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How To: Program methods in Python

Bucky from The New Boston serves up this Python video tutorial on how to program methods in Python. This is the program you use to write all of your Python code down. Fun with methods! Learn what methods are and how to use them.

How To: Play beach volleyball

Batting a ball back and forth while you're barefoot on the beach is a fun way to get some exercise. Get started with these basic rules. Watch this video to learn how to play beach volleyball.

How To: Build an Android application for mobile devices

This video tutorial is about Android, and no it's not a robotic creature, it's a software platform and operating system form mobile phones and PDAs. The Android system is based on Linux and was developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. Code is managed in the Java language, but can be written in C also, although C is not officially supported. A lot of the new cell phone and other mobile devices will be running off of Android, so know how to use it.

How To: Use scaffold_resource in Rails

There are some really helpful people in the Rails community, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who helps bunny and green coders more than Ryan Bates. While this tutorial is geared towards intermediate Rails users, beginners are certain to walk away with something as well. In this video tutorial, Ryan and Miles K. Forrest provide a walkthrough of scaffold_resource. If you're even a little bit interested in learning more about Ruby on Rails, you'd be well served to take a look!

How To: Build a playground slide

In this video tutorial, you'll find instructions for building a standard joist design playground slide, supported by 3-by-4 posts and secured with galvanized fasteners. All fasteners exposed to the outdoors must be weather-resistant, galvanized, zinc-coated brass or stainless steel. Standard homeowner tools are all you'll need to complete your slide—a tape measure, post-hole digger, circular saw, sawhorses and a level. A good drill/driver is a great tool if using decking screws as fasteners. ...

How To: Build a simple Core Data application in Mac OS X

Core Data is a powerful data-management framework introduced with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. When you take advantage of Core Data, it slashes the amount of custom code you need to write in order to manage application data. Opening, saving and undo management can all be handled by Core Data, freeing you to concentrate on creating unique features for your application. This video tutorial, which presents a general introduction to using Core Data, will walk you through the process of building a simple...

How To: Distribute one cell across multiple cells in Excel

Storing information, such as a full address, in one column can limit what you can do with that information. For example, you can't easily filter or sort by part of the address, such as country/region or city. However, if you break up the address into its parts — street address, city, state/province, postal code, country/region — one for each column, you can remove those limits. Watch this instructional video to see how to use the Convert Text to Columns Wizard to automatically break up a sing...

How To: Map an ASP.Net server control to the render adapter

In this video tutorial, Chris Pels will show how to use a control adaptor to provide different renderings for an ASP.NET server control without actually changing the control itself. In this video, an ASP.NET BulletList control will be adapted to display each list item horizontally using div elements instead of the traditional ul elements. First, see how to create a class that inherits WebControlAdaptor and then implements the code to render the new list format. Next, learn how to map the new ...

How To: Create modules with PHP for your website

Many sites do not use any fancy Content Managment System (CMS) to generate their pages, they are just just good ol' static HTML content. A site for your grandmothers pie baking business probably only has a few pages, perhaps a homepage, about page, and contact page. Each of these pages has different main content, but much of it stays exactly the same, like the header, navigation, and footer. Think of these sections as "modules" that you can easily use PHP to insert into the page. This way, ma...

How To: Build an application on Android for mobile devices

This video tutorial is about Android, and no it's not a robotic creature, it's a software platform and operating system form mobile phones and PDAs. The Android system is based on Linux and was developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. Code is managed in the Java language, but can be written in C also, although C is not officially supported. A lot of the new cell phone and other mobile devices will be running off of Android, so know how to use it.

How To: Convert AVCHD (MTS) files into HD MPEG 2 in Premiere

Just happen to have some video footage in AVCHD format? That would be "Advanced Video Coding High Definition"—you know—HD video files. If you've got some of those MTS files (like from a Canon HG10 camcorder) you want to open in a program that doesn't support them, like QuickTime or Premiere Pro, then you're going to have to convert them to a different format. Here's a way to convert them without losing the quality. You'll be converting the MTS files into HD WMVs at 4,000 kbps with a program c...

How To: Use Eclipse for Java programming

In this ShowMeDo John Montgomery demonstrates how to create a project in Eclipse, then write and run a simple "Hello World" Java application. He also demonstrates the code-completion features of Eclipse, how to use the find and replace functioning and use the CVS version control system.

How To: Tie a Woolly Bugger for fly fishing

In this fly tying video series, learn how to tie the Woolly Bugger fly from expert fly tying expert Jeff Wilkins. Jeff will tell you what materials are needed to tie a Woolly Bugger, and he will demonstrate how to lay the base a Woolly Bugger, how to tie the tail of a Woolly Bugger, how to wrap the body of a Woolly Bugger, and how to tie the hackle and rib of a Woolly Bugger.

How To: Conduct a wire transfer

Has you rent check bounced again for no apparent reason? It happens to everyone, but if you're roommate needs the money fast, you need to fix it fast, and wire transfers are the fastest way to give money to someone else. Executing a wire transfer is as easy as making one phone call.

How To: Free up hard drive space using WinDirStat

Stan shows an easy way to see and clean the files that are hogging hard drive space in the computer using a free software called "windirtstat". Now enter the following address in the web browser "windirtstat.info" and scroll down the page until you get the downloading and installing section. Click on the link "windirtstat1.1.2Setup(Ansi&Unicode)" which will be right after the "for all flavors of windows" this will direct you to "SOURCEFORGE.NET" download creations. This will ask you to save t...

How To: Make a novelty duct tape bow tie

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a novelty duct tape bow tie. Begin by cutting a piece of duct tape to the size that you want the bow tie to be. It is recommended about 5-6 inches. Then cut another piece of duct tape the same size and tape it over the sticky side of the other piece. Now fold it about 1 cm down, flip it over and fold it again. Continue folding until it reaches the end. Now pinch it in the middle and tape it to hold the bow tie. This video will benefit those vi...

How To: Tie a double windsor knot easily

In this how-to video, you will learn How to Tie a Double Windsor Knot. First, place the tie around and under the collar. Put the wider end over the shorter end, and then pull it under and over the loop. Put it around, under, and over the loop again so that the wide end has gone in twice. Come back up and slip the wide end through the knot and pull. Once this is done, place the collar back down and make sure the tie has a dimple. Straighten out until it looks perfect. By viewing this video, yo...

How To: Do tie dye

In this video we are given a brief history followed by an extremely detailed procedure on the art of tie dying. We are shown each step, everything from drawing your own designs to applying small amounts of alcohol to your artwork. After everything has been soaked in water a final tie shirt has been created. A project perfect for the kids considering it has a safe and easy to understand procedure that would finish with a beautiful piece of art in merely minutes.