Creating a file server (Samba)
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Rick Golden | April 2013 | Cookbooks
This article by Rick Golden, author of Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook, shows how the Raspberry Pi can be configured to become a file server on the local network.
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Charlie Griefer | April 2013 |
In this article by Charlie Griefer, author of Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to [Instant], we will see two recipes Show/hide rows and Highlighting cells.
Read Show/hide rows and Highlighting cells in fullComparative Study of NoSQL Products
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Gaurav Vaish | April 2013 | Open Source
In this article by Gaurav Vaish, author of Getting Started with NoSQL, we will do a comparative study of the various products available in the market for implementing NoSQL—both open source as well as commercial.
Specifically, we compare the following products:
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Amazon SimpleDB: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb
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BaseX: http://www.basex.org
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Cassandra: http://cassandra.apache.org
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CouchDB: http://couchdb.apache.org
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Google Datastore: http://developers.google.com/appengine
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HBase: http://hbase.apache.org
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MemcacheDB: http://memcachedb.org
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MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.com
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Neo4j: http://www.neo4j.org
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Redis: http://redis.io
This article is structured such that we first explore each point for comparison and then compare it across the products.
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Dan Wellman | April 2013 | Open Source Web Development
With the 1.8 release of jQuery, something new was introduced that the development community as a whole had been wanting for a while – the ability to build custom versions of jQuery that contained only the functionality that was required for a given task.
In this article by Dan Wellman, author of jQuery Hotshot, we'll set up the environment we need in order to use jQuery's build tool. We'll see what other software we need to use, how to run the build tool itself, and what we can expect as output of the build tool.
Read Building a Custom Version of jQuery in fullObtaining a binary backup
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Shaun M. Thomas | April 2013 | Open Source
This article by Shaun M. Thomas, from the book, Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to explains about another backup method available to PostgreSQL, which is a base backup, which consists of the actual data files themselves. These kinds of backups do not need to be restored, only uncompressed or copied. Using them can be more complicated, but they can be ready much faster depending on the database size. The developers have kindly provided pg_basebackup as a simple starting point.
Read Obtaining a binary backup in fullTurning your PowerPoint presentation into a Prezi
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Domi Sinclair | April 2013 | e-Learning Open Source
Moving to Prezi doesn't have to mean abandoning all the hard work you've put into perfecting your PowerPoint slides. That work is still useful, as you can import your PowerPoint into Prezi. This is a good starting point as it allows you to rework your familiar content.
This article by Domi Sinclair, author of Instant Prezi for Education How-to takes you through the steps to creating more engaging presentations using Prezi.
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Faruk Akgul | April 2013 | Open Source
This article by Faruk Akgul, author of ZeroMQ explains what a message queuing system is, discusses the importance of message queuing, and introduces ZeroMQ to the reader.
Before we start digging into ZeroMQ, let's first have a brief introduction on the general concept of message queues.
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Mephisto Waltz | April 2013 | Games
Hi there, I'm Mephisto Waltz, author of Instant Minecraft Designs How-to. I shall be your guide for this extraordinary adventure in the world of Minecraft architecture. I can't tell you just how stoked I am that you are reading this article. I really hope you get a lot out of it. When you start building using the tutorial discussed in this article, I expect that you at least have a rudimentary knowledge of how Minecraft works. If you don't, just take some time and get to know the various controls and features of Minecraft; it really doesn't take long to get the hang of it.
Visit my website www.mephistowaltzminecraft.com for instructions on setting up your own Minecraft server and installing all of the mod files required to follow along with this article. I really hope you have a great time with this article. Good luck and most of all, have fun!
The main intention of this article is to introduce you to the use of the very powerful mods: WorldEdit CUI and VoxelSniper GUI. If you have ever seen some truly amazing Minecraft structures and wondered how on earth they were built, chances are they were built using these mods. That's not to say you can't build truly amazing Minecraft structures without these mods; you can, but it just takes a lot longer. These tools make your workflow in Minecraft exponentially more efficient and effective, leaving that much more time for you to get creative.
At the start of the article, I'll gently introduce you to some of the more commonly used commands in WorldEdit CUI, and a little bit of VoxelSniper GUI's functionality. I'll start off by walking you through almost every action and cover each step fairly comprehensively.
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Ilya Shpigor | April 2013 | Microsoft
Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) is a native software port of the GNU tool chain for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The base components of MinGW software are compiler, linker, and assembler. This minimal tool set is enough to start developing applications. But MinGW contains some service utilities to make the developing process more effective:
In this article by Ilya Shpigor, the author of Instant MinGW Starter, you will learn how to perform some tasks with the most important features of MinGW :
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GNU Make
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GNU Debugger (GDB)
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GNU profiler
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Compiler for Windows resource files
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Header files and libraries for Windows API
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Collection of archives and packers
(For more resources related to this topic, see here.)
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Barry Max Rosen | April 2013 | Enterprise Articles IBM
The article, IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3, helps you master the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client to become an expert at e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, contacts, to dos, and much more. This article by Barry Max Rosen, author of Instant IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 How-to, explains how IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 is highly customizable and works the way you want it to work.
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Running a simple game using Pygame
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Ivan Idris | March 2013 | Games Open Source
In this article by Ivan Idris, author of Instant Pygame for Python Game Development How-to , we will create a simple game. As is traditional in the world of programming, we will start with a Hello World! example. It's not a game per se. It's important to notice the so-called main game loop where all the action happens and the usage of the Font module to render text. In this program we will manipulate a Pygame's Surface object, that is used for drawing and we will handle a quit event.
(For more resources related to this topic, see here.)
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Thoriq Firdaus | March 2013 | Web Development
In this article by Thoriq Firdaus, the author of the book, Responsive Web Design by Example, we will learn about some basic features of Responsive Web Design frameworks.
(For more resources related to this topic, see here.)
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Nick Polyak | March 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft
This article by Nick Polyak, author of Instant Silverlight 5 Animation , will describe the process involved in animating a built-in button.
A Silverlight button has the following mouse-driven states:
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Normal
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MouseOver
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Pressed
Quick start – Firebug window overview and inspecting
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Chandan Luthra | March 2013 | Open Source Web Development
Firebug is not about fixing the bugs and tweaking CSS (cascade style sheet), it consists of many tools that can be of great help to a web developer and designer. Firebug is similar golf club bag. Each club (panel) in Firebug is a powerful weapon for web developers. Like a golf player, a web developer has to choose a club (panel) for different situations.
In this article by Chandan Luthra, the author of Instant Firebug Starter, we will learn
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Console panel
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HTML panel
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CSS panel
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Script panel
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DOM panel
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Net panel
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Cookies panel
Getting Started with the Citrix Access Gateway Product Family
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Andrew Mallett | March 2013 | Enterprise Articles
This article by Andrew Mallet, author of Citrix Access Gateway VPX 5.04 Essentials, we will explain Citrix Access Gateway in detail.
If you have ever tried navigating the range of products and vendor websites, you will be able to sympathize with those poor souls trying to come to terms with all of the different options that Citrix has for the Access Gateway products. So many choices! Soon, you will also find out that the costs of these products will vary from nothing to many thousands of dollars. The aim of this introduction is to help you become familiar with the range and make some informed decisions about which product is right for you. We will work with the VPX edition (virtual appliance); however, most of the configuration remains consistent between the models. Additionally, at this stage, we also need to show you where Citrix Access Gateway (CAG) will fit into your corporate remote access and security environment.
Specifically, in this article, the following topics will be looked at in detail:
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Security and Remote Access solutions addressed by CAG
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Citrix Access Gateway hardware
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Citrix Access Gateway specifications
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Citrix Access Gateway versions
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Citrix Access Gateway VPX
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Designing a secure Remote Access solution
