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PHP Developper (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Over on the PHP Zone (from the DZone community site) there's a in-depth tutorial looking at the creation and management of an access control system (users, passwords and what they can do) in your PHP application. It's an excerpt from the Packt book PHP5 CMS Framework Development . Many websites will want to control who has access to what. Once embarked on this route, it turns out there are many situations...
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PHPDeveloper.org (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The PHPClasses.org website has posted a new book review about the Packt Publishing offering "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites" (book by David Mercer , review by Zoltan Hunt ). This Packt book takes the reader through installing the Drupal software, configuring and theming, adding content and deploying a Web site. It is aimed at the end user who is looking to setup and...
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Linux Cortex (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
"From the days when installing a Linux distribution required a 300-page bible, to the days of Live CDs, the question "How do I learn Linux?" doesn't seem to have a ready answer." Packt Publishing
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Blogger Buster (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Packt publishing emailed me a few days ago to let me know about their new book: Blogger: Beyond the Basics which is available in both print and PDF formats. I was really happy to hear about this because (as far as I know!) this will be the first publication to cover use of the new Blogger Layouts system; it covers aspects of template customization, social networking and other advanced features of publishing...
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openPR.com Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development is a new book from Packt, which is a comprehensive guide to using RadRails to develop Ruby on Rails projects in a professional and productive manner. ... read more
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PHPDeveloper.org (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new book review (from Ivo Jansch ) about a recently release offering from Packt Publishing - "Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management" (by Marc Delisle ). I mainly use phpMyAdmin for 2 things: browsing the data in the database, and changing the structure of a database. Those are pretty straightforward features, so when packt publishing asked me to review...
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Zend Developer Zone (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Ivo Jansch of Ibuildings fame took the time recently to review Packt Publishing’s latest offering, Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management written by Marc Delisle.
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Newsforge (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
You probably know the open source 3-D modeler Blender for its animation tools, which have brought audiences short films Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny . But Blender can create realistic 3-D models for any purpose, as Allan Brito's Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery (Packt Publishing, $45) presents. This book approaches Blender as an architecture visualization tool, detailing the features...
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Gadgetopia (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Open Source CMS Award : Packt is doing their awards again this year, and I’ve been asked to judge in “ Best Open Source PHP CMS .” Go nominate your favorite app. Nominations are open through August 25. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems. The 2008 Award will continue to support...
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QNX (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER is a new book from Packt, which acts as a step-by-step guide to building a high performance Telephony System. Written by Flavio E. Goncalves, this book teaches users how to develop a fast and flexible SIP server using OpenSER, an open-source VoIP server based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an application-layer control (or signaling) protocol for creating,...
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PHPDeveloper.org (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Stefan Priebsch has posted a book review of Packt Publishing's "Mastering phpMyAdmin" (by Marc Delisle of the phpMyAdmin team). Kshipra Singh of Packt Publishing was kind enough to send me a copy of Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 For Effective MySQL Management to review. The author is Marc Delisle, phpMyAdmin developer and one of the project administrators since 2001. You probably can't get a better author...
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Enter Content Here (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
I just got through reading Dan Liliedahl's book OpenCms 7 Development ( Packt Publishing ). I met Dan when I was at the OpenCms Days developer conference and was impressed with his presentation. Dan knows his stuff (not just about OpenCms - he worked for FutureTense in the early days). The book was first introduced at the conference. I was surprised that Dan was able to get it out so quickly after...
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ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Packt Publishing launched a a software troubleshooting wiki with content taken from a handful of their books. The site’s still fairly barebones but has tips on a variety of open source CMS issues such as debugging Wordpress and Joomla templates. And if frustration still has you down, you can always shoot your monitor. Related PostLoving the [...]
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TheServerSide.com: News (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Quickstart Apache Axis2 is a new book from Packt, which is a complete guide to creating secure, reliable and easy-to-use web services using Apache Axis2. Written by Deepal Jayasinghe, this book is a step by step practical guide for developing web services using Apache Axis2.
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remove the labels | Gadgets & Life (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Prolific author and Brazilian OSS telephony jedi Flavio Goncalves emailed me this morning to let me know about some cool things he has been working on for fans of OpenSER. First off, Flavio has penned a new book on OpenSER which is currently available through PackT Publishing. The book is titled Building Telephony Systems with [...]
