Wow! eBook: WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook - 5 new eBooks

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• WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook
• Ruby and MongoDB Web Development: Beginner’s Guide
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook
• Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
• Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:51 AM PDT Book Description WordPress is a popular, powerful, and open Content Management System. Learning to extend its core capabilities allows you to unleash its full potential, whether you’re an administrator who cannot find the right extension, or a developer with a great idea to enhance the platform for the community, or a website designer/developer working to fulfill a client’s needs. “WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook” is the perfect companion for plugin developers, offering easy-to-follow instructions to accomplish tasks that range from basic plugin creation and configuration to advanced customization techniques. Each topic is illustrated through realistic examples showing how it can be applied to solve common problems, followed by explanations of all concepts used. Create WordPress plugins of varying complexity, from a few lines that change a specific function to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities. From the creation of your first simple plugin to adding entire new sections and widgets in the administration interface, learn how to change and extend WordPress to perform virtually any task. After installing and configuring an efficient plugin development environment, you will discover how to register your own callbacks that WordPress will execute at key points, forming the basis of plugin creation. Armed with this essential knowledge, you’ll explore how to create administration pages to allow users to configure your new creations and to add new content management sections to WordPress through custom post types and custom database tables. Once you have all these elements in place, improve your plugins by customizing the post and page editors, creating user-facing forms to populate new content sections, making your plugin output dynamic using Javascript and AJAX as well as adding new widgets to the platform. Finally, see how to add support for multiple languages and distribute your work to the global WordPress community. “WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook” provides you with tools to create any plugin you can imagine. What you will learn from this book Prepare an efficient development environment Create your first plugins using WordPress action and filter hooks Add new sections to the administration interface for plugin configuration Create new content types using Custom Post Types or Custom Database Tables Make your content dynamic with JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Add new widgets to the WordPress library Prepare your plugin to be translated for broad international use Get your new creations ready to be shared on the official WordPress site Approach This is a cookbook with step-by-step instructions and code examples required to learn WordPress plugin development easily. Who this book is written for If you are a WordPress user, developer, or a site integrator with basic knowledge of PHP and an interest to create new plugins to address your personal needs, client needs, or share with the community, then this book is for you. Book Details Paperback: 318 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849517681 ISBN-13: 978-1849517683 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, 2nd Edition (26-11-2010) Node Cookbook (15-08-2012) Drupal 7 Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (21-06-2012) Modern JavaScript: Develop and Design (07-07-2012) Joomla! Mobile Development: Beginner's Guide (19-07-2012) Building WordPress Themes from Scratch (06-06-2012) Beginning Android Web Apps Development (12-07-2012) XPages Extension Library (10-08-2012) WordPress for Education (17-07-2012) WordPress 3.0 jQuery (25-10-2010)

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:44 AM PDT Book Description MongoDB is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. Ruby is an object- oriented scripting language. Ruby and MongoDB are an ideal partnership for building scalable web applications. Ruby and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is a fast-paced, hands-on guide to get started with web application development using Ruby and MongoDB. The book follows a practical approach, using clear and step-by-step instructions and examples in Ruby to demonstrate application development using MongoDB. The book starts by introducing the concepts of MongoDB. The book teaches everything right from the installation to creating objects, MongoDB internals, queries and Ruby Data Mappers. You will learn how to use various Ruby data mappers like Mongoid and MongoMapper to map Ruby objects to MongoDB documents. You will learn MongoDB features and deal with geo-spatial indexing with MongoDB and Scaling MongoDB. With its coverage of concepts and practical examples, Ruby and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is the right choice for Ruby developers to get started with developing websites with MongoDB as the database. What you will learn from this book Get MongoDB and Ruby up and running on your machine (Windows/Mac/Linux) Leverage MongoDB to build highly scalable data-centric applications Leverage MongoDB replication to ensure high availability and reliability Create your first object and save it to MongoDB Create a Ruby Object and map it to MongoDB document Process large datasets with MapReduce Create geo-spatial indexes or 2D indexes Learn about Mongoid and MongoMapper for mapping Ruby objects to MongoDB documents Approach This book is packed with step-by-step instructions and practical examples, along with accompanying screenshots and code for an easy learning curve. The needs of a beginner are totally satisfied by the book. Who this book is written for This book assumes that you are experienced in Ruby development skills – Ruby, HTML, CSS. Having knowledge of using NoSQL will help you get through the concepts quicker, but it is not mandatory. No prior knowledge of MongoDB required. Book Details Paperback: 332 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849515026 ISBN-13: 978-1849515023 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (26-07-2012) The Rails View: Creating a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience (20-04-2012) Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days, 5th Edition (02-07-2012) Learning Rails 3 (25-07-2012) Learning Node (29-06-2012) Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone (18-11-2010) Decoding HTML5 (23-06-2012) Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed (02-08-2012) Practical HTML5 Projects (11-07-2012) PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, 2nd Edition (26-11-2010)

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:40 AM PDT Book Description As a DBA you must have encountered a slow running application on SQL Server, but there are various factors that could be affecting the performance. If you find yourself in this situation, don’t wait, pick up this book and start working towards improving performance of your SQL Server 2012. SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook is divided into three major parts — Performance Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Performance Management–that are mandatory to deal with performance in any capacity. SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook offers a great way to manage performance with effective, concise, and practical recipes. You will learn how to diagnose performance issues, fix them, and take precaution to avoid common mistakes. Each recipe given in this book is an individual task that will address different performance aspects to take your SQL Server’s Performance to a higher level. The first part of this book covers Monitoring with SQL Server Profiler, DTA, System statistical function, SPs with DBCC commands, Resource Monitor & Reliability, and Performance Monitor and Execution Plan. The second part of the book offers Execution Plan, Dynamic Management Views, and Dynamic Management Functions, SQL Server Cache and Stored Procedure Recompilations, Indexes, Important ways to write effective TSQL, Statistics, Table and Index Partitioning, Advanced Query tuning with Query Hints and Plan Guide, Dealing with Locking, Blocking and Deadlocking and Configuring SQL Server for optimization to boost performance. The third and final part gives you knowledge of performance management with help of Policy Based Management and Management with Resource Governor. What will you learn from this book Monitoring SQL Server Performance with Profiler, Execution Plan, and system statistical function Finding performance bottleneck with the help of Resource Monitor and DTA Creating and Managing Indexes efficiently to boost performance Creating and Managing Partition efficiently Managing database files efficiently Planning Guide and Query Hints Dealing with locking, blocking, and deadlocking Configuring SQL Server instance option for achieving performance benefit Managing Performance with Policy based management and Resource Governor Approach This book has individual recipes and you can read it from cover to cover or dip into any recipe and get solution to a specific issue. Every recipe is based on a script/procedure explained with step-by-step instructions and screenshots. Concepts are illustrated for better understanding of why one solution performs better than another. Who this book is written for SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook is aimed at SQL Server Database Developers, DBAs, and Database Architects who are working in any capacity to achieve optimal performance. However, basic knowledge of SQL Server is expected, but professionals who want to get hands-on with performance tuning and have not worked on tuning the SQL Server for performance will find this book helpful. Book Details Paperback: 478 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849685746 ISBN-13: 978-1849685740 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Pro SQL Server 2012 Administration, 2nd Edition (11-07-2012) Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration (14-07-2012) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (23-07-2012) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant (08-03-2012) Email Security with Cisco IronPort (27-07-2012) DB2 Developer's Guide, 6th Edition (27-07-2012) SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning, 3rd Edition (14-07-2012) Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook (18-08-2012) MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-432): Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance (06-04-2012) Business Intelligence Cookbook (14-08-2012)

Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:37 AM PDT Book Description Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation. ‘Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook’ shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced. What you will learn from this book Download, install, configure and get up and running with Windows Server AppFabric quickly Learn how to take advantage of distributed caching for providing high performance and elastic scale on-premise today Take advantage of the enhanced hosting capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer including Auto-Start and a greatly simplified configuration experience Enable support for long-running composite applications that are resilient and fault-tolerant while maximizing computing resources Gain insight into the health of your composite applications seamlessly, both proactively and when something goes wrong Learn how to scale Windows Server AppFabric by leveraging farm deployments Approach 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric, leveraging the right capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into the right level of detail, making it good learning material for everyone who has experience with some of the challenging aspects of WCF and WF development from a scalability, configuration and management perspective. The book is designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of other, prior recipes is not required. Who this book is for If you are a .NET developer or WCF/WF developer, then this book is for you. This book does not assume any prior knowledge of Windows AppFabric. However, a basic understanding of .NET Framework 4.0, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) technologies is required. Book Details Paperback: 428 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849684189 ISBN-13: 978-1849684187 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook (26-05-2012) Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed (02-08-2012) Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2010 Development in 24 Hours (02-08-2012) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook (18-08-2012) Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration (17-04-2012) Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook (18-06-2012) Java EE 6 Cookbook for Securing, Tuning, and Extending Enterprise Applications (18-07-2012) Email Security with Cisco IronPort (27-07-2012) Business Intelligence Cookbook (14-08-2012) Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming (24-05-2012)

Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:32 AM PDT Book Description XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users. XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more. Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections. Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6.5 Farms. What will you learn from this book New features and system requirements of XenApp 6.5 The XenApp Architecture and designing XenApp 6.5 Farms Covers exciting new features in XenApp 6.5 such as Role-based Setup Wizard, Session Pre-Launch (Instant App Access), Citrix AppCenter management console, Citrix Receiver and Citrix Dazzle, and more Install XenApp 6.5 and configure XenApp 6.5 components Manage XenApp components and Citrix Administrators using the new Citrix Delivery Services Console and other Management tools Publish and manage applications and resources, including application streaming Create and apply Citrix Policies to control connections, security, and bandwidth settings using the Group Policy Management Console, Citrix Delivery Services Console, and Local Group Policy Editor. Optimize multimedia content on XenApp using Citrix HDX technologies Manage session environments and connections Secure, optimize and monitor XenApp Farms Deploy XenApp 6.5 on Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware ESX virtual machines Unattended installation of XenApp 6.5 on physical servers. Approach This book has a tutorial style with step-by-step instructions and adequate screenshots for carrying out each task. Who this book is written for If you are a system administrator or consultant who wants to implement and administer Citrix XenApp 6.5 farms, then this book is for you. This book will help both new and experienced XenApp professionals to deliver virtualized applications. Book Details Paperback: 478 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849686661 ISBN-13: 978-1849686662 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts VMware Cookbook, 2nd Edition (30-06-2012) Email Security with Cisco IronPort (27-07-2012) VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions (16-07-2012) Microsoft Windows Operating System Essentials (15-06-2012) Introducing Windows Server 2012 (26-06-2012) Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide (19-07-2012) Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (05-02-2010) Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2010 Development in 24 Hours (02-08-2012) Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (13-08-2012) Pro SQL Server 2012 Administration, 2nd Edition (11-07-2012)

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