Wow! eBook - Blog » Open Source http://www.wowebook.be Great ebook, great site! Wed, 23 May 2012 21:39:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Pro Spring 3 http://www.wowebook.be/book/pro-spring-3/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/pro-spring-3/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 16:44:57 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.be/?p=18470 Pro Spring 3

Book Description

The , lightweight, open-source Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise application development framework for today’s programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, and lightweight technologies like , , , and more. now also works with EE and 2 as well.

Pro Spring 3 updates the bestselling Pro Spring with the latest that the Spring Framework has to offer: version 3.1. At 1000 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive Spring book available, thoroughly exploring the power of Spring.

With Pro Spring 3, you’ll learn Spring basics and core topics, and gain access to the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, , and EJB. Beyond the basics, you’ll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application like transactions, the and presentations tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together.

After reading this definitive book, you’ll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

What you’ll learn

  • How to get started with the Spring Framework and its latest features
  • What Inversion of Control (IoC) and dependency injection (DI) are
  • Aspect-oriented techniques with Spring, and why they’re important
  • Data access and persistence using Spring and Hibernate, , 2 and more
  • How to build transaction engines for your enterprise application and take advantage of other middle-tier features in Spring
  • How to build Spring-based applications using Spring and more
  • How to build Spring-based front ends
  • How the Spring Framework can work with scripting languages like to provide enhanced functionality for your applications
  • How to benefit from the Spring IDE

Who this book is for
This book is for experienced Java developers who may be learning Spring for the first time or have minimal exposure to the Spring Framework. It’s aimed at those who are active in or plan on getting into enterprise Java application development.

Table of Contents

  1. Introducing Spring
  2. Getting Started
  3. Introducing the Sample Application
  4. Introducing IoC and DI in Spring
  5. Spring Configuration in Detail
  6. Introducing Spring AOP
  7. More Spring AOP and Annotations
  8. Spring Support
  9. Using Hibernate in Spring
  10. Data Access in Spring with JPA 2
  11. Using MyBatis in Spring
  12. and Implementing Spring-Based Applications
  13. Transaction
  14. Validation with Type Conversion and Formatting
  15. Task Scheduling in Spring
  16. Using Spring Remoting
  17. Web Applications with Spring
  18. Spring Web Flow and
  19. Spring
  20. Spring Projects: Batch, Integration, Roo
  21. Sample Application in Detail
  22. Scripting Support in Spring
  23. Spring Application Monitoring
  24. SpringSource Tool Suite (Spring IDE)

Book Details

  • Paperback: 944 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241071
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241072
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Book Description

Pro offers you a solid architectural understanding of how to manage software dependencies using , an open-source package tool for the Framework. Providing practical guidance through a multitude of examples and more advanced scenarios, this book shows you how to unleash all the power that offers. It will help you to streamline your day to day and even make it more fun to write code.

Authors Maarten Balliauw and Xavier Decoster have been working with since it was first released, contributing many ideas and practical solutions to the community over that time. In this book they demonstrate both the core concepts and the more advanced thinking needed to use effectively.

What you’ll learn

  • Interact with NuGet using both the graphical user interface and the line.
  • Set up your own NuGet repository and develop a basic NuGet server application.
  • Explore different automation scenarios leveraging NuGet, including continuous integration and automated deployment.
  • Quickly set up an enterprise-ready environment with MyGet, a NuGet-as-a-Service application.
  • Use NuGet to accomplish other goals, such as delivering plug-ins or modules to a application.

Who this book is for
With help from this succinct guide, you’ll quickly trust NuGet as a swift, invaluable asset in your toolbox. Find yourself imbued with the knowledge and skills to escape ‘dependency hell’ and establish a solid pattern to maintain external references in projects using NuGet.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started
  2. Consuming and Managing Packages in a Solution
  3. Creating Pacakages
  4. Publishing Packages
  5. Hosting Your Own NuGet Server
  6. Continuous Package Integration
  7. Automated Delivery
  8. Extending NuGet
  9. NuGet as a
  10. Appendix A
  11. Appendix B
  12. Appendix C

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241918
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241911
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Book Description

Take advantage of ’s vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you’ll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites— including a job posting board, photo gallery, online store, product review , and event calendar.

The second edition focuses on 7, the latest version of this system. Each project spans an entire chapter, with step-by-step “recipes” to help you build out the precise functionality the site requires. With this book, developers new to Drupal will gain experience through a hands-on introduction, and experienced Drupal developers will learn real-world best practices.

  • Learn Drupal’s concepts and building blocks, and how everything works together
  • Hit the ground running—build your first Drupal site hands-on
  • Explore solutions that meet each project’s requirements, and discover why specific modules were selected
  • Understand the projects through case studies, including the client’s needs and desires
  • Learn how to configure modules with a bird’s-eye view of how they work
  • Discover new modules, including Drupal Commerce, Media, and Workbench

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Drupal Overview
Chapter 2 Drupal Jumpstart
Chapter 3 Job Posting Board
Chapter 4 Media
Chapter 5 Product Reviews
Chapter 6 Event
Chapter 7 Managing Publishing Workflows
Chapter 8 Multilingual Sites
Chapter 9 Online Store

Appendix A. Installing and Upgrading Drupal
Appendix B. Choosing the Right Modules
Appendix C. Modules and Themes Used in This Book
Appendix D. Major Changes Between Drupal 6 and 7

Book Details

  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449390528
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449390525
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Book Description

, 2nd Edition is a significant update to the classic book on the language. You’ll get thorough coverage of all the new features of 1.3, and enjoy reorganized and rewritten chapters that reflect the significance of new concepts. Many code examples have been rewritten or replaced, and every page has been reevaluated in the light of 1.3.

As Aaron and Stu show you how to build an application from scratch, you’ll get a rich view into a complete Clojure workflow. And you’ll get an invaluable education in thinking in Clojure as you work out solutions to the various parts of a problem.

Clojure is becoming the language of choice for many who are moving to functional or dealing with the challenges of concurrency. Clojure offers:

  • The simplicity of an elegantly designed language
  • The power of
  • The virtues of concurrency and functional style
  • The reach of the
  • The speed of hand-written code

It’s the combination of these features that makes Clojure sparkle. Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition shows you how to think in Clojure, and to take advantage of these combined strengths to build powerful programs quickly.

What You Need:

  • Oracle JDK 6
  • A text editor

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Exploring Clojure
Chapter 3. Unifying Data with Sequences
Chapter 4. Functional Programming
Chapter 5. State
Chapter 6. Protocols and Datatypes
Chapter 7. Macros
Chapter 8. Multimethods
Chapter 9. Down and Dirty
Chapter 10. Building an Application

Book Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 2nd Edition (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934356867
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934356869
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Book Description

! is one of the most popular open-source Content Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it’s a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive - sites that perfectly fit your needs.

Completely updated for ! 2.5, this practical guide teaches you how to create professional, appealing and extendable websites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club website or build a personal blog site.

The Joomla! ’s Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!’s powerful features. Completely updated from the first book, real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich websites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. This book thoroughly covers the concepts behind the software and creates a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do – it’s about what you can do using Joomla!.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create a feature-rich site that’s easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn languages such as and Cascading Style Sheets ()
  • Design attractive home pages that provide a quick overview of the site’s contents and direct people to the content they could be interested in
  • Engage your web visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments
  • Design clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks
  • Make full use of templates to get your site to look just right, tweaking the and customizing templates using your own logo, fonts, and colors
  • Extend Joomla!’s capabilities by finding and utilizing must-have extensions that perfectly meet your needs
  • Increase your site’s visibility for search engines by applying highly effective () techniques
  • your site from hackers and potential threats using easy-to-follow techniques

Approach
Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt ’s guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! website.

Who this book is for
This book is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 426 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517908
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517904
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Book Description

is one of the most powerful Content Systems there is. However, why would you install a for every site you build? With just one copy of you can host several sites. has long had multi-site support, and 7’s support is even better than previous versions.

Drupal 7 Multi-Sites Configuration will teach you how to host several websites on a single copy of Drupal. You will learn how to create different sites, each with its own , content, and . This valuable information will help you to save time by managing modules and sharing them across several sites as well as administering your sites all in one place.

This book will show you how to configure a system for multi-site, and then install several sites on one copy of Drupal, all with their own name and . Learn how to install and share modules and themes, configure , , and for multi-site, and then manage the site. Once your site system is successfully set up, discover some of the advanced configurations possible with Drupal multi-site, as well as how to upgrade and maintain your sites.

What you will learn from this book

  • Configure and for hosting multiple sites
  • Prepare Drupal 7 to host more than one site
  • Install several sites on one instance of Drupal
  • Manage, share, or isolate modules and themes in a multi-site configuration
  • Care for your multi-site server, safely managing and upgrading it
  • Rapidly build a multi-site environment with VirtualBox and Vagrant
  • Extend the core multi-site configuration with add-on modules

Approach
Follow the creation of a multi-site instance with Drupal. The practical examples and accompanying screenshots will help you to get multiple Drupal sites set up in no time.

Who this book is for
This book is for Drupal site builders. It is assumed that readers are familiar with Drupal already, with a basic grasp of its concepts and components. System concepts, such as configuring Apache, MySQL, and Vagrant are covered but no previous knowledge of these tools is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 100 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849518009
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849518000
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Book Description

The content system is purposely created with a ‘light footprint,’ leaving it to the user or developer to add wanted features. Views is the #1 add-on for and enables you to filter, select and present your content in ways that are more meaningful to your site visitors.

Drupal 7 Views allows you to bypass most of the Views learning curve and quickly take advantage of the capabilities of the Views through step-by-step instructions for quickly developing dozens of useful views.

Starting with a brief introduction to Views, Drupal 7 Views takes you through recipes for elementary views such as displaying randomly selected content, to intermediate views such as customizing links, to advanced views using multiple displays. Along the way there are recipes for theming views, creating a programmatic view and a view handler, administering views, and finally, using some other modules related to the Views module. Recipes are standalone, so pick them in any order!

Don’t limit your site with dull content presentation. Empower your site visitors with the recipes that Drupal 7 Views Cookbook delivers!

What you will learn from this book

  • Present menu choices for categorized subsets of your content
  • Create blocks containing interesting lists or randomly selected images
  • Link multiple content types to provide more complete information
  • Display complementary content in additional displays
  • Design a desktop-like page driven by user input
  • Deliver a view from inside a custom module
  • Manipulate the templates to add pizzazz to your views
  • Administer your views with confidence

Approach
This is a cookbook containing plenty of easy-to-follow practical recipes with screenshots that will help you in mastering the Drupal Views module.

Who this book is for
Drupal 7 Views Cookbook is for developers or technically proficient users who are fairly comfortable with the concepts behind websites and the Drupal environment.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 218 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849514348
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849514347
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Book Description

is an graphics application interface, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, computer games, virtual reality, scientific visualization, and modeling. Familiar with its concepts and APIs, and need to improve your knowledge? This book is here to help. With exactly 100 recipes, it will enrich your experience and take you to the next level.

3 will escort you into the world of with OpenSceneGraph, the world famous 3D graphics engine. The book assumes that you are already familiar with some basic concepts, and provides 100 vivid recipes to demonstrate how to utilize the API flexibly and how to implement some practical aspects.

The book is divided into 10 chapters, each of which focuses on one topic. Readers may start from any topic they are interested in.

The book includes customizing OpenSceneGraph, scene graph, , scene navigation, animations, effects using fixed pipeline and shaders, managing mass data, and miscellaneous discussions. Every recipe will prove to be useful in a practical way or in research.

OpenSceneGraph 3 gives you a wide insight about 3D using OpenSceneGraph, with a set of meaningful and interesting examples.

What you will learn from this book

  • Configure and use OpenSceneGraph under different platforms, even devices
  • Organize the scene graph and customize nodes in a more effective way
  • Create and edit geometries in an interacting form
  • Manipulate the camera to view the scene freely and easily
  • Animate rigid objects, vertices, textures, and characters in the scene
  • Create realistic effects with traditional and modern techniques
  • Integrate OpenSceneGraph with different libraries and windowing systems
  • Generate and manage massive data all over the earth

Approach
This is a cookbook full of recipes with practical examples enriched with code and the required screenshots for easy and quick comprehension.

Who this book is for
You should be familiar with the basic concepts of the OpenSceneGraph API and should be able to write simple programs. Some and math knowledge will help a lot, too.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 426 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184951688X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516884
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Book Description

How disappointing is it to log on to a website for a product or you love only to discover the feature you were drawn to doesn’t work on your or ? has brand new features to adapt your existing site into a site that will keep your customers coming back.

The ’s Guide follows a humble ‘Mom & Pop’ restaurant website which gets a makeover complete with cutting edge features that play to , and desktop audiences. By following the fun example, you will finish the book having effortlessly adapted your website so that it is accessible and, more importantly, looks good and functions well, on any device.

Restaurant websites are notoriously horrible to navigate and our Mom & Pop example is wellintentioned but no exception to this rule. We bring this site out of the early 1990’s with cutting edge practices and a team workflow. This pizza chain goes mobile with location services, audio, video, charting and mapping worthy of any multi-million dollar site. Each chapter examines the way the site works and shows you how to move the existing content and functionality into reusable features.

What you will learn from this book

  • Set up Access and Drupal Behaviors that redirect mobile and desktop browsers to the version of the website most appropriate for your client
  • Share content across sites without resorting to a multi-site install
  • Use context and image styles to create a customized view for the home page
  • Create a mobile-friendly menu
  • Bundle several exercises up into a feature that can push new content to your live site in one fell swoop
  • Create a compelling audio and video experience without using Flash
  • Customize a that will present your site to mobile and desktop clients alike with a unified marketing message

Approach
Follow the fun example of a family pizza restaurant to help you adapt your own website to one that is fullyfunctional in a mobile environment. Each chapter covers a different aspect of mobile development with plenty of step-by-step instructions and screenshots to make things clearer.

Who this book is for
This book is for independent developers who may or may not have had experience with Drupal websites. We take some “deep dives” into customized functionality that will take your Drupal development and your development workflow to the next level.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 338 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184951562X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849515627
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Book Description

Share is a modern, browser-based platform for content and collaboration. Share sets the premise for affordablecollaboration for enterprises. Based on the sturdy Surf framework, Share leverages dynamic site generation capabilities of for better participation amongst enterprise personnel. Do you want to know more about Share?

Alfresco Share will guide you through creating and managing sites. The book focuses on needs rather than technical syntax. The book builds a case study around a sample example, so that you will have an easier, practical understanding of Alfresco Share. There are step-by-step examples which explain how the out of the box features can be made best use of as well as the other options that are available, and how they fit into the overall picture. By the end of this book, you will know how to set up an efficient and effective collaboration system for your company and customers.

The book will guide the readers to learn Alfresco through steps starting from installation to the deployment of Alfresco Share. It helps the users understand the benefits that they can reap by implementing Alfresco share solution in their enterprise environment.

You will learn about how alfresco share application is built on top of alfresco repository using Surf Framework. You will be taught how to manage users and groups and the concepts of the underlying framework behind the Alfresco model.

The book will also teach you to create and manage a site for collaboration within the team. You will also learn to configure dashboards for easy use. The content also includes explaining how members can contribute content and share their expertise with other team members by creating entries on the site wiki, blog, forums, discussion etc. You will become familiar with managing documents through Document library and implementing workflows to automate the process. You will be able to try out various configurations within share such as searching custom properties, enabling custom aspects , configuring new advance workflows, and managing actions on document library. You will learn about how to set up the environment and different approaches for deployment followed in share.

Our book, Alfresco Share aims to help users get a better perspective of enterprise collaboration. It will help you set up an infrastructure for supporting multiple sites using Alfresco Share, enable a shortened cycle, and make the best use of collaborative features.

What you will learn from this book

  • Real time understanding of capabilities of Alfresco Share through case study
  • Alfresco share and its
  • User and defining roles and access
  • Managing a Share Site
  • Use collaboration features like Wikis, blogs, data Lists, calendar, links, and discussions
  • Manage documents through workflow
  • Configure Share for ease of use
  • Share deployment guidelines

Approach
Written in an easy-to-read and encouraged-to-try style, this book will take you from the basics of using Share to deploying Alfresco Share through a case-study. The necessary screenshots and thorough explanations are provided.

Who this book is for
If you are a business user or content manager looking to implement a  collaboration strategy for your enterprise, then this book is for you. This book is not a developer guide. It focuses on business needs rather than technical syntax. However, it helps in understanding the capabilities of Alfresco Share through Case Study. Although no knowledge of Alfresco is presumed, exposure to , templating language, and the concepts of scripts and Document Management will help you to get the most from this book.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184951710X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517102
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Book Description

is one of the most widely used applications, which is written in . supports a wide range of operations with . Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 52 languages.

is a -based front-end to manage databases and has been adopted by a number of Open-Source distributors.

Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL is an easy-to-read, step-by-step practical guide that walks you through every facet of this legendary tool—phpMyAdmin—and takes you a step ahead in taking full advantage of its potential. This book is filled with illustrative examples that will help you understand every phpMyAdmin feature in detail.

This is the official guide to this popular MySQL interface. It starts with installing and configuring phpMyAdmin, including the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage, which is the key to its advanced features. This is followed by configuring authentication in phpMyAdmin and setting parameters that influence the interface as a whole.

You will also learn some advanced features such as defining inter-table relations with the advanced Designer . You will practice synchronizing databases on different servers and managing MySQL replication to improve and data . Moreover, you will also store queries as bookmarks for their quick retrieval.

In addition to it, this book helps you to learn new features introduced in version 3.4.x such as users’ preferences, producing charts and the visual multi-table query builder.

What you will learn from this book

  • Upload phpMyAdmin to your and upgrade to the latest version
  • authentication credentials according to the needs of a users group
  • Manage multiple MySQL servers using a single copy of phpMyAdmin
  • Export a table’s structure and data for backup purposes
  • Define inter-table relations in a relational system
  • Enter your own queries to perform actions that are beyond the scope of the interface and keep a history of these queries
  • Administer users accounts and privileges
  • Troubleshoot common problems encountered in phpMyAdmin and avoid these problems from re-occurring

Approach
This is a step-by-step instructional guide to get you started easily with phpMyAdmin and teach you to manage and perform functions on your . You will first be introduced to the interface and then build basic tables and perform both simple and advanced functions on the created . The book progresses gradually and you will follow it best by reading it sequentially.

Who this book is for
If you are a developer, system administrator, or web designer who wants to manage MySQL databases and tables efficiently, then this book is for you. This book assumes that you are already wellacquainted with MySQL basics. This book is a must-read for every serious phpMyAdmin user who would like to use this outstanding application to its full power.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 394 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517789
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517782
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Book Description

As an updated version of the first ever book, this is an excellent resource for those interested in due to its attention to detail, clearly written style and knowledgeable author.
– Dave Tosh, co-founder.

In his book, Cash Costello makes full use of his skills in and communication to tackle the complex subject of Elgg networking. This easy-to-read guide gives end users, new developers, and old pros alike a solid base to start their venture into media with Elgg. I highly recommend it as a useful and enjoyable read.
– Brett Profitt, Elgg Lead Developer

The is becoming increasingly as millions of people use it to blog, share, post, ‘friend’, ‘unfriend’ (which was made the Oxford word of the year in 2009), comment, and chat. Elgg – your award-winning social networking engine – is tailor-made to create any social networking or social media website you can imagine.

If you want to create a social networking website from scratch using Elgg, then this book is exactly what you need.

Elgg 1.8 Social Networking covers everything you need to know about building a social networking site with Elgg. It begins with instructions for installing Elgg, continues with a guided tour of its capabilities, and finishes with practical advice on deploying Elgg on a production server. And in between, it is packed with information on configuring and customizing Elgg through plugins and themes.

This book is a learn-by-doing guide to creating your own social networking site. It includes three sample case studies on how Elgg could be used as an e-learning tool, an intranet application for organizations, and a niche social networking site. Step by step it takes you through the installation, configuration, and customization of Elgg. Valuable advice is sprinkled throughout the book to enable you to build your site like an expert.

For developers, this book provides a multitude of options. First, there is a tutorial-based section that systematically teaches you how to build plugins. Soon you will have ten plugins for use on your site in addition to all the knowledge you have gained. Second, if you prefer a quick overview, this book has an appendix that describes Elgg using the terminology and design patterns common in development. Third, if you are interested in creating a , it also includes a design tutorial and a catalog of Elgg’s view templates.

The book then goes on to describe what is involved in running a production website. It has sections on selecting a hosting provider, configuring and tuning the server, backing up the site, and dealing with spammers.

What you will learn from this book

  •  Install your very own site using Elgg and learn to administer it.
  •  Customize your site using the plugins available from the Elgg plugin repository.
  •  Build your own plugins from scratch while following the step-by-step tutorials.
  •  Create your own by selecting recipes from the theming .
  •  Learn how to share content with other users.
  •  Deploy Elgg in a production environment with ample advice on server configuration, back-ups, site monitoring, and daily administrative tasks.
  •  Examine the design of Elgg from a developer’s perspective.
  •  Learn how you can contribute to the vibrant and ever growing Elgg community

Approach
This book provides more than just a step-by-step guide to installing and using Elgg. It includes practical advice gained through experience on what it takes to deploy and maintain an Elgg-based site. If you are a software developer or are familiar with , it provides both a tutorial-based introduction and a quick reference guide so that you can quickly extend and customize Elgg.

Who this book is for
If you want to create a social networking site using Elgg and do not have a background in software development, this book provides all the information and advice that you need written just for you. If you are a developer, it also contains valuable tutorials and reference material so that you can begin writing code right away.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 1, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849511306
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849511308
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Book Description

Walk through the basics of , the high- server known for its speed, simplicity, and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use ’s acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using in the .

Are you interested in creating a scalable application, analytics engine, or —all with the power and simplicity of Python? This book shows you why Tornado is fantastic choice for writing powerful applications that are simple to create, extend, and deploy.

  • Learn how to use Tornado’s lightweight and flexible templating language
  • Extend templates to repurpose headers, footers, layout grids, and other content
  • Use persistent storage like to store, serve, and edit dynamic content
  • Explore Tornado’s ability to make asynchronous requests
  • your application against cookie and request vulnerabilities
  • Authenticate with external services, using Tornado’s auth
  • Adopt deployment strategies that help harden your application and increase request throughput

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Forms and Templates
Chapter 3. Extending Templates
Chapter 4. Databases
Chapter 5. Asynchronous
Chapter 6. Writing Applications
Chapter 7. Authenticating with External Services
Chapter 8. Deploying Tornado

Book Details

  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449309070
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449309077
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]]> http://www.wowebook.be/book/introduction-to-tornado/feed/ 1 Drupal Development Tricks for Designers http://www.wowebook.be/book/drupal-development-tricks-for-designers/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/drupal-development-tricks-for-designers/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:17:52 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.name/?p=17920 Drupal Development Tricks for Designers

Book Description

Take your skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to yourself from bonehead mistakes.

Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.

  • Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the line
  • Set up your local environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others
  • Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with , the Drupal
  • Use , the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
  • Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom with Features

Table of Contents
Part I: Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Chapter 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
Chapter 2. Working on the Line: Some Basic Commands
Chapter 3. Installing
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Version Control

Part II: Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier
Chapter 5. Using Features in Your Workflow
Chapter 6. Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles

Book Details

  • Paperback: 70 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449305539
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449305536
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Book Description

It’s pretty common for a modern developer to have a console, , and a text editor running at the same time. Switching between these with the mouse takes up valuable time and can break your concentration. By using , you can improve your productivity and regain your focus. This book will show you how.

You’ll learn how to manage multiple terminal sessions within using only your keyboard. You’ll see how to manage and run programs side-by-side in panes, and you’ll learn how to create the perfect environment with custom scripts so that when you’re ready to work, your programs are waiting for you. Then you’ll discover how to manipulate text with tmux’s copy and paste buffers. Once you’ve got the basics down, you’ll discover how easy it is to use tmux to collaborate remotely with others. Finally, you’ll explore more advanced usage as you manage multiple tmux sessions, add custom scripts into the tmux status line, and integrate tmux with your system.

Whether you’re an application developer or a system administrator, you’ll find many useful tricks and techniques to help you take control of your terminal.

What you need:
You’ll need a Mac or Linux machine and some experience using commands.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Learning The Basics
Chapter 2. Configuring tmux
Chapter 3. Scripting Customized tmux Environments
Chapter 4. Working With Text and Buffers
Chapter 5. Pair with tmux
Chapter 6. Workflows

Book Details

  • Paperback: 88 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934356968
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Book Description

With this digital Early Release edition of : , you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.p>Ready to unleash the power of your massive dataset? With the latest edition of this comprehensive resource, you’ll learn how to use to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems. It’s ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run clusters.

This third edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including new material on the new , as well as version 2 of the runtime (YARN) and its more flexible execution model. You’ll also find illuminating case studies that demonstrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.

  • Store large datasets with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), then run distributed computations with
  • Use Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization (including Avro), and persistence
  • Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs
  • Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop , or run Hadoop in the
  • Use Pig, a high-level query language for large-scale data processing
  • Analyze datasets with Hive, Hadoop’s data warehousing system
  • Load data from relational databases into HDFS, using Sqoop
  • Take advantage of , the for structured and semi-structured data
  • Use ZooKeeper, the toolkit for building distributed systems

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Meet Hadoop
Chapter 2. MapReduce
Chapter 3. The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem
Chapter 4. Hadoop I/O
Chapter 5. Developing a MapReduce Application
Chapter 6. How MapReduce Works
Chapter 7. MapReduce Types and Formats
Chapter 8. MapReduce Features
Chapter 9. Setting Up a Hadoop
Chapter 11. Pig
Chapter 12. Hive
Chapter 13.
Chapter 14. ZooKeeper
Chapter 15. Sqoop
Chapter 16. Case Studies
Appendix. Installing Hadoop

Book Details

  • Paperback: 630 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 3rd Edition (May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449311520
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449311520
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Book Description

With this bundle you will master in no time. Three fresh eBooks contain Magazine’s best articles on , carefully prepared, edited and — of course — without advertising. “ Essentials”, “Mastering ” and “ Tutorials” will surely come in handy. All eBooks are available in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket formats. This bundle really gets your career started.

“WordPress Essentials” eBook (Techniques for Beginners) (164 pages)
If you want to find out how to extend the limitations of WordPress, this eBook for will help you improve your capabilities, so you can take full advantage of its flexibility. Learn how to build WordPress themes that sell, how to interact with the WordPress , create a plugin, integrate with WordPress and use and to produce engaging experience and maintainable code.

“Mastering WordPress” eBook (166 pages)
This eBook explains advanced methods and techniques which go beyond front-end experience and show how to customize back-end for your needs as well. You will learn to WordPress hooks and custom fields, power tips for WordPress template developers, tips for WordPress plugin developers and comprehensive introduction to advanced layout templates.

“WordPress Tutorials” eBook (183 pages)
This eBook is filled with detailed techniques which will show you the step-by-step of various enhancement processes on WordPress publishing. Including tabs into the user interface, adding media elements, applying plug-ins and creating custom meta boxes are a few examples of what the eBook covers. You will learn how to create native admin tables and multisites, build a media site, use bbPress and integrate S3 with WordPress.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 164 + 166 + 183 pages
  • Publisher:  Media GmbH (2011)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key benefits that involve personalization, customization, content systems, content , collaboration, networking and workflow. If you are a developer who wants to build custom sites and WAP sites using portal, this book is all you need.

Liferay Portal Systems shows developers how to use Liferay kernel 6.1 and above as a framework to develop custom web and WAP systems which will help you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience!

The clear, practical examples in the sample application that runs throughout this book will enable professional Java developers to build custom web sites, portals, and applications using Liferay portal as a framework. You will learn how to make all of your organization’s data and web content easily accessible by customizing Liferay into a single point of access. The book will also show you how to improve your inter-company communication by enhancing your web and WAP sites to easily share content with colleagues.

What you will learn from this book

  • Provide complete coverage of both the commercial and versions of Liferay Portal 6.1 within the real-world example Knowledge Base portlet
  • Build basic and advanced portlets with the Service-Builder and RBAC permissions, helping you to build enterprise-ready Java web sites
  • Use Ext plugins and Hooks, allowing you to perform custom actions on your portal
  • Manage images, documents, videos, audio, and records using the Document and Media Library and record
  • Build web content and web forms using the WYSIWYG editors, Custom Attributes, assets tagging and classification, and Dynamic Data List
  • Create a collaborative and complete with Ratings, Comments, Subscriptions, Collaboration, Social Equity, and Asset Links
  • Improve your portal with staging, scheduling, remote publishing, caching, clustering, indexing, search, and workflow.
  • Build WAP -based applications and leverage diverse portlet bridges like , Struts, and

Approach
This book focuses on teaching by example. Every chapter provides an overview, and then dives right into hands-on examples so you can see and play with the solution in your own environment.

Who this book is for
This book is for Java developers who don’t need any prior experience with Liferay portal. Although Liferay portal makes heavy use of frameworks, no prior experience of using these is assumed.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 546 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849515980
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849515986
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Book Description

You may often have wondered if there is a better way to integrate disparate applications than error-prone “glue code”. is just that solution as it can help solve common but difficult problems: writing new code that can be re-used and maintained, and integrating together new and old systems. takes care of routing and processing service requests, leaving you to concentrate on your system’s design and .

The ’s Guide gets you up and running quickly with to build your own service-based applications, with enhanced communication and organization. You will learn how to create new applications or to integrate combinations of new and legacy applications. Detailed examples get you creating your own services, and deploying and administering them with other tools.

Through hands-on examples, this book shows you how ESB enables you to design your system as services that are loosely coupled together by sending and receiving messages. Your services can execute your own custom code, or make use of ESB’s extensive set of out-of-the-box actions to perform specific tasks. The ESB ’s Guide shows you the tools you can use to build re-usable and maintainable service-based applications with ESB, and teaches you by example how to use these tools.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install, configure, administer, start and stop the JBoss Application Server (AS) and then deploy JBoss ESB onto .
  • Run the JBoss ESB example “quickstart” sample applications, so that you understand the applications’ output, and how to debug the JBoss ESB application failures
  • Build custom JBoss ESB applications with JBoss ESB’s out-of-the-box actions or your own action code
  • Use a service registry to provide access to your services and store and access your metadata
  • Integrate your custom application with other applications through the protocols supported by JBoss ESB gateway listeners
  • See how the behavior of services can alter through content-based routing and message transformation
  • Use other JBoss projects such as the and JBDS with JBoss ESB to create, deploy, and administer services
  • Integrate existing with your applications’ services over JBoss ESB

Approach
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, each chapter contains practical examples with step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to guide you through the implementation of JBoss ESB.

Who this book is for
This book is intended for programmers although you don’t need previous experience with middleware such as application servers or ESBs.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516588
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516587
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Book Description

You can use the 7 content system to build a small website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, , application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your .

7 Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your quickly using one of the most popular tools in .

You’ll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you’ll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar.

The book will then teach you to add to your site so you can sell your products online. You’ll add videos and to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers.

The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install and set up Drupal
  • Add blogs to attract customers to your business site
  • Add customer accounts to your site
  • Incorporate e-commerce in your site to sell your products online using and the new Commerce modules.
  • Integrate , videos, and e-newsletter with your site which will help you increase your profits
  • Insert online surveys and polls in your site to improve business through customer feedback
  • Take care of and maintain your site.

Approach
This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete business website using Drupal and enhancing it to include modern technology used by cutting-edge companies. All instructions are written in such a way that they make sense to readers of any technical level.

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to set up a website quickly for their business using the super powerful Drupal content software.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 378 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516642
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516648
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