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Wow! eBook: Backbone.js Cookbook - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Backbone.js Cookbook - 5 new eBooks

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Backbone.js Cookbook

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:04 PM PST

Book Description

There is no doubt that the superior rendering power of HTML5, thin-to-thick client transition and REST style communication created a new era in web development, replacing the outdated approach based on browser plugin technologies. Backone.js allows developers to write lightweight, modular, and scalable JavaScript applications.

Backbone.js Cookbook contains a series of recipes that provide practical, step-by-step solutions to the problems that may occur during frontend application development using an MVC pattern. You will learn how to build Backbone applications utilizing the power of popular Backbone extensions and integrating your app with different third party libraries. You will also learn how to fulfill the requirements of the most challenging tasks.

The first chapter of the book introduces you to the MVC paradigm and teaches you how to architect rich Internet applications operating with basic concepts of Backbone.js. During the reading of this book you will learn how to solve challenging problems leveraging Backbone objects such as models, collections, views, routers, and so on.

You learn how to use forms, layouts, templating engines, and other Backbone extensions, which will help you to complete specific features of your application. You will understand how to bind a model to a DOM element. You will see how perfectly Backbone.js integrates with third party libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, Zepto, Underscore.js, Require.js, Mustache.js, Twitter Bootstrap, jQueryMobile, PhoneGap and many others. This book will guide you in how to optimize and test your applications, create your own Backbone extensions, and share them with the open source community.

With the help of Backbone.js Cookbook, you will learn everything you need to know to create outstanding rich Internet applications using the JavaScript programming language.

What you will learn from this book

  • Architecting and building dynamic web applications in an MVC style
  • Modeling business logic with Backbone models and collections
  • Rendering data with Backbone views
  • Routing URLs within your application
  • Communicating with a RESTful service
  • Using HTML5 local storage to store models and collections
  • Optimizing and testing Backbone applications
  • Writing your own Backbone extensions
  • Ensuring compatibility with search engines
  • Creating mobile apps with jQueryMobile and PhoneGap

Approach
This is a Cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes, containing practical and detailed examples which are all fully backed up with code, illustrations, and tips to dig deep into Backbone.js.

Who this book is written for
This book is great for JavaScript developers who want to learn how to build advanced frontend applications with the Backbone.js framework. This book can be used in educational institutions to teach students how to build frontend applications in an MVC manner.

It’s assumed that you have some experience in jQuery, and are familiar with HTML.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782162720
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782162728
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Netduino Home Automation Projects

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:02 PM PST

Book Description

In recent years, electronics have gone from something that only electronic engineers can understand, to a common hobby that is accessible to all. Netduino has grown to be a part of this revolution, providing a development board that is both easy to use, and allows existing .NET developers to build on knowledge they already have.

Most developers have wild ideas about all the gadgets they would develop to make the world a better (or easier) place, but have no idea how to get beyond blinking an LED. The topics contained go beyond what most books cover, taking an in-depth look at how to use Netduino for practical projects.

This book starts off by showing you how to do the "hello world" of electronics – fade an LED in and out. It will take you right through all the fundamentals, including how to control a wide range of electronic sensors.

You will learn how easy it is to automate various parts of your home. You will learn how to open your gate with your smartphone, automatically water your plants, get emailed when someone invades your territory, connect up a keypad to unlock your door, make your own breathalyzer, control your home theatre, and much more!

What you will learn from this book

  • Write some simple code for a Netduino
  • Use a microphone to determine the noise level of the room
  • Power the sensors and components with external power supplies
  • Control existing technology and appliances around your house with transistors and relays
  • Link your smartphone to your Netduino with Bluetooth as a controller
  • Determine alcohol on your breath
  • Use servos to control physical objects
  • Use a matrix keypad to secure your house and much more

Approach
Netduino Home Automation Projects for Lazy Boys is written in a practical and friendly style. Reading this book will be an experience full of fun and learning as well.

Who this book is written for
This book is ideally suited for someone who is interested in home automation, has some experience in C#, and has used a Netduino before but wants to explore more advanced topics. However, the book starts from the very basics so it can be picked up even by novices.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 108 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849697825
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849697828
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Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST

Book Description

With ADF, Oracle gives you the chance to use the powerful tool used by Oracle's own developers. Modern enterprise applications must be user-friendly, visually attractive, and fast performing. Oracle Fusion Applications are just that; but to get the desired output you need proven methods to use this powerful and flexible tool to achieve success in developing your enterprise applications.

“Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” explains all you need to know in order to build good-looking, user-friendly applications on a completely free technology stack. It explains the highly productive, declarative development approach that will literally have your application running within a few hours, as well as how to use Java to add business logic.

“Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” tells you how to develop and deploy web application applications based on the highly productive and free Oracle ADF Essentials framework. You will first learn how to build business services on top of database tables, and then how to easily build a web application using these services. You will see how to visually design the flow through your application with ADF task flows, and how to use Java programming to implement business logic. Using this book, you can start building and deploying advanced web applications on a robust, free platform quickly.

Towards the end, you will be ready to build real-world ADF Essentials applications and will be able to consider yourself an ADF Essentials journeyman.

What you will learn from this book

  • Set up a complete, free development environment with MySQL, GlassFish, JDeveloper, and ADF Essentials
  • Create business services based on database tables – without programming
  • Visually design your application with ADF task flows
  • Build application pages with advanced user interface components, automatically mapping them to business services
  • Add business logic with regular Java programming, working with user interface elements and database data
  • Divide your application into reusable ADF libraries for efficient development in larger teams
  • Debug your application through all layers of the architecture
  • Implement role-based security
  • Set up automated build processes
  • Package and deploy your application to test and production environments

Approach
“Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” covers the basics of Oracle ADF and then works through more complex topics such as debugging and logging features and JAAS Security in JDeveloper as the reader gains more skills. This book will follow a tutorial approach, using a practical example, with the content and tasks getting harder throughout.

Who this book is for
“Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” is for you if you want to build modern, user-friendly web applications for all kinds of data gathering, analysis, and presentations. You do not need to know any advanced HTML or JavaScript programming. Business logic can be implemented by adding Java code at well-defined hook points, so you do not need do know advanced object-oriented programming—regular Java programming skills are enough.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782170685
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782170686
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VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:56 PM PST

Book Description

VMware Workstation runs on Linux as well as Windows hosts and handles different virtual machine formats, which allows you to share your work with users of other virtualization platforms, including VirtualBox, VMware Player, and VMware vSphere environments.

VMware Workstation: No Experience Necessary helps you in getting started with VMware Workstation. You'll learn how to install VMware Workstation in any circumstance, and how to create virtual machines and keep different configurations for each virtual machine, which helps in setting up extensive test environments. You'll also learn how to share these virtual machines with users of other virtualization products as well as the cloud.

In VMware Workstation: No Experience Necessary you'll start learning about different virtualization solutions. In this introduction you'll learn how VMware Workstation differs from other workstation virtualization platforms such as Oracle Virtual Box, and from data centre virtualization solutions such as VMware vSphere. Next, you'll learn how to install VMware Workstation on either a Windows or a Linux host and how to create virtual machines on these host platforms.

After installing virtual machines, you'll learn about advanced virtual machine features, including advanced networking and storage setups, which allow you to mirror a data centre setup as closely as possible. An important part of the setup of such an environment is working with snapshots and clones, which is discussed in detail. You'll also learn how to use virtual machines that are created on other host computers.

The final part of the book teaches you how to share virtual machines with others. You'll learn how to upload virtual machines to VMware vSphere, and how to share virtual machines with users of VMware Player.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install VMware Workstation on Windows or Linux
  • Create Virtual Machines
  • Configure networking in virtual environments
  • Set up a DMZ-test environment on one single machine
  • Access Virtual Machines running on other computers
  • Multiply virtual machines by using clones
  • Easily revert to a previous Virtual Machine state by using snapshot technology
  • Upload Virtual machines to the cloud and vSphere
  • Share virtual machines with VMware Player users

Approach
This book is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and managing virtual machines using VMware Workstation.

Who this book is written for
VMware Workstation: No Experience Necessary is for developers as well as system administrators who want to efficiently set up a test environment .You should have basic networking knowledge, and prior experience with Virtual Machines and VMware Player would be beneficial.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849689180
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849689182
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Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:55 PM PST

Book Description

Windows 8 has already been launched and been installed on millions of devices while the store is getting populated with apps, and soon enough everyone will want a Windows Store app. So start now and learn how to develop apps for Windows 8 using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and you will be killing two birds with one stone by getting introduced to important features in HTML5 and CSS3 at the same time. You will gain the advantage of utilizing your web development skills to transform your website into an app or the other way round.

Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript is a practical, hands-on guide that covers the basic and important features of a Windows Store App along with code examples which will show you how to develop these features, all the while learning some of the new features in HTML5 and CSS3 which you can utilize in other areas of development.

This book starts with the new features in HTML5 and CSS3 that are incorporated with Windows 8 development, and then moves on to creating a blank Windows Store app and add features to it as we move through the chapters till we package the app and make it ready for publishing. Finally, we will have a look at how similar it is to develop the same app with XAML.

You will also learn how to add and use new controls dedicated for Windows 8 and then see how to fetch data for the app and bind it to the controls. We will also take a look at making the app adapt to change in screen sizes and rotation as well as how to make the app live with tiles and allow users to sign in using their email accounts. Also you will learn how to add an app bar, and lastly you learn how to finalize the app and publish it. If you want to leverage your web development skills and utilize it in developing for Windows 8, then you came to the right place. Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript is packed with examples and screenshots which will make it easy for you to implement all the things you learned throughout the book.

What you will learn from this book

  • Using HTML5 elements
  • Styling with CSS3
  • Using Windows Library for JavaScript controls
  • Getting data via web URLs and binding it to controls
  • Creating a blank Windows Store JavaScript app
  • Understanding view states and making the app responsive
  • Adding live tiles and notifications for the app
  • Creating a basic app using XAML
  • Adding user sign-in features via email accounts
  • Understanding the Windows Store and publishing the app

Approach
This book is a hands-on guide that follows a step-by-step tutorial approach which discusses Windows 8 application development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Who this book is written for
This book is great for developers who want to start developing for Windows 8 and it also targets developers who want to get introduced to powerful advancements in standards-based web technology, while using it to build Windows Store apps, as well as leveraging their existing skills and code assets in web development.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849687102
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849687102
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