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Sunday, March 8, 2009
A Great Kiskstart Presentation for Learning Scrum (courtesy Mountain Goat Software)
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Blender Physics Kickstart Tutorial - An Instant Starter for Newbies
Leave Default Object (Cube As Is)
Add a Plane,
this will be our Ground Plane
Switch to object
mode(Tab)
Switch to Scale Manipulator Mode (Blue Box)
Scale the Plane in both directions using red and green arms
Switch to translate Manipulator Mode
Rotate using MMB (Drag with Middle Mouse Button) to get a 3d iew
Select the Cube (Rt Click) and move it UP
Reduce its size using Scale Manipulators
Press Shift+D to Duplicate this object, use
Rt-Click to place the new object
Make several copies then use Shift+RtClick to select all of cubes
Now We'll add some Physical properties
Switch to Logic Mode in Panels Bar (or F4)
For Each cube Rt-Click to Select it then wnable its physics
Enabling 1) Actor, 2) Dynamic 3)Rigid Body buttons, rest all the defaults would do
Do it for As Many Cubes as you Like (Patience is a Virtue)
Now You are Ready to See the Physics Show
Press 'P' or Menu>>Game>>StartGame
Now experiment/ proceed at your Will !!!!!!!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
My3DModel - Kickstart Blender - Don’t be intimidated by Blender Interface, make your first 3d model in few easy steps
This tutorial will guide you to give you
a blender kickstart , we shall
make a Cottage house model
Start Blender
Leave the
default object As is
Add a Plane
Mesh
Press TAB once to enter object Mode
Select scale Manipulator Mode
Click the Blue Box
Now Scale the plane horizontally by dragging the RED Arm
Now Using the Green ARM drag n Scale Vertically Too
Now Drag with Middle Mouse Button (or MouseWheel) to rotate the view
This plane would be our Ground, so we'll move our default box up
Switch to translate manipulator mode
Right Click the
Center Cube to select
Now use the Blue
Arrow to place it in position above the ground plane
Now We'll Make the Roof, Hit TAB once to Enter Edit Mode
Select the top
face of the cube by right clicking onto it
Now We'll Extrude this Face to make a Roof Shape, Press E
Move the mouse in extrude mode upward and click Left Mouse Button as:-
Now Extrude (E)
Again and Make another block
Adjust the View
by Dragging with Middle Mouse Button
Enter the Vertex Select Mode
Select the Top Left Vertex
Using Shift +Right Click on Top Right , Now Both Vetices are selected
Now Merge the
Vertices at center using (ALT+M)
Do the same process for the two roof vetrices behind
Now Enter again in Edge Select and select the right edge, move it slightly right(Red Arrow) and below (Blue Arrow)
Repeat the process for other side also
Congrats, You are DONE !!!!!!!!!
Hit F12 (or Menu>> Render>>Render Current Frame)
to see your model
Created with Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
MyTableGenerator - Kickstart C#, Your First Program for your Kid in few simple Steps.
Prerequisites:: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Intended for:: Beginners

This tutorial will guide a newbie to write a Table Generator for Basic Grade Math Student i.e your Kid
e.g table of 4 is
4x1 = 4
4x2 = 8
4x 3=12
….
Lets make an Application that would make a Dad with absolutely no programming skills and a kid Happy
Follow this link
http://three6tdegree.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/mytablegenerator-kickstart-c-write-your-first-program-for-your-kid-in-few-simple-steps/
Thursday, February 5, 2009
MyBrowser - Kickstart C# , Make your own Web Browser in few easy steps
Prerequisites:: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Intended for:: Beginners
Create a New C# Windows Forms Application Project

Set New C# Project, select Windows Forms Application and name your application as MyBrowser then click Ok
You will see a default Form in FormDesigner pane
You will See This Form ready to put controls on it
Change its Text Property as MyBrowser
Change its Size to 640x480
From the toolbox place a flow layout panel onto the Form
You will notice a square as under, Dock it to Parent using the small arrow on its top right corner
Next Place a Textbox onto the flowpanel from the toolbox, resizing to almost 75% of the form
Next Place a button also from the toolbox, change its text property to 'Go'
Then place a WebBrowser control, and resize it accordingly dragging its bottom right corner to your forms extreme bottom right corner
Your form design is ready, it will look as under:-
Press F5 to see it work, You can Make it look as Cute as possible
Now its time to write some functionality i.e we would like to pick the text from the textbox when the user clicks the go button the browser control should load the desired page
To program this action, Double Click the Go Button
And place the following code in the function 'button1_Click(bla bla)'
////////////////////////////////////////////////
String w = textBox1.Text;
webBrowser1.Url = new System.Uri("http://"+w);
webBrowser1.Refresh();
//////////////////////////////////////////////
Press F5, Your minimalistic browser is now Functional
e.g Type in a website name (for now don't type http://)
make sure you are already connected to the internet and hit go
There You are, Have Fun, You can improve it to your liking
Do you find this tutorial Useful, Please Have your say in comments.











