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Magento 1.4 Theming Cookbook

Posted: 10 Sep 2011 04:03 AM PDT

Magento 1.4 Theming Cookbook

Book Description

Magento is the fastest growing PHP-based ecommerce solution. It is a professional, polished application that can be extended or customized with PHP code. Magento theming is a very interesting topic but it can be difficult to get the hang of.

Magento 1.4 Theming Cookbook is like a toolbox for building Magento themes. Thanks to its cookbook approach, the recipes found in this book can be applied in almost any Magento theme.

This book will help you to create a Magento theme using recipes in a step-by-step approach. Although you can dive into any individual recipe, the cookbook is organized in a way that will help beginners learn Magento theming by doing. More advanced users can refer to just the recipes that will be useful to them. You will learn how to add sliders, Cufon font replacements, social media, lightbox, and much more!

What you will learn from this book :

  • Explore Magento theming, layouts, templates, inheritance, and all you need to work with Magento theming.
  • Search, download, install, and modify existing themes, so you can start working with your Magento installation at once.
  • Create your own theme from the ground up; add breadcrumbs, toplinks, a mini cart, a main menu, and all the items necessary to make a Magento theme.
  • Use Cufon in your theme, create sliders, modify the lightbox, and add social media sharing icons.
  • Create a simple module, a featured products module, and later modify it to create a most sold products module.
  • Localize your themes and also make them multicurrency, and translate images and menus.
  • Pack your theme and get ideas of where to sell it

Approach
This book is written in a cookbook style. This means that you will find its contents divided into recipes, which can be used separately. Throughout the book you will follow detailed examples from start to finish. From a photoshop PSD to a Magento theme, you will do everything step by step, with easy to follow instructions. You already have a Magento theme which you need to modify? Just go to the recipe you need.

Who this book is written for
If you are a designer or programmer who wants to create excellent Magento themes, quickly and easily, this book is for you. No special knowledge of Magento or PHP is required, though some html and CSS experience will be helpful.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849514240
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849514248
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Node Web Development

Posted: 10 Sep 2011 03:58 AM PDT

Node Web Development

Book Description

Node is an exciting new technology stack that brings JavaScript to the server-side of web applications for the first time. Node means that JavaScript is no longer just for browsers. It’s for web application development, it’s for developing any internet protocol, it’s for the real-time web, it’s for command line scripts, and much more.

Node Web Development gives you an excellent starting point straight into the heart of developing server side web applications with node. You will learn, through practical examples, how to use the HTTP Server and Client objects, the Connect and Express application frameworks, the algorithms for asynchronous execution, and use both SQL and MongoDB databases.

This book is the ideal companion for getting started with Node. Starting with practical advice on installing Node for both development and application deployment, you will learn how to develop both HTTP Server and Client applications. Many different ways of working with Node are shown, including using database storage engines in applications and developing websites both with and without the Connect/Express web application framework. You will also get an introduction to Node's CommonJS module system allowing you to implement an important subset of object-oriented design.

What you will learn from this book :

  • Discover the role of server-side JavaScript in web application development
  • Make informed architecture choices in Node for performance and throughput
  • Install and use Node for both the development and deployment of server-side web applications
  • Use the Connect and Express application frameworks
  • Set up either SQL or MongoDB database systems in your application
  • Learn the difference between synchronous and asynchronous algorithms and why they are important

Approach
This book is a practical introduction to learning about Node. Each chapter introduces you to a different area of Node, using screenshots and examples to get you up and running as quickly as possible.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer who wants to use JavaScript on the server side in order to build quicker, higher performing web applications, then this book is for you. It is recommended that you should have at least a rudimentary understanding of JavaScript and web application development.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184951514X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849515146
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Play Framework Cookbook

Posted: 10 Sep 2011 03:55 AM PDT

Play Framework Cookbook

Book Description

The Play framework is the new kid on the block of Java frameworks. By breaking with existing standards the play framework tries not to abstract away from HTTP as most web frameworks do, but tightly integrates with it. This means quite a shift for Java programmers. Understanding these concepts behind the play framework and its impact on web development with Java are crucial for fast development of applications.

The Play Framework Cookbook starts where the beginner documentation ends. It shows you how to utilize advanced features of the Play framework – piece by piece and completely outlined with working applications!

The reader will be taken through all layers of the Play Framework and provided with in-depth knowledge from as many examples and applications as possible. Leveraging the most from the Play framework means to think simple again in a java environment. Implement your own renderers, integrate tightly with HTTP, use existing code, improve site performance with caching and integrate with other web services and interfaces. Learn about non-functional issues like modularity or integration into production and testing environments. In order to provide the best learning experience during reading Play Framework Cookbook, almost every example is provided with source code, so you can start immediately to integrate recipes into your own play applications.

What you will learn from this book :

  • Write own render methods to return custom formats for creating custom PDFs or RSS and ATOM feed responses
  • Understand internal caching and implement your own cache in just a few lines of code
  • Use existing modules to incorporate legacy spring or guice applications
  • Integrate external APIs into your own application without affecting your application during downtimes
  • Add custom monitoring points deep inside your application to simplify bottleneck detection
  • Create your own API which gets exposed to the world wide web
  • Leverage the validation abilities of the play framework to make sure you always handle valid data to your backend
  • Create your own modules to make your application as reusable as possible
  • Improve performance by setting up multi node environments without struggling through the usual pitfalls
  • Provide integration to your operation monitoring systems like nagios or icinga
  • Implement messaging capabilities by connecting to apache camel or rabbitmq
  • Improve searching of data in a multi node setup by searching via apache solr

Approach
This book is in Packt's Cookbook series. A Packt Cookbook contains recipes for solutions to the most important problems you face when working with a topic.

Inside the Cookbook you will find:

  • A straightforward and easy to follow format
  • A selection of the most important tasks and problems
  • Carefully organized instructions for solving the problem efficiently
  • Clear explanations of what you did
  • Details for applying the solution to other situations

Who this book is written for
This is the ideal book for people who have already written a first application with the Play Framework or have just finished reading through the documenation. In other words – anyone who is ready to get to grips with Play! Having a basic knowledge of Java is good, as well as well as some web developer skills – HTML and JavaScript.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849515522
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849515528
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Professional Plone 4 Development

Posted: 10 Sep 2011 03:52 AM PDT

Professional Plone 4 Development

Book Description

Aspeli's years of experience in Plone development and project management are combined with an approachable writing style to create an engaging and highly-informative guide to working with Plone. Professional Plone 4 Development stands as an excellent resource for developers of all levels.“- –Eric Steele, Plone Release Manager

Plone is a web content management system that features among the top 2% of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customising and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.

If you want to create your own web applications and advanced websites using Plone 4, Professional Plone 4 Development is the book you need.

The first edition of this book remains one of the most widely read and recommended Plone books. This second edition is completely revised and up-to-date for Plone 4.1, covering new topics such as Dexterity, Diazo, jQuery and z3c.form, as well as improved ways of working with existing technologies such as Buildout, SQLAlchemy and the Pluggable Authentication Service. It retains the writing style and comprehensive approach that made the first edition so popular.

Built around a realistic case study, Professional Plone 4 Development will take you from an understanding of Plone's central concepts, through basic customization, theming, and custom development, to deployment and optimization.

The book is divided into four sections:

  1. First, you will be introduced to Plone and the case study, and learn how to set up a development environment.
  2. The second section covers basic customization, including theming a Plone site using Diazo.
  3. The third section focuses on custom development – building new content types and user interfaces, customizing security and integrating with external databases.
  4. The final chapters cover deployment and performance optimization.

What you will learn from this book :

  • Setting up a productive development environment
  • Basics of Plone customisation and extension
  • Theming a Plone site using Diazo and plone.app.theming
  • Core concepts that underpin the workings of Zope and Plone
  • Creating custom content types using Dexterity
  • Building views and forms, including the use of z3c.form
  • Integrating with relational databases using SQLAlchemy
  • Customising the management of users and groups with PAS
  • Creating rich user interfaces with jQuery and jQuery Tools
  • Deploying and optimizing a production-ready Plone server
  • Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory

Approach
Professional Plone 4 Development is written in a clear conversational easy-to-understand style. This book cuts short the preamble and gets straight to the point – building robust, content-rich web applications with Plone 4. Detailed real world examples are provided for each chapter.

Who this book is written for
This book assumes that the reader is familiar with Plone from the point of view of an administrator or power user, has a basic understanding of web application development, and is comfortable with the Python programming language.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 516 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849514429
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849514422
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HTML5 Media

Posted: 10 Sep 2011 03:48 AM PDT

HTML5 Media

Book Description

If you’re a web developer or designer familiar with CSS and JavaScript, this tightly focused introduction shows you how to add HTML5 media elements to your web pages, and how to provide custom controls for letting web visitors interact with the content.

You’ll also learn how to provide subtitles and captions, using file formats that work in browsers now. This book includes code samples and downloadable examples to help you take full advantage of audio and video in your web pages.

  • Ensure your audio or video works in all browsers that support HTML5 media elements
  • Learn about widely supported media file codecs and containers
  • Customize the appearance of media elements with CSS
  • Build your own applications to work with and control media elements
  • Apply video subtitles and closed captioning with SRT and WebVTT
  • Use SVG filters with HTML5, and play videos in your Canvas applications
  • Explore upcoming features, including support for multiple tracks and synchronized playback

About the Author
Shelley Powers has been working with and writing about web technologies–from the first release of JavaScript to the latest graphics and design tools–for more than 15 years. Her recent O’Reilly books have covered the semantic web, Ajax, JavaScript, and web graphics. She’s an avid amateur photographer and web development aficionado.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 138 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449304451
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449304454
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