Accessing Oracle

In this article by Geoffrey Hudik, the author of Instant Oracle Database and PowerShell How-to , we will look at loading libraries to create objects to interact with Oracle.

Connecting with people

In this article by Ralph Roberts, the author of Yammer Starter , will help us increase our interaction with people by experimenting with several tasks on Yammer.

In this article, we will cover the following topics:

• Posting an update

• Posting a photo or other graphics

• Commenting and complimenting

• Yes we LIKE that

• Learning more

• Receiving notifications

• Searching

• Using the bottom line

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.

Implementation of SASS

In this article by Alex Libby, author of SASS CSS How-to, we will cover the details of downloading and installing SASS as well as how SASS can be viewed in a browser.

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.

Remotely Preview and test mobile web pages on actual devices with Adobe Edge Inspect

Mobile web testing is currently a really time consuming and cumbersome process as there are no direct debugging tools available with mobile web browsers. Since mobile devices vary so much it is important to ensure that your web page looks as intended across the multiple mobile devices that you are targeting for your audience. Adobe Edge Inspect is a perfect tool for frontend web developers and designers who are developing for mobile devices, allowing them to simultaneously test on numerous devices in real time as they develop without learning anything new.

With Adobe Edge Inspect you can pair multiple mobile devices with your computer and browse in Google Chrome on your computer and all the paired mobile devices stay in sync. This means that any page you open in Chrome either from your local HTTP web server (via localhost) or a production server, that same page is opened synchronously in all the paired mobile devices. After that you can target any mobile device for inspection and start remote testing, make changes to the HTML markup, CSS style rules, and JavaScript, and instantly see the changes in the targeted mobile devices.

In this article by Joseph Khan, author of Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter, we will talk on the most important feature of Adobe Edge Inspect, that is, how we can remotely preview, inspect, and debug a mobile web page. So let's get started.

Getting Started with Spring Security

In this article, we'll apply a minimal Spring Security configuration to start addressing the inadvertent privilege escalation due to lack of URL protection and general authentication. We will then build on the basic configuration to provide a customized experience for our users.

This article by Robert Winch, author of Spring Security 3.1 , will get you up and running with Spring Security and will provide you with a foundation for any other security-related tasks you will need to perform.

During the course of this article, we will:

• Implement a basic level of security on the JBCP Calendar application, using Spring Security's automatic configuration option

• Learn how to customize both the login and logout experience

• Configure Spring Security to restrict access differently, depending upon the URL

• Leverage Spring Security's expression-based access control

• Conditionally display basic information about the logged-in user using Spring Security's JSP library

• Determine the user's default location after login, based upon role