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* In 3CX, the Verbose logging level will take high levels of CPU so enable it only during your troubleshooting. Don't forget to set this back to medium or lower when you are done troubleshooting.
* In order to create a new cluster via cloning, Grid Control must be aware of an existing, installed cluster from which to clone.
Alice 3: Making Simple Animations with Actors
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Vanesa S. Olsen | April 2011 | Open Source
Alice is a free and innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the Web. Alice is a teaching tool designed as a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning introductory programming concepts.
In this article by Vanesa S. Olsen, author of Alice 3 Cookbook, we will cover:
- Browsing galleries to search for a specific class
- Creating a new instance from a class in a gallery
- Setting initial properties for an actor
- Moving an actor
- Resizing an actor
- Working with multiple actors
- Moving an actor with relative positions
- Orienting an actor to a target actor
Integrating Moodle 2.0 with Mahara and GoogleDocs for Business
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Gavin Henrick Jason Cole Jeanne Cole | April 2011 | Enterprise Articles Moodle Open Source
Moodle 2.0 includes two important new points of integration with other open source products, the Repository integration and the Portfolio integration. This article by Jason Cole, Jeanne Cole and Gavin Henrick, authors of Moodle for Business: Beginner's Guide, introduces the integration of Moodle with Mahara and GoogleDocs. Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system which has been tightly integrated with Moodle 2.0. Google Docs is a cloud-based office suite which is available for free from Google. You can get a personal account for free, or your organization can sign up for a Google Enterprise account.
- Integrate Moodle with Google Docs to act as both a repository and a portfolio
- Link Moodle with Mahara, an open source e-portfolio system
jQuery Animation: Tips and Tricks
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Dan Wellman | April 2011 | Open Source Web Development
jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. This article will take a look at some tips and tricks for creating web page animations using jQuery, such as:
- Fading animations
- Globally disabling animations
- Using the effect API
Exclusive Offer On Open Source Graphic Application & Library Books
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ASP.NET: Using jQuery UI Widgets
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Sonal Aneel Allana | April 2011 | .NET
Various jQuery plugins are available to add interactive features to ASP.NET web applications. A popular plugin is the jQuery UI, built on top of the jQuery library, and consisting of handy functionalities for creating rich content in web applications.
In this article by Sonal Aneel Allana, author of ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook, we will cover:
- Using the datepicker control
- Using the progress bar control
- Using the slider control
- Adding tooltips to controls
Integrating Moodle 2.0 with Alfresco to Manage Content for Business
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Gavin Henrick Jason Cole Jeanne Cole | April 2011 | Beginner's Guides Moodle Open Source
Moodle 2.0 includes two important new points of integration with other open source products, the Repository integration and the Portfolio integration. This article by Jason Cole, Jeanne Cole and Gavin Henrick, authors of Moodle for Business: Beginner's Guide, introduces the integration of Moodle with Alfresco. Alfresco is an open source content management system that integrates well with Moodle and can act as Moodle's content repository.
In this article, we will:
- Set up an Alfresco content repository and tie it in with Moodle
Questions & Answers with Sencha's James Pearce
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| April 2011 | AJAX Open Source Web Development
James Pearce - James is a technologist, writer, developer & practitioner who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox.
James led the development of mobiForge, DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, and is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, WhitherApps, modernizr-server and confess.js.
Oracle Siebel CRM 8: User Properties for Specialized Application Logic
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Alexander Hansal | April 2011 | CRM Enterprise Articles Oracle
Many business requirements are very detailed and complex. For example, the end user community could demand that one field is updated automatically when another field has been changed. To solve this kind of requirement in Siebel CRM, developers can define so called user properties as an extension to the standard properties of object types such as business components, fields or applets. This important configuration option allows developers to define specialized application logic while staying within safe declarative boundaries. In this article by Alexander Hansal, author of Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook, we will discuss the following topics:
- Understanding user properties
- Business component and field user properties
- Applet, control, and list column user properties
- Viewing user properties
Oracle Warehouse Builder: Designing the Target Structure
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Bob Griesemer | April 2011 | Enterprise Articles Oracle
This article explains designing the data warehouse target. It covers some options for defining a data warehouse target structure using relational objects (star schemas and snowflake schemas) and dimensional objects (cubes and dimensions). Some of the pros and cons of the usage of these objects are also covered.
In this article by Bob Griesemer, author of Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g R2: Getting Started 2011, specifically we will cover:
- Dimensional design
- Cube and dimensions
- Dimensional Model Implementation
- Relational (star schema)
- Multidimensional (OLAP)
- Designing the ACME data warehouse
- Identifying dimensions
- Designing the cube
Oracle Warehouse Builder: Data Warehouse Design
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Bob Griesemer | April 2011 | Enterprise Articles Oracle
Data warehouses are becoming increasingly common as businesses have realized the need to be able to mine the information they have stored in the electronic form in order to provide a valuable insight into the operation of their business and how best to improve it. The Warehouse Builder contains a number of objects, which we can use in designing our data warehouse, that are either relational or dimensional. OWB currently supports designing a target schema only in an Oracle database.
In this article by Bob Griesemer, author of Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g R2: Getting Started 2011, we will cover:
- Creating a target user and module
- OWB design objects
