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Magento is the fastest growing PHP-based ecommerce solution. It is a professional, polished application that can be extended or customized with PHP code. Magento theming is a very interesting topic but it can be difficult to get the hang of.

Magento 1.4 Theming Cookbook is like a toolbox for building Magento themes. Thanks to its cookbook approach, the recipes found in this book can be applied in almost any Magento theme.

This book will help you to create a Magento theme using recipes in a step-by-step approach. Although you can dive into any individual recipe, the cookbook is organized in a way that will help beginners learn Magento theming by doing. More advanced users can refer to just the recipes that will be useful to them. You will learn how to add sliders, Cufon font replacements, social media, lightbox, and much more!

What you will learn from this book :

• Explore Magento theming, layouts, templates, inheritance, and all you need to work with Magento theming.
• Search, download, install, and modify existing themes, so you can start working with your Magento installation at once.
• Create your own theme from the ground up; add breadcrumbs, toplinks, a mini cart, a main menu, and all the items necessary to make a Magento theme.
• Use Cufon in your theme, create sliders, modify the lightbox, and add social media sharing icons. Download Now »

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“Aspeli’s years of experience in Plone development and project management are combined with an approachable writing style to create an engaging and highly-informative guide to working with Plone. Professional Plone 4 Development stands as an excellent resource for developers of all levels.“- –Eric Steele, Plone Release Manager

Plone is a web content management system that features among the top 2% of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customising and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.

If you want to create your own web applications and advanced websites using Plone 4, Professional Plone 4 Development is the book you need.

The first edition of this book remains one of the most widely read and recommended Plone books. This second edition is completely revised and up-to-date for Plone 4.1, covering new topics such as Dexterity, Diazo, jQuery and z3c.form, as well as improved ways of working with existing technologies such as Buildout, SQLAlchemy and the Pluggable Authentication Service. It retains the writing style and comprehensive approach that made the first edition so popular. Download Now »

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If your organization is looking for a storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book will show you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs. As the open source implementation of Google’s BigTable architecture, HBase scales to billions of rows and millions of columns, while ensuring that write and read performance remain constant. HBase: The Definitive Guide provides the details you require, whether you simply want to evaluate this high-performance, non-relational database, or put it into practice right away.

HBase’s adoption rate is beginning to climb, and several IT executives are asking pointed questions about this high-capacity database. This is the only book available to give you meaningful answers.

• Learn how to distribute large datasets across an inexpensive cluster of commodity servers
• Develop HBase clients in many programming languages, including Java, Python, and Ruby
• Get details on HBase’s primary storage system, HDFS—Hadoop’s distributed and replicated filesystem
• Learn how HBase’s native interface to Hadoop’s MapReduce framework enables easy development and execution of batch jobs that can scan entire tables
• Discover the integration between HBase and other facets of the Apache Hadoop project

About the Author
Lars George has been involved with HBase since 2007, and became a full HBase committer in 2009. He has spoken at various Hadoop User Group meetings, as well as large conferences such as FOSDEM in Brussels. He also started the Munich OpenHUG meetings. Download Now »

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Moodle is the leading Open Source e learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers and professors can easily construct richly textured web-based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons, with each lesson including reading materials; activities such as quizzes, tests, surveys, and projects; and social elements that encourage interaction and group work between students.

Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development shows you how to use Moodle as a tool to enhance your teaching. It will help you analyse your students’ requirements, and come to an understanding of what Moodle can do for them. After that you’ll see how to use every feature of Moodle to meet your course goals. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively onto the content-established learning situation. This book and eBook guides you through meeting that challenge.

The latest edition of the ultimate introduction to Moodle will show you how to add static learning material, interactive activities, and social features to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e learning courses, this book will prove a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle.

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices. Download Now »

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A complete lifecycle guide to planning and building a site with DrupalDrupal allows you to quickly and easily build a wide variety of web sites, from very simple blog sites to extremely complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for you, you need to plan. Whether you are building with Drupal 6 or 7, this book details the steps necessary to plan your site so you can make informed decisions before you start to build.

• Explains how to define the scope of your project
• Shows you how to create a design plan taking into consideration how Drupal works
• Helps you make informed decisions regarding development methodologies, environments, standards, and site security
• Reviews ways to assess the use of existing and/or custom Drupal modules
• Teaches you how to avoid common pitfalls that can impact a successful site launch
• Walks you through preparing for post-launch site maintenance and management tasks
• Details incorporating the nature of open source systems into your management strategies
• Identifies ways to interact with members of the Drupal community

The processes and techniques provided in this book will empower you to create a successful and sustainable site with Drupal.

From the Back Cover
Plan and execute each phase of your Drupal website

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Collecting data is relatively easy, but turning raw information into something useful requires that you know how to extract precisely what you need. With this insightful book, intermediate to experienced programmers interested in data analysis will learn techniques for working with data in a business environment. You’ll learn how to look at data to discover what it contains, how to capture those ideas in conceptual models, and then feed your understanding back into the organization through business plans, metrics dashboards, and other applications.

Along the way, you’ll experiment with concepts through hands-on workshops at the end of each chapter. Above all, you’ll learn how to think about the results you want to achieve — rather than rely on tools to think for you.

• Use graphics to describe data with one, two, or dozens of variables
• Develop conceptual models using back-of-the-envelope calculations, as well as scaling and probability arguments
• Mine data with computationally intensive methods such as simulation and clustering
• Make your conclusions understandable through reports, dashboards, and other metrics programs
• Understand financial calculations, including the time-value of money
• Use dimensionality reduction techniques or predictive analytics to conquer challenging data analysis situations
• Become familiar with different open source programming environments for data analysis Download Now »