Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials: Advanced Interactions

This article covers some advanced topics such as conditions, raised events, and so on.

In this article by Ezra Schwartz, author of Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials, we will cover a set of features such as raised events, conditional logic and variables, introduction to a terminology which is usually associated with programming and suggests complexity. It is understandable if you are not interested in, or are intimidated by, the prospect of coding, and wish to avoid using this set of Axure features as long as possible. You should not.

First, rest assured that no coding is involved. By now, you are familiar with Axure's Interactions and the Case Editor features, which require you only to select from a contextual selection of options and construct interactions by pointing and clicking. The only typing required is the labeling. You will find a similar easy-to-use interface when you use features such as the Condition Builder or simulate "drag and drop".

Secondly, think about some of the terminologies and methods we use in interaction design. We use branching logic to determine use cases, scenarios, and how functionality responds to user interaction under certain conditions. Axure makes it fairly easy to model the logic we need, in order to visualize branching paths, and express it in the interactive prototype.

Backbase Tag Library

In this article by Ghica van Emde Boas and Sergey Ilinsky, we will discuss about the following:

• Backbase Tag Library widget overview
• The BTL abstract elements
• Styling techniques for GUI widgets

BackTrack 4: Security with Penetration Testing Methodology

Penetration Testing, sometimes abbreviated as PenTest, is a process that is followed to conduct a hardcore security assessment or audit. A methodology defines a set of rules, practices, procedures, and methods that are pursued and implemented during the course of any information security audit program with the BackTrack operating system environment. The key topics covered in this article by Shakeel Ali and Tedi Heriyanto, authors of BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing, include:

• Discussion on two well-known types of penetration testing, Black-Box and White-Box
• Exhibiting clear differences between vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
• Explaining the industry acceptable security testing methodologies with their core functions, features, and benefits
• The BackTrack testing methodology incorporating the ten consecutive steps of penetration testing process
• The ethical dimension of how the security testing projects should be handled

BackTrack 5: Advanced WLAN Attacks

Wireless Networks have become ubiquitous in today's world. Millions of people use them worldwide every day at their homes, offices, and public hotspots to log on to the Internet and do both personal and professional work.

In this article by Vivek Ramachandran, author of BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide, we will look at how we can conduct advanced attacks. We will primarily focus on Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack, which requires a certain amount of skill and practice to conduct successfully. Once we have done this, we will use this MITM attack as a base to conduct more sophisticated attacks such as Eavesdropping and Session Hijacking.

We will cover the following:

• Man-in-the-Middle attack
• Wireless Eavesdropping using MITM
• Session Hijacking using MITM

BackTrack Forensics

Computer forensics involves using various means to analyze, report, and recover information from computers or digital storage media, generally for legal purposes. The outcome in general is to provide the information gathered in such a way that it is useful for the person requesting the information. This includes the recovery of passwords, analyzing computer break-ins or attempts, recovering data from a hard drive after it's been "erased", and so on. In the article by Willie Pritchett and David De Smet authors of BackTrack 5 Cookbook we will examine how BackTrack can be utilized for forensic purposes.

In this article, we will cover:

• Intrusion detection and log analysis

• Recursive directory encryption/decryption

• Scanning for signs of rootkits

• Recovering data from a problematic source

• Retrieving a Windows password

• Resetting a Windows password

• Looking at the Windows registry entries

Bar Reports in Zabbix 1.8

In this article by Rihards Olups, author of Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring, we will discuss the heavily configurable bar reports in detail.

Basic Dijit Knowledge in Dojo

In this article by Peter Svensson, we will have a look at Dijit or Dojo Widget which is an instance of a Dojo class that lives in the page and usually has a DOM node associated with it. Examples are FloatingPane, Tree, NumberSpinner, and ValidationtextBox.

The basic premise of a Dijit is that you should be able to create any number of widgets of the same type on the same page, regardless of where on the page you choose to put them. Certain Dijits have special requirements, naturally, such as the Layout Containers, which assume that they are surrounding ContentPane Dijits.

In general, Dijits are very versatile and much time has been spent to assure portability and modularization of the Dijit system. Best of all, this is accessible to you as a developer as well.

Basic Editing

In this article by Joachim Ziebs, author of AfterShot Pro: Non-destructive photo editing and management , we will perform some basic editing:

• Basic adjustments

• Sharpening

• Cropping

• Tonal adjustments

• Conversion to black and white

• Straightening

Basic use of Local Storage

In this article by Alex Libby, the author of the book, Instant HTML5 Local Storage How-to, we will discuss about HTML5 Local Storage.

When using HTML5 Local Storage, there are two types that you can use—local storage and session storage. We'll begin by looking at the former first, using a simple form as the basis for our article.