Summary

Ext JS in Action, Second Edition teaches Ext JS from the ground up. You’ll start with a quick overview of the framework and then explore the core components by diving into complete examples, engaging illustrations, and crisp, straightforward explanations. You’ll feel like you have an expert guide right at your elbow teaching you important Ext techniques and offering insight into its inner workings. Along the way, you’ll learn the best practices for building and scaling full-featured web applications, including how to customize and build Ext widgets. Fully revised for Ext JS 4.0.

About this BookM

Ext JS is a mature JavaScript web application framework that provides modern UI widgets and an advanced MVC architecture. It helps you manage tedious boilerplate and minimize hand-coded HTML and browser incompatibilities.

Ext JS in Action, Second Edition starts with a quick overview of the framework and then explores the core components by diving into complete examples, engaging illustrations, and clear explanations. You’ll feel like you have an expert guide at your elbow as you learn the best practices for building and scaling full-featured web applications.

A working knowledge of JavaScript is assumed. No prior experience with Ext JS is required.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What’s Inside

• Building professional web apps with Ext JS
• Stamping out DOM fragments with templates
• Customizing and building Ext widgets
• Masterful UI design
• Fully revised for Ext JS version 4.0

About the Authors

Jay Garcia is a well-known member of the Ext JS community and a contributor to the framework. He wrote Sencha Touch in Action. Grgur Grisogono founded SourceDevCon in London, UK and Split, Croatia. Jacob Andresen is a consultant specializing in large scale internet applications. Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO EXT JS 4.0

1. A framework apart
2. DOM manipulation
3. Components and containers
   

   PART 2 EXT JS COMPONENTS

   
   

4. Core UI components
5. Exploring layouts
6. Forms in Ext JS
7. The data store
8. The grid panel
9. Taking root with trees
10. Drawing and charting
11. Remote method invocation with Ext Direct
12. Drag-and-drop

PART 3 BUILDING AN APPLICATION

13. Class system foundations
14. Building an application

Summary

HTML5 in Action provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. You’ll explore every aspect of the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It’s much more than just a specification reference, though. It lives up to the name HTML5 in Action by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you’ll need to use key features.

About the Technology

HTML5 is not a few new tags and features added to an old standard—it’s the foundation of the modern web, enabling its interactive services, single-page UI, interactive games, and complex business applications. With support for standards-driven mobile app development, powerful features like local storage and WebSockets, superb audio and video APIs, and new layout options using CSS3, SVG, and Canvas, HTML5 has entered its prime time.

About the Book

HTML5 in Action provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. It explores the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It earns the name “in Action” by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you’ll need to confidently build the sites and applications you—and your clients—have been wanting for years.

This book concentrates on new HTML5 features and assumes you are familiar with standard HTML.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What’s Inside

• New semantic elements and form input types
• Single-page application design
• Creating interactive graphics
• Mobile web apps

About the Authors

Rob Crowther is a web developer and blogger and the author of Manning’s Hello! HTML5 & CSS3. Joe Lennon is an enterprise mobile application developer. Ash Blue builds award-winning interactive projects. Greg Wanish is an independent web and eCommerce developer.

Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION

1. HTML5: from documents to applications

PART 2 BROWSER-BASED APPS

2. Form creation: input widgets, data binding, and data validation
3. File editing and management: rich formatting, file storage, drag and drop
4. Messaging: communicating to and from scripts in HTML5
5. Mobile applications: client storage and offline execution

PART 3 INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS, MEDIA, AND GAMING

6. 2D Canvas: low-level, 2D graphics rendering
7. SVG: responsive in-browser graphics
8. Video and audio: playing media in the browser
9. WebGL: 3D application development

• Plus 10 Appendixes

Summary

Kanban in Action is a down-to-earth, no-frills, get-to-know-the-ropes introduction to kanban. It’s based on the real-world experience and observations from two kanban coaches who have introduced this process to dozens of teams. You’ll learn the principles of why kanban works, as well as nitty-gritty details like how to use different color stickies on a kanban board to help you organize and track your work items.

About the Book

Too much work and too little time? If this is daily life for your team, you need kanban, a lean knowledge-management method designed to involve all team members in continuous improvement of your process.

Kanban in Action is a practical introduction to kanban. Written by two kanban coaches who have taught the method to dozens of teams, the book covers techniques for planning and forecasting, establishing meaningful metrics, visualizing queues and bottlenecks, and constructing and using a kanban board.

Written for all members of the development team, including leaders, coders, and business stakeholders. No experience with kanban is required.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What’s Inside

• How to focus on work in process and finish faster
• Examples of successful implementations
• How team members can make informed decisions

About the Authors

Marcus Hammarberg is a kanban coach and software developer with experience in BDD, TDD, Specification by Example, Scrum, and XP. Joakim Sundén is an agile coach at Spotify who cofounded the first kanban user groups in Europe.

Table of Contents

PART 1 LEARNING KANBAN

1. Team Kanbaneros gets started
   

   PART 2 UNDERSTANDING KANBAN

2. Kanban principles
3. Visualizing your work
4. Work items
5. Work in process
6. Limiting work in process
7. Managing flow

PART 3 ADVANCED KANBAN

8. Classes of service
9. Planning and estimating
10. Process improvement
11. Using metrics to guide improvements
12. Kanban pitfalls
13. Teaching kanban through games

Summary

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a practical, hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. It skips the theory and concentrates on the day-to-day administration tasks you need to know to keep your network running smoothly. Just set aside an hour a day for a month—lunchtime would be perfect—and you’ll be comfortable and productive with Active Directory before you know it.

About the Book

At the heart of your Windows network is Active Directory, the control center for administration, security, and other core management functions. If you’re new to Active Directory administration—or if you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into that role—you’ll need to get up to speed fast.

Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches is a hands-on tutorial designed for IT pros new to Active Directory. Without assuming previous administration experience, the book starts by walking you through the most important day-to-day system management tasks. You’ll learn how to administer AD both from the GUI tools built into Windows and by using PowerShell at the command line. Along the way, you’ll touch on best practices for managing user access, setting group policies, automating backups, and more.

This book assumes no prior experience with Active Directory or Windows administration. Examples are based in Windows Server 2012

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What’s Inside

• ADM tasks you’ll need every day
• GUI and command line techniques
• Content tested by new administrators
• Well-illustrated, clearly explained examples

About the Author

Richard Siddaway is an experienced all-around Windows administrator with two decades of experience. He’s the author of PowerShell in Practice andPowerShell and WMI, and coauthor of PowerShell in Depth.

Table of Contents

PART 1 MANAGING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DATA

1. Before you begin
2. Creating user accounts
3. Managing user accounts
4. Managing groups
5. Troubleshooting users and groups
6. Managing computer accounts
7. Managing organizational units

PART 2 MANAGING GROUP POLICY

8. Creating Group Policies
9. Managing Group Policies
10. Fine-grained password policies

PART 3 MANAGING THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICE

11. Creating domain controllers
12. Managing domain controllers
13. Protecting AD data
14. Security: Default groups and delegation
15. Managing DNS
16. Managing sites and subnets
17. AD replication
18. Managing AD trusts

PART 4 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING

19. Troubleshooting your AD
20. Maintaining and monitoring Active Directory
21. Future work and final exam
22. Into the cloud

Summary

The Mikado Method is a book written by the creators of this process. It describes a pragmatic, straightforward, and empirical method to plan and perform non-trivial technical improvements on an existing software system. The method has simple rules, but the applicability is vast. As you read, you’ll practice a step-by-step system for identifying the scope and nature of your technical debt, mapping the key dependencies, and determining the safest way to approach the “Mikado”—your goal.

About the Technology

The game “pick-up sticks” is a good metaphor for the Mikado Method. You eliminate “technical debt” —the legacy problems embedded in nearly every software system— by following a set of easy-to-implement rules. You carefully extract each intertwined dependency until you expose the central issue, without collapsing the project.

About the Book

The Mikado Method presents a pragmatic process to plan and perform nontrivial technical improvements on an existing software system. The book helps you practice a step-by-step system for identifying the scope and nature of your technical debt, mapping the key dependencies, and determining a safe way to approach the “Mikado”—your goal. A natural by-product of this process is the Mikado Graph, a roadmap that reflects deep understanding of how your system works. This book builds on agile processes such as refactoring, TDD, and rapid feedback. It requires no special hardware or software and can be practiced by both small and large teams.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What’s Inside

• Understand your technical debt
• Surface the dependencies in legacy systems
• Isolate and resolve core concerns while creating minimal disruption
• Create a roadmap for your changes

About the Authors

Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund are developers, coaches, and team leaders. They developed the Mikado Method in response to years of experience resolving technical debt in complex legacy systems.

Table of Contents

PART 1 THE BASICS OF THE MIKADO METHOD

1. Meet the Mikado Method
2. Hello, Mikado Method!
3. Goals, graphs, and guidelines
4. Organizing your work

PART 2 PRINCIPLES AND PATTERNS FOR IMPROVING SOFTWARE

5. Breaking up a monolith
6. Emergent design
7. Common restructuring patterns

If you’re a .NET developer looking to build tablet apps, this practical book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing apps for the Windows Store. You’ll learn how to use Microsoft’s Modern UI design language with Windows 8.1 and WinRT 8.1.1 by building a line-of-business mobile app with C# through the course of the book.

To develop the app, you’ll work with the same system details and design specs that apply to retail apps, such as persistence, backend service, and Windows 8 features for sharing and search. You’ll learn how to develop the code, incorporate third-party open source products, and package your app for the Windows Store.

• Build a UI with XAML and the Model/View/View-Model pattern
• Understand asynchrony—and rediscover threads and parallelism
• Store data and system settings locally with SQLite
• Use app bars for commands and the settings charm for Help options
• Present notifications as tile updates, badges, or toast popups
• Help users visualize locations and tag activities to a map
• Enable apps to share data and run side-by-side in the UI
• Implement functionality for running tasks in the background

Welcome to our multi-device world, a world where a user’s experience with one application can span many devices—a smartphone, a tablet, a computer, the TV, and beyond. This practical book demonstrates the variety of ways devices relate to each other, combining to create powerful ensembles that deliver superior, integrated experiences to your users.

• Learn a practical framework for designing multi-device experiences, based on the 3Cs—Consistent, Complementary, and Continuous approaches
• Graduate from offering everything on all devices, to delivering the right thing, at the right time, on the best (available) device
• Apply the 3Cs framework to the broader realm of the Internet of Things, and design multi-device experiences that anticipate a fully connected world
• Learn how to measure your multi-device ecosystem performance
• Get ahead of the curve by designing for a more connected future

Traditional intrusion detection and logfile analysis are no longer enough to protect today’s complex networks. In this practical guide, security researcher Michael Collins shows you several techniques and tools for collecting and analyzing network traffic datasets. You’ll understand how your network is used, and what actions are necessary to protect and improve it.

Divided into three sections, this book examines the process of collecting and organizing data, various tools for analysis, and several different analytic scenarios and techniques. It’s ideal for network administrators and operational security analysts familiar with scripting.

• Explore network, host, and service sensors for capturing security data
• Store data traffic with relational databases, graph databases, Redis, and Hadoop
• Use SiLK, the R language, and other tools for analysis and visualization
• Detect unusual phenomena through Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
• Identify significant structures in networks with graph analysis
• Determine the traffic that’s crossing service ports in a network
• Examine traffic volume and behavior to spot DDoS and database raids
• Get a step-by-step process for network mapping and inventory

Create high-performance, visually stunning 3D applications for the Web, using HTML5 and related technologies such as CSS3 and WebGL—the emerging web graphics standard. With this book, you’ll learn how to use the tools, frameworks, and libraries for building 3D models and animations, mind-blowing visual effects, and advanced user interaction in both desktop and mobile browsers.

In two parts—Foundations and Application Development Techniques—author Tony Parisi provides a thorough grounding in theory and practice for designing everything from a simple 3D product viewer to immersive games and interactive training systems. Ideal for developers with Javascript and HTML experience.

• Explore HTML5 APIs and related technologies for creating 3D web graphics, including WebGL, Canvas, and CSS
• Work with the popular JavaScript 3D rendering and animation libraries Three.js and Tween.js
• Delve into the 3D content creation pipeline, and the modeling and animation tools for creating killer 3D content
• Look into several game engines and frameworks for building 3D applications, including the author’s Vizi framework
• Create 3D environments with multiple objects and complex interaction, using examples and supporting code
• Examine the issues involved in building WebGL-based 3D applications for mobile browsers

By taking you through the development of a real web application from beginning to end, this hands-on guide demonstrates the practical advantages of test-driven development (TDD) with Python. You’ll learn how to write and run tests before building each part of your app, and then develop the minimum amount of code required to pass those tests. The result? Clean code that works.

In the process, you’ll learn the basics of Django, Selenium, Git, jQuery, and Mock, along with current web development techniques. If you’re ready to take your Python skills to the next level, this book clearly demonstrates how TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence.

• Dive into the TDD workflow, including the unit test/code cycle and refactoring
• Use unit tests for classes and functions, and functional tests for user interactions within the browser
• Learn when and how to use mock objects, and the pros and cons of isolated vs. integrated tests
• Test and automate your deployments with a staging server
• Apply tests to the third-party plugins you integrate into your site
• Use a Continuous Integration environment to run your tests automatically

Like it or not, JavaScript is everywhere these days—from browser to server to mobile—and now you, too, need to learn the language or dive deeper than you have. This concise book guides you into and through JavaScript, written by a veteran programmer who once found himself in the same position.

Speaking JavaScript helps you approach the language with four standalone sections. First, a quick-start guide teaches you just enough of the language to help you be productive right away. More experienced JavaScript programmers will find a complete and easy-to-read reference that covers each language feature in depth. Complete contents include:

• JavaScript quick start: Familiar with object-oriented programming? This part helps you learn JavaScript quickly and properly.
• JavaScript in depth: Learn details of ECMAScript 5, from syntax, variables, functions, and object-oriented programming to regular expressions and JSON with lots of examples. Pick a topic and jump in.
• Background: Understand JavaScript’s history and its relationship with other programming languages.
• Tips, tools, and libraries: Survey existing style guides, best practices, advanced techniques, module systems, package managers, build tools, and learning resources.

Grasp the fundamentals of web application development by building a simple database-backed app from scratch, using HTML, JavaScript, and other open source tools. Through hands-on tutorials, this practical guide shows inexperienced web app developers how to create a user interface, write a server, build client-server communication, and use a cloud-based service to deploy the application.

Each chapter includes practice problems, full examples, and mental models of the development workflow. Ideal for a college-level course, this book helps you get started with web app development by providing you with a solid grounding in the process.

• Set up a basic workflow with a text editor, version control system, and web browser
• Structure a user interface with HTML, and include styles with CSS
• Use JQuery and JavaScript to add interactivity to your application
• Link the client to the server with AJAX, JavaScript objects, and JSON
• Learn the basics of server-side programming with Node.js
• Store data outside your application with Redis and MongoDB
• Share your application by uploading it to the cloud with CloudFoundry
• Get basic tips for writing maintainable code on both client and server

Add custom features to browsers old and new by writing polyfill libraries, JavaScript plugins that take browsers beyond their native capabilities. In this practical fieldbook, author Brandon Satrom introduces principles and guidelines for polyfill development, and then walks you through the steps for building a complex, real-world HTML5 polyfill.

You’ll also explore the future of polyfilling—or prollyfilling—that will enable you to test and work with emerging concepts, often ahead of browser vendors. By the time you finish this book, you’ll have the tools and hands-on experience you need to build reliable polyfills for today’s and tomorrow’s Web.

• Learn the current state of polyfills, including shims, opt-ins, and drop-ins
• Use principles and practices to build responsible polyfills that benefit the entire web development community
• Build out several features for an HTML5 Forms polyfill library
• Configure a build environment and run automated cross-browser testing
• Optimize performance, handle edge cases, and fine-tune the speed of your polyfill
• Get examples of prollyfilling libraries that push the boundaries of the Web
• Write a sample prollyfill and compare it to current polyfill builds

If you want your Drupal website to work well on smartphones, tablets, and desktops, this practical guide shows you how to incorporate Responsive Web Design (RWD) with specific Drupal 7 themes. You’ll learn how to create attractive, easy-to-navigate layouts for everything from tiny phone screens to 30-inch desktop monitors—all with the same codebase.

Ideal for experienced Drupal developers, this book takes you through RWD basics and shows you how to build sites based on Aurora, Zen, and Omega—three popular base themes created by Drupal contributors. Whether you’re creating a new site with RWD or adapting an existing one, you’ll learn how to become a better, more efficient Drupal themer.

• Understand how Responsive Web Design and CSS media queries work
• Learn how the Sass stylesheet language and Compass framework support RWD
• Adopt a mobile-first approach to RWD—and learn why it’s important
• Get step-by-step instructions for creating custom subthemes on top of Aurora, Zen, and Omega
• Tackle common problems when building and theming responsive Drupal sites
• Explore alternative options for accommodating smartphone and tablet users