Collaboration Features in Alfresco Share
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Amita Bhandari Pallika Majmudar Vinita Choudhary | March 2012 | Content Management Open Source
Alfresco Share offers a number of such features out-of-the-box. These are features that ensure effective task management. These are completely customizable if need be. The numerous technologies and tools that Alfresco supports ensures that no, or minimal, change be made to the enterprise's existing infrastructure.
Enterprises have a number of tasks that require its people to be able to effectively manage their tasks and schedules. For the purpose of managing intra- and inter-team events, a variety of collaboration tools like calendars, forums, and so on are available. More often than not, there are tools independent of each other, or they may not be compatible with existing systems that are in place.
In this article by Pallika Majmudar, co-author of Alfresco Share, we shall understand the various collaborative features like wiki, blogs, data lists, calendar, discussions, and lists features that Share has on offer.
By the end of this article, you will have learned about:
- Wiki pages and blogs in Share
- Managing data lists
- Creating events in Alfresco Share
- Effective collaboration through discussions
- Managing and creating data lists
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Combining Silverlight and Windows Azure projects
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David Burela | March 2012 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft
It can be difficult to combine multiple different frameworks into the same solution while working with new technologies. This article will focus on how to combine Silverlight 4, Windows Azure, and a WCF 4.0 (Windows Communication Foundation) service together.
In this article by David Burela, author of Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Azure Enterprise Integration, we will discuss the following topics:
- Combining Silverlight and Windows Azure projects
- Consuming an Azure-hosted WCF service within a Silverlight application
- Configuring the number of web roles
Introduction to Logging in Tomcat 7
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Tanuj Khare | March 2012 | Web Services Open Source
Logging services play a vital role in the life of the administrator and developer to manage the application from the phase of development to production issues. It's the logging services that help you to find the actual problem in the web application. Also, it plays an essential role in performance tuning for many applications.
In this artice by Tanuj Khare, author of Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials, we will look at the logging features in Apache Tomcat 7. We will cover the following topics:
- Logging services in Tomcat 7
- JULI
- Log4j
- Log level
- Valve component
- Analysis of logs
Creating Views 3 Programmatically
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J. Ayen Green | March 2012 | Drupal
In this chapter, we will switch from the admin user interface to code, creating a view within a module and other examples of using code in conjunction with Drupal and Views architectures to manipulate the content. These methods should only be considered if you are comfortable with PHP and the Drupal architecture and API. The benefits of using code include more granular control, as well as the ability to achieve behaviors otherwise unavailable. The drawbacks are that the Views environment can be very complex, and one can easily break the environment.
The differences between using the Views UI to create a view and doing it in a module is that the UI does the coding for you and makes it more convenient to make changes to the view afterwards. That said, the UI method does not make it easy to distribute a ready-made view, nor does it make it facilitate tying such a view to other code.
In this artice by J. Ayen Green, author of Drupal 7 Views 3 Cookbook, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Programming a view
- Handling a view field
- Styling a view field
- Fine tuning the query
Getting Started with GameSalad
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Miguel DeQuadros | March 2012 | Beginner's Guides
So, you're ready to become an iPhone developer? This article will show you how to create a very simple prototype level. Once you get into GameSalad you will truly enjoy it, the interface is so simple, and you never have to do any programming.
Many people dream of creating games, but unfortunately not many people possess the knowledge to find a suitable game engine (or create their own), to learn the language and start developing. You are going to love GameSalad for its simplicity and power of use.
In this article by Miguel DeQuadros,author of GameSalad Beginner’s Guide will discuss the following topics for GameSalad:
- System requirements for developing
- Registering with GameSalad and downloading it
- Tour through GameSalad's user interface
- How to create a GameSalad project
- How to add moveable characters, platform collisions, win and death points
- Add controls to your characters
- Preview your game on your computer
Silverlight 5 LOB Development : Validation, Advanced Topics, and MVVM
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Braulio Díez | March 2012 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft
Most Line of Business (LOB) applications have to interact with a database. The recommended technology in order to cover this interaction is RIA Services.
In this article by Braulio Díez Botella,co-author of Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action we will cover:
- Validation
- Advanced topics
- RIA Services and MVVM
Tabula Rasa: Nurturing your Site for Tablets
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Tom Stovall | March 2012 | Beginner's Guides Drupal Open Source
The Drupal Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide follows a humble ‘Mom & Pop’ restaurant website which gets a makeover complete with cutting edge features that play to mobile, tablet and desktop audiences. Restaurant websites are notoriously horrible to navigate and our Mom & Pop example is wellintentioned but no exception to this rule. We bring this site out of the early 1990’s with cutting edge development practices and a team development workflow. This pizza chain goes mobile with location services, audio, video, charting and mapping worthy of any multi-million dollar site.
In this article by Tom Stovall, author of Drupal 7 Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide, we'll:
- Examine touch events and go over the differences between touch events and mouse-click events
- Learn to add touch events to our jQuery cycle on the home page
- Take a look at the adaptive web page designs and begin the process of adapting a design for three layouts—phone, tablets, and desktop
- Learn to set the viewport with JavaScript
Configuration and Handy Tweaks for UDK
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Thomas Mooney | March 2012 | Cookbooks
This article by Thomas Mooney, author of Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook contains lessons in adjusting configuration, scripts, and even supplying additional actors and Kismet actions. Everything here is about altering the editor or gameplay settings to provision a customized playing experience:
- Groundwork for adjusting configuration defaults
- Enabling the remote control for game inspection
- Changing the Play in Editor view resolution
- Removing the loading hints and similar articles
- Editing DefaultEngineUDK to allow 4096x4096 texture compression
- Setting the preview player size reference object
- Binding a keyboard shortcut to a player action
IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Database Administration Cookbook
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Adrian Neagu Robert Pelletier | March 2012 | Beginner's Guides IBM
In this article by Adrian Neagu and Robert Pelletier, we will cover:
- Setting up HADR by using the command line
- Setting up HADR by using Control Center
3D plot using gnuplot
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Lee Phillips | March 2012 | Cookbooks
This article, written by Lee Philips the author of gnuplot Cookbook contains the following :
- Making a surface plot
- Using coordinate mappings
- Coloring the surface
- Making a contour plot
- Making a vector plot
- Making an image plot or heat map
- Combining contours and images
- Combining surfaces with images
- Plotting a path in 3D
- Drawing parametric surfaces
Introduction to Enterprise Business Messages
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Hariharan V Ganesarethinam | February 2012 | Oracle
Application integration becomes the most common project in every enterprise and corporate. Integration is an important core component in IT systems. Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a framework based on a Service Oriented Architecture approach that provides proven methodologies and best practices for integrating application systems.
In this article by Hariharan V. Ganesarethinam, author of Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack 11gR1: Essentials, we will look at AIA Enterprise Business Message (EBM) standards. In this article, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Overview of Enterprise Business Messages (EBM)
- Structure of EBM
- EBM Use Cases
Java 7: Managing Files and Directories
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Jennifer L. Reese Richard M. Reese | February 2012 | Java
In this article by Richard M.Reese and Jennifer L.Reese authors of Java 7 New Features Cookbook , we will cover the following:
- Creating files and directories
- Controlling how a file is copied
- Managing temporary files and directories
- Setting time-related attributes of a file or directory
- Managing file ownership
- Managing ACL file permissions
- Managing POSIX attributes
Customizing Look and Feel of UAG
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Erez Ben-Ari Rainier Amara | February 2012 | Microsoft
UAG customizations can be very intense and deeply technical, but what everyone wants is for everything to look its best, right? The fact is, a large portion of UAG customers perform at least some adjustments to the appearance, even if it is just changing the title of the portal page. Look and feel customizations are considered to be rather well documented, as opposed to some of the more advanced stuff you will see later on in the book, but the purpose of this chapter is not to repeat that official documentation. We will be guiding you through the actual process, of course, but also suggesting some creative thoughts to get the message across in ways that you may have never thought of.
In this article by Erez Ben-Ari and Rainier Amara , the authors of Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization,the following topics will be covered:
- Visual customization overview
- Customizing the login and admin pages
- Customizing the portal
- Portal application icons
- Changing texts
- Adding a user-interface language
- Portal selection for clients
Making Your iAd
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Ben Collier | February 2012 | Beginner's Guides RAW
We can now start using the content we optimized to work well with iAd, to build our first ad.
In this article by Ben Collier we'll be covering the following topics:
- Installing iAd Producer on your Mac
- Familiarizing ourselves with the iAd Producer interface
- Setting up a blank iAd to work with
- Using templates to build each section of your iAd
- Tweaking the templates to make your ad even more awesome
- Using Safari to preview the animations in an iAd
Sencha Touch: Layouts Revisited
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Bryan P. Johnson John Earl Clark | February 2012 | Open Source
In this article by John E. Clark and Bryan P. Johnson, authors of Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework, we will examine the layout configuration option and how it affects each of the components.
Specifically, we will cover the following points:
- The base component class
- Layouts revisited
