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Photography – Tips & Tricks
Posted by sagar.gadkari in Did you know?, For the Tech Savvy on August 24th, 2009
Digital Camera is a boon for photographers like me. Whatever I have learned about photography is through some articles and lot of trial and error.
I have a semi SLR camera from Canon (SX100 IS). I tried lot of permutation and combination to get my snaps right. My camera gave me a lot of flexibility in experimenting but with some limitations as well.
I take this opportunity to share some basic tips of photography.
Following are some of the snaps I have clicked and little description about them.
Latest in Designing Tools
Posted by jayashree.mundle in Did you know?, For the Tech Savvy on March 16th, 2009
Designing is a very important aspect of gaining customers for any business. Making products grab customers’ attention, it plays an important role. In computer word there are many tools are available. Mostly used tools are photo shop and coral draw. There latest version launch in market are Photoshop CS4 and Coral Draw Graphics Suit X4.
Adobe Photoshop CS4:
Enhanced automation features
Photoshop CS4 automatically process batches of Middle Eastern document. This new feature added in this version.
Font Support
CS4 also support for wide array of Unicode fonts as well as a large number of third party fonts widely used by graphics designers.
BAD Camp
Posted by Yashodha Chaku in For the Tech Savvy on October 21st, 2008
CiviCRM team members had the opportunity to attend the BADCamp Oct. (11/12) held in University of California, Berkley. We decided to sit through the lectures of our respective interests.
- Day 1
We had a pretty basic yet impressive session on jquery by Dmitri Gaskin. jQuery makes it significantly easier for developers to extend the functionality and usability of their applications. Amit Asaravala gave some useful examples of how to use jquery with the Nice Menu module, and gave tips for creating Smarter Interfaces using jQuery. Also discussed how to make use of the jQuery library to make sites more responsive, intuitive, and fun. We had another session for Ajax with Tao Starbow which covered the basic concepts behind Ajax, practical use of jQuery’s Ajax functions, and the jQuery Forms plugin (which is now part of Drupal’s core).
After lunch, we had a yet another interesting session on Database Synchronization by Shaun Haber on an issue nearly every developer faces, which is merging content between a dev site and a production site. We were walked through watered-down live demo, showing how to programmatically apply all development changes to an existing site. Another session was about showcasing the Panels 2 module and talk about how it works for the content layout on drupal site. Matt discussed a few tricks to provide WYSIWYG support for content created in panel panes and versioning of panel pages to move them between staging and production.
View2 session was nuts and bolts presentation of how the Views 2 UI is constructed conducted by Earl Miles and Panels session by Matt Cheney explained how you can change look and feel of a website using Panels.
- Day 2
Day started with Introductory CiviCRM session by Kurund Jalmi. It was good to hear from community/implementers regarding their experiences and suggestion that can be incorporated to improve CiviCRM. After this session we decided to attend session on Patterns by Chris Bryant. Concept of patterns is really good and it helps / fasten the process to create drupal websites. Post lunch session on Introduction to CCK by Dmitri Gaskin was also good.
At the end of Day 2, we decided to treat ourselves to waterfronts of Jack London Square and took a ferry ride back to SF.
These two days were very eventful. Learned a lot about Drupal and other nice/cool stuff. Overall this was a great experience for me.