Building rigorously tested and bug-free Django applications

• Develop Django applications quickly with fewer bugs through effective use of automated testing and debugging tools.
• Ensure your code is accurate and stable throughout development and production by using Django’s test framework.
• Understand the working of code and its generated output with the help of debugging tools.
• Packed with detailed working examples that illustrate the techniques and tools for debugging

In Detail
Bugs are a time consuming burden during software development. Django’s built-in test framework and debugging support help lessen this burden. This book will teach you quick and efficient techniques for using Django and Python tools to eradicate bugs and ensure your Django application works correctly.

This book will walk you step by step through development of a complete sample Django application. You will learn how best to test and debug models, views, URL configuration, templates, and template tags. This book will help you integrate with and make use of the rich external environment of test and debugging tools for Python and Django applications.

The book starts with a basic overview of testing. It will highlight areas to look out for while testing. You will learn about different kinds of tests available, and the pros and cons of each, and also details of test extensions provided by Django that simplify the task of testing Django applications. You will see an illustration of how external tools that provide even more sophisticated testing features can be integrated into Django’s framework.

On the debugging front, the book illustrates how to interpret the extensive debugging information provided by Django’s debug error pages, and how to utilize logging and other external tools to learn what code is doing.

What you will learn from this book

• Build a complete application in manageable pieces that can be written, tested, and debugged individually.
• Come to grips with the nuances of testing and the pros and cons of each type of test.
• Simplify the task of testing web applications by using specific test extensions provided by Django.
• Integrate other test tools into Django’s framework to obtain test coverage information and more easily test forms.
• Analyze the copious debug information provided by Django’s debug error pages.
• Write your own add-on debugging aids.
• Easily acquire enormous and important information with the help of external tools such as the Django debug toolbar.
• Decipher code behavior by using logging and effectively debug problems in production, when debug error pages are not available.
• Learn what your code and other library support code actually does by skilled use of a debugger.
• Tackle problems external to your code with available fixes.
• Debug common problems that arise during the move from development to production.

Approach
This book teaches by example. It walks in detail through development of a sample application, illustrating each step via complete working code and either screenshots or console snippets. The cumbersome and time consuming task of debugging will be a cake walk with this book.

Who this book is written for
If you are a Django application developer who wants to create robust applications quickly that work well and are easy to maintain in the long term, this book is for you. This book is the right pick if you want to be smartly tutored to make best use of Django’s rich testing and debugging support and make testing an effortless task.

Basic knowledge of Python, Django, and the overall structure of a database-driven web application is assumed. However, the code samples are fully explained so that even beginners who are new to the area can learn a great deal from this book.

Over 50 simple but incredibly effective recipes to take control of dynamic Flash content in WordPress

• Learn how to make your WordPress blog or website stand out with Flash
• Embed, encode, and distribute your video content in your WordPress site or blog
• Build your own .swf files using various plugins
• Develop your own Flash audio player using audio and podcasting plugins
• Filled with many useful and efficient recipes with many screenshots and well explained code to ensure that if you open any recipe in the book you will be able to follow it without going through the previous recipes

In Detail

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform now. This flexible CMS is the power behind millions of URLs, including blue-chip companies, small business, and personal websites. Flash is a world-famous multimedia platform. This book will show you the best of the proven and popular strategies and techniques to deliver rich multimedia content, which will let you sail through the world of Flashy WordPress with ease.

This book will take you through clear well-formed and comprehensive recipes, through the most essential and useful Flash multimedia tools for WordPress available today including plugins for images, audio and video, as well as projects you can do yourself in Flash. It helps you to create a WordPress website full of Flash content. We show the big picture by providing context, best practices and strategies. Detailed instructions are provided for each section.

This book provides you with the shortlist of the most essential Flash tools for creating a dynamic and media-rich website or blog, and shows you how to implement these on your site. The sections on Flash are intended to give you the option to create custom .swf files, giving you an alternative to plugins that already exist. The book will show you how to configure Flash content in your WordPress site/blog for maximum SEO, introduce Flash content to your WordPress with and without plugins, import image feeds, use lightbox effects, and much more.

Easy-to-follow recipes showing you how to use WordPress, plugins, and Flash animations to create a complete user experience, including: audio, video, slideshows, image galleries, and more

What you will learn from this book

• Embed SWF files with the Kimili plugin
• Add Flash Detection when you embed a SWF without a plugin
• Configure WordPress and maximize search engine optimization
• Use the Flickr plugin and WordPress Multibox plugin for your images
• Create your own effects, watermarks, image gallery, and slideshow from scratch with Flash
• Use the NextGen Gallery plugin for image thumbnails, watermarking, and galleries
• Embed FLV files in WordPress
• Set up video blogging using WebTV Plugin and the Free WP Tube Theme
• Encode video files with the Adobe Media Encoder
• Use the audio plugins WPAudio Player, µAudio, and PodPress
• Add sound effects to a button and the timeline in Flash
• Stream sound and create/code your own On/Off music button and an MP3 player
• Using preset Flash skins
• Create a Custom Quote Rotator using XML and ActionScript in Flash
• Use and configure these plugins: WP-Cumulus Plugin, Tagnetic Poetry Plugin, Flexi Quote Rotator Plugin, WP sIFR Plugin, XML Google Maps Plugin, Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin, and WP Flash Feed Scroll Reader Plugin
• Customize WordPress themes
• Create animations and buttons in Flash

Approach

This book consists of a series of easy-to-follow recipes. Each recipe stands on its own, so you can open the book to any recipe and complete it without going through the previous recipes. You can work through the book from start to end or just choose the recipes most applicable to your needs and situation. The book presents recipes of varying difficulty levels so that there is something for everyone from a beginner to an advanced WordPress user. Detailed screenshots, code examples, and links to additional resources supplement the concise instructions.

Who this book is written for

If you are a WordPress user interested in creating multimedia-rich websites and blogs using Flash then this book is perfect for you. This book caters for site administrators and web developers, who have experience using Flash aand WordPress.

In Detail

This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.

Whether you’re working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site’s design and branding.

What you will learn from this book?

• Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
• Create detailed designs and code them up
• Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
• Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools
• Customize and tweak your theme’s layout
• Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
• Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
• Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
• Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
• Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0′s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

Approach

Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it’s quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it.

The second is “Unique and Beautiful”. Occasionally, the site’s theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers. This book is going to take you through the Unique and Beautiful route with the idea that once you know how to create a theme from scratch, you’ll be more apt at understanding what to look for in other WordPress themes.

Who this book is written for?

This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors.

Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you’ll be walked through the clear, step-by-step instructions, but familiarity with a broad range of web development skills and WordPress know-how will allow you to gain maximum benefit from this book.

Completely revised edition, now covering Snow Leopard!
Springing from the original Vermont Recipes Web site, where many of today’s Cocoa developers got their start, Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X, Second Edition is a programming cookbook that shows you how to create a complete Mac OS X application. In this updated edition, author Bill Cheeseman employs a practical, step-by-step method for building a program from start to finish using the Cocoa frameworks. He begins by creating the project using Xcode and designing and building the user interface with Interface Builder, and then he fills in the details expected of any working application, such as managing documents and windows, setting up the main menu, and configuring controls. Later recipes show you how to add important features such as a preferences window, printing, a Help book, and AppleScript support. The book concludes with a discussion of deployment of your finished product and steps you can take to explore additional features. Equipped with the expertise and real-world techniques in this book, programmers with some knowledge of C and Objective-C can quickly master the craft of writing Cocoa programs for Mac OS X.

• Written for C and Objective-C programmers who want to tap the extraordinary power and flexibility designed into the Cocoa frameworks, as well as for experienced Cocoa developers looking to extend their skills.

• By following the book’s recipes for creating a complete Cocoa application, readers can retrace the same steps to write any document-based Cocoa program.

• Includes the latest techniques for writing Cocoa applications for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.

• Project source files are available on the Web at www.peachpit.com/cocoarecipes.

Springing from the original Vermont Recipes Web site, where many of today’s Cocoa developers got their start, Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X, Second Edition is a programming cookbook that shows you how to create a complete Mac OS X application. In this updated edition, author Bill Cheeseman employs a practical, step-by-step method for building a program from start to finish using the Cocoa frameworks. He begins by creating the project using Xcode and designing and building the user interface with Interface Builder, and then he fills in the details expected of any working application, such as managing documents and windows, setting up the main menu, and configuring controls. Later recipes show you how to add important features such as a preferences window, printing, a Help book, and AppleScript support. The book concludes with a discussion of deployment of your finished product and steps you can take to explore additional features. Equipped with the expertise and real-world techniques in this book, programmers with some knowledge of C and Objective-C can quickly master the craft of writing Cocoa programs for Mac OS X.

• Written for C and Objective-C programmers who want to tap the extraordinary power and flexibility designed into the Cocoa frameworks, as well as for experienced Cocoa developers looking to extend their skills.

• By following the book’s recipes for creating a complete Cocoa application, readers can retrace the same steps to write any document-based Cocoa program.

• Includes the latest techniques for writing Cocoa applications forMac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.

• Project source files are available on the Web at www.peachpit.com/cocoarecipes.

Create and execute cutting-edge projects using the Adobe Flash Platform!
This book explores a Flash Platform project’s life cycle, diving deep into each phase — planning, design, development, build and release, and continued maintenance.
This comprehensive guide is for your entire team to refer to during the development process, including business executives, project managers, creative directors, designers, developers, and quality assurance and build engineers, explaining how each role contributes to the overall process. The book also highlights the Adobe applications — Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Builder 4, Flash Professional CS5 and other Adobe Creative Suite 5 programs — so you can leverage the latest technology to accomplish the task at hand.
Whether you’re a one-person shop or a large multi-department team, this guide details the process and scales to the key requirements of your project.

About the Authors:

Aaron Pedersen is cofounder of DevelopmentArc and has more than a decade of Web application experience for small startups and Fortune 500 companies. He focuses on user interface technologies, including Adobe Flash Platform (Adobe Flex, AIR) and JavaScript. He has been a lead, planner, and architect on many groundbreaking projects for Lexus.com, Scion.com, Adobe Marketplace, Yahoo Mail Flickr application, and WorkflowLab for Adobe.

James Polanco is a Web application architect and cofounder of DevelopmentArc, focusing on ActionScript development, design patterns, and component implementations. He has worked with such clients as Scion.com, Lexus.com, Toyota.com, Libsyn Podcast Analytics Dashboard, Fake Science Music Store, Industrial Light & Magic, and Adobe Systems. He is an avid blogger, speaker, and researcher with a particular interest in technology implementations, best practices, and analysis of Web enabled tools and technologies.

Doug Winnie is the principal product manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform Workflow, and WorkflowLab. He is responsible for the integration of Adobe Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder, driving the growth of collaborative workflows between designers and developers using the Adobe Flash Platform. Doug is also an instructor at San Francisco State University and hosts the Adobe TV shows, ”ActionScript 1:1 with Doug Winnie” and “Flash Catalyst 1:1 with Doug Winnie.”

Adobe insiders Aaron Pederson, James Polanco and Doug Winnie will have you creating and executing cutting edge projects using the Adobe Flash Platform in no time! This book explores a Flash Platform project’s life cycle from start to finish, diving deep into each phase – planning, design, development, build and release, and continued maintenance.

If your team includes business executives, project managers, creative directors, designers, developers, and quality assurance and build engineers, this guide explains how each role contributes to the overall process. The book also highlights the Adobe applications – Flash Catalyst CS5, Flex Builder 4, and Adobe Creative Suite 5 – so you can leverage the latest technology to accomplish the task at hand. Whether you’re a one-person shop or a large multi-department team, this guide details the process and scales to the key requirements of your project.

HTML5 for Web Designers By Jeremy Keith
Publisher: A Book Apart 2010 | 85 Pages | ISBN-10: 0984442502 , ISBN-13: 9780984442508 | PDF | 1 MB

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Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.

Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.

In this book, you’ll learn:

• Why common coding approaches leave users behind, and how progressive enhancement is a more inclusive and accessible alternative

• How to analyze complex interface designs, see the underlying semantic HTML experience that will work everywhere, and layer on advanced enhancements safely

• A unique browser capabilities testing suite that helps deliver enhancements only to devices that can handle them

• Real-world best practices for coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work with progressive enhancement, and cases where forward-looking HTML5 and CSS3 techniques can be applied effectively today

• How to factor in accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support to ensure universal access
• Detailed techniques to transform semantic HTML into interactive components like sliders, tabs, tree controls, and charts, along with downloadable jQuery-based widgets to apply directly in your projects

Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.

Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.

In this book, you’ll learn:

• Why common coding approaches leave users behind, and how progressive enhancement is a more inclusive and accessible alternative

• How to analyze complex interface designs, see the underlying semantic HTML experience that will work everywhere, and layer on advanced enhancements safely

• A unique browser capabilities testing suite that helps deliver enhancements only to devices that can handle them

• Real-world best practices for coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work with progressive enhancement, and cases where forward-looking HTML5 and CSS3 techniques can be applied effectively today

• How to factor in accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support to ensure universal access
• Detailed techniques to transform semantic HTML into interactive components like sliders, tabs, tree controls, and charts, along with downloadable jQuery-based widgets to apply directly in your projects

Quickly build and deploy your own feature-rich website with DotNetNuke 5, VB.NET, and C#

• Create and manage your own website with DotNetNuke 5
• Customize and enhance your site with custom modules
• Code provided in VB.NET and C# using Visual Studio 2010
• Covers module development using Silverlight and Linq to SQL
• Complete coverage of setup, administration, and development

In Detail

DotNetNuke is an open source Content Management System and web application framework. It has taken the Microsoft world by storm and now at version 5, its community has grown to over 200,000 users. Revised and updated for DotNetNuke 5, this renowned book is your indispensable guide to creating content-rich websites with DotNetNuke, as quickly as possible.

With this book in hand, you will be able to get your DotNetNuke website up and running. Concisely written and with clear explanations, this book covers installation, administration, deployment, site creation and all of the basic built-in DotNetNuke modules. For developers, it also covers the core architecture and custom modules, including module development using Linq to SQL and Silverlight, to give you the skills to customize and extend your site.

The book starts off by giving you a deep understanding of working with basic DotNetNuke sites, guiding you through the features and giving you the confidence to create and manage your site. After that, you will journey to the heart of DotNetNuke, and learn about its core architecture. Always concise, relevant and practical, you will find out what makes DotNetNuke tick, and from there, you will be ready to customize DotNetNuke. Developers will enjoy the detailed walk-through of creating new custom modules. Special emphasis is given to using Linq to SQL and Silverlight to invigorate your module development.

You will master all of this as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 5 site!

A practical guide that shows you how to build your own DotNetNuke website and develop new modules using Visual Studio 2010 in VB.NET and C#, using the latest technologies.

What you will learn from this book

This book will give you the skills to create and manage DotNetNuke websites as quickly as possible. You will:

• Install and configure DotNetNuke
• Master the standard modules
• Understand the core architecture of DotNetNuke
• Explore the inner workings of DotNetNuke modules
• Use code provided in VB.NET or C# using Visual Studio 2010
• Learn module development using Silverlight and Linq to SQL
• Learn to create portal templates and set up multiple portals

ApproachThis book is a practical tutorial with step-by-step instructions and clear, concise explanations. Illustrative screenshots are used for better understanding at every step. You will learn how to set up and administer an example site, stepping through all the tasks to ease your learning. The emphasis is not on becoming a better VB.NET or C# programmer but on taming DotNetNuke.

Who this book is written for

This book has been written both for beginners wanting to set up a website and also for ASP.NET developers with a grasp of VB.NET and C# who want a deeper understanding of how to work with DotNetNuke. To work with the DotNetNuke code, you will need access to Visual Web Developer Express or Visual Studio .NET 2010. No prior knowledge of DotNetNuke is assumed.

The complete guide to installing and configuring the GlassFish Application Server and developing Java EE 5 applications to be deployed to this server

• Concise guide covering all major aspects of Java EE 5 development
• Uses the enterprise open-source GlassFish application server
• Explains GlassFish installation and configuration
• Covers all major Java EE 5 APIs

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at Java developers wishing to become proficient with Java EE 5, who are expected to have some experience with Java and to have developed and deployed applications in the past, but need no previous knowledge of Java EE or J2EE. It teaches the reader how to use GlassFish to develop and deploy applications.

• In Detail

GlassFish is a free, open-source Java EE 5-compliant application server that is quickly gaining massive popularity.

This book explains GlassFish installation and configuration, and then moves on to Java EE 5 application development, covering all major Java EE 5 APIs.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of Glassfish, including how to install it, configure it, and verify the installation.

Chapter 2 covers how to develop server-side web applications using the Servlet API.

Chapter 3 explains how to develop web applications using JavaServer Pages (JSPs), including how to develop and use JSP custom tags.

Chapter 4 discusses how to develop Java EE applications that interact with a relational database system through the Java Persistence API (JPA) and through the Java Database Connectivity API (JDBC).

Chapter 5 explains how to use the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) when developing JavaServer Pages.

Chapter 6 covers how to develop applications using the JavaServer Faces (JSF) component framework to build web applications.

Chapter 7 explains how to develop messaging applications though the Java Messaging Service (JMS) API.

Chapter 8 covers securing J2EE applications through the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS).

Chapter 9 discusses how to develop Enterprise Java Beans that adhere to the EJB 3 specification.

Chapter 10 explains how to develop and deploy web services that conform to the JAX-WS 2.1 specification.

Chapter 11 covers frameworks that build on top of the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4Jsf.

The appendices cover some of the advanced features of the GlassFish server.

What you will learn from this book?

• How to install and configure GlassFish
• How to develop web applications using JSPs, JSTL, Servlets, and JSF
• How to develop applications that interact with relational database systems through the Java Persistence API and JDBC
• How to develop applications using EJB 3, including how to take advantage of container-managed transactions and EJB declarative security through annotations
• How to implement messaging applications through the JMS API
• How to secure Java EE applications via the JAAS API, including how to implement custom security realms
• How to build applications using frameworks that build on top of the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf

Approach

The book aims to speed up the reader in Java EE 5 development. All major Java EE 5 APIs and the details of the GlassFish server are covered followed by examples of its use.