip over basics, knock yourself out with HUGE library of how-tos and meetings over at http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/messages/boards/
http://tv.adobe.com/product/coldfusion/
http://www.lynda.com/ColdFusion-training-tutorials/174-0.html
http://www.carehart.org/ugtv/
Good luck. :)
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I am just a starter at using threads in my code. I use Boost threads usually.
But I don't think I have mastered this field yet.
I am looking for learning material specifically for advanced parallel programming. Could anybody suggest something.
There's an early access edition of C++ Concurrency in Action available at http://www.manning.com/williams/ He's very knowledgeable on the subject and AFAIK he's the author of boost threads and has also just released a version of std::thread conforming to the new c++0x standard.
I'm also reading Concurrent Programming on Windows by Joe Duffy which is a pretty good read so far: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/books/winconc/winconc_book_resources.html
Update:
Also, see this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/415994/boost-thread-tutorials/3951227#3951227
I think you should continue using Boosts threads, they will be usable on different OS's.
I haven't read any good books on multithreading, but you could take a pick (and preview) some at Google Books.
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Do you have any recommendations on great video courses as a complement to books for learning C++?
Have not used these and I'm not sure about international shipping, but these are partly taught by Yashavant Kanetkar.
Quest C++ Programming
Don't let the 550 price throw you, it's in Rupees so about $13 US.
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ShowMeDo It's a nice place to start seeing for C++ and more.
Wrath Lands is a project about creating a text based RPG in C++. It's not really something you'd want to learn C++ for the first time with, but it is basically a guy starting from scratch and creating a game, dictating and trying to explain what and why he's doing it while also dealing with errors.
I found it to be entertaining at the least with some good pieces of information. Definitely not a standard though.
The Stanford CS deparment has several courses that you can watch (free) online. Of iterest to you may the Programming Paradigms lectures, which cover an intro to C++ among other topics.
MIT also appears to have a similar course available.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb496952.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436%28VS.71%29.aspx
Nothing beats stanford course Its quite comprehensive
I really like Pluralsight
They offer 5 C++ courses as of today, and for 29 bucks you can watch them all within a month.
It is based on Windows/Visual Studio, but the knowledge is applicable in all other platforms. The courses also include the last features of the language.
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I'd like to experiment with burn-down and planning game with the team I'm on. People on my team are interested in making it happen, however I'm sure someone has done this before and has learned some lessons we hopefully don't have to repeat. Does anyone know of an example Excel (or other tool) template available for burn-down or planning game activities?
This MSDN Blog article Has quite a good review of using burndowns in combination with Cumulative Flow Diagrams which fleshes out the diagrams even more. In the resources links at the bottom of the article there is a link to the Microsoft Scrum kit which has a pre-built excel file.
yes I answered this somewhere else but we use tools just to generate burndown charts.
Like this one: http://www.burndown-charts.com
For the rest, a real board, some post-its and good will do wonders.
And for that tool they also manage teams and allow readonly view of the chart so you can show it to your manager:D .