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Show/hide rows and Highlighting cells

by Charlie Griefer | April 2013 |

In this article by Charlie Griefer, author of Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to [Instant], we will see two recipes Show/hide rows and Highlighting cells.

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Building a Custom Version of jQuery

by Dan Wellman | April 2013 | Open Source Web Development

With the 1.8 release of jQuery, something new was introduced that the development community as a whole had been wanting for a while – the ability to build custom versions of jQuery that contained only the functionality that was required for a given task.

In this article by Dan Wellman, author of jQuery Hotshot, we'll set up the environment we need in order to use jQuery's build tool. We'll see what other software we need to use, how to run the build tool itself, and what we can expect as output of the build tool.

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Obtaining a binary backup

by Shaun M. Thomas | April 2013 | Open Source

This article by Shaun M. Thomas, from the book, Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to explains about another backup method available to PostgreSQL, which is a base backup, which consists of the actual data files themselves. These kinds of backups do not need to be restored, only uncompressed or copied. Using them can be more complicated, but they can be ready much faster depending on the database size. The developers have kindly provided pg_basebackup as a simple starting point.

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Turning your PowerPoint presentation into a Prezi

by Domi Sinclair | April 2013 | e-Learning Open Source

Moving to Prezi doesn't have to mean abandoning all the hard work you've put into perfecting your PowerPoint slides. That work is still useful, as you can import your PowerPoint into Prezi. This is a good starting point as it allows you to rework your familiar content.

This article by Domi Sinclair, author of Instant Prezi for Education How-to takes you through the steps to creating more engaging presentations using Prezi.

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Getting Started with ZeroMQ

by Faruk Akgul | April 2013 | Open Source

This article by Faruk Akgul, author of ZeroMQ explains what a message queuing system is, discusses the importance of message queuing, and introduces ZeroMQ to the reader.

Before we start digging into ZeroMQ, let's first have a brief introduction on the general concept of message queues.

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