Jun 22, 2011 |
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Book Description
As an enterprise administrator, you likely are responsible for translating business goals into technology decisions and designs and for developing mid-range and long-term strategies. You are responsible for making key decisions and recommendations about network infrastructure, directory services, identity management, security policies, business continuity, IT administrative structure, best practices, standards, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Your job role involves 20 percent operations, 60 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks.
By using this training kit, you will learn how to do the following:
- Plan network and application services
- Design core identity and access management components
- Design support identity and access management components
- Design for business continuity and data availability
Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. Then assess yourself using 200+ practice questions on the CD, which features multiple, customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an exam discount voucher—making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment. Download Now »
Jan 22, 2011 |
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Video Description
Make Drupal run like a greased cheetah!
Want to learn the secrets the pros use for making Drupal scale huge and perform with grace high traffic situations? In Drupal Performance & Scalability, Matt Westgate and James Sansbury teach you all you need to know to get peak performance out of Drupal on the LAMP stack. They carefully walk you through both installation and customization of the entire LAMP stack. They go over the highly-optimized Pressflow distribution of Drupal. They teach you how to benchmark your site’s performance, how to install many types of caching layers and how to optimize each layer of your server infrastructure. They even teach you all about things like CDN integration, APC, Varnish, Memcache and other caching layers within Drupal and MySQL. They discuss scaling strategies, looking at hardware topologies for both co-located and cloud infrastructures. They teach you how to isolate performance bottlenecks and cover strategies for monitoring. They also go over some of the changes in Drupal 7 and the next release of Pressflow. By the end of this video you’ll be an old pro at creating high performance Drupal deployments!
Chapter Listing:
- Introduction
- Overview of performance optimizations
- LAMP stack installations
- Prepping MySQL
- Installing Pressflow Download Now »
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Video Description
Learn from the foremost expert and become a Drupal SEO guru!
In this video, Ben Finklea of Volacci.com explains all the ins and outs of configuring Drupal and its various modules in order to maximize your site’s Search Engine Optimization.
Ben begins by orienting you to the SEO landscape by walking through all of the essential components of the Drupal SEO Checklist module. He clearly explains the basic analytic metrics and webmaster tools you’ll need to understand before researching the best keywords to focus on for your SEO campaign. He walks you through various Drupal modules you can use to manage your page titles, automatic URLs, meta tags, URL redirects, sitemaps and optimizations for local businesses. He also shows you how to configure built-in Drupal settings to properly set up your header tags, content silos, menu system, robots.txt and Apache rewrite rules. He also talks about how to measure your site’s compliance and performance before laying out the next steps for your SEO campaign to maximize your site’s conversion rates.
This video shows how Drupal is one of the best content management platforms for SEO. After watching this video you’ll know all of the steps you need to take to improve your site’s search engine ranking!
- Introduction
- SEO Checklist Module
- Setting up Google Analytics
- Using Google Webmaster tools Download Now »
Apr 30, 2010 |
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Video Description
In its short history, jQuery has revolutionized front-end web development, making it faster, easier, and more rewarding to write JavaScript – allowing easier selection and manipulation of HTML elements, and ensuring that scripts work across the ever increasing landscape of browsers and operating systems. jQuery is now the most popular JavaScript library on the web, powering over 27% of the 10,000 most popular sites.
This video walks the viewer through the essential concepts and syntaxes needed start writing simple-yet-powerful JavaScript using jQuery. Nate Haug and Jeff Robbins show many hands-on examples demonstrating how to use jQuery’s simple syntax to choose and manipulate HTML elements, traverse the document object model (DOM), and to attach event handlers which can react to user interaction with the page. They also walk through how to construct an AJAX request to pull in data from external HTML, XML, or JSON sources as well as how to create a simple jQuery plug-in.
Learn how liberating and fun jQuery development can be. Give us 3 hours and we’ll get you excited to create clearer, easier-to-use, and more whiz-bangy websites.
Full chapter listing:
- Introduction
- What is jQuery?
- Introduction to Firebug
- Overview of jQuery Concepts Download Now »
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Video Description
This video is ginormous! Originally, we hoped we’d have two smaller videos with titles like “Module Development Basics” and “Advanced Module Development”, but they just wouldn’t hold up on their own. We didn’t want people to end up with only half the story, so we decided to just create one massive comprehensive video with everything you need to know to create Drupal modules of your own. The result is “Drupal Module Building”, the first Lullabot double-album – 5 hours and 10 minutes of action-packed PHP coding, Drupal hooks, and Form API arrays. After watching this video, you’ll be a module building ninja, ready to customize and extend Drupal and bend it to your will!
In this video, James Walker, Jeff Eaton and Matt Westgate walk you through everything you need to know in order to build, extend and contribute a Drupal module. Starting with some of the essential development tools, they’ll show you how to use the Drupal API reference material and explain all of Drupal’s major conceptual systems. After creating the proper files to register the module, they’ll implement a few Drupal hooks that plug into Drupal’s event-driven architecture. You’ll learn how to register both static and dynamic URLs with Drupal’s menu system. Then you’ll get an introduction to Drupal’s database abstraction layer, how to select and insert data from it, and how to update the database schema. You’ll learn to securely capture and sanitize user-submitted data with the Forms API, as well as how to properly alter any other Drupal form on your site. Finally, you’ll learn how to write secure code, conform to Drupal’s coding standards, and how to contribute your module back to Drupal.org and apply patches provided by the community. Download Now »
Jan 03, 2010 |
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Video Description
The Lullabot Learning Series continues with a hands-on look at Drupal’s Content Construction Kit (commonly known as CCK). In this tutorial video, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, and James Walker show everything from CCK basics such as adding and displaying fields to more advanced topics such as CCK’s database storage mechanisms, field-level permissions, and how to theme CCK’s output. Each chapter of this video builds upon the last as the team builds and configures the content types for a university job board. This video pairs well with Learning Views, which continues this job board project through to completion.
Chapter listing:
- Introduction & Overview
- Content Types in Drupal Core
- The Content Construction Kit
- Adding a New CCK Field
- Text Fields & User Reference
- CCK Formatters
- How CCK Stores Data
- File Field & Node References
- Multiple Values & Shared Fields
- Options that Change the Database
- Additional CCK Modules
- Field-Level Permissions Download Now »
