Senin, 16 Juli 2012

Wow! eBook: Android Database Programming - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Android Database Programming - 5 new eBooks

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Android Database Programming

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Android Database Programming

Book Description

We live in an increasingly data-centric and data-driven world. On top of that we live in a very mobile-centric world with the rise of smart phones and devices and the surge in demand for the platform. Along with the demand for more data, there is a demand for efficient, “snappy” applications, and so developers need to have a strong understanding of when different data storage methods are appropriate and when they are not.

Mastering use these two fields to successfully create a powerful application will help you boost your knowledge and skills in this area.

” is designed to help developers create and data-centric mobile applications on 's Android platform. As the world goes increasingly mobile and as consumers' demand for data-centric applications rises, knowing combine the two effectively will become an increasingly important asset to have as a developer. The book starts by looking at the various local data storage methods on Android, and finishes off by examining external databases and ways you can utilize them from within an Android application.

This book starts by looking at local data storage methods, focusing on writing databases for your application and also looking at ways to bind these databases to the user interface. The book, through its practical approach, strives to teach you by examples. Each chapter focuses on flushing out high level concepts, before drilling down into different code examples.

As you continue you will look at external databases, primarily 's App Engine platform, and pull things together by helping you understand how you can request, cache, and display this data. The book then teaches the ways and techniques to utilize such external databases from within your application.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn about lighter forms of local data storage such as SharedPreferences
  • Dive into databases and learn how to customize and extend them
  • Examine various SQLite queries to efficiently query for your data
  • Learn to safely expose your SQLite to external applications
  • Understand how to bind your SQLite database to the user interface
  • Explore various external databases such as and learn how to store/query data on these external platforms
  • Learn to make network requests to both post and get data from your external data store
  • Learn to retrieve, parse, and/or cache the incoming data on the Android application

Approach
This book is a practical tutorial approaching the topic with clear instructions and examples. With easy to understand examples and scenarios you can apply almost anywhere, this book walks you through both local and external data storage methods for the Android platform.

Who this book is for
“Android Database ” targets developers who are experienced with databases and other back-end design concepts, but who may want to see these concepts applied to mobile applications. Developers who are experienced with mobile applications and/or the Android platform, but who may not be as familiar with back-end systems and /implementing database schemas will find this tutorial equally useful.

Even if you are already experienced with both Android programming and database implementation, but want to further solidify concepts and see a broader scope of data storage methods on Android, this book is your perfect companion.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 212 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849518122
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849518123
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Moodle Gradebook

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Moodle Gradebook

Book Description

, as a learning , is used to provide resources, interactive activities and assessments to students. Through the use of the gradebook, can also be used to store grades, calculate final marks and track student achievement and progress to help the teacher manage the learning process.

Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, making it much easier for you to organize your work and relay information to your students. This book provides examples of practical uses of the gradebook to demystify the terminology and options available, allowing you to make full use of the assessment tracking features and, most importantly, customize it to meet your needs.

Moodle Gradebook will introduce you to the core functions of the gradebook as you will learn add your own graded activities before marking this work. You will customize how you view the grades and organize the activities so that your course needs are met. You will also use the new completion functions within Moodle 2.x to track progress further. Make the gradebook accommodate your requirements by adding your own grading options and setting it up to present the information you need.

What you will learn from this book

  • Understand the core functions of the gradebook, what information it shows, and get to it.
  • Add graded assignments to your course that make use of number and word grades as well as the use of outcomes.
  • Create categories to arrange graded activities in the gradebook.
  • Use options to filter the information you want to see.
  • Discover the preset aggregation types to calculate category and course totals based on the course requirements.
  • View reports and export data to further review student progress.
  • Set up activity and course completion to further aid assessment tracking for students and teachers.
  • Discover the new advanced grading option now available in Moodle 2.

Approach
A practical book with plenty of step-by-step instructions and informative screenshots to guide you through the many features of gradebook.

Who this book is for
Moodle Gradebook is for anyone who uses Moodle as a course instructor. You will need to know the basic functions of using and navigating Moodle, but no prior knowledge of the grades functions will be required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 10, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849518149
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849518147
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VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 09:17 AM PDT

VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Book Description

View is a desktop that helps organizations automate desktop and application , reduce costs, and increase data through centralization of the desktop environment.

Written by experts Jason Langone and Andre Leibovici, this book is meant as a guide for architects, providers, consultants, engineers and anyone planning to and implement a solution based on View 5. This book will pull information and expertise from scenarios so as to maximize practical learning. It will explain the settings and configurations needed to have a successful desktop solution as well as the 'why' behind the decisions.

This book is not meant to replace the official or Installation Guides for VMware View or ThinApp published by the great people at VMware. The material in this book should be used during the phase, which is before an implementation is underway. All components of a VMware View solution will be covered.

This book uses case studies from the including:

  • Hotel Kiosk: VDI solution used in a hotel lobby to provide basic connectivity to its guests
  • Federal agency with classified and unclassified information: VDI used to allow analysts to securely connect to both a classified and unclassified network from the same device
  • Remote : VDI used to provide connectivity to offshore developers
  • Out-of-band Scientist: VDI used to provide a desktop environment to scientists fighting disease in remote locales

What you will learn from this book

  • Analyse the strategies and techniques used to migrate a user population from a physical desktop environment to a virtual desktop solution
  • Decide whether to use persistent or non-persistent vDesktops, which impacts many areas of the overall VDI including storage, desktop pools and
  • Understand how end devices such as thick client, thin client, zero clients and other devices, such as the , are supported by VMware View
  • Correctly size the VDI and avoid slow logons, poor PCoIP performance, authentication errors, random failures, and more
  • Analyse all of the potential points of failure within a VDI and provide redundancy for each component
  • Effectively plan the storage design for your VDI
  • Ensure regular backups are taken to ensure a quick in times of failure
  • Understand various VDI design considerations for disaster

Approach
This book will pull information and expertise from real world scenarios so as to maximize practical learning. It will explain the settings and configurations needed to have a successful desktop virtualization solution as well as the 'why' behind the decisions.

Who this book is for
This book is meant as a guide for architects, solution providers, consultants, engineers and anyone planning to design and implement a solution based on VMware View 5.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849681120
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849681124
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(MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 09:11 AM PDT

(MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70 595) Certification Guide

Book Description

BizTalk Server 2010 is an Integration and connectivity server solution that enables organizations to easily connect disparate systems. Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) is the certification exam for professionals who need to integrate multiple disparate systems, applications, and data as well as automate business processes by using BizTalk Server.

(): BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide will show you how to prepare for and pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam and become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist () in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010.

Packed with practical examples and Q&As, (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide covers the keys skills in the exam and starts by showing you how to configure a Messaging . The book then dives into BizTalk Artifacts such as creating Schemas and Pipelines, creating Maps and creating Orchestrations. It then moves on to topics such as debugging and exception handling, deploying, tracking and administrating a BizTalk Server 2010 solution, integrating Services and Windows Communication Foundation () Services and implementing Extended Capabilities. Additional practical resources are also included that will enable you to approach the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam with ease, including certification test taking tips and tricks and sample certification test questions.

What you will learn from this book

  • Covers the core of BizTalk, including publish/subscribe, context and content-based , receive and send ports and other administrative artifacts.
  • Create rich and useful schemas with restrictions and reusable types.
  • Create maps and apply logic such as conditional mapping, looping, scripting and external assemblies and other map and functoid logic.
  • Create orchestrations and work with messages, scopes, transactions, binding, correlation and other shapes and processing logic.
  • Handle exceptions in messaging and orchestration scenarios and recover from them using catch, compensation and failed message .
  • Perform administrative tasks such as installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting BizTalk Server 2010 groups and solutions.
  • Work with Services and , exposing and consuming services and applying custom configurations and behaviors.
  • Use the additional features in BizTalk, such as Business Rules Engine (BRE), EDI, RFID and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).

Approach
This book is a hands-on certification guide with practical examples and Q&As to help BizTalk developers pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam.

Who this book is for
If you are an intermediate level BizTalk developer who wants to pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of fundamental BizTalk concepts around the core messaging engine and building business processes using orchestrations is assumed but not required. In addition, core knowledge of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and basic understanding of Data Interchange (EDI) is recommended.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 476 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849684928
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849684927
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Adaptive Web Design

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Adaptive Web Design

Book Description

The is an ever-changing medium whose scope, application, audience and platform continue to grow on a daily basis. If you've worked on the for any amount of time, you've likely heard or even used the term "progressive enhancement." Since the term's inception, it has been considered a best practice for approaching . But what is it really? And how do we reconcile its meaning with the rapid evolution of the languages and browsers we rely on to do our jobs?

In this brief book, Aaron Gustafson chronicles the origins of progressive enhancement, its philosophy, and mechanisms, and reveals the countless practical ways that you can apply progressive enhancement principles using , , and . By understanding progressive enhancement and apply it properly, practitioners can craft experiences that serve users (rather than browsers), giving them access to content without technological restrictions.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Think of the User, Not the
Chapter 2. Progressive Enhancement With Markup
Chapter 3. Progressive Enhancement With
Chapter 4. Progressive Enhancement With
Chapter 5. Progressive Enhancement for Accessibility
Chapter 6. Take It Away

Book Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Easy Readers, LLC (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 098358950X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0983589501
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