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F# These pages are the historical home of F# at Microsoft Research. For the latest information on F# today, see the links to the right. F# brings you type safe, succinct, efficient, and expressive functional programming language. This simple and pragmatic language has particular strengths in data-oriented programming, parallel I/O programming, parallel CPU programming, scripting, and algorithmic development. It enables you to access a huge library and tools base and comes with a strong set of development tools.
Interactive Pulp - PulpCore Applets are back. PulpCore is a free, open source (BSD license) 2D rendering and animation framework for the Java plug-in. It allows Java developers to create modern-looking 2D web games with a strong focus on animation and positive user experiences. Also, PulpCore is designed for ease of development with an intuitive API and a smooth, uninterrupted workflow. Procedural Textures with NeoTexture The NeoTextureEditor allows creating tiled textures procedurally using a simple node interface for generating images, blending them, creating normal maps and much more. You can directly load the .tgr files as a material or export the generated images as .png files and use them in a jMonkeyEngine-based game. Textures usually make up most of the size of a game distribution. 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) I spent most of yesterday afternoon working on a paper I’m co-writing. It was one of those days when the writing came easy. I was moving from topic to topic, but then I realized that I was reaching too far backward – I was explaining things which I shouldn’t have had to explain to the audience I was trying to reach. When I first started writing, one of the pieces of advice that I heard was that you should always imagine that you are writing to a particular person. It gets your juices going – you’re automatically in an explanatory state of mind and you know what you can expect from your audience. I was doing that, but I noticed that I was drifting.
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Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop A collection of texture tools generating normal maps, texture compression, mip map generation and cube map formatting packaged as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6. Download Release Notes Added Adobe Photoshop CS6 and 5.1 support. Updated installer for silent installs. DDS export now supports PSDs with transparent layers, but without alpha channel.
vi tips and tricks: Ten cool commands sure to impress your friends When coming to grips with the vi editor—either for the first time or as a regular user—most people tend to have a grasp of the core command set that allows them to perform those functions they use most regularly: navigating or saving a file; inserting, updating, deleting, or searching for data; or quitting without saving changes. However, the vi editor is extremely powerful and rich in features and functionality. Even after many years of use, you can still uncover new commands that you didn't realize existed. The commands covered in this article are amongst those less well known, but they can help you to work smarter by short-cutting existing methods you may use or allowing you to do something that you never realized you could do with vi. Before we start just a recap on the two modes of vi: command and insert. Command mode allows the user to execute commands to modify text, navigate around the file or control your vi session in some way.
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