My Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has been a top seller on Amazon.com for a long time, consistently in the top few hundred computer books and in the top couple of thousand across all books. But I was just informed that is #3 in the Databases category on Amazon.com, and #1 in Database Management Systems, Relational Databases, and MySQL categories. The MySQL version of the book, and the Kindle edition (I didn't even know there was a Kindle edition!) are also in the top 100 database books.
This tutorial is photoshop based and shows you how to the main steps in creating a matte painting. Before you start it’s recommended that u know some basic painting techniques, at least basic sketching, because most of the time you’ll have to fit in the right pieces. Read Tutorial
View Example Get Papervision3D [Tutorial] Get TweenMax Download Source Well, the first thing I have done in Papervision3D is a replica of what I essentially did with the DistortionTweener (or actually the reason I made the DistortionTweener). It is much easier to do and takes a lot less to do (the original DistortionTweener, with research, took me about [...]
In this post we will implement a login process with remember password functionality. In AS3 and also in AS2 we can use a SharedObject to store data on the users browser. Shared objects are similar to the all known browser cookies but are managed by the flash player. Shared objects can store data also remotely [...]
A previous post detailed the simple algorithm for the underpainting technique I have been messing around with in order to attempt an “impressionistic” style. I have spent a little more time working with it and in addition to the broad brush strokes that lay the base color, I have made progress in creating a layer [...]
I'm very happy to spread the word for this news. Guys behind i2 technologia (Felipe and Luciano) were featured on Forum Nokia as a FN Success Story:
What a cool idea! John Resig has successfully ported the Java Processing API to JavaScript. Expect to see a lot more Flash-like effects on HTML web pages in the near future!
This cool demo by John Grden, demonstrates what you get back with the InteractiveScene3DEvent object. Try the demo, and download the source
This is a folllow up to last weeks post on Open Screen and the lack of interest from Apple. I was watching Kevin Lynch’s presentation on the goals of Adobe for future deployments of AIR and he demonstrated the desired path for Adobe. He talked about the new Open Screen alliance and the goals of a [...]
Well in my last post I showed how it’s all connected, main component, view and controller class. Now I’m going to show how it should be used. And how easy you can style your buttons. In this example I only going to deal with the “presentation” layer. In the futher I will show more [...]
Hooray! The Hobnox AudioTool has been updated. You will find the TR-808 now and also some of our new stompboxes like the Compressor and Crusher. There is a lot more stuff in the pipe and I am really excited about it. Developing the timeline and saving arrangements are the next big steps. Until then: have fun [...]
For the next week I’ll be in San Jose, CA for the annual Adobe Community Summit with fellow community experts and user group managers. This is always one of my personal highlights of the year, we get to see some of the exciting projects that are being worked on and hang out with project managers, engineers [...]
The Adobe User Group Netherlands has organized a bustrip from the Netherlands to belgium…yes, an oldschool bustrip ! The FREE Multimania event will be held on the 23rd of this month, and will feature speakers like Aral Balkan, Mario Klingemann, Jason Levine, Serge Jespers, Dave Schroeder and incidentally, I, Ralph Hauwert will be speaking there [...]
This well illustrated tutorial will walk you through the process of creating an iPhone-/ Windows Mobile-hybrid kind of SmartPhone and teach you some of the key-techniques of creating digital device mock ups. The original, layered Photoshop-file is enclosed for your convenience, offering you a chance to retrace the tutorial’s steps and reconstruct the original illustration. Download [...]
Hobnox has just launched the Audiotool demo, and i can say… it’s really awesome!!! They did a great job! Now you can compose your own music, using this nice application. As Flash “Don’t make noise”, they used java for the audio signal. You can find a more complete review on this application at the Andre [...]
A cool example with source of a very realistic tree, using PV3D and Collada.
2 classes in a row now, I've done this same demo live in front of everyone Sooooo sensing a trend here, and after someone asked if I'd post it, I'm putting out out here. It's a very simple demo, but the exercise in class was to demonstrate what you get back [...]
I am really enjoying Five3D, and I’m seriously considering using it in an important project coming up. It’s a pretty new system though, and there are some little things about it that I think could do with a bit of ironing out. (I hope you read this Mathieu and add your comments!) What I am trying to [...]
In this nice tutorial, you are going to look at how to recreate the same color and motion blur effect used in the movie poster for the biggest action movie of the 2007 summer, the Bourne Ultimatum. We’ll be using Photoshop’s Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to colorize the image using a color I’ve sampled directly from [...]
This post is as promised an example how you can make a button build on the OpenFlux - framework. This example was build for Flex 3. We are going to build that little simple button which is used in the MAC - dashboard, see image. It represents show and close more options just by [...]

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