Over at Dzone, Giorgio Sironi has a very nice list of generic class and interface design questions you should ask yourself before committing a new code artifact, relative to naming, structure, and length. I’ve posted a few pointers to articles at DZone lately; they remain one of the very best sources that I know of for serious programmers to get relevant, high-quality tutorials and articles on even the most obscure tips relating to web development and many other subjects. This class design tipsheet is just one of the many helpful resources that I’ve made use of myself in the last year by way of DZone.
3D Character Creator
The open source MakeHuman software lets you model photorealistic humanoid 3-D characters in less than two minutes, or so says the documentation. The GUI looks very friendly and you can export figures in 3D graphics formats that are supported by many different modellers and rendering engines. 3D character creation has never looked so simple. Â We have done several reviews of software that helps you create characters in 3-D that are incredibly lifelike and which can in turn be useful in various applications, from game creation to simply making virtual sculptures for the creative fun of it. This is one of the best tools I have seen.