Alfresco Web Content Management (WCM) 2.0 Part Two

Alfresco WCM 2.0 offers exciting features for rapid deployment of web content management solutions. It also facilitates management of business-level or application-level features on a web site. Content creation and approval is pleasantly smooth with sandbox previews for individual users.

Alice 3: Making Simple Animations with Actors

Alice is a free and innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the Web. Alice is a teaching tool designed as a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning introductory programming concepts.

In this article by Vanesa S. Olsen, author of Alice 3 Cookbook, we will cover:

• Browsing galleries to search for a specific class
• Creating a new instance from a class in a gallery
• Setting initial properties for an actor
• Moving an actor
• Resizing an actor
• Working with multiple actors
• Moving an actor with relative positions
• Orienting an actor to a target actor

All New October Open Source Books from Packt

Packt have published a range of new Open Source books this month, for further information click on the links below.

Also, to celebrate Packt's Open Source Awards 2010, We are giving a special offer on all Open Source eBooks. Get any Open Source eBook for just $9.99 now!

All New Open Source Books from Packt-Old

Packt have a great range of new Open Source releases, for further information click on the links below.

Also you might want to have a look at our all new offers on multiple books purchases, and pick up a bundle of these books.

	Drupal 7 The best way to learn and master Drupal 7, enabling you to create virtually any type of website. It meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to design and build sites like a pro. Click for more information
	Drupal 7 Module Development Six professional Drupal developers use a practical, example-based approach to introduce PHP developers to the powerful new Drupal 7 tools, APIs, and strategies for writing custom Drupal code. Click for more information
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Amazon SimpleDB versus RDBMS

In this article by Prabhakar Chaganti and Rich Helms, authors of Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide, you'll see the differences between SimpleDB and a traditional RDBMS, as well as the pros and cons of using SimpleDB as the storage engine in your application.

An Introduction to Hibernate and Spring: Part 1

This article by Ahmad Seddighi, introduces Spring and Hibernate, explaining what persistence is, why it is important, and how it is implemented in Java applications. It provides a theoretical discussion of Hibernate and how Hibernate solves problems related to persistence. Finally, we take a look at Spring and the role of Spring in persistence.

An Introduction to JSF: Part 1

In this article by Ian Hlavats, we will discuss about JSF in detail. We will learn about:

• Model-View-Controller architecture
• JSF Request Processing Lifecycle
• Managed Beans
• EL Expressions
• UI Components
• Validators
• Internationalization

An Introduction to PHP-Nuke

This article series by Douglas Paterson, author of Building Websites with PHP-Nuke, begins with an overview of PHP-Nuke; what it is, and what it can do to help you build your own community-driven website. We shall learn all the features and functionality provided by PHP-Nuke by developing an example site, the Dinosaur Portal, as we progress through this series.

In this article series, we will cover:

1. An Introduction to PHP-Nuke (see below)
2. Installing PHP-Nuke
3. Your First Page
4. Managing the Site
5. Managing Users
6. Story Management with PHP-Nuke
7. Content Management Modules
8. Managing the Discussion Forums
9. Customizing Layout with Themes
10. Programming PHP-Nuke

An Introduction to Risk Analysis

Security is a process that requires the integration of security into business processes to ensure enterprise risk is minimized to an acceptable level. Security as a process is an approach that highlights the integration of security and business initiatives to reduce the security impact of implementations and changes to the enterprise environment. This article by Aaron Woody, author of Enterprise Security: A Data-Centric Approach to Securing the Enterprise, will introduce the concept of using risk analysis to drive security decisions.