Follow the Money

This article prepared by Stephen D. Kelly, author of Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14 , In this we will look into the details of managing the money side of your project. These are the nuts and bolts of the core of PCM.

The money is at the core of PCM. All documents in PCM related to money are also related to a specific contractual relationship defined in PCM (trends being a possible exception). And since the contractual relationship is the center of the universe as far as PCM is concerned, it follows that managing the money is at the core of the system. If you understand the information in this article you will be far ahead of most users of PCM, and all the other articles will make more sense.

So, what is Django?

In this article written by Mauro Rocco, authors of Instant Django 1.5 Application Development Starter , you will find out what Django actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.

The NGINX HTTP Server

An HTTP server is primarily a piece of software that will deliver web pages to clients when requested. These web pages can be anything from a simple HTML file on disk to a multicomponent framework delivering user-specific content, dynamically updated through AJAX or WebSocket. NGINX is modular, and is designed to handle any kind of HTTP serving necessary.

In this article by Dimitri Aivaloitis, author of Mastering NGINX , we will investigate the various modules that work together to make NGINX such a scalable HTTP server. The following topics are included in this article:

• NGINX's architecture

• The HTTP core module

• Using limits to prevent abuse

• Restricting access

• Streaming media files

• Predefined variables

• Using NGINX with PHP-FPM

• Wiring NGINX and uWSGI together

So, what is EaselJS?

This article by Fabio Biondi , author of Instant EaselJS Starter helps you to learn what EaselJS actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great. It will also help you on how to create your first HTML5 canvas application "Hello World".

Creating a file server (Samba)

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.

Improving Performance with Parallel Programming

The recipes in this article focus on leveraging multiple cores by showing different ways to parallelize Clojure programs.

In this article by Eric Rochester, the author of Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook, we will cover:

• Parallelizing processing with pmap

• Parallelizing processing with Incanter

• Partitioning Monte Carlo simulations for better pmap performance

• Finding the optimal partition size with simulated annealing

• Parallelizing with reducers

• Generating online summary statistics with reducers

• Harnessing your GPU with OpenCL and Calx

Comparative Study of NoSQL Products

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:

• Amazon SimpleDB: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb

• BaseX: http://www.basex.org

• Cassandra: http://cassandra.apache.org

• CouchDB: http://couchdb.apache.org

• Google Datastore: http://developers.google.com/appengine

• HBase: http://hbase.apache.org

• MemcacheDB: http://memcachedb.org

• MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.com

• Neo4j: http://www.neo4j.org

• Redis: http://redis.io

This article is structured such that we first explore each point for comparison and then compare it across the products.