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Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring

This book will show you how to work with Zenoss and effectively adapt Zenoss for a System and Network monitoring. Starting with the Zenoss basics, it requires no existing systems management knowledge, and whether or not you can recite MIB trees and OIDs from memory is irrelevant. Advanced users will be able to identify ways in which they can customize the system to do more, while less advanced users will appreciate the ease of use Zenoss provides.
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NetBeans is a free, opensource Integrated Development Environment(IDE) for software developers. This IDE provides many good tools that are required to create professional, desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications using the Java language. We can also create reports in NetBeans, if the iReport plugin is installed. So far, we have created different types of reports with the iReport standalone version In this article by Shamsuddin Ahammad, author of iReport 3.7, we will learn about:

• Installing the iReport plugins in NetBeans
• Creating different types of reports inside the NetBeans IDE

Buy Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide ebook and Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration ebook and get 50% discount on both. Just enter joopk18 in the 'Promotion Code' field and click 'Update' during checkout. The discount will be applied.

Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development

A comprehensive guide to using RadRails to develop your Ruby on Rails projects in a professional and productive manner, This book is a comprehensive guide to using RadRails during the whole development cycle, It provides Code Assistance, Graphical Debugger, Testing, Integrated Console. With this book you can also manage your gems, plug-ins, servers, generators, and Rake tasks among other things.
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Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -EJB 3 Developer Guide

This book covers the core elements of EJB 3 technology, exploring them in a concise manner with many supporting examples. You will gain a thorough understanding of EJB 3 technology and learn about the most important features of EJB 3 quickly.
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Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -EJB 3 Developer Guide

This book will teach you the core elements of EJB 3 technology. You will gain a rapid introduction to the EJB 3 essentials while learning about the underlying principles, create Entities, Message-Driven Beans, Session Beans and their clients, look at running an EJB client from an application client container, learn how to package and deploy an EJB use JQPL and explore the entity manager interface among other things.
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This article is a quick installation reference for Drupal, the required Drupal modules, and Ubercart. Ubercart is not a standalone e-commerce application, but it comes as a Drupal module. That means you have to first install Drupal and all the required Drupal modules on a server with the minimum requirements, before installing Ubercart. The topics that we will discuss in this article by George Papadongonas and Yiannis Doxaras, authors of Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x, are:

• Minimum requirements for Ubercart installation
• Creating a local environment using a web server, PHP, and a database server
• Using a commercial hosting service
• Downloading and installing Drupal and Ubercart
• Using UberDrupal, an Ubercart installation profile

In the article CMS Made Simple 1.6: Getting Started with an E-commerce Website, we covered Products module. In this article by Sofia Hauschildt, author of CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide, we will learn about a solution made of following modules:

• Cart
• SelfRegistration (optional)
• Orders
• PaypalGateway (optional)

This article by Sofia Hauschildt, author of CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide, covers the Products module which will be the heart of your e-commerce solution. This module is the place where products that you would like to sell in your shop are saved. Generally, it is possible to use any other module for the solution, but this would imply that you have to make some heavy modifications to your templates and, probably, the PHP code of the modules.

In this article by Brian Bondari, author of WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce, we will discuss the elements that concern us during and after a customer goes through the checkout process. These essential elements include tax configuration, shipping settings, and e-mail issues. We will also walk through a complete transaction from customer and store-owner perspectives, testing all variables. Effectively, what we want to ensure is that the entire checkout process works smoothly for all involved. We want to ensure that any applicable taxes and shipping charges are calculated correctly, and that both the customer and store owner receive accurate notifications about any orders. Be sure to test these processes thoroughly—the last thing you want to do is hurt your business by keeping customers uninformed or by under or overcharging for taxes and shipping. This article covers:

• Locations and tax setup
• Shipping Options and Calculators
• Processing a test order
• E-mails sent to you and the customer
• Sales log

Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming

This book will help you to write clean, manageable code for your Java applications quickly, utilizing the combined power of Spring and AOP. You will master the concepts of AOP by developing several real-life AOP-based applications with the Spring Framework, implementing the basic components of Spring AOP: Advice, Joinpoint, Pointcut, and Advisor.
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Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Django 1.0 Template Development 2008

This book will help you to master the Django template system.You will learn how to serve multiple templates from within the same Django project, with an example of how to serve different templates for a mobile version of your site without having to change any code in your views.Pagination, internationalization, caching, and customization of the automatic admin application are also covered.
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Buy MySQL Admin Cookbook ebook and AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications 2nd Edition ebook and get 50% discount on both. Just enter msac1ap in the 'Promotion Code' field and click 'Update' during checkout. The discount will be applied.

Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008

This concise guide will lead you through the bewildering range of features offered by Visual Studio Team System 2008 to test your software applications before going live. It is packed with simple examples and screenshots to get you comfortable with the VS Team System 2008 testing environment.The book introduces you to the main types of testing available in VS Team System 2008 for both desktop and web applications, and then walks you through deploying, running, and interpreting the results of tests. If you've been testing applications in Visual Studio 2005, the book will show you how you can move this easily to Visual Studio 2008.You will learn about the Unit test, Manual test, Web test, Load test, Ordered test, and Generic test, and the support for them in VS Team System 2008. By the end of the book you will be using the tools to manage and run your tests, collect and analyze your test results, and improve the reliability of your software applications.
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A Type-Ahead TextInput is feature common to modern day web forms. Quite simply, it is a way to allow the user to enter free text into a field and simultaneously display a list of possible choices based on the text they've already entered. It does so in a way that does not interfere with the users choice of input. In this article by Keith Lee, we will use Flex and build a AutoComplete TextInput.

Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Apache Geronimo 2.1: Quick Reference

The book will introduce you to the exciting features of Apache Geronimo Application Server. You will see how easily you can develop and deploy Java EE 5 applications on Geronimo. It covers everything from downloading the server to customizing it using custom GBeans. By following the practical examples in this book, you will be able to develop applications quickly using Geronimo Eclipse Plugin.
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Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers

Java ME allows us to write applications that are, generally speaking, portable across a wide range of small devices that support the platform. While the basic functionalities usually work well on all supported devices, the area that does pose problems for developers is the User Interface. Native implementations of javax.microedition.lcdui – the primary API for UIs in Java ME – differ so widely from one device to another that maintaining a device-independent and uniform look and feel is virtually impossible.
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Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -AsteriskNOW

AsteriskNOW is an open-source Software Appliance from Digium: a customized Linux distribution, which includes Asterisk (the leading open-source telephony engine and tool kit), the AsteriskGUI, and all the other software needed for an Asterisk telephony system. AsteriskNOW is easy to install. It allows you to deploy Asterisk quickly and easily, and offers flexibility, functionality and features that are available only in expensive proprietary business systems.
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In this article by Andrew Schwabe, we will learn how to setup the basic structure of a website using CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), and adding the capability to render any page as a PDF dynamically using Railo open source.

In this article by Andrew Schwabe,we will discuss about Railo in general, Railo Vs ColdFusion and also see a few examples.