| CiviCRM Cookbook Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT 
Book Description CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software geared toward meeting the needs of non-profit and other civic-sector organizations. Organizations realize their mission via CiviCRM through contact management, fundraising, event management, member management, mass e-mail marketing, peer-to-peer campaigns, case management, and much more. CiviCRM is localized in over 20 languages including: Chinese (Taiwan, China), Dutch, English (Australia, Canada, U.S., UK), French (France, Canada), German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Swedish. CiviCRM Cookbook will enhance your CiviCRM skills. It has recipes to help you use CiviCRM more efficiently, integrate it with CMSs, and also develop CiviCRM. This book begins with recipes that help save time and effort with CiviCRM. This is followed by recipes for organizing data more efficiently and managing profiles.Then you will learn authentication and authorization and managing communication with contacts.Then you will be guided on using the searching feature and preparing reports. We will then talk about integrating Drupal and CiviCRM. You will also be taught to manage events effectively. Finally, learn about CiviCampaign, Civimember, and developing CiviCRM. What you will learn from this book
- Set up geocoding
- Add custom data fields
- Display a contact map
- Create permissions for administartors
- Create mail templates for CiviMail
- Add the external identifier field to full text search
- Create user accounts from contacts in Drupal
- Move a site to a production server
Approach
This book is written in cookbook style with practical, comprehensive recipes expained with the aid of the necessary screenshots. Who this book is for
If you have basic CiviCRM skills and want to further enhance your CiviCRM skills, this book is for you. Book Details - Paperback: 236 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782160442
- ISBN-13: 978-1782160441
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| Drupal for Education and E-Learning, 2nd Edition Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:06 AM PDT 
Book Description As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. “Drupal for Education and E-Learning – Second Edition” teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide. In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums. The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community. What you will learn from this book - Build an intuitive structure to allow students and teachers to find relevant content by creating blogs for both teachers and students
- Create roles and permissions for controlling access to different parts of the site
- Share and manage bookmarks, podcasts, images, and video to support teaching and learning
- Foster discussion and communication among teachers, students, and also the larger school community to collaborate on projects
- Support multiple classes within the same site
- Publish assignments for students in your courses, and track student responses to those assignments
- Learn to exchange help with the Drupal community
- Discover how to backup and maintain your site once it is built
Approach
With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to create your classroom website. Step-by-step tutorials show you how to use Drupal in the most efficient and effective ways possible. People new to Drupal will find a good introduction of the basics; while more experienced users will learn useful tips and tricks for using Drupal in a classroom context. Who this book is for
If you are an teacher, tutor or an educator who wants to build a website for your classroom, be it elementary or any higher education, “Drupal for Education and E-Learning – Second Edition” will guide you in achieving your goal at every step. No experience with programming languages, HTML, or CSS is needed to understand the examples in this book. Book Details - Paperback: 390 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782162763
- ISBN-13: 978-1782162766
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| Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:03 AM PDT 
Book Description Liferay portal is the leading horizontal portal product available in the market. It was named lLeader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. Because of the flexibility offered by Liferay Portal for customizations, it is becoming a preferred best choice for portal implementations. Many influential sites have been implemented with or have switched to the Liferay portal. More and more Liferay developers and architects are needed in the IT industry. Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices will guide you in how to build high performing Liferay -based solutions. The book guides you on how to define the architecture of Liferay- based solutions to meet performance expectations. You will learn how to fine- tune the Liferay portal using configuration changes or applying the right caching strategy. By the time you finish reading, you will realize that you know all the essential best practices to improve the performance of the Liferay portal solution. The book comprises of Liferay portal performance best practices related to various aspects. It starts with the architecture and design best practices and ends with performance tuning and lLoad testing best practices. The book follows the logical flow. In the first chapter it talks about various architectural options and best practices. It also talks about the consequences of various architectural options. It talks about how to configure the Liferay portal to work in a clustered environment. It discusses the various options available in a cluster configuration. The book further talks about various configuration options of different components that are available for improving performance. The book also talks about various development best practices. It concludes with best practices related to load testing and a performance tuning exercise. Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices explains performance best practices with real examples and samples. By the end of this book, the reader will have learned everything he/she needs to know about Liferay portal performance best practices. What you will learn from this book - Make right architectural decisions to meet performance requirement
- Implement software load balancer using Apache Web Server
- Configure Liferay portal cCluster
- Configure Cache Replication using different options
- Improve performance by apache web server configurations
- Tomcat server configuration best practices to improve performance
- Tune Liferay portal using various configurations settings
- EHCache based cache configurations
- Terracotta based cache implementation
- Learn portal development best practices
- Perform lLoad testing and performance tuning exercise for Liferay- based solutions
Approach
A step-by-step tutorial on implementing Liferay- based portals to learn performance best practices Who this book is for
The book is good for Liferay portal developers and architects who want to learn performance best practices for implementing Liferay- based solutions. It is assumed that you have a working knowledge of the Liferay portal. Book Details - Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782163689
- ISBN-13: 978-1782163688
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| SignalR: Real-time Application Development Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT 
Book Description Real-time development is one of the fastest growing trends in application development. Users want their data there and then with no delay. This used to be near impossible to achieve but with new frameworks it is becoming more and more accessible. SignalR is a .NET framework that allows you to include this powerful technique into any of your applications in next to no time. SignalR: Real-time Application Development is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that will take you from the basics of SignalR to more advanced techniques, such as making your application cloud ready and making it scalable. If you want your applications to be enterprise grade then SignalR, together with this book, is the only answer. Taking you from your app concept to app creation, this book will help you take advantage of SignalR's impressive features. Throughout the book you will be developing a chat application that will not only work online but will also work on Windows 8. You will start with the basics of SignalR and be led through more advanced techniques, chapter by chapter. By the end of the book you will not only be comfortable writing simple applications with SignalR, but with enterprise cloud applications as well. What you will learn from this book - Utilize persistent connections
- Build hubs
- Create Windows 8 Store applications
- Incorporate metadata into messaging
- Develop real-time .net applications
- Makes use of Redis for cloud development
Approach
This step-by-step guide gives you practical advice, tips, and tricks that will have you writing real-time apps quickly and easily. Who this book is for
If you are a .NET developer who wants to be at the cutting edge of development, then this book is for you. Real-time application development is made simple in this guide, so as long as you have basic knowledge of .NET, a copy of Visual Studio, and NuGet installed, you are ready to go. Book Details - Paperback: 124 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782164243
- ISBN-13: 978-1782164241
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| Opa Application Development Posted: 28 Sep 2013 08:53 AM PDT 
Book Description Opa is a full-stack Open Source web development framework for JavaScript that lets you write secure and scalable web applications. It generates standard Node.js/MongoDB applications, natively supports HTML5 and CSS and automates many aspects of modern web application programming. It handles all aspects of web programming written in one consistent language and compiled to web standards. Opa Application Development is a practical,hands-on guide that provides you with a number of step-by-step exercises. It covers almost all aspects of developing a web application with Opa, which will help you take advantage of the real power of Opa, as well as building a secure, powerful web application rapidly. Opa Application Development dives into all concepts and components required to build a web application with Opa. The first half of this book shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop an Opa application, including the syntax of Opa, web development aspects, client and server communication and slicing, plugin, database, and so on. By the end of the book you will have yourself created a complete web application along with a game: Pacman! What you will learn from this book - Set up Opa development environment
- Develop a web application, manipulate DOM and CSS.
- Use bootstrap in Opa, including classes, icons and widgets.
- Slice client and server code.
- Bind JavaScript and Nodejs to Opa and build a plugin.
- Store, update and query data in database with MongoDB as the backend.
- Build a chat application, LiveRoom application in Opa.
- Handle image and audio with canvas to build a Pacman game
Approach
It is a tutorial guide to learning how to use Opa with JavaScript, Nodejs, and MongoDB to develop web applications easily and effectively. Who this book is for
If you are a web developer who wants to get started with the Opa framework and build web applications with it? Then this book is for you. Web development experience is assumed and would be helpful. Book Details - Paperback: 116 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782163743
- ISBN-13: 978-1782163749
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