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Pro Drupal Development

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:05:47 +0100

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a variety of community-driven sites, including blogs, forums, wiki-style sites, and much more. Pro Drupal Development was written to arm you with knowledge to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. The book assumes that you already possess the knowledge to install and bring a standard installation online. Then authors John VanDyk and Matt Westgate delve into Drupal internals, showing you how to truly take advantage of its powerful architecture.

Everyman

Robert Douglass — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:05:43 +0200

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:03 +0200

Walk through the development of complete Drupal 6 modules with this primer for PHP programmers, written specifically for Drupal 6 to get you started coding your first module. With great power comes... tremendous flexibility. Drupal is an award-winning open-source Content Management System, and the feature-packed sixth release is right around the corner. It's a modular system, with an elegant hook-based architecture, and great code. These are a few of the perks that make Drupal a choice platform for developers who want the power of an established CMS, but the freedom to make it work for them. From social networking to AJAX to e-commerce, the hundreds of existing modules attest to Drupal's flexibility. When you create a new module for Drupal, it fits seamlessly into the look and feel of your overall site. If you can think it in PHP, you can code it as a Drupal module.

Schubert: The Complete Impromptus

Robert Douglass — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:04:36 +0100

An Equal Music: A Novel

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:09 +0100

The violinist hero of Vikram Seth’s third novel would very much like to be hearing secret harmonies. Instead, living in London 10 years after a key disaster, Michael Holme is easily irritated by his beautiful young (and even French!) girlfriend and by his colleagues in the Maggiore Quartet. In short, he’s fed up with playing second fiddle in life and art. Yet a chance encounter with Julia, the pianist he had loved and lost in Vienna, brings Michael sudden bliss. Her situation, however—and the secret that may end her career—threatens to undo the lovers.

An Equal Music is a fraction of the size of Seth’s A Suitable Boy, but is still deliciously expansive. In under 400 pages, the author offers up exquisite complexities, personal and lyrical, while deftly fielding any fears that he’s composed a Harlequin for highbrows.

Portrait

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:45:12 +0100

Front End Drupal (Developer's Library)

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:25 +0200

Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:05:48 +0100

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D537, D568, D840

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:37:52 +0100

Violinsonaten: Linus Roth, José Gallardo

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:54 +0100

Practical Drupal: Evaluating and Using a Web Content Management System

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:09:11 +0100

Explaining the fundamental concepts necessary to understand how a Web content management system (CMS) works, and how Drupal in particular operates, this guide is basic enough for beginners with no prior CMS experience. First an evaluation guide helps the reader to decide if Drupal is the CMS needed and includes a tutorial to get a useful site up and running in less than a day. After that, Drupal’s administration, content management, how to build and manage installation, and modifying and extending functionality are all explained in detail.

Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:09:12 +0100

A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.

Sonaten für Violoncello und Klavier

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:46:59 +0100

Men at Arms

Robert Douglass — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:36:53 +0200

A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It's a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign! And his name is Carrott... And so begins the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which the fate of a city—indeed of the universe itself!—depends on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic, and a three-legged poodle's bladder.

Pro JavaScript Techniques (Pro)

Robert Douglass — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:09:04 +0100

Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesn’t waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.

Expert web developer and author John Resig concentrates on fundamental, vital topics&emdash;what modern JavaScripting is (and isn’t), the current state of browser support, and pitfalls to be wary of. The book is organized into four sections:

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:03 +0100

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes. This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as they work through their project’s architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to break rules. Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.

Drupal - Der schnelle Einstieg

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:27 +0200

Leonard Bernstein Conducts Sibelius (Collectors Edition)

Robert Douglass — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:35:06 +0100

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:03 +0200

Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.

Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:01 +0200

Widely praised for its in–depth coverage of Drupal internals, bestselling Pro Drupal Development has been completely updated for Drupal 6 in this latest edition, and there are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer. Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard installation online, John K. VanDyk gives you everything else you need to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition delves deep into Drupal internals, showing you how to take full advantage of its powerful architecture.

Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Robert Douglass — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:53:17 +0100

Leonard Bernstein's earlier recording of this symphony for Sony was, and remains, one of the best. This new one, however, really is something special. As in his recording of the First with this orchestra, Bernstein's tempos have markedly speeded up, especially in the slow movement. He seems to have really discovered the secret of the music's essential innocence, and he now knows exactly when to make a point and when to just let the music speak naturally. The use of a boy soprano in the finale is unique but not unexpected. Mahler himself thought about it but opted for an adult soprano because he believed that this would prove less limiting to future performances of the work. He was right, of course, but so is Bernstein for letting us hear the composer's original thoughts in such a pure and enjoyable form. --David Hurwitz

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier [Highlights]

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:13:32 +0100

Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:46:39 +0100

Simon & Garfunkel have two 3-CD box sets collecting their entire career output, one with out-takes and live recordings, but the duo who were among the bestselling acts of the 1960s only recorded five studio albums throughout the entire 1960s! Their studio perfectionism is never better served than here. This greatest hits is simple and to the point, a perfect collection for anyone looking to get the basic idea (and hits) without committing to a more serious relationship. The harmonies, Paul Simon’s masterful songwriting, Garfunkel’s soaring choirboy voice, are all here. —Rob O’Connor

Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:20:17 +0100

Intense is the word for Ender’s Game. Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses — and then training them in the arts of war… The early training, not surprisingly, takes the form of ‘games’… Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games… He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet?

Drupal 5 Themes

Robert Douglass — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:09:12 +0100

This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource to even experienced theme developers.

Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce (From Technologies to Solutions)

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:04 +0200

This book will show you how to sell online using the award-winning open-source Drupal web application. No prior experience of Drupal is required; you will learn all you need as you step through the creation of an online shop. You will learn the basics of Drupal, and see how to use the standard features of Drupal to begin construction of an online shop, and improve the selling interface, handling of orders, and reporting with new modules and other customizations.

This Book Will Save Your Life

Robert Douglass — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:55:10 +0200

Schubert: Music for piano duet [Box Set]

Robert Douglass — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:15:16 +0100

Drupal Essential Training

Robert Douglass — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:05 +0200

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for a variety of platforms. It has a robust user community and easy-to-use administration features. Drupal Essential Training covers all the important aspects of installing, configuring, customizing, and maintaining a Drupal-powered website. Instructor Tom Geller explores blogs, discussion forums, member profiles, and other features while demonstrating the steps required to make Drupal perform. He also teaches fundamental concepts and skills along the way, including installation, backups, and updates; security and permissions; flexible page layouts and CSS; menu navigation; and performance monitoring and disaster recovery. He also discusses how to select and install the community-supported modules that further expand Drupal's capabilities, and gives experienced PHP programmers tips on customizing page templates. Example files accompany the course.