Designer Friendly Templates
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Torsten Uhlmann | May 2013 | Open Source Web Development
In this article by Torsten Uhlmann, the author of Instant Lift Web Applications How-to, we will see Lift's way of cleanly separating the HTML view from server-side logic.
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Davi Ferreira | May 2013 | Open Source Web Development
In this article by Davi Ferreira the author of Instant HTML5 Presentations How-to, we will cover the following recipes:
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Creating our initial presentation
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Using reveal.js JavaScript API
Magento Performance Optimization
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Nayrolles Mathieu | May 2013 | e-Commerce Open Source
In this article by Nayrolles Mathieu author of Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to [Instant], we will help you learn Magento's built-in caching system for saving frequently asked requests. It also introduces you to the slowest component of a computer, the hard drive, and how Magento makes massive use of it. This lets you use your available RAM. It will show you how to configure a set of loosely connected computers working together for handling more and more customers.
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Jo Rhett | May 2013 | Open Source
This article by Jo Rhett, author of Instant Puppet 3 Starter, will show you how to use the core resource types included within Puppet to reduce the amount of manual work and rework you do every day. By the end of this section, you'll have puppet maintaining some services in your system.
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Pedro Teixeira | May 2013 | Open Source Web Development
"Zombie.js is a lightweight framework for testing client-side JavaScript code in a simulated environment. No browser required."
This definition is from the Zombie.js documentation at http://zombie.labnotes.org. Automating tests for your web application is crucial to having a quality product but doing it properly can be a painful experience. That is why most of the time this part of the project never gets implemented. Developers either limit themselves to testing the underlying business logic and control flow in isolation, or, if they really want to test the user interface, must resort to complicated setups where you somehow connect to real browsers and command them using remote scripts.
Zombie.js provides a fast and easy alternative to this scenario, enabling you to easily and quickly create automated tests for your web application just by using JavaScript.
In this article by Pedro Teixeira from the book Using Node.js for UI Testing, we will cover following topics:
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A brief history of software testing
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Understanding the server-side DOM
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How Zombie.js works internally
By the end of this article, you should understand how Zombie.js works and what types of applications can be tested using it.
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