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- Quickly get CentOS up and running while customizing your installation with a few 'tricks of the trade'
- Establish the basic needs of your server before building on that to achieve your goals
- Practical and concise recipes lead you through what you need to manage the system, packages, file systems and more
This book is currently available as a RAW (Read As we Write) book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 20% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.
Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
Chapter Number Title Availability 1 Installing CentOS IN THE BOOK 2 Configuring the System IN THE BOOK 3 Managing the System AUGUST 2012 4 Managing Packages AUGUST 2012 5 Administering the File System SEPTEMBER 2012 6 Providing Security SEPTEMBER 2012 7 Building a Network OCTOBER 2012 8 Building a Domain OCTOBER 2012 9 Managing the Database NOVEMBER 2012 10 Providing Mail Services NOVEMBER 2012 11 Providing Web Services DECEMBER 2012 12 FTP Services DECEMBER 2012 13 Building Virtual Services JANUARY 2013 -
- Learn Splunk Implementation and Administration through clear and effective examples
- Detailed and step by step instructions to perform efficient and organized searches, reports and more, with Splunk
- Gain hands-on experience with advanced searches, dashboards and make the most of your machine-generated data
This book is currently available as a RAW (Read As we Write) book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 20% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.
Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
Chapter Number Title Availability 1 The Splunk user interface AUGUST 2012 2 Understanding search AUGUST 2012 3 Working with fields SEPTEMBER 2012 4 Reporting and graphing SEPTEMBER 2012 5 Simple dashboards IN THE BOOK 6 All about time IN THE BOOK 7 Advanced search examples OCTOBER 2012 8 Extending searches OCTOBER 2012 9 Working with apps NOVEMBER 2012 10 Building advanced dashboards NOVEMBER 2012 11 Using summary indexes DECEMBER 2012 12 Configuring Splunk DECEMBER 2012 13 Deploying Splunk JANUARY 2013 14 Extending Splunk with Python scripts DECEMBER 2012 15 Integrating Splunk in the enterprise JANUARY 2013 -
- Improve your Cocos2d for iPhone skills through making games which are incrementally complex
- Delve into projects that range from a simple memory game to a complex runner game
- Accompanied by the necessary screenshots and explained code to ensure easy and quick learning
This book is currently available as a RAW (Read As we Write) book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 20% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
Since a RAW book is an eBook, a RAW book is non returnable and non refundable.
Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
Chapter Number Title Availability 1 Thanks for the Memory Game IN THE BOOK 2 Match 3, and Recursive Arrays IN THE BOOK 3 Thumping Moles For Fun AUGUST 2012 4 Give a Snake a Snack... AUGUST 2012 5 Brick Breaking Balls with Box2D SEPTEMBER 2012 6 Reversi, and the Perfect AI SEPTEMBER 2012 7 Cycles of Light OCTOBER 2012 8 Playing Pool, Old School OCTOBER 2012 9 Shoot, Scroll, Shoot Again NOVEMBER 2012 10 Running and Running and Running... NOVEMBER 2012 -
- Learn how to better administer your IBM Cognos 10 environment in order to improve productivity and efficiency.
- Empower your business with the latest Business Intelligence (BI) tools.
- Discover advanced tools and knowledge that can greatly improve daily tasks and analysis.
- Explore the new interfaces of IBM Cognos 10.
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- Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real-time examples.
- Get to know the visual and declarative programming model offered by ADF.
- In depth coverage of ADF business components and ADF binding layer.
- Teaches you the ADF best practices and fine-tuning tips.
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- Learn to leverage the power of Spring Security to keep intruders at bay through simple examples that illustrate real world problems
- Each sample demonstrates key concepts allowing you to build your knowledge of the architecture in a practical and incremental way
- Filled with samples that clearly illustrate how to integrate with the technologies and frameworks of your choice
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- Track customers on your websites and apps and improve conversion rates right away
- Customize your tracking for every application and situation
- Embed Piwik’s tracking capabilities in other applications
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- Master all that Java 7 has to offer for concurrent programming
- Get to grips with thread management, the Fork/Join framework, concurrency classes and much more in this book and e-book
- A practical Cookbook packed with recipes for achieving the most important Java Concurrency tasks
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- Use the PhoneGap API to create native mobile applications that work on a wide range of mobile devices
- Discover the native device features and functions you can access and include within your applications
- Packed with clear and concise examples to show you how to easily build native mobile applications
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- Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real world examples
- Gain a strong foundation of WPF features and patterns
- Leverage the MVVM pattern to build decoupled, maintainable apps
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Self Publishing or Packt Publishing?
July 2012 | e-Learning, Enterprise, Open Source
Publishing a book, on your own or through a publisher, is a lot of work!
While it is true that with self-publishing, one can get their books done and in the market in a relatively shorter span of time and have more control over the content of the book, just writing the book, formatting it, and launching it in the market is not what makes a great book or a great author.
When it comes to a good IT book, the content of the book, planning, editing, designing, art directing (cover art, graphics, and layout), copy editing, production management, distributing, actual selling, marketing/promoting, and publicizing, are all matters of great importance. This is where Packt comes in. Packt is a modern publishing company, producing cutting-edge books and eBooks for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies, alike.
Read Self Publishing or Packt Publishing? in full
Expand the knowledge of SharePoint using Packt’s latest Book and eBook
July 2012 | Microsoft
Master SharePoint application development by building exciting business SharePoint solutions.
Read Expand the knowledge of SharePoint using Packt’s latest Book and eBook in fullExplore the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Silverlight using Packt’s new Book and eBook
July 2012 | Microsoft
A compact certification guide to help the reader prepare for, and pass, the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam.
Read Explore the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Silverlight using Packt’s new Book and eBook in fullInstalling and Configuring Drupal
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Dylan Spencer James | July 2012 | Cookbooks Drupal Open Source
Drupal 7 is a modern Content Management System famed for its flexibility and power. Using Drupal you can easily create custom functionality that would otherwise have to be purchased in many of the other leading CMSs
In this article by Dylan James, author of the book Drupal 7 Cookbook, we will explore the process of setting up a Drupal website. We will see how to install the offcial Drupal 7 release and also how to install third-party Drupal distributions which are preconfigured in a variety of ways.
Following the installation, we will move on to the installation of third-party modules and then how your site can be configured to provide a site search form.
The article culminates with a recipe on setting up Drupal multi-site where two Drupal sites are configured to run from the same core files.
Read Installing and Configuring Drupal in fullMicrosoft XNA 4.0 Game Development: Receiving Player Input
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Luke Drumm | July 2012 | Cookbooks Microsoft
One of the key aspects that separates a computer game from that of, for example, a movie, is its interactive nature and its ability to be influenced by the player to achieve a different outcome each and every time.
In this article by Luke Drumm,author of Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook, we will examine some different ways of capturing the player's intent that may not be immediately obvious or trivial to implement when we first set ourselves the challenge.
Read Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development: Receiving Player Input in fullSetting up the Basics for a Drupal Multilingual site: Languages and UI Translation
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Kristen Pol | June 2012 | Drupal
Drupal's default installation is in English. But, as you'll soon see, it can be configured to handle other languages as well. Creating a multilingual website expands your audience, and studies have shown that users are more likely to buy products and services on a website when content is presented in their native language. Coupled with the fact that there are many more non-English native speakers than English native speakers, you should see the full value of creating a site that supports other languages.
This article by Kristen Pol, author of Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites starts with setting up a test site. Once the site is ready, we'll add several new languages and configure language detection so that we can view each language using different URLs. With the detection in place, we will enable a switcher block to easily navigate between each language.
After the language settings are done, we'll move on to translating the Drupal interface. First we will translate manually by grabbing files from localize.drupal.org, and then we'll configure the site for automatic updates. Once the contributed translations are in place, we will learn how to add and change translated UI strings as well as how to contribute these translations back to the Drupal community. The last part of the interface translation section deals with changing English strings and reusing strings on other sites.
Read Setting up the Basics for a Drupal Multilingual site: Languages and UI Translation in fullUnity 3.x Scripting-Character Controller versus Rigidbody
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Devon Kraczla Volodymyr Gerasimov | June 2012 | Open Source
Character controller is extremely important part of any game. Essentially, it allows us to interact with it, control our alter-ego, shoot, explore, and do all kinds of crazy stuff. Most common character controller is humanoid, in general it needs to know how to walk, run, jump, attack, it needs to camera rig that will be accompanying it throughout play. All these actions need to be supported on a programming level and we will look into a way that it can be done in Unity. This article by Volodymyr Gerasimov and Devon Kraczla, the authors of the Unity 3.x Scripting, will help you to:
- Learn Character Controller versus Rigidbody – pros and cons
- Teach player-controlled character walk, run, jump, and shoot
- Program camera controls and switching between different camera types with a press of a single button
- Learn script animations to follow character's actions
WebGL: Animating a 3D scene
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Diego Cantor | June 2012 | Beginner's Guides
Objects in 3D scenes can have actions on their own. For instance, in a racing car game, each car has its own speed and trajectory. In a first-person shooting game your enemies can hide behind barricades then come and fight you or run away. In general, each one of these actions is modeled as a matrix transformation that is attached to the corresponding actor in the scene. These are called local transforms.
In this article by Diego Cantor author of WebGL Beginner’s Guide, we will study different techniques to make use of local transforms.
Read WebGL: Animating a 3D scene in fullWordpress: Buddypress Courseware
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Adam D. Scott | June 2012 | WordPress
The BuddyPress (BP) Courseware plugin by ScholarPress transforms our WordPres site into a learning management system. This plugin provides educators with the ability to post and organize course content, assignments, bibliographies, and schedules. BP Courseware works by extending the BuddyPress group functionality. Each courseware-enabled group receives a courseware dashboard where teachers and students can quickly access and post course content. The BP Courseware plugin is ideal for managing multiple courses by the same instructor or for an entire academic department.
In this article by Adam D. Scott, author of the book WordPress for Education, we'll cover techniques to install and configure the BP Courseware plugin. Once the plugin is installed, we'll develop content for a sample courseware course by adding course information, posting assignments, grading student assignments, creating a bibliography, and managing the course calendar.
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