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AutoCAD: Lynn Allen’s Tips and Tricks For Using AutoCAD 2009.pdf

May 19, 2010 · Filed Under 3D & Technical Drawing · Comment  · Tags: ,

Taken from Autodesk Impression: Impress colleagues and clients with graphics created directly from your CAD drawings with Autodesk Impression software (available to subscription customers only). Now you can bypass the tedious and time-consuming task of creating graphics by hand or importing CAD files into graphics software for polishing.

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Best Practices for Sustainable Development of Micro Hydro Power in Developing Countries.pdf

September 1, 2009 · Filed Under Civil & Architectural Engineering · Comment  · Tags: , , , , ,

Taken from Introduction: Micro hydro, defined as a plant between 10 kW and 200 kW, is perhaps the most mature of the modern small-scale decentralised energy supply technologies used in developing countries. There are thought to be tens of thousands of plants in the ‘micro’ range operating successfully in China 2, and significant numbers are operated in wide ranging countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Vietnam and Peru. This experience shows that in certain circumstances micro hydro can be profitable in financial terms, while at others, unprofitable plants can exhibit such strong positive impacts on the lives of poor people and the environment that they may well justify subsidies.

The evidence from this extensive experience shows such wide variation in terms of cost, profitability and impact, that it has often been difficult for investors and rural people to determine whether, and under what circumstances, this technology is viable and best meets their needs.

Whilst supplying improved energy services to people for the first time is difficult, supplying such services profitably to very poor people who live far away from roads and the electricity grid poses a particularly difficult challenge. This report shows that micro hydro compares well with other energy supply technologies in these difficult markets. Despite this micro hydro appears to have been relatively neglected by donors, the private sector and governments in the allocation of resources and attention. In the past, rural electrification by means of grid extension was the option favoured by donors. More recently the fashion has switched towards photovoltaics, probably because of its higher foreign content, and the higher added value returned to the metropolitan countries.

The relative neglect of micro hydro has also been in part due to the fact that the circumstances under which it is financially profitable have not been systematically established, at least not in ways that investors find credible. In addition, while it is known that the growth and sustainability of the micro hydro sub-sector depends on certain types of infrastructure and institutional investments, it was often not clear which elements ofthis ‘enabling environment’ were essential, nor how they were best financed.

Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients.pdf

March 24, 2007 · Filed Under dotNET-C-C# · Comment  · Tags: ,

This guide provides prescriptive recommendations and code samples that enable you to use design patterns and Microsoft .NET Framework programming idioms effectively in the presentation layer of your applications.

Using Samba, 2nd Edition

March 23, 2007 · Filed Under System Administration · Comment  · Tags: ,

Samba is an extremely useful networking tool for anyone who has both Windows and Unix systems on his network. Running on a Unix system, it allows Windows to share files and printers on the Unix host, and it also allows Unix users to access resources shared by Windows systems.