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Setting up GlassFish for JMS and Working with Message Queues

by David Heffelfinger | July 2010 | Java Open Source

The Java Messaging API (JMS) provides a mechanism for Java EE applications to send messages to each other. JMS applications do not communicate directly, instead message producers send messages to a destination and message consumers receive the message from the destination.

The message destination is a message queue when the point-to-point (PTP) messaging domain is used, or a message topic when the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging domain is used.

In this article by David Heffelfinger, author of the book Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up GlassFish for JMS
  • Working with message queues
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Activating the BuddyPress Default Theme and Setting up and Configuring BuddyPress

by Heather R. Wallace | July 2010 | Open Source WordPress

You have a few options when it comes to themes. You can activate the default BuddyPress theme, install a different compatible theme, or upgrade your existing theme so that it can be used with BuddyPress. It's easiest to keep things simple, so begin with the default BuddyPress theme. Later on, you can change to a new theme after you've finished installing and configuring everything. In this article by Heather R. Wallace, author of the book WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, we'll discuss the BuddyPress Default Theme.

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Building a Job Board Website using JobPress

by Heather R. Wallace | July 2010 | Open Source WordPress

No matter how good or bad the economy might be at any given time there will always be job seekers. Every day people search online to find employment in a variety of industries. Searching the bigger job boards can be overwhelming and time-consuming because job seekers must sort though the myriad of job listings in an attempt to locate positions that match their unique skill sets. What would greatly benefit these job seekers is a fine-tuned job board that concentrates on a smaller segment of the overall job market. That's where JobPress comes in.

In this article by Heather R. Wallace, author of the book WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, we will see how with the JobPress theme, you can easily create a niche job board to serve a particular segment of job seekers.

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The Basics of Joomla! Module Creation and Creating a "Send us a question" Module

by Jose Argudo Blanco | July 2010 | Joomla! Open Source

To date, Joomla! has been well known as a great content management system (CMS). There are many sites using it throughout the world, some of them having great features that impress their visitors. Most of the time, these appealing and powerful features work thanks to JavaScript.

In this article by Jose Argudo Blanco, author of the book Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery, we will:

  • Learn the basics of Joomla! module creation
  • Create a "Send us a question" module
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Ensuring Quality for Unit Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

by Peter Ritchie | July 2010 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

Some level of automated unit testing is required to maintain the quality of the software to support the refactoring effort. In this article by Peter Ritchie, author of Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, we'll discuss various aspects of unit testing, as well as how to approach unit testing with Visual Studio. We will cover some testing frameworks to facilitate writing, like mocking frameworks, and executing those tests. We'll cover the following topics:

  • Automated testing
  • Unit tests
  • Mocking
  • Mocking frameworks
  • Unit test frameworks
  • Unit testing legacy code
  • Test-driven development
  • Third party refactoring tools
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Making a Better Form using JavaScript

by Jose Argudo Blanco | July 2010 | Joomla! Open Source

Joomla! is well known as a great content management system (CMS). There are many sites using it throughout the world, some of them having great features that impress their visitors.

In the previous article we learnt the basics of Joomla! module creation and also created a "Send us a question" module.

In this article by Jose Argudo Blanco, author of the book Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery, we are going to add some new features to our little module. These features are intended to make a better form, such as avoiding a full page reload by sending the form using AJAX or checking that some text has been introduced before sending it. All these are good features, though not every form needs to make use of these features. It's up to us to decide when to implement them.

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