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Jan 1, 2012 | No Comments
Working with a team of developers is a much different environment than solo development. Experienced developers understand the tools and tricks that go into team development enterprises, and they implement them on a daily basis. The PHP Playbook covers these tools and practices, providing insight into the process of developing PHP applications, teaching developers the skills they need to be successful in a team environment. Download ebook: The PHP Playbook If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Dec 26, 2011 | No Comments
Take your PHP programming skills deep into Windows—and build PHP applications that run efficiently and effectively on an array of Windows technologies. Packed with hands-on exercises, this in-depth guide shows you how to use PHP to interact with Internet Information Services 7.5 (IIS), Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Active Directory®. You’ll quickly learn how to apply best practices for running PHP applications in a Windows environment. Download ebook: Integrating PHP with Windows If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Dec 9, 2011 | No Comments
Take static pages and turn them into a dynamic website! Perhaps you know how to create a static website using HTML/CSS, but now you want to learn how to create dynamic, data-driven websites. If you’re new to PHP and MySQL, this book-and-DVD package is an ideal introduction to working with website pages that contain a mixture of HTML and PHP/MySQL. Author Andrea Tarr starts with what you know—an HTML/CSS website—and step by step she teaches you how to replace and enhance the site using PHP to create and manipulate your HTML pages and MySQL to bring in your data. You learn how to design, create, and use databases with MySQL, both within PHP programs and using the popular phpMyAdmin program. Explaining the programming principles as you go along, this book-and-DVD combination provides you with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of PHP and the basics of object-oriented programming. PHP and MySQL 24-Hour Trainer : Escorts you through preparing your computer to run PHP and MySQL by downloading and installing free software Explains what variables are, how to work with them, and how to debug your programs Zeros in on how databases work and how to design them Shares tips for working with MySQL in a PHP program Details ways to create tables, enter data, select data, change data, and delete data The 24-Hour Trainer is a unique book-and-DVD package that delivers step-by-step lessons for handling real-world scenarios. Each lesson in the book is accompanied by an instructional video that reinforces the content while providing additional explanations and tips. On the DVD Don’t just learn—do! The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD. You’ll learn to: Manipulate your website using PHP Use object-oriented programming Handle errors and write secure code Design a database Integrate MySQL with PHP Process HTML forms Create user logins, a mini content management system, and a data-driven menu Download ebook: PHP and MySQL 24-Hour Trainer If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Nov 26, 2011 | No Comments
WordPress is an increasingly popular open-source content management system that exists in either a self-hosted or hosted version and allows you to build and maintain a feature-rich website. This unique book-and-video package serves as a friendly, self-paced learning experience on the capabilities and newest features of the self-hosted version of WordPress (though much of it also applies to the hosted version). Veteran author George Plumley teaches you how to customize and extend WordPress in a number of ways in order to make it do exactly what you need. The valuable lessons featured in the book focus on everyday tasks and are supplemented on the instructional video to enhance your learning experience. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer , Second Edition: Demonstrates how to enter new content, create new pages, and make content search-engine friendly Details techniques for breaking up large amounts of text, writing a post, and creating a sub page Explores plugins that help you connect your site to social media, make your site mobile friendly, and more Addresses creating and managing menus and displaying links Explains how to find files in the media library Walks you through running multiple websites from a single installation Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. On the DVD Don’t just learn—do! The lessons within the book are accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD. You’ll learn to: Plan what you need to do before starting your site Install WordPress Enter your content and publish it Upload images, video, documents, and more Navigate through various types of content Deal with links, comments, RSS feeds, social networks, and multiple users Work with themes Optimize your site Make sure your software is up to date Add functionality with plugins Download ebook: WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Nov 22, 2011 | No Comments
Master the blog platform of choice around the world Whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro, this detailed guide will help you get the very most out of the new version of the hottest blogging platform on the planet. A complete step-by-step reference, this book covers WordPress 3.1 from the basics through advanced application development. Learn how to use custom plugins and themes, build navigation menus on the fly with no coding, leverage the WordPress multisite API, and much more. Explore various Web servers and all modules, then install and configure the software Enhance your blog’s findability with SEO, keywords, and meta tags Create events with actions, apply hooks, and expand functionality with plugins Leverage Twitter widgets, the Facebook Like button, or other social media devices to extend your blog’s reach Integrate navigation menus with custom dynamic themes Set up WordPress as a Content Management System Build your own self-contained social network with BuddyPress Download ebook: WordPress Bible, 2nd Edition If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Oct 25, 2011 | No Comments
How disappointing is it to log on to a website for a product or business you love only to discover the feature you were drawn to doesn’t work on your mobile or tablet? Drupal has brand new features to adapt your existing site into a mobile site that will keep your customers coming back. The Drupal Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide follows a humble ‘Mom & Pop’ restaurant website which gets a makeover complete with cutting edge features that play to mobile, tablet and desktop audiences. By following the fun example, you will finish the book having effortlessly adapted your website so that it is accessible and, more importantly, looks good and functions well, on any mobile device. Restaurant websites are notoriously horrible to navigate and our Mom & Pop example is wellintentioned but no exception to this rule. We bring this site out of the early 1990’s with cutting edge development practices and a team development workflow. This pizza chain goes mobile with location services, audio, video, charting and mapping worthy of any multi-million dollar site. Each chapter examines the way the site works and shows you how to move the existing content and functionality into reusable features. What you will learn from this book Set up Domain Access and Drupal Behaviors that redirect mobile and desktop browsers to the version of the website most appropriate for your client Share content across sites without resorting to a multi-site install Use context and image styles to create a customized view for the home page Create a mobile-friendly menu Bundle several exercises up into a feature that can push new content to your live site in one fell swoop Create a compelling audio and video experience without using Flash Customize a theme that will present your site to mobile and desktop clients alike with a unified marketing message Approach Follow the fun example of a family pizza restaurant to help you adapt your own website to one that is fullyfunctional in a mobile environment. Each chapter covers a different aspect of mobile web development with plenty of step-by-step instructions and screenshots to make things clearer. Download ebook: Drupal 7 Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Oct 19, 2011 | No Comments
Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook offers a practical guide to the inner workings and hidden options of many of the Zend Framework components. For each component that is covered the book provides usage and implementation information, as well as detailed code examples. You will learn how these important components fit into the software development process using the MVC design pattern implementation of Zend Framework and how you can leverage them to quickly solve your own design problems most efficiently. This book is an important contribution to both beginning and practicing Zend Framework users! It is actually two books in one. First it is a catalog of the most important Zend Framework components offering an in-depth view on how to use them. Secondly it describes how these important components fit into correct application design. With Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook you discover a complete new Model-View-Controller implementation, autoloading and plugin broker system, namespaces, exception handling, backward compatibility breaks, and so on. Explore and master the service layer. Learn new ways to debug and unit test your application. Finally understand and master the decorating system used by the framework to display forms and enhance them with AJAX. Understand the framework faster with the Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook. If you are new to Zend Framework, you’ll leap quickly into the framework and enjoy the practical code samples and explanations. If you’re an experienced Zend Framework developer, you already recognize its convenience and you can use this book to migrate to the new version and discover all of its extraordinary power!. A comprehensive cookbook to get things done quickly and efficiently in Zend Framework 2.0 What you will learn from this book Set up a Zend Framework application and start using it right away Use the View and the Controller to build clean, powerful applications Understand the domain model and make it available through a service layer Optimize your application with plugins and resources, and apply caching the right way Map your business objects such as collections and entities with your persistence layer Enhance the usability of your application with JavaScript and AJAX Create multilingual applications the easy way after having learned localization and internationalization Master Zend Form Decorators to create form markup the way you want Log errors, debug your application, and avoid breaks with functional and integration testing Discover powerful features such as namespaces and SPL Exception handling in Zend Framework 2.0 Approach This is a cookbook, with practical recipes providing tips and tricks for the most common problems and scenarios faced with Zend Framework 2.0. Packed with code snippets and screenshots, this book focuses on learning by doing, with everything explained in an easy-to-understand manner Download ebook: Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Oct 17, 2011 | No Comments
Today’s web applications require frequent updates, not just by adding or upgrading features, but by maintaining and improving the software’s existing code base as well. This concise book shows PHP developers how to use Jenkins, the popular continuous integration server, to monitor various aspects of software quality throughout a project’s lifecycle. You’ll learn how to implement continuous integration to automate processes for building and deploying regular software releases. The book also shows you how to use Jenkins to monitor and improve your application through continuous inspection. You’ll come to understand why reducing complexity and eliminating duplicate code is just as important as introducing new functionality. Learn how to use Apache Ant to automate your software builds Create a job for your PHP project in Jenkins and set up a continuous integration environment Add static code analysis tools to your build for continuous inspection Use specialized PHP and Jenkins tools to simplify the automated build and continuous integration of your project Explore additional processes and techniques, such as adding automated integration tests Download ebook: Integrating PHP Projects with Jenkins If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Sep 16, 2011 | No Comments
This book is written in a cookbook style. This means that you will find its contents divided into recipes, which can be used separately. Throughout the book you will follow detailed examples from start to finish. From a photoshop PSD to a Magento theme, you will do everything step by step, with easy to follow instructions. You already have a Magento theme which you need to modify? Just go to the recipe you need. If you are a designer or programmer who wants to create excellent Magento themes, quickly and easily, this book is for you. No special knowledge of Magento or PHP is required, though some html and CSS experience will be helpful. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Sep 9, 2011 | No Comments
Modern web development relies heavily on the ability to rapidly create applications that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable. The PHP-based Kohana framework has proven to be one of the best platforms for delivering professional quality applications using a stable framework that allows you to build great web properties while leveraging a rapid development architecture that is both powerful and intuitive. Kohana 3 Beginner’s Guide is the first and only book in the market for learning about this popular and powerful open-source PHP framework. Written with the beginner in mind, this book walks you through installation and configuration, then uses a case study site to deliver real world solutions to common web development needs. Beginning with the installation and configuration of the framework, you are guided through the steps necessary to get up and running, and are quickly introduced to the basics of Kohana. Using a case study site as an example, the book illustrates core components of Kohana while showing elegant solutions to real world tasks developers face every day. From working with forms to databases, interacting with users to deploying applications in the wild, everything is covered in simple, easy to understand examples. By the end of this book you will have mastered the core tasks needed to build great web applications using A step-by-step guide to creating professional web applications using the Kohana framework. What you will learn from this book Understand the HMVC architecture Learn Routing and Requesting handling in Kohana Create modules for extending your applications Interact with the Database and ORM classes to provide an object- oriented way of manipulating data Create helper classes to make your code fast to write and easy to use. Troubleshoot and debug your Kohana application Implement security and deployment best practices Migrate from Kohana 2.x or CodeIgniter Approach This book follows the Beginner’s Guide approach, taking the reader from introduction to the framework through a working case study site. The text offers many examples of working code, and builds an entire test project during the course of the book. Although the chapters lend themselves to consecutive reading, you can pick up the book at any chapter without missing a beat. Who this book is written for If you are a web developer who wants to create web applications using the Kohana 3 framework, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you have some experience with PHP and Object- Oriented Programming (OOP). Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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