The Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint: Implementation scenarios

Having understood the structure of the blueprint covered in the previous article on The Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint, this article will use individual scenarios to illustrate how the business pattern can be implemented using the Integration Architecture Blueprint.

This article by Guido Schmutz, co-author of Service-Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint, will:

• Explain service-oriented integration scenarios
• Explain how an existing integration solution can be modernized using SOA, and describe a scenario that has already been implemented in practice

The Wonderful 10 days of WordPress

WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

To celebrate the publication of the WordPress 3.0 Complete book, Packt is offering a series of attractive discounts on all WordPress books for a period of 10 days.

    * Buy any WordPress print book and get 20% off
    * Buy any WordPress eBook and get 30% off

This offer will last for a 10 day period starting from 18th February and ending 28th February 2011. Grab your copy now !

Themes and Templates with Apache Struts 2

In this article by Dave Newton we will learn how to modify the built-in themes and templates of Struts 2. We'll introduce a requirement to a recipe entry screen to have some different behavior when there is a validation error. The default behavior now is to change the style of the label and print the error message above the field. We'd like to highlight the entire row as a gentle reminder that our user has left out something important.

Theming Modules in Drupal 6

The Philosophy Quotes module that we will create in this article will use Drupal's theme system and a simple database query to theme the content of a custom content type.

Here are some of the items we will cover in this article by Matt Butcher while working on this module:

• Creating a custom content type
• Performing simple database operations
• Registering a module's theme functions with the hook_theme() function
• Adding theme hooks to a module
• Adding CSS stylesheets to a module's default theme
• Using theme CSS and template files to override default module theme functions

Third-Party Video Hosting on Drupal Websites

In this article by Aaron Winborn, we will see how to add third-party video on a site. This article talks about the advantages of third-party video hosting and how it can be achieved on websites by using Drupal. Its also gives a proper insight about the Third-Party Video providers and Embedded Media Field, which helps in hosting video from our own server.

Through the Web Theming using Python

Plone is a powerful web application used mainly for website content management and comprised of many different, but related Python packages

In the previous article we have learned How to Examine themes with Omelette and Python and How to create a theme package using Zopeskel

In this third article of the article series by John Ward, Author of Plone 3.3 Site Administration we will learn :

• Examining themes in the ZMI
• Making changes through the Web

Time Dimension in Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g

In this article by Bob Griesemer, we'll create the Time Dimension using the wizard that the Warehouse Builder provides for us to simplify the task of building cubes and dimensions. We'll also look at the Data Object Editor in detail.

Tips & Tricks for Ext JS 3.x

Ext JS is a JavaScript library that makes it (relatively) easy to create desktop-style user interfaces in a web application, including multiple windows, toolbars, drop-down menus, dialog boxes, and much more.

In this article, we will have a look at the tips and tricks presented thru-ought Learning Ext JS 3.2

Tips and Tricks

In this article by Rachel McCollin,authors of WordPress Theme Development - Beginner's Guide we'll look at some added extras, some additional bells and whistles you can use to make your theme just that bit better.

You'll learn how to create and make use of additional template files to add extra flexibility and functionality to your theme, as well as how to use conditional tags to display different content in different parts of your site. You'll also learn how to make use of the Theme Customizer and optimize your site for SEO.

You can create perfectly good, workable WordPress themes without any of these extras, but you'll find that you can take your WordPress themes much further with these techniques.

So let's get going!