Polishing Gems

This article by Benjamin Hershleder, author of Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook, explains that there are many useful features, gems if you will, that go underutilized. This article shines and polishes a few of them up by revealing some functions' hidden abilities, explaining their behavior, and/or giving you a few new ideas about how you might use them.

Top features of KnockoutJS

One of the best parts of Knockout is its extensibility. Knockout has numerous extension points and contains a plethora of utilities for building your app. Many developers have built great Knockout sites without any other JavaScript libraries (even jQuery) than the core Knockout library.

In this article by Eric M. Barnard, the author of KnockoutJS Starter, we'll cover the top features that Knockout offers.

Behavior-driven Development with Selenium WebDriver

Behavior-driven Development (BDD) is an agile software development practice that enhances the paradigm of Test Driven Development (TDD) and acceptance tests, and encourages the collaboration between developers, quality assurance, domain experts, and stakeholders. Behavior-driven Development was introduced by Dan North in the year 2003 in his seminal article available at http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/.

In this article by Unmesh Gundecha, author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook, we will cover:

• Using Cucumber-JVM and Selenium WebDriver in Java for BDD

• Using SpecFlow.NET and Selenium WebDriver in .NET for BDD

• Using JBehave and Selenium WebDriver in Java

• Using Capybara, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver in Ruby

Layout with Ext.NET

In this article by Anup Shah, the author of the book Ext.NET Web Application Development, we will learn about the Border layout. We will use EXT.NET for providing the Border layout.

Creating Your Course with Presenter

In this article by Robert Kennedy III from the book Articulate Studio Cookbook, we will cover the following recipes:

• Animating images and objects

• Adding audio narration to your slides

Adding and Importing Configuration items in System Center 2012 Service Manager

System Center 2012 Service Manager builds on its predecessor System Center Service Manager 2010, by extending the ITIL© process features to include Service Request fulfillment, Release Management, and automated orchestration with significant enhancements in its reporting capabilities. The full set of additions and improvements can be found at the official Microsoft website for the product. System Center 2012 Service Manager (SCSM) is a modular product made up of a series of submodular components. Installing the product is simple using the official product documentation and online community resources.

In this article by Andreas Baumgarten (MVP), one of the co-authors of Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook, we will cover the following tasks:

• Adding configuration items manually
• Importing active directory configuration items
• Importing configuration manager configuration items
• Importing operations manager configuration items

Packaging Content Types and Feeds Importers

The Features module steps in. It is a powerful module that will allow us to package up our content types and feeds importers' configurations into code.

In this article by Trevor James, the author of Migrating to Drupal 7, we'll cover the following topics:

• Installing features

• Creating a feature for your content type and for your feeds importer

• Overriding features

• Reviewing feature overrides and reverting the features code

• Sharing a Features module and implementing it on a separate Drupal site