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Michael Nitschinger has posted the first part of a series about the internals of the Lithium routing system in the Lithium PHP 5.3 framework.

Packt Publishing: "In this two part article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to digitally sketch/draw your scenes, give them subtle color shifts, add fake lighting, and apply filter effects to further emulate how 3D does its job in a step by step process."

Packt: "In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating really convincing still images in Blender with the help of Blender Internal Renderer."

Linux.com: "In this two-part article series I'll look at two ways to possibly improve your h264 playback with MPlayer: using multiple CPU cores and using the GPU to offload the decoding.

I'll include benchmarks so you can see the effect each of these has on performance."

lanstein has submitted a two-part article series looking at connecting your PHP application with the Salesforce.com APIs (as a part of a blog dedicated entirely to the subject):

In this new tutorial on DevShed they take a look at a feature added in PHP5 to help makes developers' lives easier - magic functions.

These magic functions (like __get and __set) can help you catch things a bit closer to the execution of the language than an if or other conditional could and to do some very fun things.