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A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book]
Future review of Joomla!® 1.5 Development Cookbook and Build and Manage Applications with Maven, Continuum, and Archiva
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Packt publishing has offered me to make a review of two of their new books (Thanks to them). I should receive free samples for review beginning of next week. Since it is two of my favorite subjects (Maven and Joomla!® ), I think it may also interest you. A review will follow in some days.
Build and Manage Applications with Maven, Continuum, and Archiva
- Install Apache Maven and follow the sample application to build up your project as quickly as possible
- Test your applications to ensure maximum stability using Maven's inbuilt tools
- Use Maven's report and checking tools to ensure the health of your projects
- Explore Apache Continuum which will help you to ensure the health of your source code
- Improve your team builds with the powerful combination of Maven, Archiva and Continuum
- Install and run the repository manager Apache Archiva
Joomla!® 1.5 Development Cookbook
- Make your extensions extensible, add extensions points to allow third parties to customize your extension
- Create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities
- Build more than just HTML pages - create PDF documents, Atom Feeds, and more!
- Improve the user experience by adding Ajax
- Create Atom and RSS feeds to keep users up-to-date
- Utilize the power of Subversion to maintain your source code
- Execute database queries and handle returned data in order to access and modify your data
- Dynamically extend your database tables using JParameter to make your extensions more flexible
- Keep your gremlins at bay by handling errors the Joomla! way
- Work with the file system, interrogate existing files and folders and store data in the file system
- Take control of your workflows by using www.JoomlaCode.org to manage your Joomla! projects
Contest – I offer a book PacktPub “Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook”
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- Published on Saturday, 01 October 2011 08:57
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It starts today. The winner will be announced on October 31, 2010, before Midnight GMT+1.
Win a book PacktPub “Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook book”
Solve real world Joomla! 1.5 development problems with over 130 simple but incredibly useful recipes.
http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-15-development-cookbook/book
Here are the basics but PLEASE read all the rules.
- You must be 18 years or older to enter
- You must be following me http://www.twitter.com/cedricwalter
- You must send out the following tweet EXACTLY as it appears – failure to do so will disqualify you – do NOT put @ sign in front of cedricwalter anywhere in the Tweet
- The prize will be awarded on October 31, 2011
- I will ship the book anywhere in the world free of charge but if you live outside Europe you are responsible for any taxes, custom duties in the event you win.
Here’s the tweet you should send…
Win a book Packt Publishing “Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook book” from Cédric Walter. Pls RT. Info at: http://bit.ly/oqIgFa
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Apache Maven 3 Cookbook
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- Category: Apache Maven
- Published on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 21:04
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First a big thanks to Packt Publishing for having sent me this book to review! I did enjoy going through this book, while I did not learn a lot of new stuff (I am using Apache Maven daily since 2006!), I found it to be concise and would recommend it anytime to any of my colleagues. But let’s go through my review of this cookbook of over 50 recipes towards optimal Java Software Engineering with Maven 3:
Apache Maven 3 Cookbook is a clear, precise, well-written book that gives readers clear recipes for the release process using Apache Maven 3. The authors give a step-by-step account of expectations and hurdles for software development.
The first few chapters quickly bring you to the point to be comfortable using Maven on straightforward projects, and the later chapters provide even more recipes examples on subjects like running a Repository Manager, Writing Plugins, and details on various techniques. The book also covers numerous real world software delivery issues such as multi-module projects, web/enterprise projects, dependency management, automatic testing and documentation.
To sum up key points from this 224 pages book in a few bullets:
The author Srirangan go into detail in describing each of these themes.
I recommend you this book if
if you want to be able to deliver your software to any target environment, using continuous delivery processes, chances are high that Apache Maven is the right tool for this job, and this book should be part of your technical library, beside also of course the free online book of Sonatype Maven: The Complete Reference
Apache Maven 3 Cookbook Review
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- Category: Apache Maven
- Published on Saturday, 01 October 2011 09:08
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Thanks to Packt Publishing for having sent me this book to review. I will publish a review in the next coming days
- Grasp the fundamentals and extend Apache Maven 3 to meet your needs
- Implement engineering practices in your application development process with Apache Maven
- Collaboration techniques for Agile teams with Apache Maven
- Use Apache Maven with Java, Enterprise Frameworks, and various other cutting-edge technologies
- Develop for Google Web Toolkit, Google App Engine, and Android Platforms using Apache Maven
You may also consider reading all my articles related to Apache Maven
Joomla! 1.5 site blueprint review
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- Category: Joomla 1.5
- Published on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:11
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A warm thanks to PACKT publishing for having sent me this book free of charge for review!
The author of the book recounts the examples of how to quickly create a variety of web projects using CMS Joomla!. From the book you will learn how to edit menu, set extensions, work with the extensions, setting up the comments and maps from Google Map’s and much more.
I will offer this book randomly to one of my twitter follower!!!! more details in next post.
It present how to build 10 different sites with more or less complexity. Something that will greatly help the beginner that is starting without any prior knowledge.
In fact the eleven chapters are covering
- Installation and configuration
- Business page
- Club page
- On-line magazine
- Events web page
- Social networking
- Shop
- Directory
- Gallery
- Google maps
- RSS web page
This book is clearly targeted at beginner, programmer of the CMS wont learn anything new, Except mainly to know a solid book to offer as a start to your relatives (In fact I will surely win a lot of time, as it covered all the basics, a lot of areas that take time to explain over and over to my friends).
Picture and illustrations are of a good size, and all steps are well documented. It will certainly be of a great help to many people that are wanting to build their first site using Joomla!
Buy online at PacktPub.com
Language : English
Paperback : 270 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : May 2010
ISBN : 1849511705
ISBN 13 : 978-1-849511-70-4
Author(s) : Timi Ogunjobi
Joomla! 1.5 Site Blueprints received
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:56
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A warm thanks to PACKT publishing for having sent me this book free of charge for review!
Note:
I will offer this book after the review randomly to one of my twitter follower!!!! more details soon.
Here is a link to Packt online shop
What you will learn from this book :
You will see how to build the following site projects:
- A company website
- A fan site for users wishing to share their interests by blogging – built around the Blog module
- An events site for listing events from multiple users – built around the Events module
- A Community Portal for social networking
- A newspaper site for publishing an online newspaper or magazine
- An e-commerce website with Ubercart
- A directory site for listings in several categories
- A photo sharing site for publishing and organizing images from multiple users
- A Googlemap site to create complex Googlemap mashups
- A news aggregating site for publishing news feeds from several sources
Language : English
Paperback : 270 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : May 2010
ISBN : 1849511705
ISBN 13 : 978-1-849511-70-4
Author(s) : Timi Ogunjobi
Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook
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- Category: Joomla 1.5
- Published on Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:45
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James Kennard experience with Joomla! 1.5 development enables him to share his insights effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to problems, questions, and common tasks encountered in the design and implementation of Joomla! 1.5 extensions.
Kennard's cookbook is an excellent resource for novices and experts alike. I did start reading it and really appreciate the way the information are presented. While I develop for Joomla! since many years, I was surprised by the number of things that I was not using in all my projects. It is not for beginners, but those who have worked a little with Joomla! will learn a lot on its internals. Beginer
This book has helped me be a better developer, let me explain how:
- Examples are easy to understand, and really found in 80% of components, plugins and modules.
- I did discover a lot of existing API code, that did reduce my overall coding effort and code size by 30%
- I did add quickly new functionalities like RSS frontend, better paging presentation of data in no time. In fact, a lot faster than without having been not helped by this book.
- Starting at chapter 3, the book contains some tips about how to deals with the Requests and Users and how to keep Joomla secure through those practices.
My only regret, is how fast I went to this interesting book, even if it weight 360 pages, It was such a pleasure that I wish the book was even bigger! You can expect some direct results soon in my next components releases.
Book Content
360 pages that cover the following topics:
- Make your extensions extensible, add extensions points to allow third parties to customize your extension
- Create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities, solving some UTF8 pitfalls.
- Improve the user experience by adding Ajax
- Work with the file system, interrogate existing files and folders and store data in the file system
- Create Atom and RSS feeds to keep users up-to-date
- Build more than just HTML pages - create PDF documents, Atom Feeds, and more!
- Utilize the power of Subversion to maintain your source code
- Dynamically extend your database tables using JParameter to make your extensions more flexible
- Execute database queries and handle returned data in order to access and modify your data
- Handling errors
- Take control of your workflows by using JoomlaCode.org to manage your Joomla! projects
Nota
This book is published and sold by Packt Publishing. A donation is made to the Joomla! project with every copy sold as per the Packt Publishing Open Source Project Royalties scheme.
Where to buy
Download the Free Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner's Guide – 250 pages
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- Published on Monday, 13 February 2012 12:06
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Dear Joomla! Community - Thank you very much for all your feedback, your comments, emails, tweets, Facebook likes, Google+'s and the good karma.
The Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7 books were downloaded more than 100,000 times for free in the last 9 months!
You can download now the updated version of the Joomla! Beginner's Guide covering the new shiny Joomla! 2.5 version. Yes, it is shiny and I like it very much ...
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner's Guide - 250 pages
