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Master iPad Enterprise Applications using Packt's new book and e-book

November 2012 | Open Source

Packt is proud to annouce the publication of iPad Enterprise Application Development BluePrints, a new book and eBook for iPad app developers to build enterprise applications that interacts with Facebook, iCloud, Core Location and the Core Image frameworks into their applications. This book is available now in print, eBook, Kindle and select library formats. The print book comes in at over 430 pages and is competitively priced at $44.99, whilst the e-book and Kindle versions are available for $25.49. About the Author:

Steven is the owner and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria that currently develops games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Windows platforms.

iPad Enterprise Application Development BluePrints begins with a walkthrough of downloading and installing the Xcode 4 iOS 5 Development Tools, followed by building a task priorities and a voice recording application. This book enables readers get a grip of building a veterinary clinic application using core data and core image along with setting the different keyboard styles.

Developers looking forward to building enterprise applications that interact with Facebook, iCloud, Core Location and the Core Image frameworks into their applications, will find this book to be an interesting and beneficial read. Filled with images and diagrams, this book will help readers integrate facebook and opengraph APIs into applications, build a route tracking application with the use of core location, mapKit frameworks and understand the use of iCloud Storage APIs to upload and download content.

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Create 3D Solid Objects with Packt's new Cookbook Style FreeCAD [How-to] book and eBook.

October 2012 | Open Source

Packt is pleased to announce the publication of FreeCAD [How-to] a new book and ebook for users to understand FreeCAD's approach to modelling. Written by Daniel Falck and Brad Collette, this book provides readers with a hands-on introduction to several modeling techniques and focuses on how Python makes macro automation and design possible.

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Enhance your Knowledge of Programming with Packt's Processing 2.0: Creative Programming Cookbook

October 2012 | Open Source

Users wanting to expand your knowledge of Processing 2.0 and did not know where or how about to go ahead with it, Packt is happy to announce the launch of Processing 2.0 : Creative Programming Cookbook.

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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials by Packt, a comprehensive guide to knowing everything practical about Piwik

October 2012 | Open Source

Packt's latest publication 'Piwik Web Analytics Essentials' is a handy guide to learning and implementing the flexible analytics tool Piwik. Piwik is a free software alternative to Google Analytics that is already providing real time analytics for more than 320,000 websites! (source: http://piwik.org/)

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Packt’s OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, for using and implementing OpenStack

October 2012 | Cookbooks, Open Source

Packt has published a new book on OpenStack this month; it’s titled OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook. The book is filled with practical and applicable recipes to enable readers use the latest capabilities of OpenStack and implement them. They will learn everything from installing Nova and Swift in a safe, virtual environment to provisioning and managing OpenStack in Datacenter. For complete information on the book, visit the publisher’s book-page: http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook/book

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Packt Publishing reaches 1000 IT titles and celebrates with an open invitation

September 2012 | Enterprise, Open Source

Birmingham-based IT publisher Packt Publishing is about to publish its 1000th title. Packt books are renowned among developers for being uniquely practical and focused, but you’d be forgiven for not yet being in the know – Packt books cover highly specific tools and technologies which you might not expect to see a high quality book on.

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Packt’s OpenLayers Cookbook, a comprehensive guide to creating web mapping applications

August 2012 | Cookbooks, Open Source

Packt Publishing has recently announced the publication of OpenLayers Cookbook, written by Antonio Santiago Perez. The book provides practical examples to understand the main concepts about maps, layers, controls, protocols, events, important tile providers and WMS servers.

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Joomla! Search Engine Optimization published: Take websites from invisible to unmissable with little effort

August 2012 | Joomla!, Open Source

Packt Publishing announces Joomla! Search Engine Optimization book and ebook, for creating a search engine-optimized Joomla! Website. Written by Ric Shreves, a web applications consultant and Open Source tech author, the book gives readers an insight into the functioning of a search engine along with instructions on configuring a Joomla! site to make it search engine-friendly.

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Get to grips with Drupal 7 using Packt's new book and e book

August 2012 | Cookbooks, Drupal, Open Source

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce Drupal 7 Cookbook, a new book and ebook packed with step by step instructions for installing, setting up, and managing Drupal sites. Written by Dylan James, an open source developer, this book will help with creating new content types and use them to create and publish content using Views, Blocks, and Panels.

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Joomla! Mobile Development Beginner’s Guide: A clear, hands-on guide to build mobile websites

August 2012 | Beginner's Guides, Joomla!, Open Source

Packt is pleased to announce the release of Joomla! Mobile Development Beginner’s Guide book, a new book and eBook for web designers to build on the skills and knowledge of maintaining websites for mobile devices without the knowledge of HTML and CSS. Written by Tahsin Hasan, this practical guide is designed to manage and create a feature-rich site with easy navigation by help of step-by-step tutorials and screenshots..

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