20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGapGain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and several other platforms without rewriting apps in the native platform language. Each recipe includes sample code you can use in your project right away, as well as a discussion of why the solution works. ...
R Graphics CookbookThis practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.
Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. If you have a basic understanding of the R language, you're ready to get started. ...
Using Drupal, 2nd EditionTake advantage of Drupal's vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you'll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites - including a job posting board, photo gallery, online store, product review database, and event calendar. ...
Programmer's Guide to DrupalIf you're a web programmer new to Drupal, this book shows you which programming techniques you can use - and which you should avoid - when building custom web applications with this content management framework. Drupal has its own set of programming principles that require a different approach, and many programmers make mistakes when relying on skills they've used for other projects. The guidelines in this book help you through the transition by demonstrating which programming practices conform to the "Drupal way," and which don't. ...
Bandit Algorithms for Website OptimizationWhen looking for ways to improve your website, how do you decide which changes to make? And which changes to keep? This concise book shows you how to use Multiarmed Bandit algorithms to measure the real-world value of any modifications you make to your site. Author John Myles White shows you how this powerful class of algorithms can help you boost website traffic, convert visitors to customers, and increase many other measures of success. ...
Puppet Types and ProvidersPuppet's true power exists in the simple resource model it uses to manage the state of complex operating systems. This concise guide shows you how to extend that model and implement custom functionality on top of Puppet by working with the type and provider APIs.
Two experts from Puppet Labs explain the concepts behind these APIs, and provide instructions and examples to help you write your own fully functional types and providers. You'll also delve into Puppet's source code to get a better understanding of how types and providers are implemented internally. If you're familiar with basic Puppet concepts, you're ready to get started. ...
Getting Started with Mule Cloud ConnectConnect your enterprise to a wide range of SaaS platforms, Open APIs, and social networks quickly and without difficulty. Through step-by-step instructions and numerous real-world examples, this concise guide shows you how to seamlessly integrate the external services you need with Mule ESB and its powerful Cloud Connect toolset.
You'll learn how to use service-specific connectors for many popular APIs - including Salesforce, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Twilio - through easy-to-learn abstractions. ...
Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security, Membership, and Role Management with C# and VBASP.NET security covers concepts such as Web security, developing in partial trust, forms authentication, and securing configurationjust to name a fewall integral components to helping developers ensure reliable security. Addressing the ASP.NET developer's security view, this book offers detailed information on every major area of ASP.NET security that you'll encounter when developing Web applications. The book covers security in ASP.NET in general and includes the new additions and changes in ASP.NET 3.5. ...
Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and TroubleshootingWhen faced with a variety of SQL Server issues, you need to be able to troubleshoot SQL Server as well as its underlying operating system. To that end, this author group of SQL Server experts presents you with invaluable advice that brings together - and simplifies - practical internal information concerning SQL Server along with troubleshooting techniques and methodologies. Packed with real-world examples of ways to effectively use troubleshooting tools, this book shows you how to efficiently and accurately determine the root of your SQL Server problem so you can successfully resolve it. ...
Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4The new C# 4 language version is indispensable for writing code in Visual Studio 2010. This essential guide emphasizes that C# is the language of choice for your .NET 4 applications. The unparalleled author team of experts begins with a refresher of C# basics and quickly moves on to provide detailed coverage of all the recently added language and Framework features so that you can start writing Windows applications and ASP.NET web applications immediately. ...