Kamis, 03 Oktober 2013

Wow! eBook: Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook - 5 new eBooks

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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT

Book Description

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!

In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store!

This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.

What you will learn from this book

  • Set-up and install a fully-functioning eCommerce store
  • Configure tax, shipping and orders
  • Administrate your shop day-to-day
  • Customize the look and feel of your store

Approach
Written in a friendly, recipe-based style, this practical cookbook will show you how to create, maintain and customize attractive eCommerce solutions with ease.

Who this book is for
This book is written for anyone who is interested in building eCommerce solutions with VirtueMart. If you have little to no experience with eCommerce this book will show you how to overcome any problem no matter how complex it appears. Experienced site builders and administrators will also find the solutions this cookbook offers useful. Basic HTML and CSS would be beneficial.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 310 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782162089
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782162087
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SDL Game Development

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:13 AM PDT

Book Description

SDL 2.0 is the latest release of the popular Simple DirectMedia Layer API, which is designed to make life easier for C++ developers, allowing you simple low-level access to various multiplatform audio, graphics, and input devices.

SDL Game Development guides you through creating your first 2D game using SDL and C++. It takes a clear and practical approach to SDL game development, ensuring that the focus remains on creating awesome games.

Starting with the installation and setup of SDL, you will quickly become familiar with useful SDL features, covering sprites, state management, and OOP, leading to a reusable framework that is extendable for your own games. SDL Game Development culminates in the development of two exciting action games that utilize the created framework along with tips to improve the framework.

What you will learn from this book

  • Draw in SDL and build the SDL_image extension
  • Develop reusable classes
  • Get to grips with game related object-oriented programming
  • Integrate a variety of user inputs into your games, such as joysticks or keyboards
  • Use factories that enable us to create objects dynamically at runtime
  • Create 2D maps through the use of tiles
  • Easily apply the framework to different game genres
  • Understand the scrolling of a tile map using the position of the player and collision detection

Approach
Written as a practical and engaging tutorial, SDL Game Development guides you through the development of your own framework and the creation of two exciting, fully-featured games.

Who this book is for
SDL Game Development is aimed at C++ developers who want to learn the fundamentals of SDL for cross-platform game development. This isn’t a beginner’s guide to C++, so a good knowledge of C++ and object oriented programming is a must.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849696829
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849696821
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SFML Game Development

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:10 AM PDT

Book Description

Game development comprises the combination of many different aspects such as game logics, graphics, audio, user input, physics and much more. SFML is an Open Source C++ library designed to make game development more accessible, exposing multimedia components to the user through a simple, yet powerful interface.

If you are a C++ programmer with a stack of ideas in your head and seeking a platform for implementation, your search ends here.

Starting with nothing more than a blank screen, SFML Game Development will provide you with all the guidance you need to create your first fully featured 2D game using SFML 2.0. By the end, you’ll have learned the basic principles of game development, including advanced topics such as how to network your game, how to utilize particle systems and much more.

SFML Game Development starts with an overview of windows, graphics, and user inputs. After this brief introduction, you will start to get to grips with SFML by building up a world of different game objects, and implementing more and more gameplay features. Eventually, you'll be handling advanced visual effects, audio effects and network programming like an old pro. New concepts are discussed, while the code steadily develops.

SFML Game Development will get you started with animations, particle effects and shaders. As well as these fundamental game aspects, we're also covering network programming to the extent where you'll be able to support the game running from two different machines. The most important part, the gameplay implementation with enemies and missiles, will make up the core of our top-scrolling airplane shoot’ em-up game!

You will learn everything you need in SFML Game Development in order to start with game development and come closer to creating your own game.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn the basics of SFML and render an airplane to the screen.
  • Create a game world to play in using entities and handle input from the player
  • Make your game richer with menus, settings, and other states
  • Implement the foundation for a GUI library
  • Populate the world with enemies and let them interact
  • Load resources like textures from the hard drive and learn about resource management
  • Animate the game object, build a particle system and look behind the scenes of rendering
  • Add music and sound effects to your game to create an immersive gaming experience
  • Implement multiplayer over a network to indulge in gameplay over the Internet

Approach
SFML Game Development is a fast-paced, step-by-step guide, providing you with all the knowledge and tools you need to create your first game using SFML 2.0

Who this book is for
SFML Game Development addresses ambitious C++ programmers who want to develop their own game. If you have plenty of ideas for an awesome and unique game, but don't know how to start implementing them, then this book is for you. The book assumes no knowledge about SFML or game development, but a solid understanding of C++ is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849696845
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849696845
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QlikView for Developers Cookbook

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:05 AM PDT

Book Description

QlikView has been around since 1993, but has only really taken off in recent years as a leader in the in-memory BI space and, more recently, in the data discovery area. QlikView features the ability to consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, as well as an associative data model to allow you to explore the data to a way your brain works, state-of-the-art visualizations, dashboard, analysis and reports, and mobile data access.

QlikView for Developers Cookbook builds on your initial training and experiences with QlikView to help you become a better developer. This book features plenty of hands-on examples of many challenging functions.

Assuming a basic understanding of QlikView development, this book provides a range of step-by-step exercises to teach you different subjects to help build your QlikView developer expertise.

From advanced charting and layout to set analysis; from advanced aggregations through to scripting, performance, and security, this book will cover all the areas that you need to know about.

The recipes in this book will give you a lot of the information that you need to become an excellent QlikView developer.

What you will learn from this book

  • Use QlikView charts to create more advanced visualizations
  • Layout your screen and use different color schemes
  • Get to grips with set analysis
  • Use Total and AGGR for advanced aggregations
  • Use macros to perform advanced tasks
  • Overcome data modelling challenges
  • Use some of the most useful functions in QlikView
  • Write great script
  • Improve the performance of your application
  • Secure your application

Approach
The recipes in this Cookbook provide a concise yet practical guide on how to become an excellent QlikView developer. The book begins with intermediate level recipes and then moves on to more complex recipes in an incremental manner.

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who has either attended QlikView Developer training or has taught themselves QlikView from books or online sources. You might be working for a QlikView customer, partner, or even QlikView themselves (or want to!) and want to improve your QlikView skills.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782179739
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782179733
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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Book Description

Data Guard is the high availability, disaster recovery and data replication solution for Oracle Databases.

With the huge growth of Data Guard it's getting harder to encounter an Oracle DBA not dealing with Data Guard. Since it's a common DBA task to provide high availability of databases, Data Guard is a must-know topic for every Oracle Database Administrator.

“Oracle Data Guard 11g R2 Beginner’s Administration Guide” is a practical guide that provides all the information you will need to configure and maintain Data Guard. This book will show you what Data Guard can really do.

By following the practical examples in this book, you'll learn to set up your Data Guard Broker, the management framework for Data Guard configurations. Learn and implement different data protection modes, perform role transitions between databases (switchover and failover) and configure Active Data Guard. Next, we will dive into the features of Snapshot Standby. The book progresses into looking at Data Guard configuration with other Oracle products (such as EM, RAC, and RMAN) and patch databases in Data Guard. The final chapters will cover commonly encountered Data Guard issues and Data Guard best practices, which are very important to make a Data Guard configuration perfect and take maximum advantage of Data Guard properties.

What you will learn from this book

  • Implement Data Guard best practices
  • Set up physical and logical standby databases to build Data Guard configurations
  • Configure and use Data Guard Broker for an easier and more comprehensive management of Data Guard
  • Design configurations with different data protection levels
  • Perform switchover and failover operations
  • Use Active Data Guard and Snapshot Standby features to access standby databases in read-only and read-write modes
  • Integrate Data Guard with RAC, RMAN, and Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
  • Patch Oracle Databases in a Data Guard environment
  • Deal with the most common Data Guard issues
  • Configure cascade standby databases, compression, and cross-platform implementation

Approach
Using real-world examples and hands-on tasks, Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner’s Guide will give you a solid foundation in Oracle Data Guard. It has been designed to teach you everything you need to know to successfully create and operate Data Guard environments with maximum flexibility, compatibility, and effectiveness.

Who this book is for
If you are an Oracle database administrator who wants to configure and administer Data Guard configurations, then “Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner’s Guide” is for you. With a basic understanding of Oracle database administration, you'll be able to easily follow the book.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 404 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849687900
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849687904
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