Show/hide rows and Highlighting cells

In this article by Charlie Griefer, author of Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to [Instant], we will see two recipes Show/hide rows and Highlighting cells.

Showcasing Personnel with Faculty/Staff Directory using Plone 3

It is a rare school that lacks some sort of online personnel directory, whether a public-facing showcase or a private office phone list. This article by Erik Rose on Faculty/Staff Directory product fills both these niches and goes far beyond, letting you:

• Build department- or school-wide directories, collecting contact info, biographies, and more
• Divide people into groups according to their areas of expertise, committee or departmental affiliations, or other organization-specific criteria
• Use those divisions as access-control groups: for example, to grant all the members of a committee access to a private collaboration space
• Write plug-in extenders to track institution-specific pieces of information or hide pieces that don't apply in your organization

Showing your Google calendar on your Joomla! site using GCalendar

For Joomla!, there are many popular extensions to show events and calendars. In the previous article we covered adding an event calendar using JEvents. In this article by Suhreed Sarkar, author of Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook, we will discuss a popular extension: GCalendar. JEvents allows you to add events and show them through a calendar. GCalendar allows you to display the Google Calendar on your Joomla! site.

Google Calendar is gaining popularity. If you are a user of Google Calendar, you already know how flexible it is. In this article, you are going to know how to display your Google calendar on your Joomla! site.

Silverlight 5 LOB Development : Validation, Advanced Topics, and MVVM

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

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SilverStripe 2.4: Creating our Own Theme

In the previous article on Customizing the Layout, we covered all the basics. In this article by Philipp Krenn, author of SilverStripe 2.4 Module Extension, Themes, and Widgets: Beginner's Guide, we shall create the layout for our bar website and customize it. We will create and then edit the necessary folders and files for a theme of our own. Finally, the article teaches how to optimize your search engine ranking with the help of the CMS.

Technically speaking, we'll cover the following goals:

• Build our own menus
• Package our customizations into our own theme
• Learn how to debug errors in the template
• Explore how to improve our search engine ranking with SilverStripe

Simple Alphabetical Glossary Using jQuery

jQuery is a JavaScript Library, where you can utilize and develop innovative web reusable components. "jQuery simplifies traversing of HTML document, simplifies event handling, animating and Ajax interactions". Using jQuery, we can develop and add robust web components to our web applications. It is very light weight—about 19KB in size (Minified and Gzipped) and can be downloaded from this location http://jquery.com/. In this article by K.Vivekanand, we will explain how we can develop a Simple Alphabetical Glossary, which can be used in our web projects. A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms with the definitions for those terms. In this example, you can click on the respective alphabet to get you the definition/list of that term with highlighted blue color.

Simple process for PHP projects

In this article by Samisa Abeysinghe, we will look into a process model that we can use as a starting point for the PHP projects that we are working on. The process is designed with the MVC framework based design model in mind. It is assumed that the workload is broken down based on the Model-View-Controller pattern, and team members are assigned to work on each layer based on that breakdown.

The process model clearly depicts how the separate concerns such as the data layer, the business layer, and the presentation layer can be worked on in parallel, and at the same time, how those separate concerns fit with each other to form the entire system. If you carefully evaluate this process model, there is no activity for system integration. So one might question how the separate layers would be integrated with each other. However, if you pay attention to the design and implementation details of each layer, you will notice the dependencies mentioned in each layer, which lead to the integration. For example, business logic implementation requires the concrete database design, as well as the data access layer. The final user interface implementation would be done on top of the business logic implementation. Therefore, the integration of these independent layers happens seamlessly, along the way, in the process. If the team follows the process as it is, the integration would result in naturally.

Skin Customization in JBoss RichFaces 3.3

In this article by Demetrio Filocamo, we will learn how to customize the look of our finished application to follow the style we like. We will see discuss how to change the style of existing skins (using CSS and XCSS) and how to create a new personalized skin starting from the built-in skins that the RichFaces framework offers.