Newest Tutorials

In this tutorial, we're going to load and display images with ImageView as well as apply effects and transformations to them. We will also learn to create image effects with blending. The other topics covered are: How to play audio with MediaPlayer How to play video with MediaView and how to create a media playback component

Developers will be introduced to Personal Information Management (PIM) applications and data which include Messages, Address Book, Calendar, Tasks, and Notes in Blackberry.They will learn to take advantage of one of most powerful features available to a BlackBerry application by interfacing with the PIM data and messaging applications.

.Net and NHibernate users will learn about the mapping, the different styles of mapping, basics of Fluent mapping and how to map the basic elements of a table into a class. They will also learn about lazy loading, using a fieldnames structure to help avoid typos, and generating the database from our mapping files or classes.

Vim users will learn about how basic modifications of font and color scheme can give their editor a personalized look. Readers will be able add their own menu to the menu bar as well as add icons that are full of functionality to the toolbar. They will also learn how to use the spell checker to follow a preferred language.

MySQL users will be able to create, drop, and modify indexes in order to efficiently hone their server's performance. They will learn how to add index and fulltext indexes to tables along with comparing clustered and non-clustered indexes. Administrators will also be shown how to identify duplicate indexes, which can hinder their servers' performance and also learn how to speed up searches for sub domains.

Through this chapter, readers will be able to configure their report properties. They will understand what are report bands and how to use them. Users will be able to maintain the size, position and alignment of the report elements as well as modify the fonts and give a suitable header and footer to the report.

In this chapter, developers will be introduced to Hibernate and learn to build Java classes and map files from scratch. They will also learn to reverse engineer the database schema into Java classes and Hibernate mapping files and build a web application that will be able to interact with the Hibernate POJOs which they will later deploy to JBoss AS.

Web developers will learn to use Office Live Small Business design tools like Site Designer and Page Editor to personalize their site’s headers and footers. They will be able to choose the right font, colors, background pictures, and other such visual elements for their website. Users will also learn to choose and customize their website's name and slogan.

Through this tutorial, developers will be able to see how Hibernate provides built-in types that map to SQL database types. Readers will also be shown how Hibernate allows them to implement and use custom types when these built-in types do not satisfy the application's requirements, or when they want to change the default behavior of a built-in type. Developers will also learn to implement a custom-type class and then use it in the same way as a built-in one.

This tutorial will show readers how to use the RichFaces framework to change the style of existing skins (using CSS and XCSS) and to create a new personalized skin starting from the built-in skins that the RichFaces framework offers.