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This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

• Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform.
• Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal.
• Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7.

What you’ll learn

• What Drupal is and why you should use it
• How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch
• How to create content in your new Drupal web site
• How to manage users on your new Drupal web site
• How to change the look and feel of your new Drupal web site through themes
• How to install and configure modules Download Now »

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A timely and authoritative guide, written by the Chief Architect and Founder of Alfresco. Alfresco is considered the leading open source solution for Web and Content Management. What makes Alfresco unique is its services, which can be easily extended with web scripts via RESTful services. Written by an author team that includes the chief architect and the founder of Alfresco, this comprehensive guide provides in-depth coverage of the Alfresco architecture and services and shows how to extend them through Web scripts to meet real business needs.

You’ll learn how to use Alfresco services to create effective content management solutions while detailed code examples show you how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts using RESTful services to deliver custom solutions.

• Features detailed, working code examples that demonstrate how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts
• Written by the Chief Architect and other key Alfresco insiders, ensuring that this book is both authoritative and up-to-date
• Shows how to integrate Alfresco with Drupal and Joomla portal solutions
• Covers the upcoming Alfresco 3.2 release
• Includes real-world case examples of increasing levels of sophistication and complexity
• The companion Web site contains all source code examples in the book Download Now »

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The furore around virtualization is taking the technology world by storm and is a must for efficient utilization of network server capacity, storage administration, energy, and capital. VirtualBox is free and this brings down your upfront costs for an agile data center. VirtualBox will transform your IT infrastructure into a lean Data Center on a Windows XP/7 or Ubuntu Linux platform. Although VirtualBox has grown by leaps and bounds, there is not enough documentation to guide you through its features and implementation.This hands-on guide gives you a thorough introduction to this award-winning virtualization product. It will help you to implement the right virtual environment for you. Additionally, this book will help you set up an environment that will work for your system. You will learn to architect and deploy your first virtual machine without being overwhelmed by technical details.

This practical book unveils the robust capabilities and easy-to-use graphical interface of VirtualBox to help you to effectively administer and use virtual machines in a home/office environment. You begin by creating your first virtual machine on a Windows/Linux guest operating system and installing guest additions. The book then goes on to discuss the various formats that VirtualBox supports and how it interacts with other formats. The comprehensive instructions will help you to work with all the networking modes offered by VirtualBox. Virtual appliances will be explained in detail–how they help to reduce installation time for virtual machines and run them from VirtualBox. Download Now »

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A thorough introduction that lessens the learning curve to building sites with Drupal 7Drupal 7 is the latest version of the free, open source content management system Drupal. A powerful content management system and framework Drupal has an unfortunate reputation of having a steep learning curve. This guide to Drupal 7 methodically demystifies Drupal and shortening the learning curve.

Author Jacob Redding is deeply embedded in the Drupal community, and walks first-time Drupal developers through the installation and configuration of a Drupal system. In-depth information on key areas of Drupal explore the Drupal hook system, Drupal’s theming layer, and Drupal’s API. You’ll also get sample code, and lessons that guide you through various aspects of Drupal.

• Introduces you to every aspect of Drupal 7
• Demystifies key areas of Drupal and shortens the learning curve for even the most novice beginner
• Features lessons and sample code that offer extra insight into a Drupal web site
• Exploring simple single website installations and more advanced multiple site installations that share users and/or content.
• Addresses how to use Drupal’s theming layer to your advantage.

With this comprehensive and clear book by your side, you will quickly learn to leverage Drupal’s impressive power. Download Now »

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In its short history, jQuery has revolutionized front-end web development, making it faster, easier, and more rewarding to write JavaScript – allowing easier selection and manipulation of HTML elements, and ensuring that scripts work across the ever increasing landscape of browsers and operating systems. jQuery is now the most popular JavaScript library on the web, powering over 27% of the 10,000 most popular sites.

This video walks the viewer through the essential concepts and syntaxes needed start writing simple-yet-powerful JavaScript using jQuery. Nate Haug and Jeff Robbins show many hands-on examples demonstrating how to use jQuery’s simple syntax to choose and manipulate HTML elements, traverse the document object model (DOM), and to attach event handlers which can react to user interaction with the page. They also walk through how to construct an AJAX request to pull in data from external HTML, XML, or JSON sources as well as how to create a simple jQuery plug-in.

Learn how liberating and fun jQuery development can be. Give us 3 hours and we’ll get you excited to create clearer, easier-to-use, and more whiz-bangy websites.

Full chapter listing:

1. Introduction
2. What is jQuery?
3. Introduction to Firebug
4. Overview of jQuery Concepts Download Now »

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The Drupal View modules give you the flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site’s content. Defining custom content types is easy; however, it’s also possible to use various content types in a complementary manner on the same page! Attachment displays in Views (also known as Attachment Views), are a way to customize your web site with multiple displays that interact with each other and turn a nice site into a spectacular one.

This hands-on tutorial will teach Drupal developers across the experience spectrum how to use Attachment displays in Views, to make quick progress in functionality and added-value to users! Views are a common way to display a collection of similar content types on one page. What do you do if you want to display different content types simultaneously? What if you want to allow a user to interactively select which content they want, without using a menu? You can actually have more than one display within a view and views within a view.

This book starts by introducing Attachment Views as reader activities. Here, we create a single Attachment View and take a closer look at giving each page an interactive feel. It also shows you to create a View with an Attachment View. Later, using practical examples, it helps you to develop a 3-view composite display using two and three custom content types. You will also be able to develop a composite display using multiple Attachment Views, to provide a control panel of sorts from which you can view the various content types. Finally, we will put the home page together making use of Views, blocks, a flash slide show, and other pieces. Download Now »