
Exception safety is an essential aspect of good C++ code, and code that uses concurrency is no exception. In fact, parallel algorithms often need more care taken with regards to concurrency than normal sequential algorithms.

JDM aims at building a standard API for data mining with the goal that client applications coded to the specification are not dependent on any specific vendor application. The JDBC specification provides a good analogy to the potential of JDM.

I’ve been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it’s not going to be different. I’m very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate a really nice effect with lines forming a star.

After my previous tutorial on how to create a frog logo in Photoshop, I’m now going to teach you how to create a glowing and sparkling intense light 3D glow logo. This tutorial shows different techniques that I learned in the past couple of weeks and it’ll surely blow others away.

The iPhone: Everybody knows what it is, many people “played around” with the gadget and most people love it. I also own one of these amazing smartphones, and the looks of the software is really, really sleek and innovative (Just like we’re used from Apple).

Following the series of effects with text, there were the Water, Clouds, Light, and also some time ago the Frilly Bits… Now I will show you how to create a nice effect I saw a few months ago on DeviantArt that is a text mixed with some milk splashes. We will use Photoshop and Illustrator for this tutorial.

Everyone wants to make a great website, and as mentioned in my previous article, a good start is to ensure aesthetic design and user research are intimately related.

When you choose an apple from a pile, what do you look for? You’ll find a lot of reasons are aesthetic – whether it’s shiny, it’s colour, it’s shape… How we choose what to buy is a key question that should be asked when designing an ecommerce website. While we all like to think we all make rational decisions, considering the functional nature of products, aesthetics clearly influences people and their choices.

The PSFile Python module helps you to create PostScript files from Python scripts. PSFile can creating the required wrappers to set up the page geometry; this allows you to only provide the PostScript code to draw the figure or page you want to create.

I finally got around to patching and finishing Zend_Oauth’s Consumer implementation for the OAuth Core 1.0 Revision A specification. Once I had it finished, I used it to write a quick and simple interface to post some Tweets on Twitter while I was testing it out.