Rabu, 27 November 2013

Wow! eBook: concrete5 Cookbook - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: concrete5 Cookbook - 5 new eBooks

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concrete5 Cookbook

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 02:09 AM PST

Book Description

concrete5 is an increasingly popular open source content management system because of its incredible and easy-to-use interface. But, it also comes complete with a robust PHP framework, allowing web developers to create custom websites and applications with ease.

“concrete5 Cookbook” is a practical collection of solutions to tasks that both novice and experienced concrete5 developers face on a regular basis. Readers will learn multiple subjects, including full blueprints for developing an event calendar add-on and an image gallery block. Developers new to concrete5 will quickly learn how to customize concrete5 to their needs, and seasoned pros will find it an excellent quick reference for performing specific tasks.

“concrete5 Cookbook” will transform ordinary PHP developers into concrete5 experts capable of bending concrete5 to their will and unleashing the true power of this up-and-coming content management system. Throughout the course of over 140 recipes and 3 bonus project blueprint chapters, PHP developers will learn how to create custom blocks and dashboard interfaces as well as programmatically work with pages, files, users, permissions, and more. Discover the built-in Active Record support that makes working with databases simple and maintainable. Readers will also learn how to take advantage of the numerous helper classes included in concrete5, and will dive deep into the concrete5 MVC framework to create powerful custom websites and applications. Tie together all of the concepts learned in the recipes with 3 bonus chapters featuring complete blueprints to create a calendar add-on, an image gallery block type, and tips on how to sell your themes and add-ons for money!

“concrete5 Cookbook” is a complete collection of recipes to solve the most common (and some not-so-common) tasks that concrete5 developers will face on a regular basis.

What you will learn from this book

  • Manage pages and the sitemap
  • Connect to and query the database
  • Code real data models with Active Record
  • Produce custom dashboard interfaces
  • Make a custom theme
  • Hooke into system events
  • Create an image gallery add-on
  • Sell add-ons in the concrete5 marketplace and earn money

Approach
The Cookbook-style recipes allow you to go both directly to your topic of interest or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain in-depth knowledge. This practical Cookbook will cater to the needs of both intermediate and advanced concrete5 developers.

Who this book is written for
This book is geared towards intermediate to advanced PHP developers who would like to learn more about the concrete5 content management system. Developers already familiar with concrete5 will learn new time-saving tricks and will find the book to be a great reference tool.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782164545
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782164548
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Android Development Tools for Eclipse

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:58 AM PST

Book Description

The increase in Android's popularity with every passing day cannot be understated. This has resulted in a large programmer base willing to contribute to its success. Eclipse has a powerful IDE and has been adopted widely by programmers across the globe. The focus of ADT is to use existing familiar territory and ease development of Android applications. In this sense, ADT provides a one stop solution for Android application development.

Android Development Tools for Eclipse is a step-by-step guide that provides you with hands-on, practical, and to the point discussion and steps for using Eclipse tools for developing, debugging, and signing Android applications for distribution. It also teaches you to incorporate advertisements to monetize your applications. Every concept and its usage has been demonstrated in this book by implementing them via real world applications.

Android Development Tools for Eclipse starts with the installation of ADT, and then discusses important tools before guiding you through Android application development from scratch, demonstrating different concepts and implementation before finally helping you distribute your applications in the Android market. You will start the development of your first application, explore project structure, and add different widgets including multimedia ones.

You will learn everything about developing, debugging, testing, distributing, and monetizing your Android application using Eclipse ADT.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install ADT and Eclipse
  • Learn about important tools in the ADT environment and their usage
  • Create a new project, explore its structure, add simple widgets, then compile, debug, and run the application
  • Include multimedia elements and handle multiple screens in your application
  • Add a menu and use it to invoke the Preference Screen and handle radio and checkbox preferences
  • Handle multiple screen types and orientations
  • Add an external library and use it by incorporating advertisements (AdMob Library)
  • Learn how to prepare your application for release: compiling, key generation, signing, aligning, and distribution

Approach
A standard tutorial aimed at developing Android applications in a practical manner.

Who this book is written for
Android Development Tools for Eclipse is aimed at beginners and existing developers who want to learn more about Android development. It is assumed that you have experience in Java programming and that you have used IDE for development.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782161104
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782161103
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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:56 AM PST

Book Description

Developers of all levels can now easily develop custom, responsive, and rich web application clients with secure, scalable servers utilizing relational databases and RESTful services using WaveMaker Studio. Whether you need a departmental business application or a form application for your weekend club, this book will show you how to design, develop, and deploy professional grade web applications with WaveMaker.

Easy Web Development with WaveMaker will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications, even if you are not a programmer. If you need to build a data-driven web application, but you only know 'enough to be dangerous,' you need this book.

This book examines every angle of using WaveMaker to build applications, from dissecting examples to customizing, deploying, and debugging your own applications.

This book enables the non-professional programmer to become comfortable not only with using WaveMaker Studio itself, but also with the artefacts produced by the studio as well as the runtime and services provided by the WaveMaker framework. You will learn everything, from how customize the user experience with JavaScript and CSS to integrating with custom Java services and the Spring Framework server-side.

Easy Web Development with WaveMaker 6.5 is packed with examples, code samples, screenshots, and links to equip you to be successful with WaveMaker Studio.

What you will learn from this book

  • Design better performing, more usable, and more scalable web applications that are easier to maintain using WaveMaker Studio
  • Understand both the big picture and the file-by-file assembly of a WaveMaker application and the WaveMaker framework
  • Rapidly generate forms, data models, and services from existing relational databases and web services
  • Customize the generated application and add complex custom features using standard technologies including CSS, JavaScript, and Java
  • Diagnose and debug problems in applications using the Chrome developer tools and the Eclipse debugger
  • Secure applications by developing an understanding of how security is applied and leverage that understanding to be confident in the results
  • Understand the deployment options and requirements for WaveMaker applications, from the desktop to the cloud
  • Access and leverage the underlying Dojo Toolkit and Spring Framework to build custom solutions to enterprise problems

Approach
Written as a practical Packt tutorial, this essential reference will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications.

Who this book is for
This book is for 'citizen developers'; amateur developers who want to build modern, responsive, but scalable web applications connected to database, REST, and Java services without all the effort. No specific technical knowledge is assumed. However, you will be interacting with numerous technologies throughout the course of this book. The more of those technologies you are familiar with, the easier you will find this book. This book is also good for developers looking to use WaveMaker as a tool to build quickly build AJAX browser clients to their web and Java services using the Spring Framework.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 306 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782161783
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782161783
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Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:52 AM PST

Book Description

Performance testing with JMeter 2.9 is critical to the success of any software product launch and continued scalability. Irrespective of the size of the application's user base, it's vital to deliver the best user experience to consumers. Apache JMeter is an excellent testing tool that provides an insight into how applications might behave under load enabling organizations to focus on making adequate preparations.

Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 is a practical, hands-on guide that equips you with all the essential skills needed to effectively use JMeter to test web applications using a number of clear and practical step-by-step guides. It allows you take full advantage of the real power behind Apache JMeter, quickly taking you from novice to master.

Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 begins with the fundamentals of performance testing and gets you acquainted with JMeter. It will guide you through recording realistic and maintainable scripts.

You will acquire new skills working with tools such as Vagrant, Puppet, and AWS, allowing you to leverage the cloud to aid in distributed testing. You will learn how to do some BeanShell scripting and take advantage of regular expressions, JMeter properties, and extension points to build comprehensive and robust test suites. Also, you will learn how to test RESTful web services, deal with XML, JSON, file downloads/uploads, and much more. Topics like resource monitoring, distributed testing, managing sessions, and extending JMeter are also covered.

Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 will teach you all you need to know to take full advantage of JMeter for testing web applications, dazzle your co-workers, and impress your boss! You will go from novice to pro in no time.

What you will learn from this book

  • Set up and prepare Apache JMeter for testing
  • Record test scenarios or create them from scratch
  • Test RESTful web services
  • Effectively monitor resources during a performance test
  • Maintain and manage user sessions
  • Distributed testing using Vagrant, Puppet, and AWS
  • Extend JMeter functionality through plugins
  • Understand and effectively use JMeter components to achieve testing needs
  • Build realistic, comprehensive, and maintainable test plans
  • Capture form submissions and appropriate handle server responses

Approach
Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 is a standard tutorial that will help you polish your fundamentals, guide you through various advanced topics, and along the process help you learn new tools and skills.

Who this book is written for
This book is for developers, quality assurance engineers, testers, and test managers new to Apache JMeter, or those who are looking to get a good grounding in how to effectively use and become proficient with it. No prior testing experience is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 148 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782165843
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782165842
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Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:48 AM PST

Book Description

If you need to interact with databases, XML, in-memory collections, or remote services, LINQ can make your life simpler. The best way to discover LINQ is with the help of LINQPad, a free IDE whose first goal is to make sure that writing and interacting with your LINQ query is fun and easy. More generally, LINQPad is a C#/VB/F# scratchpad that instantly executes any expression, statement block, or program with rich output formatting and a wealth of features.

With Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad, you will quickly learn everything you need to know to start using LINQ. To accelerate your learning curve, you will discover how to use LINQPad and its features to test your queries interactively and experiment with all the options offered by LINQ.

In all probability, you already know C#, but have you had a chance to try out LINQ? Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad will introduce you to everything LINQ can offer and will let you interact with every example in LINQPad, LINQ's best companion.

You will learn how to build and experiment with interactive queries with this practical guide illustrated with short and detailed code samples. You will also get acquainted with other cool applications of LINQpad such as testing, code snippet generation, and so on, along with a broad approach to LINQ (to object, to SQL, to XML, and so on).

What you will learn from this book

  • Discover what LINQ can do and how it will help you
  • Learn all about LINQ query operators to join, aggregate, select, and filter data
  • Write LINQ queries with both method and query syntaxes
  • Query databases and remote services using LINQ
  • Create and manipulate XML and in-memory collections
  • Differentiate LINQPad's query types
  • Handle user input with LINQPad
  • Customize LINQPad to fit your taste or workflow

Approach
A step-by-step practical guide that will introduce you to LINQPad's key features, thereby helping you to query databases interactively.

Who this book is written for
This book is aimed at C#/.Net developers who wish to learn LINQ programming and leverage the easy way of using LINQPad. No prior knowledge of LINQ or LINQPad is expected. A basic knowledge of SQL and XML is required for some chapters.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 126 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782178228
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782178224
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