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SVN vs Git #2: Getting Started with Git

In the previous article we defined why Git offers a better solution for VCS than SVN; Git is faster, more reliable and flexible than SVN. But now that we know that, let’s take a look at Git and some if its capabilities.

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SVN vs Git #1: Why You Should Care

In recent years distributed version control systems (DVCS) have been getting a lot of momentum and wider usage specially among the open source community.Git is at the head of this DVCS movement being the most popular and widely adopted even by google who recently added Git support to the Google projects platform.

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Get all items in an order

If you need to know how to retrieve all the items in a customer order here is how: Read More

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Check if customer is logged in

$customerStatus = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn();

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Get cat­e­gory prod­ucts or­dered by num­ber of sales

This snippet is useful if you want to know which products are the bestsellers, this can be used on custom reports, lists, etc. Read More

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Unity3D Blogs to follow

Here is a quick list of blogs worth following related to Unity3D: More to come …

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Unity3D Announces UNION

The guys at Unity Technologies are working really hard to make sure that they not only create a stable and strong enough framework but also a framework that is widely used in a number of platforms, say hello to UNION the new initiative from Unity Technologies that is designed to promote and distribute your games in new an emerging platforms that otherwise would be impossible to get to, like the new and growing Tv Software market. Check the full announcement video after the break Read More

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Unity3D: Getting started

Unity3D is quickly becoming a major platform for indie game developers, for all those who are not familiar with Unity3D:
Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity is similar to Director, Blender game engine, Virtools, Torque Game Builder or Gamestudio in the sense that an integrated graphical environment is the primary method of development.
For the last month I been learning, playing and experimenting with Unity3D, so far it has being incredible but complex at the same time there are so many new concepts and terms involved in creating 3D games, hopefully the following list will save everyone a good amount of time. Read More

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Arduino Project Ideas

1.- Arduino EMF Sensor

arduino-emf Adam Outler a biomedical equipment technician kept getting complains from the emergency room staff about noise on the electrocardiogram machines. He suspected EMF interference so as a quick first step he decided to throw together an EMF detector using an Arduino. For Details and code visit Adam’s Blog Read More

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Arduino: A Documentary

I found this documentary about arduino’s history very interesting.

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.

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