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Book for developing and deploying a Magento online store

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By amits - Posted on 04 March 2010

Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide, a new book that helps PHP developers build applications that interface with the customer, product, and order data using Magento's Core API. Written by Jamie Huskisson, this book is packed with examples for effective Magento development.

Magento is an Open Source, e-commerce web application that was created by Varien, and built on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is the hottest and most powerful e-commerce software and has gained popularity in a short period of time. Users can control the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce web site with the help of Magento’s powerful theming engine.

Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide will help developers extend and customize the Magento e-commerce system using PHP code. They will get familiar with the architecture and internal structure of Magento and learn about the best modules available. Developers can then build a shipping module for their Magento store to give users options for receiving their items once they have paid for them.

New Joomla! multimedia book

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By swatii - Posted on 16 February 2010

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, a new book that will help developers build media-rich Joomla! websites by learning to embed and display multimedia content. Written by Allan Walker, an experienced Joomla developer and a member of the Joomla! Marketing Team, this book is a step-by-step tutorial to create a feature-packed media-rich Joomla! site. It will also help to build a livelier Joomla! website with videos, audios, images by using popular multimedia 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! 1.5 Multimedia is a practical guide that shows how to include popular media elements into a website and collaborate with external web resources such as YouTube, Flickr and Google. It will teach readers to create regular podcasts and utilize RSS to help publicize and deliver their website content. Additionally, it also highlights the benefits of multimedia features and warns of the accessibility issues that can arise when they are misused.

Build better web applications using Packt’s new Tomcat book

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By amits - Posted on 07 January 2010

Tomcat 6 Developer’s Guide is a new book from Packt that will help users take their Java EE web programming skills to the next level by getting an expert's level understanding of the servlet specification and its reference implementation. Written by Damodar Chetty, it covers the concept and implementation of each major Tomcat component in detail. It will also help readers build better web applications by learning how a servlet container actually works.

Tomcat 6 Developer's GuideApache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, the specifications for which are developed under the Java Community Process.  Apache Tomcat 6 implements the Servlet 2.5 and JavaServer Pages 2.1 specifications including many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and services.

Tomcat 6 Developer’s Guide will teach readers how to effectively use Apache Tomcat by specifying detailed instructions on building a Tomcat distribution. It provides them with a conceptual understanding of the Java EE and servlet specifications, web servers and the Tomcat container. In addition to this, it discusses the key Tomcat components along with their internal workings and teaches the implementation of HTTP RFCs by a servlet container.

Book on SOAP and Restful Web Services using Apache CXF framework

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By Priyanka13 - Posted on 06 January 2010

Apache CXF Web Service Development is a new book from Packt, which will help developers design and develop SOAP and Restful web services using the open source Apache CXF framework. Written by Naveen Balani and Rajeev Hathi, this book will help to create custom interceptors by implementing advanced features such as CXF Interceptors, CXF Invokers, and CXF Features. It will also provide developers a quick start in developing web services using contract-first and code-first approaches.

Apache CXF is an open source, fully featured, easy to use framework, which provides a flexible deployment model for deploying web services. CXF helps developers build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and develop web services by configuring various CXF transports such as HTTP, HTTP(S), JMS, and CXF.

Apache CXF Web Service Development introduces various Apache CXF framework features and will teach users to build their application according to the requirements by using any of the frontends supported by it. They will learn to develop services in a flexible deployment model offered by CXF, unit test them and finally promote them. Additionally, this book introduces some advanced concepts such as Interceptors and also mentions various tools that will help developers create web services as well as Java and JavaScript-based web services clients.

CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2009

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By Bryan - Posted on 28 December 2009

The level of interest in content management systems astounds me. Each year, I continue to see at CMS Report an increase of visitors looking for information on content management. Our stories tend to focus on open source CMS more than proprietary applications and evidently that's the subject matter that our readers want to read.

Below are the top ten stories of 2009 that were posted here at CMSReport.com. As you can see, stories involving Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Alfresco, and Nuxeo took center stage. These stories might not have been the ten I would have personally picked for this list, but I'll respect the numbers behind their ranking.

  1. Mollom: A solution for comment spam
  2. 2009 Best Open Source PHP CMS: Drupal wins, Wordpress and Joomla! not far behind
  3. Serving a home for my Drupal site
  4. WordPress leads the Packt as 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS
  5. Allen Ellis: Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It
  6. Google PageRank
  7. Alfresco Module Obtains U.S. DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification
  8. Using Wordpress city saves $19,000
  9. Cheryl McKinnon, Nuxeo, and Open Source
  10. Drupal Gardens preview video by Acquia

The interest in Nuxeo took me by surprise and I'll be adding the CMS to my top 30 CMS Focus page as time allows. As always, our thanks to all those who continue to return to this site to read the stories, join in on the conversation, and even submit articles. As I've said before, I'm not sure we would be doing this if it wasn't for the interest shown by others visiting the site.

Learn to Develop Java EE 5 Applications on Geronimo with Packt’s new book

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By amits - Posted on 23 December 2009

Packt is pleased to announce Apache Geronimo 2.1: Quick Reference, a new book that illustrates rich features of Geronimo 2.1 covering Java EE 5 applications, server administration and customization. Written by Vamsavardhana Reddy Chillakuru and Manu T. George, this book is a comprehensive reference guide with easy-to-understand examples and sample applications.

Apache Geronimo is an open source application server developed by the Apache Software Foundation which is compatible with the Java EE 5.0 specification. It delivers J2EE 1.4 functionality under the Apache open source license and makes use of a variety of high quality open source components like Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Active MQ, Open EJB, Open JPA and CXF to name a few.

Apache Geronimo 2.1: Quick Reference serves as a guide that makes the process of migrating to a new server easy, a difficulty that most developers face. It introduces developers to the exciting features of the Apache Geronimo Server, and shows them how to develop and deploy Java EE 5 applications on Geronimo. Right from downloading the server, to customizing it with custom GBeans, this book covers each process with clear step-by-step instructions.