Open Source Books
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Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Akkana Peck, Apress
Author Akkana Peck demonstrates the usage of layer masks in GIMP with a little help from Tux. From first installation to advanced image manipulation techniques, Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition explains how anyone can utilize The GIMP: a free, open source image manipulation program. You will learn how to install The GIMP on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X platforms.
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Pro Django (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Marty Alchin, Apress
Django is the leading Python web application development framework. Learn how to leverage the Django web framework to its full potential in this advanced tutorial and reference. Endorsed by Django, Pro Django more or less picks up where The Definitive Guide to Django left off and examines in greater detail the unusual and complex problems that Python web application developers can face and how to solve them.
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Pro Visual C++/CLI and the .NET 3.5 Platform
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Stephen R. G. Fraser, Apress
Pro Visual C++/CLI and the .NET 3.5 Platform is about writing .NET applications using C++/CLI. While readers are learning the ins and outs of .NET application development, they will also be learning the syntax of C++, both old and new to .NET. Readers will also gain a good understanding of the .NET architecture. This is truly a .NET book applying C++ as its development languageānot another C++ syntax book that happens to cover .NET.
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Practical CakePHP Projects
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Richard Miller, John Omokore, Kai Chan, Apress
If you’ve been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you’ll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP. PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more.
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Pro Ubuntu Server Administration
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Sander van Vugt, Apress
Pro Ubuntu Server Administration teaches you advanced Ubuntu system building. After reading this book, you will be able to manage anything from simple file servers to multiple virtual servers to high–availability clusters. This is the capstone volume of the Apress Ubuntu trilogy that includes Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition and Beginning Ubuntu Server LTS Administration: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition.
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Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Darl Kuhn, Bernard Lopuz, Charles Kim, Apress
Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example–based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of Linux documentation. The book is task–oriented: Look up the task to perform. See the solution. Read up on the details. Get the job done.
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Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Peter Seebach, Apress
Portable shell scripting is today the future of modern Linux, OS X, and Unix command–line access. Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional teaches shell scripting by using the common core of most shells and expands those principles to all of scripting. You will learn about portable scripting and how to use the same syntax and design principles for all shells.
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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Magnus Lie Hetland, Apress
Gain a fundamental understanding of Python’s syntax and features with the second edition of Beginning Python, an up–to–date introduction and practical reference. Covering a wide array of Python–related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web services, you’ll be guided by sound development principles. Ten accompanying projects will ensure you can get your hands dirty in no time.
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Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by John K. VanDyk, Apress
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.
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Foundations of C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET 3.5
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Gordon Hogenson, Apress
Foundations of C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET 3.5 introduces C++/CLI, Microsoft’s extensions to the C++ syntax that allow you to target the common language runtime, the key to the heart of the .NET Framework 3.5. This book gives you a small, fast–paced primer that will kick–start your journey into the world of C++/CLI.