Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811140
Paperback: 388 pages
Data: October 15, 2005
Format: PDF

Building Online Stores with osCommerce: Professional Edition will teach you how to use build and maintain a complex, powerful e-commerce Website using osCommerce. As well as everything you need to get started with osCommerce, this book goes onto cover how to: Increase your sales through cross-selling and up-selling Offer custom discounts and support the use of gift certificates Incorporate your own RSS feed to enhance the content of the site Use and control banners to market popular or profitable products within your store Customize the osCommerce code to make your site more robust, eliminate bugs, and increase flexibility and customer appeal Understand the security technologies involved in e-commerce and develop your own security and backup strategies Build your business by utilizing various advertising techniques, search engine optimization, affiliate and drop-shipping schemes Learn the principles and methods used by professional programmers to empower you to continue creating and building your online business These techniques will enable you to build a unique and powerful site, giving you an ideal platform to enter the competitive world of e-commerce. Through this complete, comprehensive education in osCommerce you will develop the confidence to experiment with your own enhancements and modifications, leaving you with a truly unique online store. Practical demonstrations and well considered advice will ensure that your store will always be developed to the highest standards.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1847191002
Paperback: 248 pages
Data: February 15, 2007
Format: PDF

This book is for Java developers who want to create Ajax interfaces using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It focuses on useful, practical tasks from the first chapter. The book is aimed at programmers who want to use GWT to create interfaces for their professional web applications. It concentrates on the serious side of Ajax: creating powerful, productive applications for browser platforms. GWT Ajax Programming shows you how to create reliable user interfaces that enhance the user experience.

GWT is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile. GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811159
Paperback: 176 pages
Data: September 30, 2005
Format: PDF

An easy introduction to using and configuring Asterisk to build feature-rich telephony systems for small and medium businesses. This book shows how to build a telephony system for your home or business using the free and open source application, Asterisk. ‘Building a Telephony System with Asterisk’ takes you step-by-step through the process of installing and configuring Asterisk. It shows you how to make a deployment plan, and how to create a dial plan. The book also presents example configurations for using Asterisk in three different scenarios: for small and home offices, small businesses, and Hosted PBX. With an engaging style and excellent way of presenting information, this book makes a complicated subject very easy to understand. This book is suitable for the novice and those new to Asterisk and telephony. Telephony or Linux experience will be helpful, but not required.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811299
Paperback: 256 pages
Data: April 10, 2006
Format: PDF

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices. This unique book gives you more than just a guide to the Moodle software; it uses Moodle as a route to better teaching, more motivated students, and more successful courses. Moodle 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. The social constructionist learning philosophy is at the heart of Moodle: we all “construct” knowledge through interation with one another and with learning materials in a social way. Moodle E-Learning Course Develelopment 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 learning courses, this book will prove a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811132
Paperback: 360 pages
Data: May 30, 2005
Format: PDF

This book gives your the power to use phpBB to set and run your own online discussion forums with ease. It takes you through the whole process of setting up your phpBB site, and helps your create, customise, and manage your own online community with phpBB.
Written by experienced phpBB adminstrators and enthusiasts, then emphasis is on simple and practical guidance. It is packed with step-by-step examples, and is ideal as both a introductory tutorial and a task based reference.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811507
Paperback: 296 pages
Data: August 20, 2006
Format: PDF

If you are running a web host or web space reseller then the chances are you’ll be using WebHost Manager. This book shows you how to get the most from the software, for both you and your customers. It provides solutions to common WHM problems and pitfalls, leading to better customer service provided at lower cost. You will learn how to set up WHM securely, offer a variety of account styles. You will see how to use WHM to elegantly manage multiple domains, SSL certificates, and various databases and server-side technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Perl, and Apache. WebHost Manager is a package used by web hosts to manage their servers and the individual user accounts they hold. It is part of the same package as cPanel, so the host uses WebHost Manager while the client uses cPanel. WebHost Manager is at the core of many web hosts’ business. Using web host manager, you can keep track of the accounts on your server, monitor their bandwidth and disk space usage, and much more. The book shows you how to: - Set up a fast, secure, and effective server with WHM - Work with Apache, PHP, Perl and Databases - Manage standard and reseller accounts and use third-party programs that assist in this process - Keep an eye on what is happening on your server by using tools that WHM provides and some third-party tools - Deal with reseller and non-reseller accounts - Manage DNS, IP and SSL issues using WHM - Manage security on an on-going basis by learning what to look for - Learn how to add useful features to WHM and cPanel - Discover places you can turn to for help if you need it

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811671
Paperback: 244 pages
Data: January 30, 2006
Format: PDF

This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and possibilities of vBulletin. vBulletin’s Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in customising your forum. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum platforms available. Well known for its power and speed, it drives many of the most popular discussion forums on the Internet.

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Yukio Saito, “Statistical Physics of Crystal Growth”
World Scientific | January 1996 | ISBN: 9810228341 | PDF | 8 MB | 185 pages

This book gives a systematic overview on the scientific fundamentals of crystal growth from the classical phenomenological description to the recent theoretical contributions of statistical physics such as studies on surface roughening and on the pattern formation in the diffusion-limited growth. The book emphasizes physical concepts as well as mathematical details, and is intended to serve as lecture notes for postgraduate courses.

Contents:

Introduction
Ideal Growth Laws
Statistical Mechanics of Surface
Kinetics-Limited Growth
Diffusion-Limited Growth: Pattern Formation
Appendices
References
Index

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Lynne Gross, Brian Gross, Philippe Perebinossoff , “Programming for TV, Radio & The Internet”
Focal Press; 2 edition | ISBN: 0240806824 | 344 pages | PDF | 6.3 Mb

Where do program ideas come from? How are concepts developed into saleable productions? Who do you talk to about getting a show produced? How do you schedule shows on the lineup? What do you do if a series is in trouble? The answers to these questions, and many more, can be found in this comprehensive, in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities of the electronic media programmer. Topics include: Network relationships with affiliates, the expanded market of syndication, sources of programming for stations and networks, research and its role in programming decisions, fundamental appeals to an audience and what qualities are tied to success, outside forces that influence programming, strategies for launching new programs or saving old ones. Includes real-life examples taken from the authors’ experiences, and 250+ illustrations!

* Completely updated to include: new programming forms, changes in programming style, and more!
* Updated Glossary!
* Study questions for each chapter
* Companion website for students and Instructor’s Manual

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811809
Paperback: 284 pages
Data: April 10, 2006
Format: PDF

A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways.

Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support. Drupal’s power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes your from intial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1904811906
Paperback: 344 pages
Data: July 20, 2006
Format: PDF

JasperReports is the world’s most popular embeddable Java open source reporting library, providing Java developers with the power to easily create rich print and web reports. This book shows you exactly how to get started, and develop the skills to get the most from JasperReports. The book steers you through each point of report setup, to creating, designing, formatting, and exporting reports with data from a wide range of datasources, and integrating JasperReports with other Java frameworks. Starting with the basics of adding reporting capabilities to your application, and creating report templates you will first see how to produce your reports through the use of JRXML files, custom ANT targets, and then see preview them in both the browser and the native browser of JasperReports. Getting data into your reports is the next step, and you will see how to get data from a range of datasources, not only databases, but XML files, and Java Objects, among others.

You will create better looking reports with formatting and grouping, as well as adding graphical elements to the report. You will export your reports to a range of different formats, including PDF and XML. Creating reports will be made even easier with a walkthrough of the iReport Designer visual designing tool. To round things off, you will see how to integrate your reports with other Java frameworks, using Spring or Hibernate to get data for the report, and Java Server Faces or Struts for presenting the report

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