The new set is nearly complete, but it is an exclusive set that only the most important members of the staff have access to right now.

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"In this tutorial, we'll learn how simple it is to texturize objects using different fusion mode layers, adjustment layers, color tweaks and some very simple filters in Photoshop. You can use this simple technique in more complex illustrations of your own creation. Let's get started with learning these techniques!" Sergio Ordonez

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Photoshop Hall of Famer, Eddie Tapp guest hosts this week with Bert Monroy at Photoshop World in Las Vegas. Learn about skin softening techniques and the controlling of color and tones.

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Summary
Jimmy Bogard makes his dnrTV debut with an introduction to his AutoMapper. AutoMapper is a object-to-object mapper to help move data between two layers such as the model and view layers of the MVC pattern.

Bio
Jimmy Bogard, software developer with Headspring Systems out of Austin, TX. He is co-author of ASP.NET MVC in Action, along with Jeffrey Palermo and Ben Scheirman. He is a member of ASPInsiders and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET in 2009.

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"Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it's not HDR processing, it's pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Read more after the jump!"Alex Beltechi

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"In this tutorial, we'll combine simple vector shapes, layer styles and generous amounts of shininess to create the perfect magnifying glass for all your search icon needs. Let's get started!"Andrea Austoni

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"In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a 3D Blocks text effect. You need to have Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to practice this tutorial. This will be fun and I'm sure you can do lots of cool things using this technique. Let's get started!" Eren Goksel

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Julieanne Kosts guest hosts with Bert Monroy this week in Las Vegas at Photoshop World. Learn how to change the focal plane of images and check out tips on creating custom edges!

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Angel Hernandez makes his dnrTV debut this week. Angel shows us how to use native code to manage large portions of memory and listen for events of any .NET application.

Bio
Angel Hernandez works as a Technical Solutions Architect for Customware in North Sydney - Australia. He's been working with computers since his early 12 years of age when wrote his first program, from that moment he got stuck onto a keyboard and in front of a display. During the years, Angel read almost any available software development book he could find. Started to work a as teenage freelance developer at age 16 (Starting from Basic, COBOL, Clipper, C ANSI, C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic and Visual C++). Currently develops in C#, C++ and VB.NET. He’s been supporting Developer Community in Venezuela and Latam since 2002 and he expects to do so in Australia too. He’s a frequent speaker in events such as Developer Days, MSDN Regional Tour, MUG Meetings and some other Microsoft Technical events. He encourages his other peers to share knowledge and experiences. Angel holds a Bsc. Information Technology. He's fluent in Spanish and English.

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The Photoshop Guys take a tour of the Expo Hall and talk with vendors at this year's Photoshop World conference in Las Vegas.

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In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Luke Galea talks about his experience with building sites using Ruby and Merb as well as integrating them using Erlang in the messaging layer.

Bio
Luke Galea is the Director of Development for Avid Life Media, a Toronto based company that owns several large dating sites. He is the author of the Hyperactive Resource plugin for Rails and is active in the Ruby and Erlang communities. His latest project is http://www.cougarlife.com [Editor's note: linked website might offend some readers]

About the conference
FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

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In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers.

Bio
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber along with Aslak Hellesøy. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he found Ruby. He now spends his time having more fun than is healthy working as a Software Gardener building web systems and working on open source projects.

About the conference
FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

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Many read-world datasets can be characterized as follows: the "extrinsic dimension" of the data is high, but the "intrinsic
dimension" is low. Consider for example the data generated by a motion capture device. Such a device typically tracks a few hundred dots located on a special suit worn by the tracked person. Each time point corresponds to a vector consisting of the (x,y,z) location of each dot. The extrinsic dimension of these vectors is thus around one thousand. However, the vectors are highly constrained because the dots are placed on a human body that has only a limited number of degrees of freedom. We say that the "intrinsic dimension" is the number of the degrees of freedom of the data.

We are interested in learning algorithms whose performance scales with the intrinsic dimension of the data. We present the random projection trees algorithm which has this type of performance. Moreover, the algorithm is very efficient computationally and can be performed in a streaming fashion where each data point is seen only once.

This is joint work with Sanjoy Dasgupta.

Yoav Freund, UCSD.
Google Tech Talks
October 9, 2009

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Genescient is the world's first computational biology company founded on the use of artificial biological selection to cure the diseases of aging. Our laboratory animals have been selected for longevity through 750 generations for the equivalent of 15,000 human years. I will describe Genescient's multiple pathways toward accelerating human longevity, with parallel enhancements of vigor and function. Genescient applies 21st century genomic technology to identify, screen and develop benign therapeutic substances at precise doses, to defeat the diseases of aging. Our singular approach addresses the complex genomic networks that underlie aging and aging-associated diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. I shall display some results and our first product, due in 2009.

Gregory Benford is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Professor of Physics. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and the Universities of Turin and Bologna. In 1995 he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. With more than 200 scientific publications, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, DOE and other agencies. He is an ongoing advisor to NASA, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the CIA.

Dr. Benford is also the author of more than thirty books, nearly all still in print. His work has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. His non-fiction Deep Time received much praise in 1999 and he won the United Nations Medal in literature in 1994.

Gregory Benford became Emeritus form the University of California, Irvine, in 2006 in order to found and develop Genescient.

Gregory Benford.
Google Tech Talks
October 9, 2009

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Steve Eley presenting Mongo DB to the Atlanta Ruby User Group Created by tkadom

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Hank Beaver presenting Varnish to the Atlanta Ruby User Group Created by tkadom

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Summary
Peli de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann show off Pex, a white-box testing framework for .NET developed at Microsoft Research

Bio
Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux is actively working on Pex, an Automated Whitebox Testing tool for .NET. Peli also collaborates with his colleagues from CHESS and Contracts. Peli also wanders around building 99 shooting videos for Channel9 about the RiSE group. Nikolai Tillmann is project lead for the Pex project at Microsoft Research. His main area of research is program specification, analysis, testing, and verification.

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"In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a shiny planet icon using the 3D features of Photoshop CS3 Extended or CS4 Extended. This will cover basic information about 3D layers and texture maps. Let's get started!" Andrea Austoni

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Learn best practices for lighting your canvas in Adobe Photoshop.

Bert explains the study of light and it's effect on objects. Shadows, hotspots and other effects can be learned and emulated by simply opening your eyes and observing the way light travels. There is no guess work with shadows, and it's important to get your art to copy real life.

With basic shapes, layers, filters, and 3D effects, you will learn how to reproduce the effects of light in Photoshop. In this example, Bert uses two shapes (a ball and rod) on top of a custom texture with a single source of light. Watch and learn!

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In this episode we are going to continue our look at the Lucene.Net Search Engine Library. Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework. In this episode we will learn about more advanced ways to query a Lucene.Net Index. This will include the various ways you can setup your index for searching and how to do boolean searches.

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In this episode we are going to start to take a look at the Lucene.Net Search Engine Library. Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework. In this episode we will learn the basics needed to simply get Lucene.net up and running.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use the Iterator Design Pattern.

We will look at how using the Iterator Pattern can help you abstract the way in which you interact with a collection of data. This is helpful when you are working with various formats but you would like to create a constant way to work with each format.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can setup Static Type checking within your ASP.Net MVC web project. Having static checking is a great asset as it can reduce the chances of run time errors due to refactoring. Static checking will also allow the compiler to verify all your strongly typed objects are being called correctly.

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In this episode we are going to continue our series on learning how to use an isolation framework (Rhino Mocks) to help create simpler and more reliable unit tests.

This time around we are going to be focusing how to use Partial Mocks to test abstract classes and methods within a concrete class.

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In this episode we are going to continue our series on how to create a build script using the Nant build tool.

In this episode we going to take a look at how we can create dynamic config files by putting tokens in your files and letting Nant replace those tokens for each user based on their unique settings.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use the reflection to invoke members on an object

Reflection can allow you to call methods, properties, etc of any scope on an object. This can be a very, very useful tool for the tool-belt for the times this is needed. 

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In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use the specification pattern.

Business logic is the heartbeat of our application. It is what makes your application worth something to the business. In this episode we will explore the Specification Pattern and see how this simple pattern take your complex business logic and turn it into a more manageable and readable piece of art.

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In this episode we are going to continue our series on learning how to use an isolation framework (Rhino Mocks) to help create simpler and more reliable unit tests.

We are going to focusing this episode on how to setup you mocks when you need to mock a class with either Out or Ref arguements.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at how to find varous markers (interfaces and attributes) on a class by using reflection. This technique can help you to build out dynamic loading/find type of logic in your pluggable applications.

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In this second episode on NDJango view engine, we are gonig to continue converting the sample application we started last time. However, this time we are going to focus on creating forms, re-displaying data, and finally, creating our own NDjango tags without touching F#

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In this episode we are going to continue our series were we are exploring some of the features of StructureMap 2.5.

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to setup profiles to allow the container to dynamicly determine which objects to inject.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at a refactoring technique outlined in detail in Working Effectively with Legacy Code

We will walk though this technique and take a look at how it can help you to create better and more maintainable code.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at reading and writing to the registry.

The registry is a bane to use and work with, but lets face it many, many applications we will work on will utilize it. Because of this fact we are going to review how to read and write data to it in a simple and easy fashion.

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In this episode we are going to continue our series were we are exploring some of the features of StructureMap 2.5.

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to setup and use the Registry feature of StructureMap. This is a feature that will allow the IoC container to scan for and find a method in a single class which will setup your mappings for the associated assembly.

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We take another look at signs in Bert Monroy's Times Square piece. Learn how to make 3 dimensional letters in lights!

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"The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we're going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it's really a part of the original photo. This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the 'Focus') and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?" Dennis Dunbar

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"What would your icon collection be without a swanky piece of contemporary furniture? In this simple, yet effective tutorial we will learn to incorporate the power of subtlety into icon design. We'll be creating an icon similar to the design of Isamu Noguchi's 1944 classic coffee table. Let's get started!" Andrea Austoni

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"Designers love to be critical about movie posters, and while you may think you have better ideas about how to sell a movie to an audience, how many times have you actually tried doing it? In this tutorial, we're going to create a poster for a fictional movie called "Fugitive." The movie is meant to be a suspenseful thriller that features one's escape under the cover of darkness, despite man's attempt to capture the lone hero. Thin and cheesy plot? Check. Awesome opportunity to better your PSD skills? You got it!" Alex Beltechi

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"In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks. Let's get started!" Simon Rudd

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In Bert Monroy's Times Square piece, neon lights make the McDonald's building attractive. Learn how to create your very own box of lights with Photoshop and Illustrator.

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Learn to create fern leaves by using custom brushes and adjusting brush settings along paths.

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A cascading shower of M&M's sounds like a dream come true! Bert Monroy shows you how to illustrate and style M&M's using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Learn to create snakeskin leather boots using textures and paths with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Summary
Mark Miller is in the house! Mr. Clean shows us how to create intelligent code generators for Visual Studio using CodeRush or CodeRush Xpress. Notes from the show: To reveal the DevExpress menu in products that ship with it hidden (such as CodeRush Xpress), start the Registry editor, add the "HideMenu" DWORD to the “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Developer Express\CodeRush for VS\{DXCoreVersionGoesHere}” registry key, and set its Value to 0. Important – if you are using DXCore or CodeRush version earlier than 9.27, you will need the extension methods in the attached source code sample.

Bio
Mark has been developing software since the early 1980s. He spent the 12 years preceeding 2004 coding developer tools, which are his -- figuring out how to make developers more efficient. He was awarded the "Spirit of Delphi" by Borland. He created CodeRush for Delphi in 1997, and it has won numerous reader's choice awards. He also created reAct, a component test program generator; and the CDK (Component Developer Kit) for Delphi. He created XL8, a translation software package, and created the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show. What can we say, he's a developer's developer.

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Steve Evans, who appeared on .NET Rocks! (episode 472) shows you the basics of networking for developers to help you troubleshoot problems that might exist on your network or your website.

Bio
Steve is the founder of Serk (http://serktools.com), an IT infrastructure consulting company. With 10 years of enterprise IT experience he helps companies both large and small streamline their IT operations.   Steve also has a background as a developer. He bridges the world between Developers and IT Pros and frequently speaks at Code Camps and User Groups. He teaches developers all they need to know about operating systems, directories, and servers, oh my.   When not doing something related to work he has a wife that is a full time student, two young daughters, a house addition they are building themselves, and a plethora of pets. All the information you need to interact with Steve online can be found at http://serktools.com.

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Robert Pickering gives his views on why functional programming is important and why Microsoft is investing in developing F# from a research project in a product. We look at some of the opportunities to that F# is going to create by enable teams of researchers and mathematical modelers to cooperate more closely with application and operation people. This will be illustrated with some examples taken from “Collective Intelligence” using F# to process raw data collected from the internet to produce intelligence recommendations.

Bio
Robert is a software engineer and published technical author. As a Microsoft MVP he is acknowledged as one of the leading experts in F#, a technology spearheading Microsoft’s campaign to make multi-thread programming easier, and has been invited to speak at prestigious events such as Microsoft TechEd, JAOO, and TechDays and has also appeared on channel9.msdn.com. His book Foundations of F# was published in May 2007 by a-press. In his 10 year career he has participated in a wide range of projects building large scale systems on the Microsoft .NET platform. He has experience in both consulting and working as an engineer for a software house.

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