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Web Hosting Tutorial Choose a Good Web Host

Submitted 10 July 2009

You have an idea what web hosting is now, and has decided which web server platform to build your website, but there are so many web hosting provider out there, how do I know which is a good, friendly and reliable provider that is suitable for me ?...

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Using Application Variables

Submitted 25 June 2008

Among the various ASP built-in objects, we've had occasion to discuss and use the Server Object (to create instances of other objects), the Response Object (to output script processing to a Web page), the Request Object (to handle script input from forms and query strings), and the Session Object (to server as a global repository for user sessions). As we proceed through this tutorial there will...

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Falling leaves with nCloth and Paint Effects

Submitted 22 October 2008

With nCloth, Maya users finally have a simple method for handling falling leaves. One can also easily attach leaves to branches and have the attachments broken by windforces by using nCloth constraints with glue strength. The basic workflow is very simple. Make a paint effects tree, convert it to poly, select the leaves and make nCloth. What follows is a more detailed tutorial.

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Counting Visitors In ASP

Submitted 25 June 2008

he process for counting visitors to a Web site is problematic. The difficulty is in deciding just Who is a visitor? or What is a visitor? or When is a visitor? On the surface it might sound easy. Simply tally a visitor whenever the person accesses a page at your site. However, this doesn't work because you end up over-counting the person who wanders from page to page.

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UV smoothing in Maya

Submitted 22 October 2008

There has been discussion again on Maya highend3d mailing list about the UV distortion caused by polygon smoothing in Maya. I have been working on this problem and devising solutions for a recent production, and as it's hard to explain verbally in a reasonably short email I thought it would be best to sum it up in some tutorial.

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Searching for Matching Values

Submitted 25 June 2008

Rather than retrieving the entire table of accounts and passwords and looking through them one at a time, we'll use an SQL SELECT statement to attempt to retrieve a matching record. That is, we'll look for a record in which the Account value from the form matches the Account value in the table, and where the Password value from the form matches the Password value in the table. We'll compose an SQL...

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Rotating Wheels on a Car

Submitted 13 October 2008

I created this tutorial for use in my classes and most of my students found them to be helpful. I now decided to submit it to be published on the web hoping it can help others as well.

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Making of Varga In MAYA

Submitted 25 June 2008

I will summarize the workflow I used for one of my characters with lots of images and some print-screens directly from the applications used (Maya/Mudbox/Photoshop, etc ...), also at the end I will provide some info about tangent space normal maps so you could think of this tutorial as primarily normal mapping related stuff.

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Exterior Scenes Part 1 - Composition & Cameras

Submitted 11 June 2008

Responsible for some of the most iconic architectural photographs of all time, Julius Shulman once described that in order to teach his photography students to photograph a subject, he asked them to first put their cameras down and learn to "see" the subject first.

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