Responsive techniques

In this article by Remo Laubacher, the author of Creating concrete5 Themes, we will learn about responsive themes that we can add to our themes and how media queries are an important part of responsive layouts. This article will also help you on how to scale pictures on different types of devices. It also covers areas regarding what it takes to display websites for retina screens.

Before we start adding responsive elements to our theme, let's have a look at the basic techniques we're going to work with. When building a site for a device with a small screen, we have to make sure our elements scale relative to the size of the screen. We might also have to create a different navigation. A wide drop-down navigation would probably not work well on a cell phone.

Doing it with Forms

Ext JS comes with powerful widgets to collect and edit data; we have the form component and many types of input widgets. These include textfields, textarea, radios, checkbox, combos, sliders, and many more.

In this article Crysfel Villa and Armando Gonzalez, authors of Learning Ext JS 4 , we are going to learn about the components we can use to collect data from our users. Also we are going to be working on our final application as well as creating the required forms in the wireframes.

We are going to cover the following topics in this article:

• The form component

• The available field types

• Field container

• Submitting the data

Getting Started with Impressive Presentations

Presentations are one of the most effective ways of communicating our ideas to people who are interested in the topic. We used to create presentations with popular desktop programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress. Things have changed dramatically now and web-based presentations are gaining more interest from users. impress.js is one of the stand out frameworks among the web-based presentation creation libraries and tools.

In this article by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake, the author of Building Impressive Presentations with impress. js, we are going to work on creating impressive visualizations with the impress.js framework.

In this article, we are going to cover the following topics:

• What is impress.js?
• Built-in features
• Beyond presentations with impress.js
• Why is it important?
• Downloading and configuring impress.js

Managing Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle Business Intelligence is an integrated solution that addresses business intelligence requirements, such as enterprise performance management, data integration, financial performance management, data warehousing analysis, and reporting.

Oracle Business Intelligence includes Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting and Publishing, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

This article by Dhananjay Papde, Vipul Patel and Tushar Nath, authors of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook describes the steps to configure OEM 12c to manually discover the Oracle BI EE targets.

Managing Network Layout

In this article by Tom Ryder, the author of Nagios Core Administration Cookbook , we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a network host hierarchy

• Using the network map

• Choosing icons for hosts

• Establishing a host dependency

• Establishing a service dependency

• Monitoring individual nodes in a cluster

• Using the network map as an overlay

While Nagios Core is still very useful when configured to monitor only a simple list of hosts and services, it includes some optional directives that allow defining some structural and functional properties of the monitored network; specifically, how the hosts and services interrelate. Describing this structure in the configuration allows some additional intelligent behavior in the monitoring and notification that Nagios Core performs.

Learn Cinder Basics – Now

In this article by Krisjanis Rijnieks, author of Cinder – Begin Creative Coding, we will learn:

• What is creative coding

• What is Cinder

• Introducing the 3D space

• Drawing in 3D

• Using built-in eases

Role Center pages

In this article by David Studebaker and Christopher Studebaker, the authors of Programming Microsoft Dynamics® NAV 2013, we will cover one of the key features of NAV 2013, which is the Role Tailored user experience centered around Role Centers tied to user work roles.