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Questions & Answers with Sencha's James Pearce

by | April 2011 | AJAX Open Source Web Development

James Pearce - James is a technologist, writer, developer & practitioner who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox.

James led the development of mobiForge, DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, and is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, WhitherApps, modernizr-server and confess.js.

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Quick Start into Selenium Tests

by Unmesh Gundecha | May 2013 | Open Source

In this article by Unmesh Gundecha, author of Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter, we will show you how to record a test using Selenium IDE. During the recording, we will add some additional commands to the test and run the recorded test.

A test is a basic building block in Selenium IDE. It contains commands for navigation, test steps, and checks for expected versus the actual state of the application. In this article we will show you how to create your first test and execute this test with Selenium IDE.

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Quick start – Firebug window overview and inspecting

by 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

Console panel
HTML panel
CSS panel
Script panel
DOM panel
Net panel
Cookies panel

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RadRails Views

by Javier Ramírez | June 2008 | AJAX Open Source Web Development

When developing a Rails project, there are more things to do than the source code itself. We have to start, stop, and monitor our servers, generate code templates, run our test suites, install plug-ins and gems, generate documentation, keep control of to-do items, or run Rake tasks for different purposes—database migrations, for example. RadRails provides different Views for supporting these tasks that are a part of the development but not of the coding itself. And, of course, it does it so we can control everything from within the IDE without having to go back to the command-line interface. In this article by Javier Ramírez, we will see how to open a View. We will also look at the Documentation Views and the Servers View, which are available as part of the Rails default perspective, that is, you don't need to do anything special to open them.

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RAW Books from Packt Enterprise

by | November 2010 | Enterprise Articles IBM Microsoft Oracle

A quick round-up of the RAW books currently available from Packt Enterprise

Packt RAW books allow you to instantly download eBooks, and read them as they're written, prior to publication

For more information on Packt RAW books click here

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RAW Fortnight Test Page

by | March 2011 | CRM IBM Microsoft RAW SAP Oracle

From the 14th - 28th of March Packt Enterprise will be celebrating the release of 8 new Enterprise RAW books - including some highly anticipated titles - with a RAW Fortnight.

Throughout these 2 weeks anyone who purchases a Packt Enterprise RAW book will be automatically entered into a draw to win one year's free subscription to PacktLib worth $220.

Packt's RAW books are a true example of 21st century publishing - they allow you to download the eBook before it's published, and then read as it's written, with your eBook instantly updating as new chapters are completed.

What's more you also receive a 40% discount when purchasing RAW eBooks and the RAW pre-order bundle.

For further information on the RAW format click here

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Real Content in PHP5 CMS: Part 1

by Martin Brampton | September 2009 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP

In this article by Martin Brampton, he aims to describe a number of specific application areas, discussing the particular issues that arise with implementations. Looking at our framework solution, he will concentrate on one sample extension. It is a very simple text handling mechanism that can be explained in detail. Also, the ways in which the simple text system could be extended will be described.

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Real Content in PHP5 CMS: Part 2

by Martin Brampton | September 2009 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP

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Real Content in PHP5 CMS: Part 3

by Martin Brampton | September 2009 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP

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Recording an Interview with Skype using Audacity 1.3

by Bethany Hiitola | March 2010 | Open Source

In a previous article we described everything that you need to know about recording voice tracks. In this article by Bethany Hiitola, author of Getting started with Audacity 1.3, we will learn all the details of using third-party internet telephony software such as Skype to record telephone interviews. We will also cover how to set up a timed recording.

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Recording Calls in FreePBX 2.5

by Alex Robar | August 2009 | Networking & Telephony Open Source

In this article by Alex Robar, we will learn about the call recording features of FreePBX. We will learn how to set up permanent or selective call recordings for specific extensions, conferences, or queues. We will discuss the various recording formats, general call recording options, recording calls, and finally maintaining call recordings using cron.

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Recovery in PostgreSQL 9

by Simon Riggs | October 2010 | Open Source

The previous article, Backup in PostgreSQL 9, showed us various backup options.

In this article by Simon Riggs, author of PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook, we will cover the following:

Recovery of all databases
Recovery to a point in time
Recovery of a dropped/damaged table
Recovery of a dropped/damaged database
Recovery of a dropped/damaged tablespace
Improving performance of backup/recovery
Incremental/Differential backup and restore

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Red5: A video-on-demand Flash Server

by Tom Gross | June 2010 | Content Management Open Source

In this article by Tom Gross, we will discuss how to install, configure, and use the Red5 Flash server for streaming the protected videos managed by Plone on demand.

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Regular Expressions in Python 2.6 Text Processing

by Jeff McNeil | January 2011 | Beginner's Guides Open Source

In this article, by Jeff McNeil, author of Python 2.6 Text Processing Beginner's Guide, we'll look at the following aspects of regular expression usage.

Basic syntax and special characters. How do you build a regular expression and what should you expect it to match with?
More advanced processing. Grouping results and performing conditional matches via look-ahead and look-behind assertions. What makes an expression greedy?
Python's implementation. Elements such as matches versus searches, and regular expression compilation and its effect on processing.
What happens when we attempt to use regular expressions to process internationalized (non-ASCII) text or look at multiline data?

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Remote Installation and Managing User Profiles using Joomla!

by Beatrice A. Boateng Kwasi Boateng | July 2010 | Moodle Open Source

We need to migrate our site to a remote server, in order to make our site live for further development. This is absolutely important because we intend to integrate our site with existing social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and this cannot be done in a local environment. Those of us wanting to continue development locally can continue to do so, especially if we do not have a registered domain name and hosting account. We can use the backup process in this article to migrate our site when we are ready to go live.

In this article,by Beatrice A. Boateng and Kwasi Boateng, author of Joomla! Social Networking with JomSocial we will learn how to:

Migrate the site from a local machine to a remote server by:
- Backing up the local site using a Joomla! backup system called Akeeba Backup (formerly known as JoomlaPack)
- Creating a live website from the backup
Sign up for an account
Manage user profiles by:
- Editing user profiles
- Changing profile pictures
- Setting profile privacy
- Adding applications and privacy settings for applications
Delete a profile

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Remote Job Agent in Oracle 11g Database with Oracle Scheduler

by Ronald Rood | July 2009 | Oracle

This article by Ronald Rood will be of a great help in setting up remote external jobs introduced in Oracle 11g. This article also answers questions like how is this related to the old-fashioned local external jobs that we know since Oracle 10g and why we should get rid of the old external jobs.

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

by Joseph Khan | March 2013 | Web Development

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.

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