Minggu, 25 Agustus 2013

Wow! eBook: Responsive Web Design by Example - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Responsive Web Design by Example - 6 new eBooks

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Responsive Web Design by Example

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:05 AM PDT

Book Description

Responsive web design is an explosive area of growth in modern web development due to the huge volume of different device sizes and resolutions that are now commercially available. You can now create your very own responsive website quickly and efficiently, allowing you to showcase your content in a format that will work on any device with an Internet browser.

By following our detailed step-by-step instructions in this structured reference guide, you will learn how you can build engaging responsive websites. With coverage of Bootstrap, Skeleton, and Zurb Foundation you’ll learn about three of the most powerful responsive frameworks available today.

Leading you through by practical example, you’ll find that this essential reference develops your understanding by actually helping you create beautiful websites step by step in front of your very eyes. After going over the basics, you’ll be able to choose between creating your own responsive portfolio page with Skeleton, building a stunning product page with Bootstrap, or setting up your own professional business website with Zurb Foundation. Ultimately you’ll learn how to decide which framework is right for you, and how you can deploy and customize it to your exact specifications!

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn how to decide which responsive framework is right for you
  • Harness the flexibility of Skeleton to create a truly unique portfolio
  • Use Bootstrap to almost effortlessly create a stunning product launch page
  • Create an online presence for your business that will work on any device with Zurb Foundation
  • Discover how you can leverage CSS to its full potential for refining your responsive websites

Approach
Written as a concise yet practical guide with an explicit focus on showing beginners how to get their very own responsive websites up and running, this essential reference includes coverage of tried-and-tested responsive frameworks in a project-based format that simultaneously provides visible results whilst developing core understanding.

Who this book is for
Ideal for anybody who wants their online presence to be compatible with devices and resolutions of any size, “Responsive Web Design by Example” shows you how to select the right framework for your own project requirements and then guides you through the process of installation, configuration, and customization. With three highly structured and meticulously designed projects to choose from, it is the ideal reference for both new and existing web developers who want to be able to augment their skills and showcase their content in a truly professional manner.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 338 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849695423
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849695428
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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:02 AM PDT

Book Description

Data is everywhere and it’s increasingly important to be able to gain insights that we can act on. Using Clojure for data analysis and collection, this book will show you how to gain fresh insights and perspectives from your data with an essential collection of practical, structured recipes.

“The Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook” presents recipes for every stage of the data analysis process. Whether scraping data off a web page, performing data mining, or creating graphs for the web, this book has something for the task at hand.

You’ll learn how to acquire data, clean it up, and transform it into useful graphs which can then be analyzed and published to the Internet. Coverage includes advanced topics like processing data concurrently, applying powerful statistical techniques like Bayesian modelling, and even data mining algorithms such as K-means clustering, neural networks, and association rules.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create beautiful, insightful graphs that you can publish to the Internet
  • Apply powerful clustering and data mining techniques to better understand your data
  • Use powerful data analysis libraries like Incanter, Hadoop, and Weka to get things done quickly
  • Interface with Mathematica and R to use the powerful analysis features they provide
  • Process data concurrently and in parallel for faster performance
  • Transform data to make it more useful and easier to analyze

Approach
Full of practical tips, the “Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook” will help you fully utilize your data through a series of step-by-step, real world recipes covering every aspect of data analysis.

Who this book is for
Prior experience with Clojure and data analysis techniques and workflows will be beneficial, but not essential.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 342 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 178216264X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782162643
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Mastering UDK Game Development

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:57 AM PDT

Book Description

UDK (Unreal Development Kit) is the free version of the popular and award-winning Unreal Engine 3. A truly powerful tool for game development, there has never been a better time to use it for both commercial and independent projects. By learning about advanced functionality via engaging practical examples, you too can take your game to the next level and stand out from the crowd.

Learn about advanced aspects of UDK game development, ranging from the creation of a 2D-style platformer to building your very own Western-RPG style inventory system using Scaleform. You’ll discover how you can exploit UDK to the fullest extent, making it possible to create a series of exciting projects all within the UDK Editor.

By using this book, you will be able to create a 2D-style platformer, a spaceship rail-shooter, as well your very own custom HUD. We then move on to more advanced projects, like the creation of an inventory system for a Western-RPG, complete with dynamic objects that can be dropped anywhere in the game world. On top of all of this, you’ll also learn how to quickly and efficiently create modular environments within UDK itself.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create a side scrolling platformer game with collectables and power-ups
  • Build a third-person rail-shooter making use of prefabs, particle systems, skyboxes, and more
  • Design a HUD using Scaleform and the latest ActionScript 3.0 code that you can integrate with any map you’ve ever created
  • Create realistic environments whilst ensuring performance and minimizing repetitive gameplay
  • Detailed tips and tricks showing you how to create environments and iterate on them quickly using Geometry Mode
  • Discover how you can utilize lighting and the environment to affect a player’s behavior
  • Create a dynamic torch that can be picked up, stored in an inventory, equipped (to carry around lighting the way), and dropped anywhere in the game
  • Create a new inventory to accommodate for our torch and other dynamic objects

Approach
Written as a series of engaging and practical projects, this essential guide will help you take your skills to the next level and become a game development hotshot. If you would like to truly unlock the potential of the Unreal Development Kit or are interested in using Scaleform for your own personal projects, then this book is for you.

Who this book is for
“Mastering UDK Game Development” was designed for people who want to truly take their projects to the next level. Those who are familiar with the basics of creating things in UDK will have an easier time, but each project contains step-by-step explanations, diagrams, screenshots, and downloadable content that should make it possible for someone with no prior experience to learn UDK at an accelerated pace.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849695601
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849695602
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Mastering Nginx

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:54 AM PDT

Book Description

NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and mail proxy designed to use very few system resources. With the many tutorials and example configurations floating around the Web, it is difficult to know how to properly configure NGINX to meet your expectations.

“Mastering Nginx” will serve to clarify the murky waters of NGINX configuration, helping you learn how to tune NGINX for various situations, what some of the more obscure configuration directives do, and how to design a decent configuration to match your needs.

Beginning with an overview of compiling NGINX and describing its basic configuration file format, this guide next takes you on a tour of NGINX’s modules.

From the unique mail module to the upstream module, this book explores the various possibilities of using NGINX as a reverse proxy. The multiple HTTP modules are explained, and the book rounds off the tour with a discussion of troubleshooting.

“Mastering Nginx” will explain all aspects of configuring NGINX to help solve your hosting problems.

What you will learn from this book

  • Compile the right third party module to meet your needs
  • Write an authentication server to use with the mail proxy module
  • Create your own SSL certificates to encrypt connections
  • Use try_files to solve your file-existence check problems
  • Cache and compress responses for speedier user-interaction
  • Integrate popular PHP frameworks with the FastCGI module
  • Construct useful logging configurations
  • Troubleshoot configuration problems as they arise

Approach
This book is a practical step-by-step tutorial with well-explained code snippets, best-practice tips, and reference tables.

Who this book is for
If you are an experienced systems administrator or systems engineer, familiar with installing and configuring servers to meet specific needs and want to master NGINX, then this book is for you. You do not need to have experience using NGINX already.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 322 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517444
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517447
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Creating Templates with Artisteer

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:49 AM PDT

Book Description

Designing good looking, professional quality web templates or building your own website are rather complicated tasks, demanding a lot of technical and graphical expertise. Artisteer has changed this situation, enabling you to do it by yourself, without the need to learn skills such as HTML, web-programming languages, or drawing.

“Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer” is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how you can prepare an elegant, professional looking website, on your own, using features of Artisteer. It also describes the process of designing templates for various popular CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla!, by giving you practical hints, showing how to install those templates and how to import the content into CMS.

“Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer” leads you through the process of designing a website, including all standard layout elements, from header to the footer, including menus and special boxes. You will learn how to prepare the templates, store them and export them in the form of ready-to-use HTML pages or packages that can be installed in various CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, or DotNetNuke. The last part of the book shows you some tips and tricks that allow you to extend standard themes generated by Artisteer for enriching the website with image gallery, combining two menus, and more.

You will learn how to create a professional quality website or CMS template on your own, with the use of Artisteer with minimal technical difficulties.

What you will learn from this book

  • Design a complete website template in Artisteer
  • Modify all the elements of an Artisteer project, like menus, header, layout, and so on
  • Prepare templates for WordPress, Joomla!, and other CMS systems
  • Import content from template into the CMS system
  • Get direct access to pictures from Flickr to enrich your content
  • Use specific Artisteer CSS classes to change the look of modules directly in Joomla!
  • Modify generated code to achieve some interesting effects, that is, a photo gallery with a lightbox effect

Approach
“Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer” is a practical, step-by-step guide which will show you how to create professional-looking websites on your own.

Who this book is for
This book is great for enthusiasts, Artisteer users, and individuals who want to create professional-looking websites without paying for professional services and expensive tools. The book also shows you how to speed up your work and automate time-consuming tasks.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 170 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849699410
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849699419
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Socket.IO Real-time Web Application Development

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:44 AM PDT

Book Description

The expectations of users for interactivity withweb applications have changed over the past few years. No more does the user want to press the refresh button to check if new messages have arrived in their inbox; people expect to see updates in their applications in real-time. Mass multiplayer online games have given up the requirement of plugins and are built entirely in JavaScript. Socket.io enables you to build these highly interactive applications that work cross-browser.

“Socket.io Real-time Web Application Development” is a guide to building, deploying, and scaling highly interactive real-time web applications using socket.io. This book will guide you through the building of a chat system using Node.js and socket.io, helping you get familiar with various features of the framework. Going further it will empower you to deploy and scale your applications in production.

Introducing web application development with Node.js, this book walks you through developing of a full-fledged chat system built with socket.io and introducing all the concepts of socket.io and its usage in the process.

It introduces you to the different approaches of bidirectional communication between the browser and the web server and will show you how socket.io abstracts all this for you to provide a single unified and uniform API for messaging and eventing to develop cross-browser applications. It explains how to authenticate your users, segregate the communication to channels, build chat rooms, and handle and scale sessions. It explains the mechanics behind socket.io and it also introduces you to what is involved in deploying the application to production and the intricacies involved in scaling it.

This book will introduce you to all that is needed in browser-server communication to develop the next generation of interactive applications and games.

What you will learn from this book

  • Establish a bidirectional connection in the  browser to the web server
  • Develop a chat system using Node.js and socket.io
  • Various methods of pushing information from the server to the browser
  • Get familiar with socket.io API for cross-browser bidirectional communication
  • Understand the socket.io protocol and its mechanics behind the scenes
  • Get to know Socket.io messaging, events, sessions, authorization, namespaces, and rooms
  • Cluster and distribute the socket.io sessions using redis session store

Approach
Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, “Socket.io Real-time Web Application Development” is a practical guide for developing real-time web applications with Node.js and socket.io.

Who this book is for
This book is aimed at developers who want to start developing highly interactive and real-time web applications like chat systems or online multiplayer games, or want to introduce real-time updates or server push mechanisms in their existing applications. Knowledge of developing in JavaScript and web applications in general is expected. Though there is a chapter on introducing Node.js, prior knowledge of Node.js will be a plus.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 140 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782160787
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782160786
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