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Here is a list of some of the ExtJS Books, one is already published, others should be out later this year:
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Learning ExtJS
This book has already been published and is available for purchase. As the first and currently only book available, it is quite a useful reference.
What you will learn from this book?
- Create responsive forms
- Look at Web Applications from an entirely new perspective
- Learn to use the major UI components available in Ext JS
- Understand how external data can be consumed by Ext JS
- Query and process remote data into your application
- Use Layouts to bring all of the Ext JS pieces together
- Use Ext JS effects to manipulate the DOM in exciting ways
- Provide a consistent look and feel to your application using Components
- Change the visual style of Ext JS using theming support
- Find Custom Community Extensions to expand your applications
- Create your own custom library extensions
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Practical ExtJS Projects with Gears
This promises to be an exciting book focussing on practical case studies, and also integrate offline usage with Google Gears.
Expected in July 2009
What you’ll learn
- Get an understanding of one of today’s hottest JavaScript frameworks and libraries, Ext JS.
- Develop interesting Web 2.0 “front ends,” RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), and more.
- Create a number of applications from the projects or pragmatic case studies that the author gives you.
- Create an organizer, timekeeper, a code cabinet, and more.
- Get back to basics and back ends using a SQL workbench, Google Gears, and Ext BASIC.
- Pull it all together by designing a game using Ext JS.
- And more…
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ExtJS in Action
Expected in January 2010, although some chapter are available with the Manning Early Access Program
http://www.manning.com/garcia/
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When Mozilla Prism was first launched, I honestly never gave it much thought as to it’s usefulness, or why anyone would want to use it. Today, it is such an essential tool for me. Let me explain.
Getting a printer installed on Ubuntu is easy, plug-and-play generally works. Getting a PDF printer working is also easy. To install it, one has to open a terminal or Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager).
In a terminal, enter:
sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
It will ask you for your password when you press enter. Or in Synaptic, do a search for: cups-pdf.
Now one step that has to be done manually otherwise it doesn’t work. In your home directory, create a folder called PDF (all in caps).
After this, you’ll see an option for PDF in the printer’s list, and printing to PDF.
About a month ago, I decided to ditch Windows Vista, and move back to Ubuntu. It was kind of a reluctant decision since:
- I sometimes develop on Visual Studio which requires Windows
- DELL’s software management is awesome, and one just has to enter your service tag to get a list of driver’s you need, etc.
However, Vista’s sluggish performance and slow boot-up times, became too irritating too bear.
I also have to admit that with my previous UWC laptop, I kind-of had it tuned up as a developer machine, nice-and-fast, great apps, removal of non-essential features. It’s a journey and adventure to rediscover that. Follow my next blog posts as I attempt to retrace those steps, the things they don’t tell you, and stuff I’ve just plain forgotten! Also some of my notes on getting VirtualBox working.
Adobe launched a program earlier this month whereby it is giving its Flex Builder 3 Professional software free of charge to developers who have been hit by current economic conditions and are out of work. To participate in the program, unemployed developers must attest that the software will be used only for personal use and skill-building—not for any production or commercial purposes. In exchange, they get a free copy of Flex Builder 3′s Professional version, which is normally priced at USD 699.
Sometimes I come across use of technology that really blasts me away. This is a really cool concept, instant translations via twitter, if only the service was up more often. Imagine if we hooked this into a text to speech synthesizer as well:
Twanslate, although it does sound like a Tweety bird styled mispronunciation, is, in reality, a Twitter mashup for on the fly translations. It works quite well for when you’re lost in a foreign land and have nothing but your mobile on hand. Simply send out a message (e.g. ‘d twanslate bg [for bulgarian] Where is the nearest toilet?’) to the @twanslate bot, and you’ll be able to get yourself out of sticky situations in a bucket load of languages. The bot remembers the last language code you used, so if you’re still keen on using it, you can skip the language code in your next message. If you need some extra pointers, send out the message ‘help’.
See:
People will be familar with symlinks in Linux, but this feature has also made its way into Vista now.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/
I’ve always preferred Fireworks over other graphic software, because it suits me as a developer, design by guides, boxes, etc., not really the designer. Here is an extension thats an absolute time saver.
Imagine you have to place alot of guides on a page, each having an equal spacing in between. This extension does that for you. Simply tell it the horizontal and vertical offset.
I’ve already posted on how to get innodb on xampp for windows. Here’s the instructions for linux assuming Ubuntu.
Open a command line and enter:
sudo gedit /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf
Find the line that says:
skip-innodb
Add a hash (#) in front of that so that the line looks like:
#skip-innodb
Restart MySQL and you should have InnoDB enabled!
As usual, I could have got this right first time if my brain registered better. Assuming you have the latester version. First of all, you NEED the Xampp Development Package. Go to the download page at: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374
You’ll find:
- Xampp Download Version 1.x.x
- Xampp Upgrade Version
- Xampp Development Version
You’d never guess how long it took me to find this. The next step to remember is:
- Xampp Development Version is an ADDITIONAL package, not a replacement package. You still need to download the full version if you are doing this for the first time, and do not remove your existing version if you have one. Would be wise to back up though – just in case.
Once you have uncompressed the archive, you’ll have access to phpize that you need. From there, you can proceed to install from source – see http://xdebug.org/install.php. For some reason, the PECL installation didn’t work for me.
I'm a Web Developer living in Cape Town, South Africa. Interests include: PHP, JQuery, ExtJS, Adobe AIR, Linux, Ubuntu, WordPress, Human Rights, Usability, Multimedia