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Wow! eBook: Sencha Touch Cookbook, 2nd Edition - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Sencha Touch Cookbook, 2nd Edition - 6 new eBooks

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Sencha Touch Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 07:22 AM PST

Book Description

Sencha Touch is one of the most popular HTML5 and JavaScript frameworks for building touch-based mobile devices. Using Sencha Touch, you can create applications for touch mobile devices with ease, and once created, the same application works on multiple platforms – iOS, Android, Blackberry – without having to change anything.

Sencha Touch Cookbook, Second Edition is a practical, hands-on guide with easy to follow recipes that provide you with clear, step-by-step instructions, which will help you take complete advantage of the power of Sencha Touch 2 and will help you to build amazing applications for the mobile world.

Sencha Touch Cookbook, Second Edition starts by showing you how to set up your project for development, then walks through building, packaging, and running it in a browser, emulator, or a real device. With the groundwork set, the subsequent recipes of the book take you through the different UI components offered by the framework and explains how to use them, when to use them, and, if needed, how to extend them for your own application need.

You will also learn how to model your client side data, load data from different data sources, and use them on the data-centric UI components. The later parts of the book cover the practical day-to-day problems like how to create a custom view, how to take your application offline and support automatic sync, how to utilize the Geolocation to learn more about the user, how to utilize device features such as camera, contact, orientation, and how to link your application behaviour with the device buttons such as Back, Search, and so on. At the end, the book shows you how to create native packages without using PhoneGap/Cordova using Sencha Cmd.

Using this book, you will learn everything about using Sencha Touch classes and components to build mobile applications that can run across multiple platforms.

What you will learn from this book

  • Set up your project for development, then build, package, and run it in a desktop browser, emulator, or a mobile device
  • Understand form panels and various form fields and their behaviour
  • Learn about different layouts to create well structured UI
  • Create complete custom views with user interaction
  • Work with different types of data and data sources, model them, and use them on components
  • Define new components and extend the framework components to suite your need
  • Get your application work in offline mode with automatic sync

Approach
The book is written in a Cookbook style, presenting examples in the style of recipes, allowing you to go directly to your topic of interest or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain in-depth knowledge.

Who this book is for
Sencha Touch Cookbook, Second Edition is great for developers who are new to Sencha Touch and who are looking to get a good hold on what the Sencha Touch framework offers and how to use it to build a great touch-based mobile application running on different platforms. It is assumed that you will have some experience in HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript. To truly appreciate the framework capability and take full advantage of the book, readers are expected to have one or more mobile devices.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 418 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782169180
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782169185
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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 07:17 AM PST

Book Description

Agile methodologies like Scrum focus on customer values in an incremental way. Regular planning, tracking, reporting, and improving can become equally challenging from a project management perspective. GreenHopper is a tooling support for JIRA that offers easy adoption of agile practices through rich interfaces for effective team collaboration and project management.

Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints is a step-by-step guide that teaches you how to manage agile projects using the GreenHopper tooling system. With easy adoption using pre-sets for Scrum & Kanban, the rich interface focuses on the work at hand, increasing team productivity. Executing sprints, tracking sprints, and reporting on agile projects has never been so easy. The integration with different development environments helps teams to focus on collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. This book covers agile project management concepts using GreenHopper.

You will learn about backlog management for your agile team, how to create projects and boards for your agile team, and how to create new backlog items, prioritize items, estimate backlog items, create sprints, and update technical task status and report on the same.

You will learn everything you need to know about managing an agile project using GreenHopper and how to achieve the best value for your team.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install GreenHopper and create projects and boards for your team
  • Use GreenHopper's rich interface features
  • Learn about agile concepts and which GreenHopper tools are best suited for each
  • Master backlog creation, prioritization, and estimation of items
  • Understand sprint creation, how to execute sprints, time tracking, and how to manage sprint backlogs
  • Use task boards effectively and create custom workflow status' and column and update task status'
  • Use JIRA filters effectively, including Quick Filters, Swimlanes, and card colours
  • Analyze burndown charts effectively for sprint tracking
  • Complete a sprint, manage unfinished backlog items, and generate sprint reports
  • Use velocity charts, epic reports, control charts, and cumulative flow diagrams
  • Manage Kanban teams using GreenHopper, create Kanban boards, control work in progress, and find bottlenecks in your system and report them to your Kanban team
  • Understand GreenHopper integration points that support your agile team

Approach
A step-by-step tutorial-based approach.

Who this book is written for
This book is of great help for agile teams who are already using or planning to use the GreenHopper tooling system to execute agile projects. It suits all roles in an agile project including system administrators, stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and team members. Fundamental knowledge of JIRA is essential.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 140 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849699739
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849699730
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Learning NServiceBus

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 07:13 AM PST

Book Description

Web service-based systems are designed using Remote Procedure Call (RPC) techniques. This technique is effective; however, this method creates problems with scalability and reusability as fault tolerance is inherently hindered by the RPC principles. This book helps you to overcome this problem by introducing you to the principles of messaging and SOA to build scalable and reliable systems, that are easy to extend and maintain.

“Learning NServiceBus” is your essential guide to becoming a messaging guru. The book details the process of building a software system based on the SOA principles. From sending a simple message to publishing events, this book covers everything you need to know to understand and implement an SOA-based message driven systems.

“Learning NServiceBus” will teach you how to use publish/subscribe to create an Serivce Oriented Architecture. We will then look how to manage and extend that architecture. Through the course of the book, you will build reliable systems which will automatically compensate for failures. You will also learn to build complex yet testable business processes which will make batch processes seem outdated. By the end of the book, you will realize that SOA is much more than just web services.

What you will learn from this book

  • Bring reliability to web service integrations
  • Create code that automatically compensates for failure
  • Manage the deployment of complex software systems
  • Create software that can scale horizontally as well as vertically

Approach
This is a practical tutorial containing hands-on examples for creating a messaging and SOA based service bus.

Who this book is written for
This book is for .NET developers who are looking for ways to overcome problems related to buggy third party web service integrations, codebases that have grown into a big ball of mud, and batch jobs failure.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782166343
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782166344
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Getting Started with OrientDB

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 07:08 AM PST

Book Description

In modern software applications, often there is the necessity to manage very big amounts of unstructured data with varying schema. In this scenario, instead of relational databases, we can use OrientDB, an open source NoSQL DBMS written in Java. Inspite ofDespite being a document-based database, the relationships are managed with direct connections between records. It supports schema-less, schema-full, and schema-mixed modes.

Getting Started with OrientDB will be your handy, quick reference guide, for all document-graph DBMS functionality. Administrative tasks, deployment, designing a database, different ways of querying and consuming data – all that you need to know about OrientDB is presented keeping with practical usage in mind. You will be able to install, setup, deploy, and configure databases with OrientDB for applications.

Getting Started with OrientDB will allow you to use its OreintDB's main functionality immediately. The book will guide you through the discovery of one of the most powerful NoSQL databases available today. It will then take you through downloading and installing OrientDB, cluster deployment, programming, discovering OrientDB's potential, and its features.

The book covers useful administrative topics such as import/export, automatic backups, and configuration tips. Furthermore, design concepts like user management, document databases, graph databases, and dictionaries are covered. Finally, concepts and programming examples are shown in Java.

What you will learn from this book

  • Build up from source code and run the test suite
  • Learn and choose the right kind of database supported by OrientDB
  • Know Learn more about OrientDB internal architecture, security, user management, classes, and clusters
  • Use the command line console and the embedded web console tools
  • Use the Nnative Java API to connect and interact with an OrientDB server and use SQL-like language
  • Understand performance tuning and improve performance
  • Embed the OrientDB core in your own Java project
  • Write custom code and set up a cluster of OrientDB servers

Approach
A standard tutorial aimed at making you an OrientDB expert, through the use of practical examples, explained in a step-by-step format.

Who this book is written for
Getting Started with OrientDB is great for database designers, developers, and systems engineers. It is assumed that you are familiar with NoSQL concepts, Java, and networking principles.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 138 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782169954
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782169956
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IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 07:02 AM PST

Book Description

IBM Cognos Report Studio is widely used for creating and managing business reports in medium to large companies. It is simple enough for any business analyst, power user, or developer to pick up and start developing basic reports. However, this book is designed to take the reader beyond the basics and into the world of creating more sophisticated, functional business reports.

IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook, Second Edition helps you understand and use all the features provided by Report Studio to generate impressive deliverables. It will take you from being a beginner to a professional report author. It bridges the gap between basic training provided by manuals or trainers and the practical techniques learned over years of practice.

Written in a recipe style, this book offers step-by-step instructions for IBM Cognos Report Studio users to author reports effectively, allowing a reader to dip in and out of the chapters as they desire.

You will see a new fictional business case in each recipe that will relate to a real-life problem and then you will learn how to crack it in Report Studio.

This book covers all the basic and advanced features of Report Authoring. It introduces the fundamental features useful across any level of reporting. Then it ascends to advanced techniques and tricks to overcome Studio limitations. Develop excellent reports using dimensional data sources by following best practices that development work requires in Report Studio. You will also learn about editing the report outside the Studio by directly editing the XML specifications. You will discover how to build and use Cognos Active Reports, a new addition in IBM Cognos 10.

Provide richness to the user interface by adding JavaScript and HTML tags and using the different chart types introduced in IBM Cognos 10. The main focus is on the practical use of various powerful features that Report Studio has to offer to suit your business requirements.

Learn numerous techniques and hacks that will allow you to make the best out of your IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn basic and advanced options around sorting, filtering, and aggregation of data
  • Explore the powerful features of Report Studio—Conditional Formatting, Cascaded Prompts, Master-Detailed queries, and more
  • Learn how to build and use Active Reports
  • Achieve real business demands such as dynamic drill-though links, showing tooltips, minimum column width, prompt manipulation, and merged cells
  • Learn to edit reports outside Report Studio using XML editing
  • Develop sophisticated printer friendly reports
  • Introduce best practices such as inserting comments, regression testing, and version controlling in your reports
  • Enhance the features of Report Studio by using macros and Work with dimensional models (DMRs and Cubes)

Approach
This Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for Report Studio 10 users to author effective reports. The book is designed in a way that you can refer to it chapter by chapter, look at the list of recipes and read them in no particular order.

Who this book is for
The Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook is for you if you are a Business Intelligence Developer who is working on IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio and wants to author impressive reports by putting to use what this tool has to offer. It is also ideal you are a Business Analyst or Power User who authors his own reports and wants to look beyond the conventional features of IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio.

This book assumes that you are familiar with the architecture of IBM Cognos 10. You should also have basic knowledge of IBM Cognos Report Studio and can do the basic report authoring tasks.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849688206
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849688208
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Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 06:59 AM PST

Book Description

You know the feeling when you are asked to change or add a certain data point in your graph at the last minute. Usually, you have to scramble to complete the project and risk accuracy; this is not so with Tableau, however. Tableau is a revolutionary toolkit that lets you simply and effectively create high quality data visualizations.

“Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook” will show you the exact steps required to generate simple to complex graphics. Whether they are pie charts or box plots, you can create such graphics with ease and confidence; no more searching for scripts or laborious Excel hacks. This book will help you make the most of Tableau and show you how to finish your projects quicker using this toolkit.

In this book you'll start with getting your data into Tableau, move onto generating progressively complex graphics, and end with the finishing touches and packaging your work for distribution.

This book is filled with practical recipes to help you create filled maps, use custom markers, add slider selectors, and create dashboards. You will learn how to manipulate data in various ways by applying various filters, logic, and calculating various aggregate measures. Then, we will create animated graphs and provide search box and drop-down selectors to users. This book will help you to create stunning graphics in very short amount of time.

If you want to effortlessly create beautiful visualizations of data then “Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook” is for you!

What you will learn from this book

  • Forecast with trend lines
  • Manipulate and transform data
  • Import data from various sources
  • Create filled maps and use any shape file
  • Share your work easily
  • Create dashboards and scorecards
  • Format and finish the graphic
  • Observe statistical distributions

Approach
This Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for Tableau users to create effective graphics. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to it chapter by chapter; you can look at the list of recipes and read them in no particular order.

Who this book is written for
You'll gain the most from this book if you have basic understanding of various chart types and of their importance. Knowing when to employ a certain graphic will be equally useful. This book will get you up to speed if you just started using Tableau. You'll find this book useful if you spend a lot of time conducting data analysis and creating reports.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849689784
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849689786
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