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Choosing an Open Source CMS There are many powerful Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) available to take the pain away from managing a web site. These systems are feature-rich, oft en easy to use, and free. Unfortunately, there are so many choices that it’s tough to be sure which CMS is the right one [...]

WordPress for Business Bloggers WordPress for Business Bloggers provides advanced strategies and techniques to take your WordPress business blog from average to extraordinary. Whether you already have a blog, or are still in the planning stages, this book will show you how to use WordPress to create a highly successful blog for your business. The [...]

3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3 Most online interactive content uses 2D graphics. To represent real-life situations, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) need to show real-time 3D scenes. This book will let you add a new dimension to your Silverlight applications using C# and XAML. The book covers the various tools and libraries needed for [...]

Mastering OpenLDAP The OpenLDAP directory server is a mature product that has been around (in one form or another) since 1995. All of the major Linux distributions include the OpenLDAP server, and many major applications, both, Open Source and proprietary, are directory aware, and can make use of the services provided by OpenLDAP. And yet [...]

DNS in Action: A detailed and practical guide to DNS implementation, configuration, and administration Recently, while driving to my work, I listened to radio as usual. Because of the establishment of the new EU (European Union) domain, there was an interview with a representative of one of the Internet Service Providers. For some time the [...]

Scalix Linux Administrator’s Guide Scalix email and calendaring, HP OpenMail, and Samsung Contact: these three names stand for some of the most powerful open-source-based groupware solutions available. This book sets out to explain their fundamentals to Linux administrators. Since the early 90s, Hewlett Packard had earned many awards for its mail server, and OpenMail was [...]

Learning PHP Data Objects This book will introduce you to one of the most important extensions to PHP that are available, starting with PHP version 5.0—the PHP Data Objects, commonly known as PDO. PHP grew in to a very popular web programming language due to its simplicity and ease of use. One of the key [...]

WordPress Plugin Development If you can write WordPress plugins, you can make WordPress do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works; plugins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will [...]

Grails 1.1 Web Application Development The expectations of our users are increasing, and rightly so. The Internet is no longer the playground of geeks and nerds. Businesses use it to communicate with and support their customers; families use it to keep in touch while whole communities share their experiences with like-minded people. The democratization of [...]

WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide As a J2EE (Enterprise Edition) administrator, you require a secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure to support and manage your J2EE applications and service-oriented architecture services. The WebSphere suite of products from IBM provides many different industry solutions and WebSphere Application Server is the core of the WebSphere product range [...]