Packt Publishing, one of the world’s foremost publishers of Microsoft SharePoint titles, announces Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook. Written by Microsoft MVP, Ed Musters, the book and eBook is scheduled for publication in December 2011.
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Master cross platform application development using Packt's new Sencha book
Packt is delighted to announce Sencha Touch Cookbook, a new book that covers over a 100 recipes for creating HTML5-based cross-platform apps for touch devices. Written by Ajit Kumar, this book will enable users to incorporate geo location into their apps as well as to develop native looking web apps.
Cookbook for combining PHP & Ajax as a powerful platform for web applications
Packt is delighted to announce the release of PHP Ajax Cookbook, a collection of over 60 recipes with step-by-step directions to build SEO-friendly websites using standard Ajax tools.
Book Club: Pro Drupal 7 Development
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm currently playing catch-up in discussing all the good books sent my way this past year. Many of the books have been sent by the authors and publishers themselves for review and some of the books I've bought on my own dime. There should be no further evidence that I'm a procrastinator in posting book reviews than this particular review of Todd Tomlinson and John K. Vandyyk's Pro Drupal 7 Development. This book was published almost a year ago, and I'm only now finding the time to blog about this book.
While it has been close to a year since this book was published (about just as long since Drupal 7 was released), I marvel how relevant Pro Drupal 7 Development remains as a valuable resource to me. This book and its previous versions have saved my hide so many times that I have lost count. This book may have been sitting on my desk for a year but I assure you it hasn't been collecting dust.
If you're going to get any Drupal book in print this is the book you should get if you're going to do any development with Drupal or simply need to troubleshoot your way out of a Drupal related problem. I realize there are a lot of resources available online from the Drupal community that contains much of the same material found in this book. However, this book organizes the material in such a thoughtful manner that I find the looking up material via the book more efficient than seeing it out though online search.
Book Club: MODX The Official Guide
At this moment, I have a tall stack of unread books related to content management systems sitting in front me. Publishers and authors apparently like my review style because new books continue to be sent my way. However, reading a book from cover to cover for a review (the last one being six months ago) takes time and I just haven't been able to keep up with the required reading. So with admission that I haven't read every page of these books, I've decided to at least start posting mini-reviews of select books and hoping that this move is still a win-win-win for publishers, authors and readers.
So in Oprah style, welcome to CMS Report's Book Club. The first book of this new series is Bob Ray's MODX: The Official Guide. This is the first book published by MODX Press and represents how much the MODX community recognizes the need to get quality CMS books about their projects into the hands of developers and users. I've had a couple conversations with MODX's Jay Gilmore and have witnessed the huge effort and level of support taking place to get this book published.
Becoming a publisher is no easy task but we felt no-one else was going to do it as well as we will at this stage. We have at least 3 other books including one that is nearly complete in the works for release over the next 3 quarters from MODX Press. The first one is the hardest. [Gilmore]
Book for creating web applications with haXe
Packt's recently published book haXe 2 Beginner's Guide is aimed at developers wanting to create web applications from scratch with haXe. Written by Benjamin Dasnois, the book will enable readers target multiple platforms using the same code and interface the code with the target platform.
Explore Apache Cassandra and get the most out of it with Packt's latest cookbook
Packt recently published book Cassandra High Performance Cookbookaims at helping readers configure and tune Cassandra components to enhance its performance. Written by Edward Capriolo, the book is packed with over 150 well illustrated, step-by-step recipes to design and optimize large scale Apache Cassandra deployments.
Multimedia integration with Moodle now made quick and easy with Packt's latest book
Packt is delighted to announce Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook, which aims at helping users learn how to add photographs, videos, animations, and much more to make their Moodle course even more interactive without the need to read through long tutorials. Written by Silvina P. Hillar, the book provides a plethora of recipes showing how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into a Moodle course.
Make learning history interesting and fun with Packt's latest Moodle book
Packt's recently published book History Teaching with Moodle 2 aims to help educators make their History lessons less boring for their students by effortlessly transforming their existing lesson plans into interactive online courses.
Book for developing SharePoint websites and applications for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 is a new book from Packt that helps integrate Windows Phone 7 capable web pages into SharePoint websites. Written by Todd Spatafore this book examines Windows Phone 7's enterprise capabilities and helps create enterprise-ready websites and applications to access Microsoft SharePoint.
Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft and is the successor to its Windows Mobile Platform. Microsoft Sharepoint is a Web technology-based server that can be used to build portals, collaboration sites, and also content management sites.
This book introduces the reader to the improvements found over the desktop version of Internet Explorer 7. It gives an overview of the features of Windows Phone 7 and the capabilities of Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Phone 7. Topics such as SharePoint Communities, Windows Phone 7 Web Development, and building SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7 are also spoken of in detail.
CMS Made Simple Cookbook
CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook is a new book from Packt that will help readers build new modules and tags, and use the built-in capabilities of CMS Made Simple to their fullest. Written by Samuel Goldstein, the book is a practical guide with over 70 simple yet unbelievably effective recipes to extend CMS Made Simple.
CMS Made Simple, an open source content management system, allows for faster and easier management of website content. This CMS is scalable for small businesses to large corporations.
CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook starts off by showing the reader the basic differences between the various kinds of tags and modules in the CMS Made Simple environment, and to which purposes each is best fit. Readers will not only learn the basics of creating tags and modules, but will also explore the underlying APIs that they will use to solve real-world website problems . It offers developers an amazing wealth of knowledge in approachable, bite-sized recipes.
Moodle JavaScript Cookbook
Packt is delighted to announce Moodle JavaScript Cookbook, a collection of over 50 step by step recipes to enhance Moodle with JavaScript and the Yahoo! User Interface Library. Written by Alastair Hole, author of award-winning Moodle repository plugin- MrCUTE, the book explores a wide range of modern interactive features, from AJAX to Animation to create more dynamic and responsive Moodle systems.
Moodle is a free source e-learning software platform. It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. Its open source license and modular design allows any developer to create additional modules and features.
Moodle JavaScript Cookbook starts off by explaining the basics of combining Moodle with JavaScript and its various libraries. It then shows readers how to integrate Yahoo! User Interface Library with Moodle and will be the main focus throughout the book. Readers will also learn how to add validation features to their Moodle forms, retrieve and process data from external sites in a range of formats using AJAX.
New Drupal book : Drupal 7 Themes
The newest release in Packt's popular Drupal Themes series is now available. Drupal 7 Themes provides an extensive revision of the Drupal 6 title with updates to reflect the theming changes in Drupal 7, new chapters, and a fresh approach.
Joomla! 1.6 First Look book
Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.6 First Look, a new book, which is a concise guide to everything that’s the latest in Joomla! 1.6. Written by Eric Tiggeler, this book contains ample screenshots and clear explanations of all the new features of Joomla! 1.6 and their usage, whilst covering changes in all aspects of Joomla! including interface, menus, templates, and extensions.
Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.
Joomla! 1.6 First Look book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed and how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from the existing Joomla! versions. Furthermore, this book starts off by teaching readers the general changes in interface and basic articles, and then progresses to take them through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features.
Packt's new Concrete5 book
Packt is pleased to announce Concrete5 Beginner's Guide, a new book which helps developers get started with Concrete5 quickly and efficiently. Written by Remo Laubacher, this book helps readers familiarize themselves with all of Concrete5's features.
Concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. This makes the platform easy to use with a minimum of technical skills. Concrete5 also allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page.
Concrete5 Beginner's Guide guides reader’s right from the installation stage to the deployment process, thereby making it the only reference that they will need to create their new Concrete5 site. Developers will also learn how to install add-ons and themes to make their website aesthetically pleasing.
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