jQuery UI 1.8: The Accordion Widget

The accordion widget is a UI widget that allows you to group content into separate panels that can be opened or closed by visitor interaction. Therefore, most of its content is initially hidden from view, much like the tabs widget.

In this article by Dan Wellman, author of jQuery UI 1.8 The User Interface Library for jQuery, we are going to cover the following topics:

• The structure of an accordion widget
• The default implementation of an accordion
• Adding custom styling
• Using the configurable options to set different behaviors
• Working with methods for controlling the accordion
• The built-in types of animation
• Custom accordion events

HTML5 Games Development: Using Local Storage to Store Game Data

Local storage is a new specification from HTML5. It allows a website to store information in the browser locally and access the stored data later. This is a useful feature in game development because we can use it as a memory slot to save any game data locally in a web browser.

In this article by Makzan, author of HTML5 Games Development by Example - Beginner's Guide, we are going to add game data storing to a CSS3 memory matching game. Besides storing and loading the game data, we will also notify the player for breaking a record with a nice 3D ribbon with pure CSS3 styling. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

• Storing data by using HTML5 local storage
• Saving the object in the local storage
• Notifying players for breaking a new record with a nice ribbon effect
• Saving the entire game progress

Plone 4 Development: Understanding Zope Security

Security should never be an afterthought when building web applications. Zope and Plone provide a robust and flexible security model that lets us worry about our application logic instead of thinking too much about how to lock it down, so long as we understand a few basics.

In this article by Martin Aspeli, author of Professional Plone 4 Development, we will explain the building blocks of Zope security: users, roles, and permissions.

Plone 4 Development: Creating a Custom Workflow

Plone is a web content management system that features among the top two percent of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model, and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customizing and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.

In the previous article by Martin Aspeli, author of Professional Plone 4 Development, we took a look at the building blocks of Zope security.

In this article we will:

• Demonstrate the use of workflow, the primary mechanism for managing permissions in Plone
• Build a custom workflow for the Optilux website and add it to the policy package we created in the article Professional Plone 4 Development: Developing a Site Strategy.

Implementing Software Engineering Best Practices and Techniques with Apache Maven

Apache Maven is more than just build automation. When positioned at the very heart of your development strategy, Apache Maven can become a force multiplier not just for individual developers but for Agile teams and managers.

In this article by Srirangan, author of Apache Maven 3 Cookbook, we will cover some of the most prevalent, popular, and proven software engineering practices like:

• Build automation
• Project modularization
• Dependency management
• Source code quality checks
• Test driven development
• Acceptance testing automation
• Deployment automation

Magento 1.4 Theming: Making Our Theme Shine

In this article by Jose Argudo Blanco, author of Magento 1.4 Theming Cookbook, we are going to play with some nice effects, slideshows, fonts, and much more. All these things will make our theme even more interesting and attractive for our visitors.

This is going to be a very practical article, as well as a very useful one, as quite often these things help our site to achieve even more sales. Let's take a look at the things we are about to cover in more detail:

• Using Cufon to include any font we like in our theme
• SlideDeck content slider
• Nivo Banner Slider
• Magento Easy Lightbox
• Adding social media sharing to product page
• Adding featured products to the home page