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Doing it with Forms

by Armando Gonzalez Crysfel Villa | March 2013 | Open Source Web Development

Ext JS comes with powerful widgets to collect and edit data; we have the form component and many types of input widgets. These include textfields, textarea, radios, checkbox, combos, sliders, and many more.

In this article Crysfel Villa and Armando Gonzalez, authors of Learning Ext JS 4 , we are going to learn about the components we can use to collect data from our users. Also we are going to be working on our final application as well as creating the required forms in the wireframes.

We are going to cover the following topics in this article:

  • The form component

  • The available field types

  • Field container

  • Submitting the data

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Common design patterns and how to prototype them

by Amit Daliot | March 2013 | Web Development

In this article by Amit Daliot, the author of Instant Axure RP Starter [Instant], we will learn how to prototype some commonly used UI design patterns using the key features of Axure. Axure prototyping enables you to create accurate, high fidelity mockups of applications and web services quickly and with no coding skills. By the end of this article, you will be able to work more efficiently with Axure and will be able to deliver detailed designs much faster.

 

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Getting Started with Impressive Presentations

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake | March 2013 | Open Source

Presentations are one of the most effective ways of communicating our ideas to people who are interested in the topic. We used to create presentations with popular desktop programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress. Things have changed dramatically now and web-based presentations are gaining more interest from users. impress.js is one of the stand out frameworks among the web-based presentation creation libraries and tools.

In this article by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake, the author of Building Impressive Presentations with impress. js, we are going to work on creating impressive visualizations with the impress.js framework.

In this article, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • What is impress.js?
  • Built-in features
  • Beyond presentations with impress.js
  • Why is it important?
  • Downloading and configuring impress.js
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Connecting with people

by Ralph Roberts | March 2013 | Enterprise Articles

In this article by Ralph Roberts, the author of Yammer Starter , will help us increase our interaction with people by experimenting with several tasks on Yammer.

In this article, we will cover the following topics:

  • Posting an update

  • Posting a photo or other graphics

  • Commenting and complimenting

  • Yes we LIKE that

  • Learning more

  • Receiving notifications

  • Searching

  • Using the bottom line

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Managing Oracle Business Intelligence

by Dhananjay Papde Tushar Nath Vipul Patel | March 2013 | Cookbooks Enterprise Articles Oracle

Oracle Business Intelligence is an integrated solution that addresses business intelligence requirements, such as enterprise performance management, data integration, financial performance management, data warehousing analysis, and reporting.

Oracle Business Intelligence includes Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting and Publishing, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

This article by Dhananjay Papde, Vipul Patel and Tushar Nath, authors of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook describes the steps to configure OEM 12c to manually discover the Oracle BI EE targets.

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