The cluster team is responsible for providing and evangelizing a distributed platform for building fault-tolerant, disaster-tolerant, highly available, and scalable applications with integrated support for monitoring the health of hardware components and software services. The platform supports policies to failover applications in the event of planned or unplanned outages as well as ensuring efficient and scalable resource usage by optimizing placement of applications.

Brace yourself for a rollicking ride as Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune lead game designer Richard Lemarchand dishes the dirt about the way that California-based Naughty Dog develops their games.Uncharted was Naughty Dog’s first game for the PlayStation 3 and presented a unique set of challenges to the developer of the smash-hit Jak and Daxter series. Using examples from the development of Uncharted, Lemarchand will describe the fast, collaborative, iterative way that things get done at “the Dog” and how the studio nearly doubled its size without losing its company culture.

Guide Nikon D40/D40x. Created by photographers for photographers facilitate the process of learning video camera Nikon D40/D40x. Course reveals: features and controls, menus, picture quality and size, exposure and white balance, photo with flash, view and edit, and much more.

A series of video blogs about the special effects in Hollywood films, interviews with creators and directors. A glimpse behind the scenes movie magic. "These Are Our ??Back issues of DVD magazine. For hardcore FANS of Special Effects, These Are sure to Please. Most of the Interviews conducted by Were Movie FX (as Opposed to an on set Electronic presskit Crew) , so much of the content is focused on the effects rather than the star or director, and its exclusive as opposed to the extras found on the movie's DVD. They also have an abundance of movie trailers on them.

A unique book-and-video package presented by Java guru Yakov Fain
As one of the most popular software languages for building Web applications, Java is often the first programming language developers learn. The latest version includes numerous updates that both novice and experienced developers need to know. With this invaluable book-and-DVD package, Java authority Yakov Fain fully covers Java’s new features as well as its language extensions, classes and class methods, and the Swing Application Framework. For each lesson that he discusses in the book, there is an accompanying instructional video on the DVD to reinforce your learning experience.

The Page Speed API will be introduced with special focus on mobile web optimization. Page Speed is a performance optimization tool. We'll describe how to build automated monitoring of web pages with the API and make performance part of your development regression suite and to learn of new optimization best practices as they relate to your site serving for desktop and mobile. We will then walk you through how to install and configure mod_pagespeed on an Apache server, and the effects it has on a web site on the site, its HTML, images, CSS, and javascript.

Building a map for a mobile environment is a challenging undertaking. You have to balance native APIs, browsers, bandwidth, and latency. This talk will be an overview of developing Google Maps applications on various mobile platforms, including Android, iPhone, and browser options. Participants who choose to follow along will have a working basic map at the end of the session.

Last year at Google IO we introduced you to our new platform we use for developing APIs. A year later we have many new APIs built on that platform, such as Google Buzz, Google Moderator, Google Latitude API, and Google Custom Search API just to name a few. Come learn about these new APIs, the client libraries we built for them, and the rest of the tools we have to get you up and running fast.

We will introduce some of the Google Documents List API's most powerful features, including revision history, OCR uploads, document conversion and document translation. We'll demonstrate these features with code samples to help you easily implement them on your own.

A mega tutorial from CGCookie showing how to model, texure, rig and animate a stylized dragon in blender .

Maya Exterior Environment Creation – Day 1

Today we are happy to release the first ‘day’ of a new multi-part tutorial series by Cgtuts+ regular Ivan Krushkov. This in-depth series focuses on the creation of an exterior scene in Maya. In day 1 we’ll start the project off by modeling our environment from the ground up, exploring the many different modeling tools and techniques Maya has to offer!

A Monster Tutorial on T-Shirt Design, Inking, and Coloring in Photoshop
T-Shirt Design in Photoshop
Guest instructor and illustrator extraordinaire Neil Phyfer presents this amazingly detailed, real-time tutorial on how to illustrate and color for a clothing printing. This lesson starts with Neil sketching and finishes with all the amazing detail that only a professional illustrator can add. The tutorial is broken into separate videos where you'll learn advanced Photoshop techniques for...

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