books by Packt Publishing     books:       Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 610 reviews David Mercer Packt Publishing, 2008 Excellant Start I was really struggling with understanding Drupal before I read this book. This book laid out what I needed to know in a step by step manner that was easy for me to understand. For example, I was having a hard time understanding how I could reference a page of content. How do you know what node number it is anyway? This book explained it to me. There are many more advanced topics that I ...             Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques20 reviews Karl Swedberg, Jonathan Chaffer Packt Publishing, 2007 Use JavaScript the easy way with jQuery I've used JavaScript for 9 years and have hated the way it needs to be developed differently for different browsers. And there are the little gotchas that take way too long to run down in forums. Enter jQuery. The jQuery JavaScript library takes the pain out of using JavaScript. It handles the browsers and leaves us free to simply add functionality to websites in a logical and consistent way. ...             WordPress Theme Design8 reviews Tessa Blakeley Silver Packt Publishing, 2008 What is really needs... This book is helpful, however Dreamweaver users may want to check into ThemeDreamer. It turns Dreamweaver into the only WYSIWYG WordPress theme editor on the planet! This greatly simplifies things as you no longer need to parse files, have documentation at your fingertips (context sensitive help), not to mention unlocking DW's design potential -almost lost to the bold new world of CMS and hand ...             Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development William Rice Packt Publishing, 2008             Moodle Teaching Techniques6 reviews William Rice Packt Publishing, 2007 Practical and Useful Moodle Strategies Rice is his previous book, Moodle E-Learning Course Development, also by PACKT, covered all the how-tos of the online software. In this book, he demonstrates how to take advantage of this powerful medium. After reading about the philosophy behind Moodle in the first chapter, I looked with anticipation to the techniques. I didn't have to wait long. The first technique shows how to set up a ...             Learning Drupal 6 Module Development5 reviews Matt Butcher Packt Publishing, 2008 Great Intro to developing on Drupal This is a great introduction to begin developing on Drupal. If you use Drupal but want to start going beyond merely plugging in new modules, this is the book to get. It starts from ground zero on developing a new module and theme. It is a great introduction on the way Drupal works. Assumes knowledge of php, which you need anyway to program on Drupal. Much better to start with this book than ...             Service Oriented Architecture with Java2 reviews Malhar Barai, Vincenzo Caselli, ... Packt Publishing, 2008 Finally a book on SOA that says something concrete Books on SOA either read like sales pitches end-to-end or get so bogged down in various aspects of web technology that by the end of the book you certainly know how a hammer is made, but have no idea of how to use one to repair a roof. This book gets the roof repaired. It approaches the Service Oriented Architecture from both the technical and business angles and does so in less than two hundred ...             PHP 5 CMS Framework Development1 review Martin Brampton Packt Publishing, 2008 should "Aliro" also have been in the title ? Perhaps "Aliro" should have been in the title? It is the name of a CMS written by the author in PHP5. The entire book can be considered as a case study in how and why to use PHP5 for writing web applications. As opposed to perhaps using PHP4 or another server side scripting language. The book delves into detailed aspects of Aliro and how it can be customised by you for your particular CMS ...             Building Websites with Joomla! 1.53 reviews Hagen Graf Packt Publishing, 2008 optimised for search engines! Joomla [sorry, I just won't add that exclamation mark after it] is targeting the novice website designer and programmer. By some definitions, a designer need not be concerned with the messy details of actually making webpages. However, Joomla is easy enough to pick up that a designer might well be tempted to indulge in actual page design and generation. It does aim at websites where the ...             AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications27 reviews Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea, ... Packt Publishing, 2006 Grea book for beginners and intermediates. AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications This is a great book for beginners as well as intermediate users of AJAX. I have about 5 years of experience with PHP and 7 with Javascript and I had none with AJAX. I read a few tutorials online about AJAX and after reading some of this book, I love it. This book is a great start with AJAX, especially if you are a PHP programmer like ...             Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development Suhreed Sarkar Packt Publishing, 2008 DETAILED DESCRIPTION Zen Cart is a popular open-source PHP/MySQL-based e-commerce solution available under GPL that is designed to put the merchants' and shoppers' requirements first. Not only does Zen Cart offer a very long list of features, but the system is designed with both store owners and web developers in mind. There's no sacrifice of usability or power. This easy-to-follow book will teach you how to install, configure, and ...             Drupal 5 Themes14 reviews Ric Shreves Packt Publishing, 2007 Great Drupal Resource This book is exactly what I have been looking for. Being pretty new to Drupal I had been using the documentation at the Drupal site. It is good for starting off but my company, Savant Creative Group - [...] - needs to develop our own themes. The book is well written, well documented and not too heavy on PHP. It is great for design people who know html and css.             WordPress Complete: set up, customize, and market your blog16 reviews Hasin Hayder Packt Publishing, 2006 Good for beginning Wordpress developers, bad for the rest of the world. This book is over-priced, padded with useless screenshots and poorly edited. The first 100 pages - and some of the back hundred for that matter - are filled with distracting explanations of topics irrelevant to properly using and building bloggy websites with Wordpress. The English is a mishmash of South Asian/British/American that reads like it was written by a tired programmer at 3 in the ...             Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery4 reviews Allan Brito Packt Publishing, 2008 Terrific resource for the beginner. The instructions are direct and to the point. Filled with illustrations on almost every page. Topics covered include manipulating the interface, keyboard short cuts, modes, selecting objects, using the 3D cursor, modeling basics, detail modeling of architecture and furniture, materials, textures, UV mapping, basic lighting, Ambient Occlusion, Global Illumination with Yafray, Animation and Post ...             Moodle E-Learning Course Development9 reviews William Rice Packt Publishing, 2006 Plain, clear and exhaustive I found this book very useful, it allowed me to set up a full Moodle site and course for my training company within less than a week. Clear, easy to read, with good structure, and exhaustive - in terms that it allows one to install and setup moodle, shows multiple possibilities of creating courses and lessons, as well as good examples. Everything is written in a language just one level above a ...             ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial1 review John Farrar Packt Publishing, 2008 Excellent Content in This Book I really enjoyed reading most of this book. I say most, because I haven't gotten through it all - there's a lot of content here! I was surprised by the range of material covered in one book. The CFC's section is excellent, AJAX, and such. It looks like John Farrar spent quite a bit of time developing his content, and he delivers it in an easy-to-read fashion. Thanks for a great ...             jQuery Reference Guide7 reviews Karl Swedberg, Jonathan Chaffer Packt Publishing, 2007 Dig deeper into the DOM and AJAX with jQuery You might question whether or not a book is even necessary given the wealth of information already available on the jQuery library. I am an avid user of jQuery, semi-active in the community, I have developed a few plug-ins, and I certainly understand the need for this resource guide. The online documentation is extremely terse, and in order to get an in-depth understanding of the library, a ...             Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server8 reviews David Heffelfinger Packt Publishing, 2007 concise overview of Java Enterprise Edition I do have to agree with others who remarked that the book is not a comprehensive discussion of GlassFish. In this respect, it is somewhat of a downer. But, perhaps albeit inadvertantly, its best merit is elsewhere. Over the years, the Java world has grown hugely from just the Java language. Roughly, the latter is more or less J2SE. But in the J2EE field, or what Sun seems to just be calling ...             Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce (From Technologies to Solutions)4 reviews Michael Peacock Packt Publishing, 2008 A book that works! I have read many books about using particular software applications. Almost always the instructions given are incomplete or don't work without some technical work on the part of the reader. Normally the author of the book hasn't paid enough attention to the state already stored on his or her computer and, when a reader follows the written instructions, all sorts of peculiar little problems arise: ...             Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP11 reviews Joseph LeBlanc Packt Publishing, 2007 Excellent start I think this book is an excellent start to learning about J!1.5 extensions development. It has real examples that are easy to follow and adapt to suit a variety of purposes. Please note that the book is much thinner than you would think - about 170 pages cover to cover - so initally I was somewhat disappointed, but the book covers the topics you need to get started and I can still heartily ...              search for books application, applications, architecture, building, buildings, coldfusion, commerce, complete, components, creating, customize, developer, development, e-commerce, e-learning, extension, framework, glassfish, interaction, javascript, learning, powerful, reference, responsive, solutions, techniques, technologies, tutorial, websites, wordpress books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Transcend 8GB SDHC CARD (SD 2.0 SPD Class 6) home  impressum - about us