Itchy Animation takes an in-depth look at lighting and makes several suggestions on improving lighting in photography and graphics. Light: A very detailed article, in several sections.

Part 1: The basics
Part 2: Light direction
Part 3: Natural Light
Part 4: Artificial and indoor light

From the author:
"These articles are the basis of a new book which I am in the process of writing, it is due for release in spring 2009, watch this site for updates. The book will be a comprehensive guide to lighting for artists, and will go into much greater detail."

myOSx11-GL is a Live CD system with focus on OpenGL/OpenGL ES and Game development, it also tries to be very small so it can run completly from RAM and therefore be faster and more responsive. Live CD image (75Mb) includes Xorg, Xgl/Compiz, Gimp, Blender and Opera. It works on PC and x86 Macintosh with minimum 256Mb system RAM. There are four development Add-Ons with over 100 OpenGL(ES) demos, each SDK is preconfigured so all the sorce code and demos will compile on one simple command: 'make'

1.) 10Mb - GLX, native X11 OpenGL interface
2.) 13Mb - Trolltech Qt-X11 OpenGL (Qt Embedded - OpenGL ES)
3.) 22Mb - PowerVR - OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0
4.) 2Mb - Scitech SNAP/MGL framebuffer OpenGL (X-less)

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - April 14, 2008 - CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced Delphi for PHP 2.0. Delphi for PHP is the only PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for rapidly building interactive web applications using visual drag-and-drop design capabilities and a powerful PHP component framework.

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• An expanded and faster Visual Component Library (VCL) for PHP with support for popular PHP packages and libraries including Zend Framework
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