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An inside look at open source at Facebook
[ad_1] Christine Abernathy, developer advocate for the Facebook open source team, will be speaking at All Things Open this month. In this interview, she tells us more about how Facebook open sources projects at scale and what challenges lie ahead for the open source team there. Christine also references the TODO group, which in the…
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Geriatric Linux: How an 'old geezer' came to terms with computers
[ad_1] I was born in 1933, so computers weren’t something I grew up with. In fact, neither was TV, atomic energy, or even jet planes. For my first 70 years I had neither the need nor the desire to become involved with computers. I retired to a very small town on a mountainside, 50 miles…
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3 open source projects for modern COBOL development
[ad_1] An iconic figure of the early history of computing, Grace Hopper is the grandmother of the COBOL programming language. Of her many claims to fame, she invented the first compiler and helped spread the adoption of machine-independent programming languages. Today her legacy lives on in many ways, including the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women…
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[Part 2/ 24] Blender anime character modeling tutorial – Nose
Post your progress on the Blender-artist forum thread: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?326862-Anime-Character-Modeling-Complete-workflow … source
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Despite what Zappos says, middle managers still matter
[ad_1] Middle managers have not fared well. Their ranks have been decimated in many organizations, and those that have survived are often perceived as powerless or, worse, as bureaucratic sticks-in-the-mud. This is not fair and it’s flat-out wrong. Take what’s happening with Zappos at the moment. Much has been written about their adoption of a…
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Blender Tutorial – Cycles Rendering and Color Ramps
In this Blender tutorial, I show you the setup that use when rendering Cycles hair particles with color ramps. source
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Creating 3D Models Using Blender
[ad_1] Blender 3D is a powerful open source program for creating 3D models and objects. Although it is freely distributable, it is not in any way inferior to many high end commercial 3D modeling and animation programs. In fact, in the modelling department, it is surprisingly fast and intuitive to use compared to many commercial…
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blender 2.64 character modeling tutorial part 1
in this video i will show you how to model character and show you how to set up a reference in blender images i got to say thanks to Bruce Buechner for leting … source
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Tutorial: Baking Normals with Cycles
In this tutorial both Frederik Steinmetz and Gottfried Hofman explain the differences between baking normals in Blender internal or Cycles render engine. source