BPEL PM and OSB Operational Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

BPEL PM and OSB Operational Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

Book Description:   In the SOA world, managing distributed services and service infrastructures is critical. Oracle Enterprise Manager – an all-encompassing management product – facilitates increased management capabilities for databases, application servers, and packaged applications. BPEL PM and OSB are two compelling, market leading products that are driving Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation across enterprises.

There is a lack of clarity around real-world operational use cases that would help operational administrators in their day-to-day tasks. Further, the documentation available online does not provide much information on administering BPEL PM and OSB with Enterprise Manager Grid Control efficiently.

This book will help you set up the framework for managing operational tasks from a central location using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control in a step-by-step functional approach. You will learn to automate various operational tasks that are essential for the smooth running of Oracle SOA products in production, thus increasing the efficiency of your SOA projects.

This book shows how top-drawer management capabilities from Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control can be used to effectively manage your Oracle SOA environment. You start by discovering one or more BPEL and OSB components centrally. The book then explains how to monitor BPEL processes and OSB services, and how to get alerts on service availability and performance problems.

It covers the management of BPEL and OSB infrastructure components and how to manage their configurations in a central repository. It follows a hands-on approach, showing you how to use an automated approach for deploying BPEL processes and OSB projects.

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BlackBerry Curve Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Curve 8500 Series

BlackBerry Curve Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Curve 8500 Series

Book Description: You’re a proud owner of the bestselling smartphone in the world. Now learn how to make use of all of the Curve’s features with this easy-to-read guide from two of the best BlackBerry trainers in the business.

BlackBerry Curve Made Simple teaches you how to get the most out of your BlackBerry Curve 8500 and Curve 3G 9300 series smartphone. You’ll explore all of the features and uncover time-saving techniques—from emailing and scheduling to GPS mapping and using apps—all through easy-to-read instructions and detailed visuals.

Written by two successful BlackBerry trainers and authors, this is simply the most comprehensive and clear guidebook to the BlackBerry Curve 8500 series smartphones available.

What you’ll learn

• Sync your Curve with a PC or Mac
• Master the keyboard and trackpad navigation
• Everything email: setup, basics, and pro techniques
• Text messaging: SMS, PIN, and more
• Set up a three-way conference call
• Get work done: Manage your calendar, contact list, and memopad
• Understand connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
• Have fun with music, photos, and videos
• Explore the BlackBerry App World and utilize apps
• Use GPS and mapping to get around

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Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight

Book Description: Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft’s technology.

You’ll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 4 Integrated Development Environment, and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time.

At the end, you’ll put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 4 website.
Whether you’re an experienced .NET or web developer, or you’re just starting out, this book will provide you with all you need to create RIAs with Expression Blend 4.

• Develop stunning RIAs in a short time using Blend 4 and Silverlight 4.
• Learn basic Object Oriented Programming Principles.
• Get familiar with the Blend 4 development environment.

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Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

Book Description: Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better.

Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more.

This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features.

Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.

• Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials.
• Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.
• Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.

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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

 
Book Description: Silverlight 4 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform in which to build business applications.

It’s a very powerful technology, and despite its relative youth, it’s moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread adoption.

This book will guide you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C#. You will learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications, from getting started to deployment, and everything in between.

In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications, and tackle the issues that you’ll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to approach real-life implementation decisions.

With this book in hand, you will

• Create a fully functional business application in Silverlight
• Discover how to satisfy all of the common requirements that most business applications share

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Spring Recipes: A Problem Solution Approach, 2nd Edition

Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2nd Edition

 

Book Description: With over 3 Million users/developers, Spring Framework is the leading “out of the box” Java framework. Spring addresses and offers simple solutions for most aspects of your Java/Java EE application development, and guides you to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.

The release of Spring Framework 3 has ushered in many improvements and new features. Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition continues upon the bestselling success of the previous edition but focuses on the latest Spring 3 features for building enterprise Java applications.

This book provides elementary to advanced code recipes to account for the following, found in the new Spring 3:

• Spring fundamentals: Spring IoC container, Spring AOP/ AspectJ, and more
• Spring enterprise: Spring Java EE integration, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, jBPM with Spring, Spring Remoting, messaging, transactions, scaling using Terracotta and GridGrain, and more.
• Spring web: Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow 2, Spring Roo, other dynamic scripting, integration with popular Grails Framework (and Groovy), REST/web services, and more.

This book guides you step by step through topics using complete and real-world code examples. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book.

When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!
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Qt for Symbian

Qt for Symbian

 

Book Description: The Qt environment is THE new platform to make and build mobile applications. Get ahead of the crowd with this timely tutorial on developing GUIs.

Qt for Symbian takes a unique look at this cutting-edge programming environment. Step-by-step it explains

Qt in an easy to access fashion, using simple examples throughout.

Key topics include:

• Installing the developer platform / SDK
• Explaining the basic Qt environment
• The extension of the Qt module
• Communication
• Sensors
• Simple examples for Qt for Symbian and much more

Using Qt, you can develop applications and user interfaces once, and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.

This widely known and employed cross platform development tool is newly applied to the Symbian platform and will have a massive impact on Symbian phones for the next decade.

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Microsoft Word 2010 Bible

Microsoft Word 2010 Bible

 

Book Description: In-depth guidance on Word 2010 from a Microsoft MVP

Microsoft Word 2010 arrives with many changes and improvements, and this comprehensive guide from Microsoft MVP Herb Tyson is your expert, one-stop resource for it all.

Master Word’s new features such as a new interface and customized Ribbon, major new productivity-boosting collaboration tools, how to publish directly to blogs, how to work with XML, and much more.

Follow step-by-step instructions and best practices, avoid pitfalls, discover practical workarounds, and get the very most out of your new Word 2010 with this packed guide.

Coverage includes:

• Making Word Work for You
• The X Files: Understanding and Using Word’ New File Format
• Make It Stop! Cures and Treatments for Word’ Top Annoyances
• Word on the Street
• Formatting 101: Font/Character Formatting
• Paragraph Formatting
• In Style!
• The Clipboard

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Bible

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Bible

 

Book Description: Master PowerPoint and improve your presentation skills-with one book!It’s no longer enough to have slide after slide of text, bullets, and charts. It’s not even enough to have good speaking skills if your PowerPoint slides bore your audience.

Get the very most out of all that PowerPoint 2010 has to offer while also learning priceless tips and techniques for making good presentations in this new PowerPoint 2010 Bible. Well-known PowerPoint expert and author Faithe Wempen provides formatting tips; shows you how to work with drawings, tables, and SmartArt; introduces new collaboration tools; walks you through five special presentation labs; and more.

Coverage includes:

• A First Look at PowerPoint
  
• What Makes a Great Presentation?
  
• Creating and Saving Presentation Files
  
• Creating Slides and Text Boxes
  
• Working with Layouts, Themes, and Masters
  
• Formatting Paragraphs and Text Boxes
  
• Correcting and Improving Text
  
• Creating and Formatting Tables
  
• Drawing and Formatting Objects
  
• Creating SmartArt Diagrams
  

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Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

 

Book Description: The expert guidance you need to get the most out of Access 2010Get the Access 2010 information you need to succeed with this comprehensive reference. If this is your first encounter with Access, you’ll appreciate the thorough attention to database fundamentals and terminology.

If you’re familiar with earlier versions, you can jump right into Access 2010 enhancements such as the new Access user interface and wider use of XML and Web services.

• Takes you under the hood of Microsoft Access 2010, the database application included with Microsoft Office 2010
• Explores the latest enhancements, such as a new user interface and wider use of XML and Web services; also, how to exchange data with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office apps
• Covers how to create tables, manipulate datasheets, and work with multiple tables
• Explains the seven database objects and how to use a seven-step design method to build a database tailored to your needs
• Shows you how to build forms, use Visual Basic and the VBA Editor, automate query parameters, create functions and subroutines, use XML to create data access pages, and more
• Includes a CD with all source code from the book and working examples, plus bonus shareware, freeware, trial, demo and evaluation programs that work with or enhance Microsoft Office

You’ll want to keep this soup-to-nuts Access reference close at hand!
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Visual Studio 2010 All in One For Dummies

Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One For Dummies

 
Book Description: A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio is Microsoft’s comprehensive development environment that encompasses the .NET Framework, various programming languages, and ASP.NET. Programmers love it for developing applications for mobile devices and the Web.

Because Visual Studio can be complex, the All-in-One For Dummies format makes it easy for beginners to grasp its different parts and get up to speed.

• Visual Studio is a development environment used with various programming languages to create a variety of applications, including those for the Web and mobile devices
• The updated Visual Studio 2010 features new emphasis on development for Windows 7, cloud computing, and enhanced Web and Silverlight
• Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One For Dummies shows how to build applications using the enhanced productivity features of Visual Studio 2010AS
• Minibooks cover a Visual Studio overview, getting started, building Windows 7 and cloud applications, data access, coding, and other IDE details
• Ideal for new programmers or Java programmers who want to become proficient with Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One For Dummies provides both a great instruction book for new programmers and a valuable reference for the more experienced.

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Mastering AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011

Mastering AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011

 

Book Description: Go beyond AutoCAD essentials to create amazing 2D and 3D technical drawingsAutoCADis the leading drawing software used by design and drafting professionals to create 2D and 3D technical drawings.

Mastering AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT guides you through AutoCAD essentials using concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects for both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.

You’ll understand the basics of the interface and drafting tools, as well as how to effectively use hatches, fields, and tables.

• Details attributes, dynamic blocks, drawing curves, and solid fills, as well as exploring 3D modeling and imaging
• Explores the fully revised 3D rendering features and the new 3D Surface modeling tools
• Covers the new 2D features like the updated Hatch tools,  object transparency and Isolate/Hide objects
• Discusses customization and integration, as well as useful tools and utilities
• Includes a searchable PDF of the entire book, a trial version of AutoCAD, and before-and-after tutorial files

Accompanied by a DVD with more than a dozen video tutorials, this book will help you master AutoCAD and bring your technical drawings to life.
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WordPress Bible

WordPress Bible

 
Book Description: Install WordPress and go beyond blogging

WordPress is so flexible that developers are now tapping it to create robust applications for content, contact, and e-mail management. Whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers WordPress from the basics through advanced application development.

Learn how to use custom plugins and themes, retrieve data, maintain security, use social media, and modify your blog without changing any core code. You’ll even get to know the ecosystem of products that surrounds this popular, open-source tool.

• Enhance your blog’s findability in the search engines and beyond
• Discover hooks and leverage the WordPress event-driven programming interface
• Create WordPress widgets in only a few minutes
• Explore alternate uses of WordPress
• Enhance your blog with WordPress MU
• Ensure your plugins maintain future compatibility
• Create highly customizable and dynamic themes using template tags
• Learn best security practices as a user and developer

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SolidWorks 2010 Bible

SolidWorks 2010 Bible

 
Book Description: The only guide you need to learn the leading 3D solid modeler program, SolidWorks.

This in-depth guide goes into extensive detail, not just on “how” the software works, but in many cases “why” it works the way it does.

• SolidWorks is a powerful 3D solid modeling system that is popular with CAD users everywhere, but to become really proficient at the more involved functionality in SolidWorks one really needs specialized training or a comprehensive book like the SolidWorks Bible
• Thoroughly covers SolidWork features using real-world examples
• Author, Matt Lombard, is well known and well respected in the SolidWorks community and host a popular SolidWorks blog called dezignstuff

Get the guidance you need to efficiently learn and master SolidWorks.

The detail and depth you need to get the most out of SolidWorks
Whether you’re new to SolidWorks or want to expand your current skills, this is the SolidWorks book you need. Offering in-depth content that exceeds most other publications on the subject, this book is a complete desk reference.

Well-known SolidWorks consultant Matt Lombard covers all features, explains best practices, and provides pages of step-by-step tutorials and advanced techniques that will soon have you successfully using this powerful software for your own CAD projects.

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Joomla! Bible

Joomla! Bible

Book Description: Comprehensive guide to creating Web sites with the open-source Joomla!1.5
Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) for Web sites. While it is free and relatively easy to use, there are lots of tricks and functionality that may not be intuitive to new users or those switching from other systems.

And the previous version is quite different from the new Joomla 1.5, for which documentation is sparse. Joomla! Bible is the complete, step-by-step guide you need to build and manage Web sites using the very newest version of this powerful and popular CMS.

• Walks you through obtaining the Joomla! 1.5 code and how to deploy it to a server, configure the site, create content, and manage content and user hierarchies
• Helps you get the most out of core modules that provide advanced functionality, including the Polls Module, the Banner Manager, the Media Manager, Galleries, Weblinks, Content Syndication, and Newsfeed Aggregation
• Vaults you into the world of Web 2.0 with extensive coverage of JomSocial, and shows you how to set up for e-commmerce with VirtueMart

Get the most out of Joomla! 1.5 with this complete guide guide.

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Fedora Bible 2010 Edition: Featuring Fedora Linux 12

Fedora Bible 2010 Edition: Featuring Fedora Linux 12

 
Book Description: The perfect companion for mastering the latest version of Fedora

As a free, open source Linux operating system sponsored by Red Hat, Fedora can either be a stepping stone to Enterprise or used as a viable operating system for those looking for frequent updates. Written by veteran authors of perennial bestsellers, this book serves as an ideal companion for Linux users and offers a thorough look at the basics of the new Fedora 12.

Step-by-step instructions make the Linux installation simple while clear explanations walk you through best practices for taking advantage of the desktop interface. You’ll learn how to use the Linux shell, file system, and text editor. Plus, the authors describe key system administration skills, such as setting up users, automating system tasks, backing up and restoring files, and understanding the latest security issues and threats.

Coverage includes:

• An Overview of Fedora
• Installing Fedora
• Getting Productive with the Desktop
• Using Linux Commands
• Accessing and Running Applications
• Publishing with Fedora

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ActionScript 3.0 Bible

ActionScript 3.0 Bible

Book Description: ActionScript 3.0 from novice to master
If you want to build interactive applications on the desktop, in the browser, or on mobile devices, this new edition of the ActionScript 3.0 Bible is all you need.

If you’re a beginner, it guides you through the whole ecosystem of the Flash Platform, ActionScript 3.0 language and syntax, object oriented programming, and even error handling techniques and debugging tips.

For intermediate programmers, the Bible is packed with detail on every part of the expansive Flash Player 10.1 API. For experienced programmers, it includes interactive examples with real-world applications, a UML table of contents for finding the right chapter immediately, and comprehensive coverage of the very latest features including multitouch, Pixel Bender, and more.

• Massively updated and revised
• Program for mobile devices including iPhone, Palm WebOS, Android 2.0, and more
• Learn AS3 you’ll use in Flash Professional CS5, Flash Builder 4, Flex 4, and AIR 2
• Run and modify over 200 new examples in your browser, with no software or setup required
• Use the speedy new Vector class
• Interface with web services in any language
• Display print-quality text with the Flash Text Engine and Text Layout Framework
• Learn 3D math and program your own 3D engine with AS3
• Write and run powerful pixel shaders with Pixel Bender
• Synthesize and analyze sound digitally
• Display, analyze, and capture audio and video

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WordPress 3 Site Blueprints

WordPress 3 Site Blueprints

Book Description: Follow along as you work to build a variety of sites-all using WordPress. While this book isn’t designed for beginners, those with even an intermediate knowledge of WordPress will be able to get these sites up and running in no time.

Also, since each chapter is devoted to the design of a different site, there’s no need to read the book in any particular order. Instead, you can pick and choose the blueprints that are of the most interest to you and dive right in.

If you’re a self-learner or a WordPress consultant who, instead of being content with using WordPress out-of-the-box, is interested in exploring all that this open source software has to offer, then this book is for you. The clear instructions provided in each chapter will guide you through the process of creating a varied collection of WordPress sites for either yourself or a client.

While some experience with WordPress is required to get the most from this book, if you can install themes and plugins, you should be able to follow these easy-to-understand WordPress blueprints.

Some knowledge of CSS and HTML will be beneficial, but experience with PHP is not required.
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Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

 
Book Description: Object Oriented Programming is a very important aspect of modern programming languages. The basic principles of Object Oriented Programming are relatively easy to learn. Putting them together into working designs can be challenging.

This book makes programming more of a pleasure than a chore using powerful Python 3 object-oriented features of Python 3. It clearly demonstrates the core OOP principles and how to correctly implement OOP in Python.

Object Oriented Programming ranks high in importance among the many models Python supports. Yet, many programmers never bother learning the powerful features that make this language object oriented.
The book teaches when and how OOP should be correctly applied. It emphasizes not only the simple syntax of OOP in Python, but also how to combine these objects into well-designed software.

This book will introduce you to the terminology of the object-oriented paradigm, focusing on object-oriented design with step-by-step examples. It will take you from simple inheritance, one of the most useful tools in the object-oriented programmer’s toolbox, all the way through to cooperative inheritance, one of the most complicated. You will be able to raise, handle, define, and manipulate exceptions.

You will be able to integrate the object-oriented and the not-so-object-oriented aspects of Python. You will also be able to create maintainable applications by studying higher level design patterns. You’ll learn the complexities of string and file manipulation, and how Python distinguishes between binary and textual data.

Not one, but two very powerful automated testing systems will be introduced to you. You’ll understand the joy of unit testing and just how easy they are to create. You’ll even study higher level libraries such as database connectors and GUI toolkits and how they apply object-oriented principles.

Harness the power of Python 3 objects; it’s not just a scripting language
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Nginx HTTP Server

Nginx HTTP Server

Book Description
Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as primary objective. With the advent of high-speed Internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity.

This free open-source solution will either serve as full replacement of other software such as Apache, or stand in front of your existing infrastructure to improve its overall speed. However, migrating to Nginx requires some guidance.

This book serves as a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in different production situations: as standalone server, as reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. In addition, the complete directive reference will be your best friend at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes

This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators.

For the former, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its various modules to get it to do exactly what you need, in a fast and secure way. For the latter, it provides different angles of approach that can help you make the most of your current infrastructure.

As the book progresses, it provides a complete reference to all the modules and directives of Nginx. It will explain how to replace your existing server with Nginx or configure Nginx to work as a frontend for your existing server.

By the end of this book, you will be geared up to implement Nginx as a web server that will boost the speed of all your web applications.
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Drupal 6 Panels Cookbook

Drupal 6 Panels Cookbook

Book Description
The Drupal Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses. At its core, it is a drag and drop content manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within that layout.

Guidance is required when it comes to successfully implementing panels in your CMS. The Panels module lacks sufficient documentation and most Drupal users are left in the lurch with many unanswered questions.
This book comes to your rescue and discusses all that you need to successfully incorporate Panels in your Drupal CMS.

You will learn everything from setting up Panels, through using it, to integrating it with other modules. The book discusses the various problems involved in using Panels along with their solutions. It shows you how to reap added benefits using Panels.

The book is a collection of simple useful recipes that gives a very clear understanding from the basics of Panels to complex implementations to generate Web 2.0 layouts. It begins with the basics and gradually delves deeper into the complexities of Panels. You will learn how to set up CTools and Panels, upgrade from Panels 2 to Panels 3, about page layout, theming, and lots more.

The layout of the book is a series of interconnected but distinct recipes that gives a basic understanding of usage of Panels in Drupal and also the advanced settings that makes Panels one of the most powerful modules .You will learn to master the Panels user interface and theme each panel quickly with a series of practical recipes.

You will be able to integrate powerful Drupal modules like Organic Views, Advanced Profile Kit, Views, CCK, and many more to create socially connected Web 2.0 websites.

A practical guide on incorporating panels in your Drupal CMS for added benefits
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Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5

Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5

Book Description
This book is a step by step tutorial in developing a real-world application using the incremental and iterative approach to software development. You learn about agile software development by leaning on the agile nature of the Yii application development framework. You touch on each aspect of the software development life cycle by building a project task management application from concept through production deployment.

After a brief, general introduction to the Yii framework and outlining the software development approach taken throughout the book, the chapters break down in the same way as software development iterations do in real-world projects. After the 1st iteration, you will have a working and tested application with a valid, tested connection to a database.

In the 2nd and 3rd iterations, we flesh out our main database entities and domain object model and become familiar with Yii’s object-relational-mapping (ORM) layer, Active Record. We also learn how to lean on Yii’s auto-generation tools to automatically build our create/read/update/delete (CRUD) functionality against our newly created model. These iterations also focus on how Yii’s form validation and submission model works.

By the end of the third iteration you will have a working application that allows you to mange projects and issues (tasks) within those projects.

The 4th and 5th iterations are dedicated to user management. We learn about the built-in authentication model within Yii to assist in application log in and log out functionality. We then dive into the authorization model, first taking advantage of a Yii’s simple access control model, then implementing the more sophisticated role-based access control (RBAC) framework that Yii provides.
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Bible

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Bible

Book Description
The bestselling, comprehensive reference on Photoshop, fully updated to CS5.
Photoshop is the gold standard for image-editing programs and is used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists. More than 300,000 copies of this comprehensive reference have been sold in previous editions; this edition is fully updated to cover Photoshop CS5’s newest features and includes a 16-page full-color insert.

• Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software used in both print and digital media, with more than four million users worldwide
• This comprehensive guide covers beginning to advanced techniques, from learning your way around the windows and tools to working with Camera Raw images
• Covers retouching, color correcting, manipulating, and combining images; working with the File Browser, histogram palette, Lens Blur, and the color replacement tool; customizable keyboard shortcuts; how to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and much more

This revised edition of Photoshop Bible is the reference tool that graphic designers, photographers, and Web designers will refer to many times over.
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Adobe InDesign CS5 Bible

Adobe InDesign CS5 Bible

Product Description
Optimize the latest version of InDesign for your most efficient project workflow yetInDesign is a powerful publishing tool that serves as the standard program for professional layout and design. The latest version boasts a variety of updates and enhancements. Packed with real-world examples and written by industry expert Galen Gruman, this in-depth resource clearly explains how InDesign CS5 allows for better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more user control than any other layout program.

• Shows you the vast updates to the newest version of InDesign, including speedier performance, sharper functionality, and new object styles
• Offers insight for taking advantage of using the dynamic spell check, creating anchored objects that follow text, creating object styles that can be applied for consistent formatting, and more
• Shares real-world tips and techniques as well as helpful examples from industry expert and popular author Galen Gruman

Whether you are aiming to produce ad campaigns, magazines, interactive PDF files, or other forms of media, InDesign CS5 Bible offers everything you need to know to quickly get up to speed with the latest version of InDesign.
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Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

Book Description: This book is a comprehensive reference guide for every feature Solr has to offer. It serves the reader right from initiation to development to deployment. It also comes with complete running examples to demonstrate its use and show how to integrate it with other languages and frameworks.


This book first gives you a quick overview of Solr, and then gradually takes you from basic to advanced features that enhance your search. It starts off by discussing Solr and helping you understand how it fits into your architecture–where all databases and document/web crawlers fall short, and Solr shines.

The main part of the book is a thorough exploration of nearly every feature that Solr offers. To keep this interesting and realistic, we use a large open source set of metadata about artists, releases, and tracks courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project. Using this data as a testing ground for Solr, you will learn how to import this data in various ways from CSV to XML to database access.

You will then learn how to search this data in a myriad of ways, including Solr’s rich query syntax, “boosting” match scores based on record data and other means, about searching across multiple fields with different boosts, getting facets on the results, auto-complete user queries, spell-correcting searches, highlighting queried text in search results, and so on.

After this thorough tour, we’ll demonstrate working examples of integrating a variety of technologies with Solr such as Java, JavaScript, Drupal, Ruby, XSLT, PHP, and Python.
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Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible

Book Description
Learn to use the new Flash Catalyst to create rich Internet applications

Adobe Flash Catalyst enables you to take designs from Photoshop and Illustrator and convert them into rich Flash-based applications—without writing or even understanding one line of code. It may sound too good to be true, but this helpful reference shows you how to leverage the Flash skills you already have in order to convert your ideas into functioning applications. You’ll explore everything from the basics of the Flex framework to using Flash Builder to complete conversion of an application.

• Shows you how to use the eagerly anticipated Flash Catalyst to convert assets from Illustrator and Photoshop directly into Flex components without ever needing to write code
• Reviews the basics of the Flex framework and rich Internet applications
• Demonstrates how to import comps and assets into Flash Builder in order to create an application

Convert your ideas from design into functioning applications—and avoid writing complex code—with this authoritative resource.
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Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible

Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible

Book Description
A complete and thorough reference for developers on the new Flex 4 platform
Create desktop applications that behave identically on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with Adobe’s new Flash Builder 4 platform and this in-depth guide. The book’s tutorials and explanations walk you step-by-step through Flash Builder’s new, faster tools; the new framework for generating code; how to connect to popular application servers; upgrading from Flex 3; and much more.

• Shows you how to create rich applications for the Web and desktop with the very latest version of Flex, with detailed coverage for both new and veteran Flex application developers
• Walks you through Flex basics; upgrading from Flex 3; how to create desktop applications with AIR; and integrating Flex applications with the most popular application servers, including ColdFusion, ASP.NET, and PHP
• Includes extensive code samples of common tasks that you can use to jump-start your development projects

Flex your development muscles with the Flex 4 and this comprehensive guide.
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Bible

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Bible

Book Description
Updated version of the bestselling Dreamweaver Bible seriesPacked with hands-on instruction and step-by-step tutorials, the Dreamweaver CS5 Bible has everything you need to harness the incredible power of this amazing Web development tool. Starting with Dreamweaver basics, expert author and Adobe guru Joe Lowery (Adobe CS4 Web Workflows and Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Bible) guides you through the ins-and-outs of Dreamweaver showing you how to build dynamic, data-driven sites in no time.

• Details how to use Dreamweaver with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion and more to access and work with live backend data
• Describes designing for and working with popular Content Management Systems (CMS) including WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal
• Includes how-to’s on using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in Dreamweaver to build attractive dynamic websites, as well as comprehensive information on creating and working with both design and code templates to provide consistency across a web site with minimal effort

Dreamweaver has established itself as one of the leading Web development tools and Dreamweaver CS5 Bible is the must-have learning tool and reference guide for any Web developer using Dreamweaver.

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