Book for building interactive plugins with jQuery

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Packt is pleased to announce jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide, a new book which helps developers use jQuery beyond basics and deliver highly interactive content to their website viewers. Written by Giulio Bai, this book focuses on the practical aspect of design and development and also covers details of some real-life plugins.

jQuery is an open source software which enables developers to create animations, handle events, develop Ajax applications, create plugins etc. Using these facilities, developers can create powerful and dynamic web pages and strike a right balance between size, feature set and ease of use. Plugin codes are created to extend the functionality such as Ajax helpers, webservices, datagrids, dynamic lists etc.

jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide will give readers a thorough knowledge towards buliding plugins as well as speeding up their processes by designing a standard development pattern. It would also providethem with a comprehensive understanding of the working and optimisation of plugins by implementing time-saving designed patterns.

SoftXMLCMS - XML based content management system

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SoftXMLCMS is a unique content management system for managing data in XML format. Easy graphical interface enables you to control the profiling data for the creation of hierarchical structures.

SoftXMLCMS is ideal web tool for creating complex multi-page websites in different languages. Main advantage of SoftXMLCMS is that there is no need for a database that significantly reduce the cost of creating a professional website.

The process of installing an application is very simple and requires no special technical skills.

Compatible with the most important browsers available in the market: IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Netscape 7+, Chrome.

SoftXMLCMS includes builtin powerful text editor for editing rich HTML documents, RSS feeds, Images and more. The Word-like interface of editor makes content creation easy for business users who know nothing about HTML and want to keep it that way. For additional convenience RSS validator and RSS previewer were added to syntax-check and preview RSS feed before using it in the article.

jQuery wins the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award

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Packt Publishing announce that jQuery has won its Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. The Award is a new category introduced to the Open Source Awards this year, featuring libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities.

"On behalf of the entire jQuery Team, let me first say thanks to Packt Publishing for this award. I'd also like to give a huge thanks to the community of designers and developers that use jQuery daily and felt the urge to vote for jQuery as their favorite JavaScript library.  We'll use this prize to further the development of the jQuery Project." Said Ralph Whitbeck, jQuery core team member.

“While jQuery hasn't undergone any radical change in the past year, the project has continued to evolve at the same frenetic pace and the 1.4 release included a wide range of small but important improvements.” Added Michael Mahemoff, Google developer advocate, HTML5/JavaScript specialist and one of the judges for the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries category. “jQuery covers all bases as its performance is high priority, it is easy to use, has a huge community, great documentation, and an excellent plugin ecosystem.”

While jQuery occupied the top spot in the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries category, the other two extremely popular finalists Raphaël and Mootools tied and both projects will be awarded the first runner up position.

For detailed results on each category and more information about the Award, please visit: https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home.

Book for enhancing WordPress sites using jQuery

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book called WordPress 3.0 jQuery that seeks to enhance the visual interest in WordPress 3.0 websites with easy to use jQuery techniques. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book teaches developers to implement just about any jQuery enhancement on a WordPress website without having to make a the content editor switch over into HTML view.

Joomla! Sites with JavaScript and jQuery Book

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery, a new book that will help readers to enhance their Joomla! sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more. Written by Jose Argudo Blanco, this book will enable readers to create their own Joomla!, jQuery-powered, extensions and enhance their site with third-party features, code-highlighting, Flickr, and more using Joomla! plugins.

Book on SOAP and Restful Web Services using Apache CXF framework

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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.

Design and Deploy Web Applications using the Struts 2 Framework

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Apache Struts which explores the features of Struts 2.1. Written by Struts PMC member, Dave Newton, Apache Struts 2 Web Application Development provides an in-depth introduction to Struts 2 along with courses in test-driven development, agile programming techniques, and tool development.

Struts 2.1 is a modern, extensible, agile web application framework designed to streamline the full development cycle right from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time. The book begins with a comprehensive look at Struts 2.1 basics, and later-on delves into more advanced development topics. Users will learn about the Struts 2.1 custom tags, and will be able to configure Struts 2.1 actions and interceptors via both XML and Java annotations.

With the help of the features of Struts 2.1, developers can write and develop their own applications. They will also learn to create their own type converter to handle custom data types. Users will be shown how to automatically generate applications by learning good handling practices, as well as running many types of tests to prove functionality and make changes safely.

Building Websites Using JavaScript and jQuery with New Drupal Book

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book that guides users to integrate JavaScript into themes and modules using the Drupal CMS platform. Written by Content Management expert, Matt Butcher, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery will give users the keys to the toolbox, detailing how to use Drupal’s JavaScript libraries to make modules and themes more dynamic, interactive and responsive.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Through this book users will learn to create powerful AJAX-enabled scripts, striking visual effects, and view-enhancing behaviours using jQuery. This book is written for themers and module developers interested in building richer front ends with Drupal 6 and JavaScript. This book will guide users in incorporating AJAX technologies, developing themes in JavaScript, and using the JavaScript translation system. In addition to incorporating JavaScript into the Drupal modules, users will learn how to design and authorize simple PHPTemplate files in order to maximize scripting potential.

This is a project-based book wherein each chapter begins with an introduction to a new topic and, by combining with short projects, illustrates aspects of Drupal's JavaScript capabilities. Using JavaScript in themes is covered extensively and for more advanced developers, later chapters cover the process of creating a JavaScript-centred module.

This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information please visit http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-javascript-and-jquery/book

Always something new in a mojoPortal release

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mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 was released over the weekend.  The main purpose for the release was to fix a bug in the MS SQL version of the blog that was introduced in version 2.2.8.0.  Yet, one thing I've learned about mojoPortal is that in many of their bug fix releases...they almost always add some new new or enhanced features.  This release is no exception.

New items in mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 that are worth mentioning include:

  • Yahoo User Interface Library - Implemented a YuiGridView, which is an ASP.NET GridView decorated with the YUI DataTable
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  • A Sales Overview report for the WebStore

mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 is available via mojoPortal's download page.

Mitchell Baker: The Open Web and JavaScript 2

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"JavaScript is not something the general consumer works with or even understands. Many may not know of it or understand why it matters. But JavaScript is a fundamental element of the web. It's fundamental in human interaction with the web. Updating JavaScript's capabilities updates the power of the web itself. Updating the web through open standards and through open source like Mozilla moves the web forward in a way that is accessible to all."

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