Creating Transparent Images for PowerPoint June 16 2006
This exercise demonstrates how to create images that are not square that can be used in PowerPoint presentations.
NOTE: This is to only be used for presentations that are not being printed. PowerPoint does not implement printing transparent images correctly.
Tools Required: Photoshop
1. Load the image containing the image you wish to isolate. For example if you have an image of a cube that contains a background but you want to isolate the cube portion.
2. Select the Pen tool by clicking on the Pen tool or pressing “P”. Make sure that “Paths” is selected in the top left-hand corner rather than “Shape Layers” or …
Setting Up an Eclipse Tomcat Environment June 15 2006
Today I had the pleasure to install a J2EE web environment on my dev box. This works very similar to Visual Studio .NET but it doesn’t cost you anything (Java Equiv.)
Here goes:
1. Download and install J2EE SDK (not JRE) (java.sun.com)
2. Download and install Tomcat (tomcat.apache.org)
3. Download and install Eclipse (www.eclipse.org)
4. Download and install EasyEclipse (SourceForge)
Put it all together and start Eclipse!
Here is a super article from IBM on the subject : http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ectom/
Peace out.
Welcome to GE June 02 2006
As many of you may have already heard, ZENON Environmental was acquired by GE (General Electric) as of June 1st, 2006. Along with the acquisition came the people whom I work with and as such I am now an employee of GE.
Many of us do not understand the nature of such a transaction and what it means to those people who have invested their years with a company like ZENON. For the most part, it appears that ZENON will remain intact for immediate future as a solution division of GE Water & Process Technologies ( GE Infrastructure ). I will still …
