Beginning WordPress 3

Product Description

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily and better yet, it’s free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.

Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You’ll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.

What you’ll learn

How to get started with WordPress, create new content, and import existing content
How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more
How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting
How to create themes, widgets, and plugins
How to publish, move, maintain, and …

Expert F# 2.0

Product Description

Expert F# 2.0 is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of functional programming into the hands of professional developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity.

Expert F# 2.0 is

The authoritative guide to F# by the inventor of F#
A comprehensive reference of F# concepts, syntax, and features
A treasury of expert F# techniques for practical, real-world programming

F# isn’t just another functional programming language. It’s a general-purpose language ideal for real-world development. F# seamlessly integrates functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve any programming problem. Whatever your background, you’ll find that F# is easy to learn, fun to use, and extraordinarily powerful. F# will change the way you think …

Beginning Drupal 7

Product Description

This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform.
Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal.
Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7.

What you’ll learn

What Drupal is and why you should use it
How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch
How to create content in your …

Hibernate Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Product Description

Hibernate continues to be the most popular out-of-the-box framework solution for Java Persistence and data/database accessibility techniques and patterns. It is used for e-commerce–based web applications as well as heavy-duty transactional systems for the enterprise.

Gary Mak, the author of the best-selling Spring Recipes, now brings you Hibernate Recipes. This book contains a collection of code recipes and templates for learning and building Hibernate solutions for you and your clients.

This book is your pragmatic day-to-day reference and guide for doing all things involving Hibernate. There are many books focused on learning Hibernate, but this book takes you further and shows how you can apply it practically in your daily work.

What you’ll learn

The basics of object-relational mapping and how Hibernate is best suited for it
How to do …

Pro PHP and jQuery

Product Description

This book is for intermediate programmers interested in building Ajax web applications using jQuery and PHP. Along with teaching some advanced PHP techniques, it will teach you how to take your dynamic applications to the next level by adding a JavaScript layer with jQuery.

Learn to utilize built-in PHP functions to build calendar tools and photo galleries.
Learn how jQuery can be used for Ajax, animation, client-side validation, and more.
Learn jQuery UI and how to create drag-and-drop features easily.

What you’ll learn

Use PHP to build a calendar application that allows users to post events with accompanying photos.
Use jQuery to allow the calendar app to be viewed and edited without requiring page refreshes using built-in Ajax functions.
Build an image management class using object-oriented PHP that will allow image uploads, and then resize the …