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Over 80 recipes with examples and practical tips to help you quickly learn and develop cross-platform applications with jQuery Mobile Overview Create applications that use custom animations and use various techniques to improve application performance Use and customize the various controls such as toolbars, buttons, and lists with custom icons, icon sprites, styles, and themes Write simple but powerful scripts to manipulate the various configurations and work with the events, methods, and utilities which are provided by the framework. In Detail jQuery Mobile is an award winning, HTML5/CSS3 based open source cross-platform UI framework. It offers a very cool and highly customizable UX. It is built on the popular jQuery library and uses declarative c...

The approach of this book has been revised and updated for Drupal 7 based on comments from thousands of readers. The book takes a pragmatic look at the steps necessary to get a website up and running. Drawing on years of writing experience, David Mercer utilizes a friendly, engaging style that is both clear and concise-perfect for the Drupal newbie. This book is for people with little or no experience in website design, people who are not necessarily familiar with PHP, MySQL or HTML, and above all people with little to no experience in using Drupal....

Increase your productivity as a DBA, developer, or IT Pro, by using PowerShell with SQL Server to simplify database management and automate repetitive, mundane tasks. Provides over a hundred practical recipes that utilize PowerShell to automate, integrate and simplify SQL Server tasks Offers easy to follow, step-by-step guide to getting the most out of SQL Server and PowerShell Covers numerous guidelines, tips, and explanations on how and when to use PowerShell cmdlets, WMI, SMO, .NET classes or other components Builds a strong foundation that gets you comfortable using PowerShell with SQL Server--empowering you to create more complex scripts that you need in your day-to-day job In Detail PowerShell is Microsoft's new command-line shell and scripti...

Over 80 great recipes to create life-like Blender objects Overview Master techniques to create believable natural surface materials Take your models to the next level of realism or artistic development by using the material and texture settings within Blender 2.5. Take the hassle out of material simulation by applying faster and more efficient material and texture strategies Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a logically organized according to the surface types with clear instructions and explanations on how these recipes can be applied across a range of materials including complex materials such as oceans, smoke, fire and explosions. In Detail Blender 2.5 is one of the most usable 3D suites available. Its material and texture function...

Combine the power of PHP and MongoDB to build dynamic web 2.0 applications Learn to build PHP-powered dynamic web applications using MongoDB as the data backend Handle user sessions, store real-time site analytics, build location-aware web apps, and much more, all using MongoDB and PHP Full of step-by-step instructions and practical examples, along with challenges to test and improve your knowledge In Detail With the rise of Web 2.0, the need for a highly scalable database, capable of storing diverse user-generated content is increasing. MongoDB, an open-source, non-relational database has stepped up to meet this demand and is being used in some of the most popular websites in the world. MongoDB is one of the NoSQL databases which is gaining popul...