tutorials

SWFAddress tutorial for AJAX application?

What I am after are some tutorials that are ajax specific for implementing SWFAddress in different contexts (in the anchors, in jquery $.change() functions, etc). This way I can learn it myself. What I am trying to do is save the state of a form in the address bar so that the results can be stored in the browsers history (allowing use o...

Openfeint Multiplayer Tutorial?

I think it's GREAT that Openfeint has offered Multiplayer service now. But their documentation is really lacking. Does anyone know of any simple, step - by - step tutorial on how to use it, and what is needed to add to your app? I saw the article the developer wrote about adding it to his Artifice app, but without knowing what was there...

When I read other posts about this, I still can't see the difference in SQL between GROUP BY and ORDER BY. What is it?

I've started my own thread on this question so as to have less overhead from posting it on someone else's thread. I have trouble understanding in SQL what the difference is between GROUP BY and ORDER BY. I know there have been threads made about this, but they don't provide me with a useful answer. Here is something along the general ...

Advice on collision detection APIs

I have been trying out bullet SDK for collision detection in games in my spare time but I have found it hard to learn since there are scarce examples to learn from on the Internet. Question: What alternatives do I have for collision detection in terms of: Ease of use Support Availability of tutorials online And, preferably, an open-s...

What's the best way to move from developing Cocoa apps to Cocoa games?

I've created several Cocoa applications now, but I'm unsure of basic concepts of game development. I've written apps using very few custom interface elements and only very simple graphics work, and I'm looking to write a pretty basic 2D game to get started (but in realtime, not checkers or something (which I think I could handle already ...

OOP python-oriented tutorials?

I look for python tutorial but dealing with OOP, I don't need conditions, loops and other stuff, only OOP things and python decorators, generators, etc etc. And I look for tutorial with practical examples, which make sense, not Fibonacci, I can't learn from abstract non-useful examples. If it will be some part of some python framework tu...

How do you read a full table from a SQL database in VB.NET?

I hate to ask this question on this forum, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding it on these online tutorials. Basically, I'm learning about SQL, VB.NET, and how to glue the two together, and I've learned about using SqlCommand.executeScalar() to get the first entry in a table. But that's all it's really good for, right? Or is there...

Best resource to learn AJAX

Hi, I have used AJAX (Microsoft AJAX) in asp.net and used it controls such as update panel, postback trigger, calendar control, modal popup etc but i wanted to learn basics of AJAX say how ajax works, how it renders the page, why to use AJAX, why NOT to use Ajax? Thanks ...

WCF Client Impersonation

Can someone point me to a [relatively] simple walk-through on how to properly configure an ASP.Net hosted WCF 4.0 service to impersonate the credentials of a caller for just certain methods of the service, but allow anonymous access to other methods? I've been reading a lot about this on MSDN, but the more I read, the more confused I ge...

C/C++ Linking Tutorial

I use gcc. Can someone provide a tutorial or reference for linking external libraries. ...

Beginner tutorials

Hello! I'm going to be building my own site on Drupal pretty soon, and I understand it is quite a deep learning curve to get it done right. Basically, I am looking for some documentation/tutorials online or on book that you could recommend to me by experience, that will help me from the start of development, right through to finish. I a...

Wicket + Spring + JPA + Hibernate tutorial

Hi, I'm looking for a step by step tutorial on building small web application using Wicket, Spring, JPA and Hibernate assuming that the programmer is advanced in java but new to those technologies (so if the whole set up was included that would be perfect). Could anyone help? Thanks in advance. ...

Are there any nice-n-simple Computation Expression tutorials?

Hi all, I'm a C# guy looking to learn F# and functional programming. I'm hearing a lot about "monads" .. which I think (thanks to Google), are called "Computation Expressions" in F#? One aspect I'm trying to bend my head round is the State Monad/Computation Expression... But I need an idiot-proof, line-by-line, explanation about what'...

Do you know of an online tutorial for relational algebra/DDL statements?

I was meant to have my final exam on database management back in January, but I was too ill at the time to sit it. My resit have been scheduled for the end of August, which comes right at the crucial time where my dissertation needs to be nearing completion. Therefore I need to start my revision now as it's been a while since I last ha...

ASP.NET - A practical guide to the sanitization of user input

I've spent most of my career writing applications for consumption within small to medium sized organizations. In those roles, I'd relied on regular expressions to validate the user's input (e.g. email, zipcode, phone # or to find and remove unwanted markup) and the AntiXSS library to protected against cross site scripting attacks. Aft...

Online Tutorial on I\O completion ports

Are there any good online tutorials on I/O completion ports. I found few of them but they were very highlevel and could not really understand. ...

Is there any tutorial on creating and compiling C++ .net libraries?

I want to create a C++ library. I want its API functions to be accessible from .net (C#). I will have a lot of unmanaged code that is compilable under clr. Where can I get a tutorial on creating such library\sln? ...

Suggest jquery slideshow solution for on line tutorial

I am looking for some design pointers. I am about to provide some walkthrough tutorials on a website that will demonstrate how to use a new web-base application we are rolling out. I plan on having a step-by-step tutorial, with an annotated screen shot and some explanatory text - "Click on the "New User" registration button as shown" t...

project management

hello, I was java developer and I was not into web development.Suddenly I have become project manager and pushed into web development. What I have to know to become technically well qualified enough as a project manager in a web project.I don't have the responsibility of coding. If you provide book,resources,links that will be great a...

How to add how-to videos tutorials to iPhone app?

I am working on an update to my iPhone app and I would like to add very quick video tutorials on how to do things in the app, e.g. how to back up & restore. What's the best way to do this? I could link to online tutorials but I don't want to kick any of my users who lack multitasking out of the app. I am thinking about including the vide...