Packt Open Source

Packt Open Source

Packt Open Source books

Packt Open Source books will continue to be built around the “community experience distilled” motto, focussing on taking real advice from the community around projects, and refining and distilling it into easy to follow specialist information.

 

Through this, the Open Source Royalty Scheme will continue to support open source projects, offering a royalty for the sale of each book to the project on which that book was written.

 

Believe in Open Source

Open Source Awards

The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects. We aim to play our part in the growth of Open Source software and see the annual Award as the ultimate platform for not only appreciating the great things projects have given back to the community but also supporting projects who have future potential to change things for the better.

Open Source Project Royalty Scheme

Packt believes in open source and helping to sustain and support its unique projects and communities. Therefore, when we sell a book written on an open source project, we pay a royalty directly to that project. As a result of purchasing one of our Open Source books, Packt will have given some of the money received to the Open Source project.

In the long term, we see ourselves and yourselves, as customers and readers of our books, as part of the Open Source ecosystem, providing sustainable revenue for the projects we publish on. Our aim at Packt is to establish publishing royalties as an essential part of the service and support business model that sustains open source.

To read up on the projects that are supported by the Packt Open Source Project Royalty Scheme, click the appropriate categories below:

All Open Source Projects

Content Management System (CMS)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

e-Commerce

e-Learning

Networking and Telephony

Web Development

Web Graphics and Video

Latest Articles

Hours 1-12: Your Quest Begins!

by Christer Kaitila | April 2012 | Beginner's Guides Open Source

This article by Christer Kaitila, author of The Game Jam Survival Guide focuses on the early stages of a Game Jam. These most important first few hours will set the state for the rest of your experience. Topics that we will cover include:

  • Dealing with the Game Jam theme
  • An example of a winning entry
  • Coming up with a plan of action
  • Brainstorming and prototyping
Read Hours 1-12: Your Quest Begins! in full

Collaboration Features in Alfresco Share

by Amita Bhandari Pallika Majmudar Vinita Choudhary | March 2012 | Content Management Open Source

Alfresco Share offers a number of such features out-of-the-box. These are features that ensure effective task management. These are completely customizable if need be. The numerous technologies and tools that Alfresco supports ensures that no, or minimal, change be made to the enterprise's existing infrastructure.

Enterprises have a number of tasks that require its people to be able to effectively manage their tasks and schedules. For the purpose of managing intra- and inter-team events, a variety of collaboration tools like calendars, forums, and so on are available. More often than not, there are tools independent of each other, or they may not be compatible with existing systems that are in place.

In this article by Pallika Majmudar, co-author of Alfresco Share, we shall understand the various collaborative features like wiki, blogs, data lists, calendar, discussions, and lists features that Share has on offer.

By the end of this article, you will have learned about:

 

  • Wiki pages and blogs in Share
  • Managing data lists
  • Creating events in Alfresco Share
  • Effective collaboration through discussions
  • Managing and creating data lists

 

 

 

Read Collaboration Features in Alfresco Share in full

Introduction to Logging in Tomcat 7

by Tanuj Khare | March 2012 | Web Services Open Source

Logging services play a vital role in the life of the administrator and developer to manage the application from the phase of development to production issues. It's the logging services that help you to find the actual problem in the web application. Also, it plays an essential role in performance tuning for many applications.

In this artice by Tanuj Khare, author of Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials, we will look at the logging features in Apache Tomcat 7. We will cover the following topics:

  • Logging services in Tomcat 7
  • JULI
  • Log4j
  • Log level
  • Valve component
  • Analysis of logs
Read Introduction to Logging in Tomcat 7 in full

Tabula Rasa: Nurturing your Site for Tablets

by Tom Stovall | March 2012 | Beginner's Guides Drupal Open Source

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. 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.

In this article by Tom Stovall, author of Drupal 7 Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide, we'll:

  • Examine touch events and go over the differences between touch events and mouse-click events
  • Learn to add touch events to our jQuery cycle on the home page
  • Take a look at the adaptive web page designs and begin the process of adapting a design for three layouts—phone, tablets, and desktop
  • Learn to set the viewport with JavaScript
Read Tabula Rasa: Nurturing your Site for Tablets in full

Sencha Touch: Layouts Revisited

by Bryan P. Johnson John E. Clark | February 2012 | Open Source

In this article by John E. Clark and Bryan P. Johnson, authors of Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework, we will examine the layout configuration option and how it affects each of the components.

Specifically, we will cover the following points:

  • The base component class
  • Layouts revisited
Read Sencha Touch: Layouts Revisited in full

The Various Components in Sencha Touch

by Bryan P. Johnson John E. Clark | February 2012 | Open Source

In this article by John E. Clark and Bryan P. Johnson, authors of Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework, we will take a look at the individual components available in Sencha Touch. we will use the simple base components as a starting point for learning about the more complex components. We'll also talk a bit about how to access our components after they have been created.

This article will cover the following topics:

  • The TabPanel and Carousel components
  • The FormPanel components
  • MessageBox and Sheet
  • The map component
  • The List and NestedList components
Read The Various Components in Sencha Touch in full

Creating a Simple Application in Sencha Touch

by Bryan P. Johnson John E. Clark | February 2012 | Open Source

This article will walk you through creating a simple application in Sencha Touch. We will cover the basic elements that are included in any Sencha Touch application, and we will take a look at the more common components you might use in your own applications: containers, panels, lists, toolbars, and buttons.

In this article by John E. Clark and Bryan P. Johnson, authors of Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework, we will cover:

  • Setting up your folder structure
  • Starting from scratch with TouchStart.js
  • Controlling the container using layouts
  • Testing and debugging the application
  • Updating the application for production
  • Putting the application into production
Read Creating a Simple Application in Sencha Touch in full

Ext JS 4: Working with the Grid Component

by Loiane Groner | January 2012 | Java Open Source

In this article by Loiane Groner, author of Ext JS 4 First Look we will cover some new features and enhancements in the Grid Component. Ext JS 4 introduces major changes compared to Ext JS 3. There is a new data package, new charts, and new, updated layouts. The framework was completely rewritten to boost performance.

Read Ext JS 4: Working with the Grid Component in full

Ext JS 4: Working with Tree and Form Components

by Loiane Groner | January 2012 | Java Open Source

In this article by Loiane Groner, author of Ext JS 4 First Look we will cover some new features and enhancements in the following Components.

  • Tree panel
  • Form panel

These Components enable faster performance and more developer flexibility.

(For more resources on JavaScript, see here.)

Read Ext JS 4: Working with Tree and Form Components in full

Drools Integration Modules: Spring Framework and Apache Camel

by Lucas Amador | January 2012 | Cookbooks Open Source

Integration with other systems is always one of the most critical steps in development and it should be on our mind during the planning phase. In this article, the Drools integration modules, Spring Framework and Apache Camel, will be covered explaining how they can be used independently of the Drools Server but, of course, integrated with Drools.

In this article by Lucas Amador, author of Drools Developer's Cookbook, we will cover the following concepts:

  • Setting up Drools using Spring Framework
  • Configuring JPA to persist our knowledge with Spring Framework
  • Integrating Apache Camel in your project
Read Drools Integration Modules: Spring Framework and Apache Camel in full

Latest Books and eBooks from Packt

Awards Voting Nominations Previous Winners
Judges Open Source CMS Hall Of Fame CMS Most Promising Open Source Project Open Source E-Commerce Applications Open Source JavaScript Library Open Source Graphics Software
Resources
Open Source CMS Hall Of Fame CMS Most Promising Open Source Project Open Source E-Commerce Applications Open Source JavaScript Library Open Source Graphics Software
Sort A-Z