Kamis, 19 Juli 2012

Wow! eBook: Joomla! Mobile Development: Beginner’s Guide - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Joomla! Mobile Development: Beginner’s Guide - 6 new eBooks

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Joomla! Mobile Development: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:53 AM PDT

Joomla! Mobile Development: Beginners Guide

Book Description

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it’s a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics with Joomla! and build a that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive sites that perfectly fit your needs.

Joomla! Beginner's Guide: This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! for mobile, helping you to create professional and good-looking websites, irrespective of whether you want to create a full-featured company or a club or build a personal site.

The Joomla! Mobile Beginner’s Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and then to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!’s powerful features to create websites for mobile devices. This book will guide you through the complexities of implementing add-ons, components, modules, and in Joomla! for mobile-friendly websites.

This book teaches all you need to know to make a standard Joomla! website for mobile devices and convert it to a feature-packed and -rich website. This book will first teach you the basics and then customize the layout of mobile Joomla!, followed by creating menus and explaining the template structure. The book will then guide you to enrich your mobile site with different dynamic contents. You will then learn to implement mobile and different mobile display options for Joomla!. Readers will see different types of QRcode implementations with Joomla! sites and several Joomla! mobile apps to customize and publish contents on the Joomla! mobile site. Finally, you will learn about JoomTouch, which enables you to create different templates for mobile devices and then wrap up with switching.

This clear, hands-on guide to building mobile websites helps you to get the most out of Joomla!'s many powerful features.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create a feature-rich site that’s easy to expand, customize, and maintain for mobile devices
  • Design clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks
  • Plan and implement advanced configurations for modules
  • Organize your site content in different tabs, articles, and slideshows and improve its search capability with searching
  • Make full use of templates to get your site to look just right, tweak the , and customize templates using your own logo, fonts, and colors
  • Create and specify mobile stylesheets for your Joomla! website in order to style your Joomla! website more effectively for mobile users
  • Extend Joomla!’s capabilities by finding and utilizing must-have extensions that perfectly meet your needs
  • Modify extension functionality to suit your needs

Approach
This is a practical step-by-step Beginner's Guide to Joomla! mobile website building, with friendly and clear explanations enriched with screenshots for easy and quick comprehension.

Who this book is for
If you want to build and maintain your own website for mobile visitors, the Joomla! Mobile Development Beginner’s Guide is perfect for you. It helps you build on the skills and knowledge you may already have on creating websites—but even if you’re new to this subject, you won’t have any difficulty understanding the clear and friendly instructions and explanations. You learn build and maintain websites for mobile devices without having to dive deep into HTML and .

Book Details

  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517088
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517089
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Unity 3.x Scripting

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Unity 3.x Scripting

Book Description

is a powerful tool for anyone who aspires to build interesting and sellable games. One of the exciting aspects of is how easily it can be extended to build custom characters and environments. Scripting is the key to accomplish all this, but it comes with a steep learning curve.

This book will teach you everything you need to know about scripting in . It will take you through creating, including and tweaking scripts for achieving various tasks. Some of these tasks include controlling characters, animations, controlling objects, handling data and enemy AI.

The book will begin by building scripts for simple tasks and continue to develop them for increasing level of difficulty. The first few chapters include scripting to build a custom game environment and creating characters and controlling them. Arranging views, controlling and creating animations are covered in the next set of chapters.

The book then moves on to build objects, animate them and code character interaction with them and create inventories where the characters can pick ammo, health and other such objects. Towards the end, the book teaches add background sound and discusses basic enemy AI scripting.

What you will learn from this book

  • Use available scripts that readers can use to create default character controller
  • Attach default character controller scripts to an existing game object
  • Set-up your own and character controller rigs through code
  • Code dynamic and static objects like bio gun, ammo, health, character stat augmentation, treasure chests and make your character interact with them
  • Create character item slots along with inventories, where players will be able to drag and drop different item icons in the inventory slots
  • Attach existing scripts to characters and objects and create new ones
  • Assign and equip selected items on a player or object, making them active and useable like adding fire functionality to a bio gun
  • Create and maintain scores to control character objectives and save game data
  • Setup a to control transition between scenes and transferring objects from one scene to another along with instantiation for characters
  • Deal with and parallax backgrounds
  • Create an game controller to fix sound overlapping and create background stems
  • Basics of enemy AI, such as path-finding and creating distinct enemy behavior and their awareness

Approach
The book is written in an easy to understand step-by-step style. It covers real-world examples for every topic, so that you gain most out of the book and are able to apply these techniques straight into your game.

Who this book is for
If you are a programmer interested in developing games using Unity and want to customize your game by writing scripts, then this is a book for you. To make the best use of this book, you will have to know your way around Unity. The book is ideal for someone, who has experience in building games using Unity and knows a bit of ; especially . However, if you are a programmer in any other language, you should be able to grasp the book fairly easily.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849692300
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849692304
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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:43 AM PDT

Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

Book Description

helps an organization reduce costs and achieve low maintenance. It is fast becoming an important skill for all administrators. Citrix's is one of the leading solutions for enterprises and helps companies reduce costs while allowing them to integrate, automate and easily manage their datacenters. It comes with a steep learning curve, but the results are well worth the effort.

This practical guide on shows you manage pools; create, configure and manage virtual machines and a datacenter. With the help of real-world examples in this book, you will be able to apply these concepts directly in your everyday life. Packed with author's tips and helpful advice; the book is your best choice for anything related to .

This is the only book that focuses on the most vital aspect of XenServer–administration. You don't have to struggle through the lesser-documented tasks anymore, this book will provide all the information you need to create and run a perfectly designed datacenter using XenServer.

You will begin your journey towards becoming an expert XenServer administrator by configuring XenServer pools and managing role-based user authentication. Your next step is to create and manage virtual machines. In the following chapters you will learn to configure storage. The book discusses some of the more difficult tasks like configuring and managing VM memory. In the end you will be capable of handling your datacenter and virtual machines through a network, and you will learn monitor and backup your XenServer setup. All through the book, the author adds his helpful tips and advice that will help you choose the best options for your setup.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create and manage XenServer resource pools to manage your XenServer host as a unique identity
  • Use XenServer features like XenMotion to move the VM from one host to another without downtime
  • Manage user authentication using role-based access control
  • Configure Storage Repository and Networking
  • Create, Import and Export Virtual Machines
  • Convert physical machines to virtual using XenConvert
  • Manage Virtual Machines memory and snapshots with dynamic memory control and optimize memory usage
  • Enable and manage High Availability in your XenServer
  • Integrate and configure XenServer with
  • Manage backups of XenServer host, protection, and the high-availability of virtual machines

Approach
This is a practical, concise step-by-step tutorial with screenshots for carrying out tasks showing you how to manage and administer a XenServer in your . The author brings his own extensive knowledge of XenServer. The book is full of best practices and tips that will help you benefit from the author’s experience in working with XenServer.

Who this book is for
If you are an administrator working on XenServer, this book is for you. The book assumes that you have a basic understanding of XenServer administration, but need not have working experience with XenServer. You must be well aware of virtualization concepts as the book does not cover that.

IT consultants, service providers and architects, who want to approach XenServer as a virtualization platform will also find this book useful.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849686165
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849686167
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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: First Look

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:40 AM PDT

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: First Look

Book Description

Weblogic 12 is ’s number 1 strategic Application – able to run on both systems and conventional ones. Oracle WebLogic 12 implements the new 6 standard and supports SE 7, and this book will guide you through all the new features, enhancements, and tools inside the new 12 release.

“ 12c: First Look” offers a focused look at the new Weblogic features with examples.

This practical guide gives clear explanations and dives deep into all the definitions and concepts of Weblogic 12c.

This book starts with a short introduction to WebLogic 12c. It then swiftly covers the new features of and SE where we will also learn to develop 6 applications. This book also covers the new configuration and deployment features. Finally all the new features and techniques will be highlighted, including integration with Enterprise Manager 12c.

What you will learn from this book

  • Master the new deployment and configuration features within Oracle WebLogic 12c
  • Get to grips with existing and new integrated services like , , JMS, and much more.
  • Learn to work with other components like OVAB, Oracle Traffic Director, and the Exabus Layer.
  • Understand integration with Cloud such as Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control.

Approach
This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations to get you started with the exciting new features.

Who this book is for
If you are a WebLogic administrator or developer excited about the new features introduced in the 12c version, then this is the guide for you. A Working knowledge of previous WebLogic versions is preferable.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849687188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849687188
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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:35 AM PDT

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70 506) Certification Guide

Book Description

is a powerful platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the , desktop, and devices. is also a great (and growing) Line-Of- platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven applications. Silverlight is based on familiar languages such as # which enables existing developers to get started developing rich internet applications almost immediately.

“: Silverlight 4 (70-506) Certification Guide” will show you prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development .

Packed with practical examples and Q&As, : Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide starts by showing you lay out a user interface, enhance the user interface, implement application logic, work with data and interact with a host platform amongst others.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn how to lay out a user interface in Silverlight using concepts such as panels, content controls and navigation.
  • Discover how to enhance your by manipulating visuals, creating animations and other important concepts.
  • Understand how to implement application logic and work with data to create a powerful data driven line of applications.
  • Know how to structure your application and how it can interact with its host platform.
  • Learn how to configure, deliver and deploy your Silverlight application and how to dynamically load resources upon request.

Approach
This book is a hands-on certification guide with practical examples and Q&As to help developers prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development .

Who this book is for
If you are a .NET developer who wants to create and maintain rich interactive applications () using Silverlight 4, then this book is for you. Basic experience of Silverlight development, Microsoft .NET development, and consuming data services is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849684669
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849684668
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:33 AM PDT

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Book Description

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured solutions.

While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with.

This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Collaboration, Content and Document , as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.

What you will learn from this book
You will see build the following SharePoint projects:

  • An Effective Intranet Site for your organization that maximizes the site's ability to aggregate content and is highly effective at communicating important messages
  • A Workflow Out of that allows users to manage their out of dates and automate task assignments to a delegated resource
  • A Company Forms Site with the definition of form content types and organizing the forms into a usable interface
  • An Engaging Community Site including custom features that can be used to enhance collaboration and provide an information sharing
  • A Site Request and Provisioning to help governance and compliance activities
  • A Project Site Template to support project initiatives and track Issues, Tasks, and Contacts
  • A Project Main Site that can aggregate the key metrics and status information from the project sites previously created
  • A Task Rollup solution that can aggregate tasks from the specified sites
  • A dynamic Site Directory solution that leverages Search

Approach
The hands-on example solutions in this book are based on fictitious business briefs, and they illustrate practical ways of using SharePoint in various business scenarios.

A chapter is dedicated to each example SharePoint solution covering step-by-step instructions for building the SharePoint solutions, aided by the extensive use of screenshots.

Who this book is for
This book is for SharePoint developers, consultants, and administrators who want to build a range of SharePoint solutions that extend the SharePoint platform, and see how to apply the many available SharePoint features in different scenarios.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849683603
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849683609
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