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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.
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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.
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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.
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Latest Articles
Managing content (Must know)
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Jason T. Bedell | September 2013 | Open Source
In this article written by Jason T. Bedell, the author of the book Instant Edublogs, provides details about managing different types of content.
Read Managing content (Must know) in fullInstalling MAME4All (Intermediate)
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Shea Silverman | September 2013 | Games Open Source
This article by Shea Silverman, author of Instant Raspberry Pi Gaming, will describe how to install MAME4All through the Raspberry Pi Store. It will also explain how to run it from both the GUI and the CLI, and how to add games.
Read Installing MAME4All (Intermediate) in fullPenetration Testing and Setup
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Aamir Lakhani Joseph Muniz | September 2013 | Networking & Telephony Open Source
In this article by Joseph Muniz and Aamir Lakhani, the authors of the book Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux, web Penetration Testing is described in brief. Many organizations offer security services and use terms such as security audit, network or risk assessment, and Penetration Test with overlapping meanings. By definition, an audit is a measurable technical assessment of a system(s) or application(s). Security assessments are evaluations of risk, meaning services used to identify vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and processes.
Read Penetration Testing and Setup in fullCreating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments
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Jim Wilson | September 2013 | Open Source
This article by Jim Wilson, author of Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments, shows how to use fragments to meet the challenges of creating dynamic UIs in the modern world of mobile app development.
Read Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments in full2-Dimensional Image Filtering
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George Siogkas | September 2013 | Beginner's Guides Open Source
In this article by George Siogkas, author of the book, Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginner's Guide, we will dig a little deeper into the image filtering theory and use some more complicated techniques to enhance our images. All the methods we will present, will once more be accompanied by hands-on examples that demonstrate their significance in both typical and more advanced image processing tasks.
In this article, we shall learn:
- The basic theory on image filtering and processing pixel neighborhoods
- How we can filter an image using convolution
- Alternative ways to filter an image
- Creating image filters in MATLAB
- Using filters for image blurring
So, let's get started!
Read 2-Dimensional Image Filtering in fullLearning the Bukkit API
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Cody M. Sommer | September 2013 | Games Open Source
In this article, by Cody M. Sommer, the author of Modifying Minecraft with the Bukkit API, we will learn Bukkit by learning how to read its API documentation.
You may be wondering what the difference is between Bukkit and CraftBukkit. Many people use the two words interchangeably. However, they are in fact different files. In this article you will be introduced to the Bukkit API and learn what it allows you to accomplish through programming plugins for a CraftBukkit server. By the end of this article you will most likely have numerous ideas for plugins that you will eventually be able to create yourself. This article will cover the following in more detail:
- Understanding the purpose of an API
- Finding documentation of the Bukkit API
- Navigating through JavaDocs to find specific information
Proportional line follower (Advanced)
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Gary Garber | September 2013 | Open Source
In this article, written by Gary Garber, the author of Instant LEGO Mindstorm EV3, you will make a robot that will track a line quickly. The robot will be able to follow a line which makes corners sharper than 90 degrees using a proportional line follower.
Read Proportional line follower (Advanced) in fullConnecting to a web service (Should know)
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Geoff Chiang | September 2013 | Open Source
This article by Geoff Chiang the author of Instant Spring Tool Suite is aiming to get you up and running developing with various Spring technologies, providing you with enough to give you a head start in Spring development.
The term web service is a nebulous one, encompassing a range of both technologies and approaches. At its heart, a web service is simply a software service which is accessible over a network, designed for machine-to-machine interaction. Early web services were based on the W3C WS-* set of standards, with interfaces described using WSDL and interaction using SOAP messages. This approach seems to have fallen out of favor somewhat, with lightweight RESTful approaches now prevalent.
In this recipe, we're going to retrieve weather data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. This service exposes Australian weather data in JSON format. As we're about to see, STS and Spring Integration allow us to interact with web services with very little effort.
Read Connecting to a web service (Should know) in fullManaging User Logins
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Sven Vermeulen | September 2013 | Networking & Telephony Open Source
In this article, by Sven Vermeulen, the author of SELinux System Administration, has explained how to manage user logins. When we log in to an SELinux enabled system, we are assigned with a default context to work in. This context contains a SELinux user part, a SELinux role, a domain, and optionally a sensitivity range.
In this article, we will define users that have sufficient rights to do their jobs, ranging from unprivileged users to fully privileged users, running almost without SELinux protection.
Read Managing User Logins in fullPreparing Your First jQuery Mobile Project
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Andy Matthews Raymond Camden | September 2013 | Open Source
This article created by Raymond Camden and Andy Matthews, authors of jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials walks you through your first jQuery Mobile project. It details what must be added to your project's directory and source code. You know what jQuery Mobile is, the history of it as well as its features and goals. Now we're actually going to build our first jQuery Mobile website (well, web page) and see how easy it is to use.
In this article we will perform the following steps:
- Create a simple HTML page
- Add jQuery Mobile to the page
- Make use of custom data attributes (data-*)
- Update the HTML to make use of the data attributes that jQuery Mobile recognizes
