Kamis, 13 Desember 2012

Wow! eBook: HTML5 Graphics & Data Visualization Cookbook - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: HTML5 Graphics & Data Visualization Cookbook - 6 new eBooks

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HTML5 Graphics & Data Visualization Cookbook

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:18 AM PST

HTML5 Graphics & Data Visualization Cookbook

Book Description

The 5 tag makes creating any plot shape easy, all you have to do then is fill it with exciting visualizations written in or using other visualization tools.

5 Graphing and Data Visualization ” is the perfect break into the world of , charts, and graphs in 5 and . In this book we will go through a journey of getting to know the technology by creating and planning data-driven visualizations. This is organized in a linear, progressive way so it can be read from start to finish, as well as be used as a resource for specific tasks.

This book travels through the steps involved in creating a fully interactive and animated visualization in and JavaScript. You will start from very simple “hello world” samples and quickly dive deeper into the world of graphs and charts in . Followed by learning how canvas works and carrying out a group of tasks geared at taking what we learned and implementing it in a variety of chart types. With each chapter the content becomes more complex and our creations become more engaging and interactive.

Our goal is that by the end of this book you will have a strong foundation; knowing when to create a chart on your own from scratch and when it would be a good idea to depend on other APIs.

We finish our book in our last two chapters exploring maps and integrating everything we learnt into a full project.

What you will learn from this book

  • Creating graphics in Canvas and draw complex shapes
  • Building most of the common charts through step-by-step recipes
  • Adding interactivity to canvas elements and create your own JavaScript engine
  • Discovering many fantastic charting solutions and learn how to deal with their capabilities and how to change them as well
  • Learning how to work with maps , Charts, and Docs
  • Integrating your data into live data, driven data, objects, and strings

Approach
This cookbook is organized in a linear, progressive way allowing it to be read from start to finish, as well as to be used as a useful resource for specific tasks.

The examples and recipes will have you making dynamic, interactive, and animated charts and graphs in no time.

Who this book is written for
You don’t need to have a background in HTML5 or Canvas but you do need to have a basic understanding of how HTML works and know how to code in any language (preferably in JavaScript). In this book we will not explain how to learn to code but how to create projects and how to plan and execute them in the process.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849693706
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849693707
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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:13 AM PST

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Book Description

technologies are becoming increasingly complex and there is a need to test your applications against a vast number of browsers and platforms, so you need to build highly reliable and maintainable test automation. This book will help you test your applications effectively and efficiently with WebDriver.

Tools ” is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use advanced features of Selenium WebDriver in various situations for building reliable test automation. You will learn how to effectively use features of Selenium using simple and detailed examples. This book will also teach you best practices, design patterns, and how to extend Selenium.

“Selenium Tools ” shows developers and testers who already use Selenium, how to go to the next step and build a highly maintainable and reliable test framework using advanced features of the tool.

The book starts with tips on advanced location strategy and effective use of Selenium WebDriver . Then it demonstrates the use of design patterns such as Data Driven Tests and PageFactory for building maintainable test automation.

It also explains extending Selenium WebDriver API along with implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel.

It concludes with tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools, testing applications, and capturing videos of test runs. This books provides examples in , #, , and .

“Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook” will help you in building a highly robust and maintainable test automation framework from start to finish.

What you will learn from this book

  • Understand Locators and use various locator methods to build reliable tests
  • Build reliable and maintainable tests with Selenium WebDriver API
  • Use PageFactory Pattern to build a robust and easy- to-maintain test framework
  • Build data driven tests and extend Selenium API to implement custom steps and checks
  • Learn to integrate and use ATDD/BDD tools such as JBehave, SpecFlow, and FitNesses with Selenium WebDriver
  • Set up iPhone/iPad & Android simulators and devices for testing your web application
  • Set up Selenium Grid for faster and parallel run of tests, increasing test coverage and reducing test execution time
  • Capture screenshots and videos of test runs

Approach
This is a cookbook packed with code examples and step-by-step instructions to ease your learning curve.

Who this book is for
This book is intended for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software managers, or software developers with prior experience in using Selenium and for testing web-based applications. This book also provides examples for #, , and users.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 326 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849515743
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849515740
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Desire2Learn for Higher Education Cookbook

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:01 AM PST

Desire2Learn for Higher Education Cookbook

Book Description

Creating an engaging online or -enhanced class in the Learning Environment doesn’t have to be difficult. The easy-to-follow recipes in this guide you through everything from getting your course ready for students to calculating final grades.

for Higher ” offers recipes that will help you set up, customize, and conduct your online courses — whether you’re new to the system or a seasoned D2L user. The recipes are written for version 10 of the learning suite, although many of the examples are also applicable for version 9.4.

The cookbook is organized around tasks that instructors address during a typical semester, starting with a basic course setup and working towards calculating final grades.

Early recipes focus on creating a personalized learning environment by helping you customize the look and feel of your course and its content. Other recipes in the cookbook teach you how to integrate your favorite multimedia and social networking sites. Later chapters offer recipes for productivity in several of the learning environment’s tools.

“Desire2Learn for Higher Cookbook” is filled with screenshots and detailed steps to increase your productivity when working in the learning environment to create and facilitate your online courses.

What you will learn from this book

  • Copy course materials from another class or previous semester
  • Customize your course navigation bar
  • Create a visually appealing course theme
  • Quickly reorganize an existing course
  • Embed videos from and other websites
  • Create and display your own screencasts
  • Make your content more -friendly
  • Streamline the quiz creation process
  • Archive a copy of your final grades
  • Monitor student participation

Approach
Part of Packt’s Cookbook series; if you don’t have the time to work your way through a long tutorial, then this is the book for you. The step-by-step recipes are independent from each other so you can dip in and out of the book or follow it from start to end to build a higher education course.

Who this book is written for
If you’re familiar with D2L’s basic tools but want to do more with your course, then this book is for you.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 206 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849693447
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849693448
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WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:52 AM PST

WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap

Book Description

With the explosive popularity of apps and its much anticipated continued growth for the foreseeable future, developers will want to get their hands dirty and build some cool apps. But we know that building apps is not easy: we need to handle cross-platform issues, devices of different screen sizes, not to mention traditional issues such as providing a content system of the content served in the application.

Enter “ Applications with ”. We leverage on some of the most popular open source projects: , , and and discover how they can be pieced together to build a fully functional cross platform application.

“WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap” teaches you how to build mobile application with minimal effort and coding by leveraging on some of the most popular open source projects such as WordPress, , Mobile and PhoneGap.

This book looks at some of the most popular open source projects: WordPress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap and breaks down the nitty gritty details on how to leverage on these projects to build a fully functional cross-platform mobile application with minimal coding and effort.

You will start off by quickly going through the capabilities of WordPress. Then you will prepare some groundwork on how to make use of plugins and the GeoPlaces theme to provide geographic and capabilities to WordPress. Next you will learn how to create an external // that consumes and posts data to your WordPress blog. More importantly, you will see how to convert this external app into a PhoneGap in as little as five minutes. Finally, you will learn how to apply all these techniques and skills to a WordPress app based on the Twenty-Ten theme and create a cross-platform mobile app using PhoneGap.

By the end of “WordPress Mobile Applications with PhoneGap” you will learn how to piece WordPress, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap together into a fully functional mobile app.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn about the capabilities of WordPress
  • Take advantage of geographic capabilities of WordPress via the GeoPlaces Theme
  • Expose an from WordPress
  • Create an external app using // that interfaces with WordPress
  • Convert an HTML/CSS/JavaScript app to a PhoneGap application
  • Code for a PhoneGap app interfacing with a WordPress blog
  • Learn tips and tricks on how to test your mobile app on a before it on your emulator

Approach
This is a practical step-by-step tutorial.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer with basic knowledge of WordPress, HTML/CSS/JavaScript seeking to understand how to further your knowledge in creating cross-platform mobile applications using PhoneGap, then this book is for you.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849519862
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849519861
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Network Backup with Bacula How-To

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:50 AM PST

Network Backup with Bacula How To

Book Description

In the data-centered world, backup and duplication is an important factor that keeps your computer network fail-safe and healthy. Backup solutions allow you to quickly recover from power failures, damaged hardware and hacker attacks.

“Network Backup with ” is a practical guide to setting up the backup system using a number of sequential recipes, ranging from the simplest to intricate ones, which will give you knowledge needed to build a self-contained backup infrastructure.

“Network Backup with ” contains the instructions on setup and configuration of various components as well as information to help you painlessly integrate your and workstations into the backup system.

You will learn how to setup Bacula Director and Storage, how to backup and clients, ways to overcome limitations implied by protection, and specific cases of backup for , , Postfix. You will also learn different scheduling strategies and various other tips.

With Network Backup with Bacula, you will learn everything you need to know to create an autonomous backup for your computer network.

What you will learn from this book

  • How to set up Bacula Director and Storage components
  • Backing up directories from Linux and workstations
  • Scheduling your backups
  • Backing up data from and
  • Backing up mailboxes from Postfix and Zarafa
  • Overcoming to back up the machine from the different network
  • Using multiple backup storage servers
  • Quirks of backing up Windows workstations

Approach
This book is a practical, task-based, how-to guide that starts with setup and configuration of various Bacula components and then takes the reader through different scheduling strategies and various other tips.

Who this book is written for
This book is for junior network administrators familiar with Linux or who are looking for a simple and consistent network backup . It’s assumed that you are able to set up and configure a Linux or BSD server and are familiar with local network layouts and routing.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 54 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849519846
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849519847
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Securing Weblogic Server 12c

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:46 AM PST

Securing Weblogic Server 12c

Book Description

is a must in modern Enterprise , and WebLogic implements a very complete and complex for configuration and implementation, and we need to deeply know in technologies, terminology and how the process works between all actors. Transparent of your applications and Weblogic infrastructure need a good knowledge of the issues you can incur in this long and error prone configuration process.

“Securing 12” will simplify a complex world like WebLogic Security, helping the reader to implement and configure. It's the only fast guide that will let you develop and deploy in a production system with best practices both from the world and the operation world.

This book will try to make a clear picture of EE Security with clean and simple step-by-step examples that will guide the reader to security implementation and configuration

From the concepts of EE Security to the of application, from the configuration of a realm to the setup of Single Sign on, every concept is expressed in simple terms and surrounded by examples and pictures. Finally, also a way to develop WebLogic Security Providers with Maven, so that you can add the security part of your infrastructure to your enterprise best practices.

What you will learn from this book

  • Setup your development environment for WebLogic with Maven
  • Develop applications with Maven using fast split-deployment
  • Configure your applications to take advantage of Security
  • Understand how to integrate with WebLogic security
  • Configure a Security Realm from scratch
  • Integrate with your enterprise security systems
  • Detailed how-to single-sign-on configuration with a little, but userful, knowledge base to solve some typical issue

Approach
This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations.

Who this book is written for
If you are a administrator looking forward to a guide to administer and configure WebLogic security, then this is the guide for you. Working knowledge of WebLogic is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 100 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849687781
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849687782
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