Over 60 useful recipes for rapid application development with the CakePHP frameworkAbout This Book<ul>
<li>Be introduced to the fundamentals of the CakePHP framework with useful tips and tricks</li> <li>Learn best practices and solve the most common problems direct from a CakePHP team member and official trainer</li> <li>Create outstanding applications as efficiently as possible</li> </ul>Who This Book Is ForIf you are a CakePHP developer looking to ease the burden of development, then this book is for you. As a headfirst dive into the framework, this collection of recipes will help you get the most out of CakePHP, and get your applications baked in no time. Even if you're not familiar with the framework, we'll take you from basic CRUD building to useful solutions that will aid in getting the job done quickly and efficiently.What You Will Learn<ul>
<li>Start developing quickly with a lightning-fast introduction to CakePHP</li> <li>Handle HTTP requests and responses, and common tasks such as file uploads and Ajax calls</li> <li>Get up-close and personal with the framework's model layer and events system</li> <li>Discover various routing techniques and a selection of API strategies</li> <li>Fully exploit the command line and CakePHP's shell capabilities</li> <li>Get introduced to the fundamentals of unit testing in the framework</li> <li>See how easily you can maintain and migrate your application's database schema</li> </ul>In DetailCakePHP is the most popular rapid application development framework for PHP. For over 10 years, this open source project has been the go-to solution for quickly and easily building websites and web applications.
Through a series of over 60 recipes, this book takes you from the basic building blocks of the CakePHP framework to the implementation of routine tasks that will help speed up your development even further. From routing to authentication, the model layer and the events system, as well as views and unit testing, you'll learn how to handle the ins and outs of developments using CakePHP. With fast paced recipes written by a core CakePHP member and official trainer, this book is your piece of the cake!

Cakephp 2 Application Cookbook

González, Jorge

Watts, James

Computers & Technology

Packt Pub Ltd

Improve your CiviCRM capabilities with this clever cookbook. Packed with recipes and screenshots, it's the natural way to dig deeper into the software and achieve more for your nonprofit or civic sector organization. Overview <ul>
<li>Take your CiviCRM skills to the next level and handle CiviCRM efficiently</li> <li>Covers a wide range of recipes from organizing data efficiently to developing CiviCRM extensions</li> <li>Pracital, comprehensive, well-explained recipes with the necessary screenshots</li> </ul>
In Detail CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software geared toward meeting the needs of non-profit and other civic-sector organizations. Organizations realize their mission via CiviCRM through contact management, fundraising, event management, member management, mass e-mail marketing, peer-to-peer campaigns, case management, and much more. CiviCRM is localized in over 20 languages including: Chinese (Taiwan, China), Dutch, English (Australia, Canada, U.S., UK), French (France, Canada), German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Swedish. CiviCRM Cookbook will enhance your CiviCRM skills. It has recipes to help you use CiviCRM more efficiently, integrate it with CMSs, and also develop CiviCRM. This book begins with recipes that help save time and effort with CiviCRM. This is followed by recipes for organizing data more efficiently and managing profiles.Then you will learn authentication and authorization and managing communication with contacts.Then you will be guided on using the searching feature and preparing reports. We will then talk about integrating Drupal and CiviCRM. You will also be taught to manage events effectively. Finally, learn about CiviCampaign, Civimember, and developing CiviCRM. What you will learn from this book <ul>
<li>Set up geocoding</li> <li>Add custom data fields</li> <li>Display a contact map</li> <li>Create permissions for administartors</li> <li>Create mail templates for CiviMail</li> <li>Add the external identifier field to full text search</li> <li>Create user accounts from contacts in Drupal</li> <li>Move a site to a production server</li> </ul>
Approach This book is written in cookbook style with practical, comprehensive recipes expained with the aid of the necessary screenshots. Who this book is written for If you have basic CiviCRM skills and want to further enhance your CiviCRM skills, this book is for you.

Civicrm Cookbook

Horrocks, Tony

Web Development & Design

Learn how to quickly and efficiently migrate content into Drupal 7 from a variety of sources including Drupal 6 using automated migration and import processes Overview  Learn how to import content and data into your Drupal 7 site from other websites, content management systems, and databases. Upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and migrate your CCK based content into the Drupal 7 fields based framework. Use modules that will automate the import and migration process including the Feeds and Migrate modules.  In Detail This book will show you how to migrate your content into the Drupal content management system. You'll start by building a content type in Drupal to hold your migrated content. You'll then import your content into Drupal using the Feeds module. In order to be able to easily use them again and again, you will also learn the best methods of maintaining and packaging migration configurations. In "Migrating to Drupal 7" you'll learn how to quickly package your legacy site's data into a format that's easy to import into Drupal. You'll then build a content type to hold migrated data in Drupal. To save time and hassle you will learn how to import content into Drupal using the Feeds module. You'll then get a brief introduction to the Migrate module and its powerful features. With this guide you'll also learn how to upgrade your Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7 in short, simple steps. You'll also learn how to package your configuration code in Drupal using the powerful Features module. In "Migrating to Drupal 7" you'll start by collecting your current site's content and packaging it up into a CSV file so you can easily import it into Drupal. You'll then build a content type to hold your migrated data and content. Mastering migrations using the Feeds module will be the next invaluable tutorial before you get a closer look at the Migrate module's powerful features. You'll then upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and use helper modules to help run the upgrade faster and with less hassle. This book will then take you through the process of migrating CCK-based Drupal 6 fields to Drupal 7 using the Content Migrate module. Using the Features module you will then package up our Feeds importer and content types into code to help you to build an easily maintainable and flexible Drupal website with. What you will learn from this book  Configure your Drupal site to run imports of migrated content using the Feeds module  Run an import of migrated content using Feeds module and a Feed importer  Package your configuration using the Features module   Utilize the Migrate module and its benefits Migrate blog posts from WordPress to Drupal   Upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 Configure the Feeds Tamper module to preprocess your Feeds imports  Run additional imports using the Feeds modules to update and add new data and content to your Drupal site   Approach Written in a friendly and engaging style with practical tutorials and step-by-step examples which show you how to easily migrate your Drupal 6 or WordPress site to Drupal 7. Who this book is written for "Migrating to Drupal 7" is for anyone interested in how to move content from an existing website into the Drupal content management system. Both novice and advanced Drupal users will gain practical hands-on knowledge in how to migrate content into Drupal using this book. You will become experts in using the Feeds module to migrate content, and in packaging your code using Features.

Migrating to Drupal 7

James, Trevor

This book covers the most popular modern JavaScript Unit testing frameworks and gives you a crash course in how to use and automate them. Lots of examples and practical instructions make learning easy and enjoyable. Overview  Learn and understand, using practical examples, synchronous and asynchronous JavaScript unit testing. Cover the most popular JavaScript Unit Testing Frameworks including Jasmine, YUITest, QUnit, and JsTestDriver. Automate and integrate your JavaScript Unit Testing for ease and efficiency.  In Detail The largest challenge for many developers' day to day life is ensuring the support of, and assuring the reach of, their product. With the ever increasing number of mainstream web browsers this is becoming a more difficult task for JavaScript coders. From the beginning, JavaScript Unit Testing will show you how to reduce the time you spend testing, and automate and ensure efficiency in guaranteeing your success. JavaScript Unit Testing will introduce and help you master the art of efficiently performing and automating JavaScript Unit tests for your web applications. Using the most popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks, you will develop, integrate, and automate all the tests you need to ensure the widest reach and success of your web application. Covering the most popular JavaScript Unit testing frameworks of today, JavaScript Unit Testing is your bible to ensuring the functionality and success of all of your JavaScript and Ajax Web Applications. Starting with Jasmine, you will also learn about, and use, YUITest, QUnit, and JsTestDriver, integrate them into your projects, and use them together to generate reports. Learn to automate these tools, make them work for you, and include the power of these tools in your projects from day one. What you will learn from this book  Learn and use the power of Jasmine, YUITest, QUnit, and JsTestDriver. Learn by doing to synchronously and asynchronously test your JavaScript applications. Automate your JavaScript tests using both Build and Integration Management Tools. Generate test reports for your JavaScript tests. Customize JavaScript unit testing frameworks to include rich test expressions.  Approach A practical, example-driven guide to using, automating, and integrating JavaScript Unit tests for the busy and conscientious JavaScript developer striving for excellence and success. Who this book is written for JavaScript Unit Testing is a must have guide for every web developer, designer, architect, and JavaScript coder seeking to ensure the highest quality of their web applications and JS code. Knowledge of JavaScript is assumed.

Javascript Unit Testing

Ahmed, Hazem Ahmed Saleh

Get familiarized with the Arquillian framework and its capabilities to carry out integration and functional testing on a Java virtual machine Overview  Build effective unit tests and integration using Arquillian and JUnit Leverage Arquillian to test all aspects of your application – UI, SOAP and REST based applications Run your tests the easy way using Arquillian in a container  In Detail Integration testing sometimes involves writing complex codes. This book introduces you to the capabilities of Arquillian to enable you to write simple code with a broad range of integration tests for java applications. Arquillian Testing Guide serves as an introductory book to writing simple codes for testing java applications. This book will help you to develop richer test cases which can be run automatically while performing rigorous testing of the software. Arquillian Testing Guide introduces you to Arquillians features and capabilities. This book will help you understand the mechanism of creating deployments and test against those deployments. The book begins with basic JUnit test cases beginning with an enterprise test case, which then go on to discuss remote testing. During the course of the book, you will also learn how to mix container and non-container tests into a single test case. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend JUnit tests to work with Arquillian and deploy them to a container automatically. What you will learn from this book  Develop automated tests using Arquillian and JUnit Create tests using Selenium and then execute them paired with Arquillian Drone Test using Arquillian Graphene to manipulate the DOM of your web applications Learn how to use Arquillian and Spring to automatically wire an application context Learn how to deploy your web services and test them automatically using Arquillian and soapUI  Approach This book is a tutorial filled with plenty of code examples and strategies to give you many options when building your test structure. Who this book is written for This book is for developers and testers alike. Anyone who has worked with test driven development or building automated test cases will find use in this book. A reader should be familiar with some automation strategies and techniques such as JUnit and should have some exposure to techniques such as mocking.

Arquillian Testing Guide: Get Familiarized With the Arquillian Framework and Its Capabilities to Carry Out Integration and Functional Testing on a Java Virtual Machine

Ament, John D.

Computer Science

Your knowledge of HTML and CSS is a door to the world of mobile web apps thanks to this handy guide to Sencha Touch. Through code and screenshots it gives you the practical know-how to use the framework. Overview  Learn to develop web applications that look and feel native on Apple iOS, Google Android, Blackberry 10, and Windows Mobile devices using simple examples Design and control the look of your application using a variety of simple style settings and themes Make your application respond to the user’s touch with events like tap, double tap, swipe, tap and hold, pinch, and rotate  In Detail Sencha Touch is a versatile HTML5-based framework for developing mobile web apps. Sencha Touch 2 has raised the bar for developing rich mobile web applications with HTML5. Using this framework you can develop mobile web apps that look and feel like native apps on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. It is built for enabling world-class user experiences. "Sencha Touch 2 Mobile JavaScript Framework" is a step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to use Sencha Touch to produce attractive, exciting, native-quality, user friendly, easy-to-use mobile applications, that will keep your visitors coming back for more. There is sample code provided and explained with essential screenshots for better and quicker understanding. "Sencha Touch 2 Mobile JavaScript Framework" will provide you with a hands-on approach to learning the language, taking you through the basic concepts and designs, to building a complete application from scratch.  We start with a foundation of JavaScript basics and work our way through the various components and features of Sencha Touch. We will explore how to leverage the Sencha Cmd utility to create applications quickly and cleanly. We will talk about how to get data in and out of your application, how to create new styles and themes, and even how to compile an application for sale on the various app stores. "Sencha Touch 2 Mobile JavaScript Framework" will make you an expert application developer, using clear examples, code, and concepts. What you will learn from this book  Make use of technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3 to provide native-quality application experiences without the need for plugins Create a sample application using Sencha Touch that will run on Apple iOS, Google Android, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone Use the list of components available in the Sencha Touch framework libraries such as tab panels, scrollable list views, and toolbars Add custom touch events such as tap, double tap, swipe, tap and hold, pinch, and rotate Discover the rich event communication that is available in every Sencha Touch component, allowing you to quickly respond to your users and create intuitive, native quality applications Control the look of your application with Sencha Touch themes and styling options Put together simple components quickly, backed by the data package Allow your users to store information with forms, or access remote information from other services like Google maps and Flickr  Approach Full of explained code and enriched with screenshots, this book is the practical way to take your Sencha Touch skills to the next level. Who this book is written for  If you want to gain practical knowledge for using the Sencha Touch mobile web application framework, and you are familiar with HTML and CSS, then this book is for you. It is assumed that you know how to use touchscreens, touch events, and mobile devices such as Apple iOS and Google Android.

Sencha Touch 2 Mobile Javascript Framework

Johnson, Bryan P.

Build modern real-time web applications powered by Socket.IO Overview <ul>
<li>Understand the usage of various socket.io features like rooms, namespaces, and sessions.</li> <li>Secure the socket.io communication.</li> <li>Deploy and scale your socket.io and Node.js applications in production.</li> <li>A practical guide that quickly gets you up and running with socket.io </li> </ul>
In Detail The expectations of users for interactivity withweb applications have changed over the past few years. No more does the user want to press the refresh button to check if new messages have arrived in their inbox; people expect to see updates in their applications in real-time. Mass multiplayer online games have given up the requirement of plugins and are built entirely in JavaScript. Socket.io enables you to build these highly interactive applications that work cross-browser. "Socket.io Real-time Web Application Development" is a guide to building, deploying, and scaling highly interactive real-time web applications using socket.io. This book will guide you through the building of a chat system using Node.js and socket.io, helping you get familiar with various features of the framework. Going further it will empower you to deploy and scale your applications in production. Introducing web application development with Node.js, this book walks you through developing of a full-fledged chat system built with socket.io and introducing all the concepts of socket.io and its usage in the process. It introduces you to the different approaches of bidirectional communication between the browser and the web server and will show you how socket.io abstracts all this for you to provide a single unified and uniform API for messaging and eventing to develop cross-browser applications. It explains how to authenticate your users, segregate the communication to channels, build chat rooms, and handle and scale sessions. It explains the mechanics behind socket.io and it also introduces you to what is involved in deploying the application to production and the intricacies involved in scaling it This book will introduce you to all that is needed in browser-server communication to develop the next generation of interactive applications and games. What you will learn from this book <ul>
<li>Establish a bidirectional connection in the browser to the web server. </li> <li>Develop a chat system using Node.js and socket.io. </li> <li>Various methods of pushing information from the server to the browser. </li> <li>Get familiar with socket.io API for cross-browser bidirectional communication. </li> <li>Understand the socket.io protocol and its mechanics behind the scenes. </li> <li>Get to know Socket.io messaging, events, sessions, authorization, namespaces, and rooms. </li> <li>Cluster and distribute the socket.io sessions using redis session store. </li> </ul>
Approach Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, "Socket.io Real-time Web Application Development" is a practical guide for developing real-time web applications with Node.js and socket.io. Who this book is written for This book is aimed at developers who want to start developing highly interactive and real-time web applications like chat systems or online multiplayer games, or want to introduce real-time updates or server push mechanisms in their existing applications. Knowledge of developing in JavaScript and web applications in general is expected. Though there is a chapter on introducing Node.js, prior knowledge of Node.js will be a plus..

Socket.IO Real-Time Web Application Development

Rai, Rohit

The definitive introduction to the Laravel PHP web development framework. Overview  Create databases and models using Laravel migrations and the powerful Eloquent model Get started with a useful application example that is immediately applicable to real-world applications Learn how to implement powerful relationships with Eloquent  In Detail Laravel is fundamentally changing the PHP web-development landscape. Laravel is bringing the paradigm-shifts that PHP developers have been craving. We now can take control of our application architecture and advance our craft without needing to fight against our tools. Laravel's philosophy is to provide a highly flexible architecture and an extremely expressive API while emphasizing PHP’s strengths and abstracting out its weaknesses. For these reasons Laravel is ideal for quickly creating high performance, robust applications. By providing developers with tools for automating tasks including database schema modification, CRUD operations, and testing we're able to reduce our workload, application complexity, and human-error. "Laravel Starter" is the ideal introduction to this game-changing framework. Learn best-practiced approaches to web-application development with Laravel from a seasoned professional. It starts out by installing and configuring the framework step-by-step. Then you'll use Laravel best-practices to create a private user administration system that is ready for real-world use. The later part deals with digging deep into Eloquent relationships, exploring the different relationship types and how Eloquent is working under-the-hood to simplify your life without forcing you to relinquish control. Exploring Laravel's simple yet flexible authentication system, data validation, and filters allows you to easily run code before and after your controller actions. Finally, it discusses Laravel bundles, the most flexible PHP modular code implementation in its weightclass. Focused on the how as much as the why, Laravel Starter gives you the tools to immediately begin creating professional web-applications with Laravel. What you will learn from this book  How to install and configure Laravel Creating and using Eloquent models How to understand and utilize Eloquent relationships Routing to controllers and closures Using Laravel's authentication system Utilizing filters to secure your site's private areas Learn how to use bundles to add functionality to your site Use Laravel's validator class to validate your forms or anything else Use form and HTML helpers to abstract and ease working with some HTML elements  Approach This book is a practical, task-based, step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates topics ranging from MVC code-separation, to code-modularity, to utilizing ActiveRecord for data abstraction which are explained from the ground-up to provide a strong framework of understanding for creating professional web-applications with Laravel.  Who this book is written for This book is ideal for programmers familiar with PHP who are interested in learning the Laravel way of solving the common problems faced in their day to day work.

Laravel Starter

McCool, Shawn

Networking & Cloud Computing

For Java EE developers, this is your one-stop fount of knowledge for developing with Eclipse. With an end-to-end sample application in each chapter, the guide includes clear explanations accompanied by lots of screenshots for easy learning. Overview  Each chapter includes an end-to-end sample application. Develop applications with some of the commonly used technologies using the project facets in Eclipse 3.7. Clear explanations enriched with the necessary screenshots.  In Detail Java EE is the industry standard on enterprise computing and Oracle WebLogic Server is the most comprehensive platform for enterprise applications. The book combines Java EE with WebLogic Server in the most commonly used Java IDE, the Eclipse IDE 3.7. "Java EE Development with Eclipse" is the only book on Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. The book is a practical guide for using the most commonly used Java EE technologies and frameworks in Eclipse IDE. Sample applications are available in downloadable format and may be customized to meet requirements. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c, an enhancement to Eclipse IDE, providing additional project facets and an integrated support for Oracle WebLogic Server is used. "Java EE Development with Eclipse" is based on developing applications with some of the commonly used technologies using the project facets in Eclipse 3.7 and its enhancement Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c. The book starts with a discussion on EJB 3.0 database persistence with Oracle database XE and Oracle WebLogic Server. JAXB is discussed in the context of bi-directional mapping between XML and Java. A generic web project is developed for PDF and Excel spread sheet reports. JavaServer Faces, the most commonly used view component in web applications is discussed for developing a data table. Facelets, which was integrated into JSF with 2.0 version is discussed in the context of templating. ADF Faces components are used to develop another user interface (UI) application. Web services are discussed with JAX-WS and JAX-RS technologies. Java EE frameworks Ajax and Spring are also discussed. What you will learn from this book  Develop PDF and Excel spread sheet reports in a web application. Map an XML Schema to Java classes and Java objects back to XML Schema or an XML document. Create a JSF Data table to display database data. Use common header and footer images such as logos in JSF pages. Develop asynchronous web pages. Develop RESTful web services. Develop a web service with the JAX-WS standard. Develop a Spring framework application.  Approach This book is step-by-step tutorial guide and a background reference for developing applications with Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle database, the most used application server and database for enterprise applications. Who this book is written for This book is for professional Java EE developers. The book is also suitable for an intermediate/advanced course in Java development with Eclipse IDE. Some knowledge of the Java EE technologies and frameworks EJB, JSF, JAXB, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Ajax, and Spring is required.

Java Ee Development With Eclipse

Vohra, Deepak

Programming Languages

Efficiently work with data, web templates, and custom HTML tags using KnockoutJS About This Book<ul>
<li>Simplify page logic with automated calculations and control the visibility of your CSS elements with the help of robust yet friendly templates</li>
<li>Create your own custom HTML tags that provide dynamic interactive logic using meaningful markup naming conventions and structures</li>
<li>Use best practices to work with simple as well as complex data that interacts with your view components</li>
</ul>Who This Book Is ForThis book is for web developers and designers who work with HTML and JavaScript to help them manage data and interactivity with data using KnockoutJS. Knowledge about jQuery will be useful but is not necessary.What You Will Learn<ul>
<li>Understand the MVVM design is and how it can be made approachable</li> <li>Simplify the usability of simple and detailed data collections</li> <li>Work with web form fields including simpler ways to manage nested data collections</li> <li>Manage your nested data collections efficiently, with web form fields</li> <li>Use the alternative mapping style of coding with KnockoutJS mapping</li> <li>Learn the joy of browser-side templates to render KnockoutJS friendly code</li> <li>Create your own custom HTML tags that provide dynamic interactive logic using meaningful markup naming conventions and structures</li> <li>Simplify page logic with automated calculations and control the visibility of your CSS elements with the help of robust yet friendly templates</li> </ul>In DetailKnockout is a jQuery-friendly library that helps you to create rich, responsive displays and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model.
Starting with the installation and configuration of KnockoutJS, this book will describe the ins and outs of working with forms using arrays, nesting, and grids.
You will learn about event binding and context binding properties using JSON and AJAX. You will then explore the features of KnockoutJS like mapping and how to go about it using controller options. You will also learn how to use this feature for mapping multiple objects and managing them. This book provides an in-depth explanation of native templates, enhanced collection handling, and render event handling using third-party template engines.
By the end of the book, you will have knowledge of all the different functionalities KnockoutJS has to offer.

Knockoutjs Web Development

FARRAR, JOHN

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