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Through this, the Open Source Royalty Scheme will continue to support open source projects, offering a royalty for the sale of each book to the project on which that book was written.
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Latest Articles
Ext JS 4: Working with the Grid Component
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Loiane Groner | January 2012 | Java Open Source
In this article by Loiane Groner, author of Ext JS 4 First Look we will cover some new features and enhancements in the Grid Component. Ext JS 4 introduces major changes compared to Ext JS 3. There is a new data package, new charts, and new, updated layouts. The framework was completely rewritten to boost performance.
Read Ext JS 4: Working with the Grid Component in fullExt JS 4: Working with Tree and Form Components
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Loiane Groner | January 2012 | Java Open Source
In this article by Loiane Groner, author of Ext JS 4 First Look we will cover some new features and enhancements in the following Components.
- Tree panel
- Form panel
These Components enable faster performance and more developer flexibility.
(For more resources on JavaScript, see here.)
Read Ext JS 4: Working with Tree and Form Components in fullDrools Integration Modules: Spring Framework and Apache Camel
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Lucas Amador | January 2012 | Cookbooks Open Source
Integration with other systems is always one of the most critical steps in development and it should be on our mind during the planning phase. In this article, the Drools integration modules, Spring Framework and Apache Camel, will be covered explaining how they can be used independently of the Drools Server but, of course, integrated with Drools.
In this article by Lucas Amador, author of Drools Developer's Cookbook, we will cover the following concepts:
- Setting up Drools using Spring Framework
- Configuring JPA to persist our knowledge with Spring Framework
- Integrating Apache Camel in your project
qooxdoo: Working with Layouts
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Mohamed Raffi Rajesh Kumar Bachu | December 2011 | Beginner's Guides Open Source
Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!
In this article by Rajesh Kumar Bachu and Mohamed Raffi, authors of qooxdoo Beginner's Guide, we'll cover the following topics:
- Widgets
- Containers
- Panels
- Layout managers
- Layouts
WordPress: Customizing Content Display
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Ric Shreves | December 2011 | Open Source WordPress
What is the WordPress loop? The loop is a group of PHP instructions that retrieve posts from the database of your WordPress site and then displays them on the page. You can find the WordPress loop inside your themes, for example, inside index.php, single.php, or page. php. Any HTML or PHP code placed between the beginning of the loop and the end will be used for each post.
In this article by Ric Shreves, author of WordPress 3 Cookbook, we will cover:
- How to work with the WordPress loop
- How you can retrieve posts from a specific category
- How to control how many posts you display
- Retrieving posts by date
- Showing only those posts published today
- How to show posts published exactly one year ago
- How to set up and use multiple loops
Cocos2d: Uses of Box2D Physics Engine
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Nathan Burba | December 2011 | Open Source
For years, physics engines have been used in video games to add a sense of realism to the action onscreen. In many games, physics plays a crucial role within the gameplay. Cocos2d comes bundled with two popular 2D physics engines: Box2D and Chipmunk. In this article, we will explain the most common uses of physics in games using Box2D as our engine of choice.
In this article by Nathan Burba, author of Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook, we will cover the following points:
- Box2D setup and debug drawing
- Creating collision response routines
- Using different shapes
- Dragging and collision filtering
Creating a Basic Vaadin Project
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Nicolas Frankel | December 2011 | Web Services Open Source Web Development
Vaadin is a new Java web framework for making applications look great and perform well, making your users happy. Vaadin promises to make your user interfaces attractive and usable while easing your development efforts and boosting your productivity.
In this article by Nicolas Frankel, author of Learning Vaadin, we will:
- Learn key concepts behind the Vaadin framework
- Have an overview of its internal architecture
- See how to deploy a Vaadin application to a servlet container, be it in an IDE or outside it
- See how to update the previously developed application with a very simple interaction in order to display "Hello Vaadin!"
Cocos2d: Working with Sprites
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Nathan Burba | December 2011 | Open Source
Cocos2d is first and foremost a rich graphical API which allows a game developer easy access to a broad range of functionality. In this article, we will take a look at the basic uses of sprites.
In this article by Nathan Burba, author of Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook, we will cover the following topics:
- Drawing sprites
- Coloring sprites
- Animating sprites
WordPress 3: Designing your Blog
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Paul Thewlis | December 2011 | Open Source WordPress
In this article by Paul Thewlis, author of WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers, we'll look at one of the most important aspects of your blog—design. We'll begin by considering some of the principles of good blog design. Even if your blog is already up and running, this article will allow you to critically evaluate its design and replace your current theme with a custom-designed one. This article includes:
- The principles of blog design
- How to implement your blog design using CSS and HTML
Configuring your Moodle Course
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Ian Wild | December 2011 | Beginner's Guides e-Learning Moodle Open Source
Schools, colleges, and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren't making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn—and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.
In this article, by Ian Wild author of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion ,we're going to see how to lay the foundations for moving your department's courses into Moodle. In this article we will take a look at:
- What counts as a Moodle course
- Creating your course
- Configuring the Backyard Ballistics course
Latest Books and eBooks from Packt
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- Master the Edge interface and unleash your creativity through standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Packed with an abundance of information regarding the Edge application and related toolsets
- Robust motion and interactivity through web standards
- Those approaching Edge from Adobe Flash Professional will find many references and tips for a smooth transition
- A comprehensive guide for creating engaging content with Adobe Edge
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- Get a detailed overview of Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.
- Manage your projects from just anywhere using simple e-mail and the P6 iPhone app.
- Learn to create a new project in the P6 Professional Client
- Integrate Primavera P6 with three main ERP systems: Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft.
This book is currently available as a RAW book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 40% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
Purchase Options
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[ $ 32.39 | £ 20.39 | EUR 25.19 | A$ 40.79 ]Buy the RAW version of this book and place a pre-order for the print book right now, with a 40% discount on both.
[ $ 86.39 | £ 53.99 | EUR 67.19 | A$ 107.99 ]- Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.
- Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
Chapter Number Title Availability 1 Getting started with Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management IN THE BOOK 2 Getting Around: Understanding & Customizing the P6 Interface IN THE BOOK 3 Organizing your projects with EPS and OBS and WBS IN THE BOOK 4 Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure IN THE BOOK 5 Adding Activities & Relationships FEBRUARY 2012 6 Assigning Roles & Resources IN THE BOOK 7 Scheduling a Project & Constraining Activities FEBRUARY 2012 8 Tracking Issues & Risks FEBRUARY 2012 9 Baselining and Statusing a Project FEBRUARY 2012 10 Project Templates IN THE BOOK 11 Working with Portfolios & Project-level Data FEBRUARY 2012 12 Portfolio Analysis MARCH 2012 13 Portfolio Scenarios and Project Scoring MARCH 2012 14 Portfolio Capacity Planning, ROI and Tracking Performance MARCH 2012 15 Project Dashboards APRIL 2012 16 Enterprise Resource Management APRIL 2012 Appendix A Oracle Integrations APRIL 2012 -
- Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real time examples to perform key steps and functions on your project
- Practical ways to estimate the effort of a data warehouse solution based on a standard work breakdown structure.
- Learn to effectively turn the project from development to a live solution
- Best practices to create a blueprint for the business intelligence solution
This book is currently available as a RAW book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 40% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
Purchase Options
Your choices:
Buy the RAW version of this book immediately
[ $ 21.59 | £ 13.79 | EUR 17.39 | A$ 27.59 ]Buy the RAW version of this book and place a pre-order for the print book right now, with a 40% discount on both.
[ $ 57.59 | £ 35.99 | EUR 45.59 | A$ 71.99 ]- Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.
- Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
Chapter Number Title Availability 1 Define the Program IN THE BOOK 2 Establish the project IN THE BOOK 3 Control the Project IN THE BOOK 4 Wrap up the project IN THE BOOK 5 The Blueprint FEBRUARY 2012 6 Analyse the Requirements FEBRUARY 2012 7 Analyse the sources FEBRUARY 2012 8 Analyse the data MARCH 2012 9 Define the data model MARCH 2012 10 Define the ETL / ELT MARCH 2012 11 Enhance the data APRIL 2012 12 Optimise the Access APRIL 2012 13 Secure the information APRIL 2012 -
- More than 80 recipes/practicaltasks that will escalate the reader’s knowledge from beginner to an advanced level
- Special focus on the latest operating systems, exploits, and penetration testing techniques
- Detailed analysis of third party tools based on the Metasploit framework to enhance the penetration testing experience
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- Learn how to perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish
- Gain hands-on penetration testing experience by building and testing a virtual lab environment that includes commonly found security measures such as IDS and firewalls
- Take the challenge and perform a virtual penetration test against a fictional corporation from start to finish and then verify your results by walking through step-by-step solutions
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- Take advantage of open source distributed file-systems for storage scalability and high-availability
- Build-up, manage and maintain your Cloud without previous knowledge of virtualization and cloud computing
- Install and configure every supported hypervisor: KVM, Xen, VMware
- Step-by-step, focused on Ubuntu/Debian distributions, but with general how-to working with every GNU/Linux distribution
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- Written by VMware experts Jason Langone and Andre Leibovici, this book is a complete guide to planning and designing a solution based on VMware View 5
- Secure your Visual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) by having firewalls, antivirus, virtual enclaves, USB redirection and filtering and smart card authentication
- Analyze the strategies and techniques used to migrate a user population from a physical desktop environment to a virtual desktop solution
- A learn-by-example based approach that focuses on key concepts to provide the foundation to solve real world problems
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- Get to grips with clear definitions of ‘Service’ and ‘Architecture’ to understand the full SOA picture
- Read about SOA in simple terms from Oracle ACE Directors for SOA and Middleware in this book and e-book
- A concise, no-nonsense guide to demystifying Service Oriented Architecture
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- The only book that explains the various phases in a complete portal project life cycle
- Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real time examples
- Take a deep dive into Portal architectural analysis, design and deployment
- Understand how profiling can be used to provide variability for customization, personalization and configuration of portlets and environments
- Master the main approaches for classifying, isolating and resolving portal problems via troubleshooting
- Instructions valid for Portal versions 7 and 8.
This book is currently available as a RAW book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 40% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
Purchase Options
Your choices:
Buy the RAW version of this book immediately
[ $ 21.59 | £ 13.79 | EUR 17.39 | A$ 27.59 ]Buy the RAW version of this book and place a pre-order for the print book right now, with a 40% discount on both.
[ $ 57.59 | £ 35.99 | EUR 45.59 | A$ 71.99 ]- Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.
- Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
Chapter Number Title Availability 1 Getting started with Portal assessment IN THE BOOK 2 Governance IN THE BOOK 3 Portal Requirements Engineering IN THE BOOK 4 Portal Analysis & Design IN THE BOOK 5 Portal Gold & Cloud Architecture IN THE BOOK 6 Portal Deployment & Release Coordination FEBRUARY 2012 7 How to start a successful Portal Project with WPF: Best Practices FEBRUARY 2012 8 Introduction to Web Experience Factory IN THE BOOK 9 Service layers FEBRUARY 2012 10 Accessing Web Services FEBRUARY 2012 11 Working with the UI builders FEBRUARY 2012 12 The Dojo Builders and Ajax FEBRUARY 2012 13 Profiling & Role Based Experience Length FEBRUARY 2012 14 Types of models Length FEBRUARY 2012 15 Portlet to Portlet Communication Length FEBRUARY 2012 16 How to create applications to run on iPhone Length MARCH 2012 17 How to start a successful Portal Project with WPF: Best Practices MARCH 2012 18 Portlet and Portal Testing Length MARCH 2012 19 Portal and Portlet Performance Monitoring Length MARCH 2012 20 Portal Troubleshooting Length MARCH 2012 21 Portal and Portlet Tuning Length MARCH 2012 22 Post Production Support Length MARCH 2012 -
- Take your ExtGWT web development skills to the next level
- Create stunning UIs with several layouts and templates in a fast and simple manner
- Enriched with code and screenshots for easy and quick grasp
