Learn the basics of do-it-yourself ZFS storage on Linux. This book delivers explanations of key features and provides best practices for planning, creating and sharing your storage.

ZFS as a file system simplifies many aspects of the storage administrator's day-to-day job and solves a lot of problems that administrators face, but it can be confusing. Introducing ZFS on Linux addresses some of these issues and shows you how to resolve them. 

This book explains the technical side of ZFS, through planning the hardware list to planning the physical and logical layout of the storage.

What You'll LearnUnderstand the gains ZFS gives system and storage administrators and utilize its featuresInstall and configure ZFS softwareCreate and maintain ZFS poolAdminister ZFS storage, including sharing

Who This Book is For

This book is ideal for those who already have experience working with Linux systems but want to understand the bare basics of ZFS before moving further.

A comprehensive guide to bbPress with clear and concise instructions on expanding your WordPress site with a community forum

OverviewA step-by-step guide to creating, managing, and growing a community around your WordPress websiteLearn handy pointers from an experienced community manager to keep your forum free of hassleIntegrate bbPress functionality into WordPress with shortcodes

In Detail

Even with the rise of social media, forums remain a popular part of the Internet. bbPress allows you to increase interactivity with your WordPress website or blog by creating discussion forums within its confines.

bbPress Complete will show you how to create and manage a forum effectively. You will learn how to manage users, expand your forum with plugins, and integrate your forum into the rest of your site, whether it is a local community forum or a large website with thousands of visitors.

You will start off by learning the basics of bbPress and gradually acquire all the skills needed to run a successful bbPress community. You will learn how to integrate your forum effectively with the rest of your site, as well as how to manage the different kinds of users and much more. With clear, concise instructions detailing every aspect of the software, you will gain the knowledge required to extend bbPress using plugins and add bbPress to your WordPress theme. Furthermore, the real-world examples and clear instructions will give you all the tools you need to turn your blog into a successful community hub.

What you will learn from this bookInstall bbPress on a WordPress installation and troubleshoot common problemsManage posts, promote popular discussions, merge similar topics, and block spam, allowing your forum to growExpand the functionality of your forum with WordPress and bbPress pluginsBuild specific templates using the WordPress and bbPress templating systemGive useful information by providing a sidebar in your forum

Approach

A concise guide, written in an easy-to-follow format.

Who this book is written for

This book is aimed at ambitious website or blog owners looking to add a forum to their site quickly and easily. Basic experience in WordPress and with managing a website is expected. Knowledge of HTML and PHP will be a bonus, though it isn’t necessary.

Build Your own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system.

While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL that include:
MySQL syntaxMySQL functionsMysQL column typesPHP functions for working with MySQL

Together, PHP & MySQL form the most widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today. As a budding Web Developer, you need to learn and master PHP & MySQL.

Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven Website using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows or Linux, through to building a live Web-based content management system.

It also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP, and comes complete with a set of PHP and MySQL reference tables that include PHP and MySQL syntax, functions, column types and more.

This book not only provides easy access to all the code samples demonstrated, but, more importantly, it leaves you with the confidence and know-how to adapt the principles and techniques to your own Web design projects.

This book will show you how to:

- Build a working Content Management System Add, edit & delete Web content without using HTML

- Setup automatic backups of your database

- Increase your database security (Chapter 8)

- Optimize the loading time of your Website (Chapter 9)

- Build an ecommerce shopping cart (Chapter 12)

- Automatically send email on triggered events (Chapter 10)

- Handle file uploads using HTML forms (Chapter 10)

- Build a Web-based file repository or photo gallery

- Utilize sessions and cookies to track site visitors

- Master MySQL Database Administration. (Chapter 8)

- And a whole lot more…

Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is an essential resource for budding Web Developers. If you want to go beyond the limitations of a static site and learn to build dynamic, database-driven Websites, this book will show you how.

Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a practical guide for first-time users of PHP & MySQL that teaches readers by creating a fully working Content Management System, Shopping Cart and other real-world applications. There has been a marked increase in the adoption of PHP, most notably in the beginning to intermediate levels. PHP now boasts over 30% of the server side scripting market (Source: php.weblogs.com). The previous edition sold over 17,000 copies exclusively through Sitepoint.com alone. With the release of PHP 5, SitePoint have updated this bestseller to reflect best practice web development using PHP 5 and MySQL 4. The 3rd Edition includes more code examples and also a new bonus chapter on structured PHP Programming which introduces techniques for organizing real world PHP applications to avoid code duplication and ensure code is manageable and maintainable. The chapter introduces features like include files, user-defined function libraries and constants, which are combined to produce a fully functional access control system suitable for use on any PHP Website.

Everything you need to learn JavaScript from Scratch!

Packed with full-color examples, Simply JavaScript is a step-by-step introduction to programming in JavaScript the right way. Learn how easy it is to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events (such as mouse clicks and key strokes), and design eye-catching animations. Then move into more powerful techniques using the DOM and Ajax. Learn JavaScript's built-in functions, methods, and properties.Easily integrate JavaScript in your web site.Use JavaScript to validate form entries and interact with your users.Understand how to respond to user events.Create animations that bring your web site to life.Start programming using the DOM and Ajax.

Unlike other JavaScript books, modern best practices such as progressive enhancement, accessibility and unobtrusive scripting are used from the very beginning. All the code in the book is also cross-browser compatible and downloadable for free, so you can get started instantly!

BeagleBone is an inexpensive web server, Linux desktop, and electronics hub that includes all the tools you need to create your own projects—whether it’s robotics, gaming, drones, or software-defined radio. If you’re new to BeagleBone Black, or want to explore more of its capabilities, this cookbook provides scores of recipes for connecting and talking to the physical world with this credit-card-sized computer.

All you need is minimal familiarity with computer programming and electronics. Each recipe includes clear and simple wiring diagrams and example code to get you started. If you don’t know what BeagleBone Black is, you might decide to get one after scanning these recipes. Learn how to use BeagleBone to interact with the physical worldConnect force, light, and distance sensorsSpin servo motors, stepper motors, and DC motorsFlash single LEDs, strings of LEDs, and matrices of LEDsManage real-time input/output (I/O)Work at the Linux I/O level with shell commands, Python, and CCompile and install Linux kernelsWork at a high level with JavaScript and the BoneScript libraryExpand BeagleBone’s functionality by adding capesExplore the Internet of Things

Biosensors: From Electric Circuits to Immunosensors discusses underlying circuitry of sensors for biomedical and biological engineers as well as biomedical sensing modalities for electrical engineers while providing an applications-based approach to the study of biosensors with over 13 extensive, hands-on labs. The material is presented using a building-block approach, beginning with the fundamentals of sensor design and temperature sensors and ending with more complicated biosensors.

This book covers the new topic of GPU computing with many applications involved, taken from diverse fields such as networking, seismology, fluid mechanics, nano-materials, data-mining , earthquakes ,mantle convection, visualization. It will show the public why GPU computing is important and easy to use. It will offer a reason why GPU computing is useful and how to implement codes in an everyday situation.

Learn practical C techniques, including often-needed algorithms within reusable functions. In this book, you'll have the following code and advice at your fingertips: layout and pre-processors; control structures, iterations, and selections; pointers and structures; databases; reusability; lists, arrays, FIFO and stacks; searching and sorting; recursion; binary trees; integration; string utilities in/outside of C; web serving using Mongoose; game application code to build a MathSearch puzzle; and embedded software.
Besides providing you with modules that you can immediately put to use, Practical C also teaches you how to leverage the C language in a way that beginner books cannot achieve.

What You Will Learn:
Avoid pitfalls that can cause intractable problems
Handle lists and arrays
Perform searches and sorts
Binary trees
Take advantage of recursion
Handle exceptions
Access databases
Calculate integrals using numerical computation with practical applications
Deal with strings in a convenient, error-free way
Build a MathSearch game application, similar to WordSearch puzzle games
Deal with issues specific to embedded applications

Who This Book Is For

Programmers who have a general knowledge of C.

Whether you are targeting Mac OS X or the iPhone, at some point your Cocoa application is probably going to need to persist data. You could struggle with SQLite, generate XML, or create your own binary format. Or, you can save time and energy by taking advantage of Apple's Core Data API instead.

Core Data makes it easy for you to work with object graphs and to persist data-but there are plenty of pitfalls and issues to watch out for. This book shows you everything from versioning to integrating with Quick Look, Sync Services, and Spotlight. You'll see how to boost performance and work in multithreaded applications. You'll work with Core Data on both the desktop and the iPhone.

By the end of Core Data, you'll have built a full-featured application, gained a complete understanding of Core Data, and learned how to integrate your application into OS X.

As an extra bonus, you'll see numerous recipes that are useful in unusual situations, or even in places where you wouldn't have thought to use the Core Data API before. It will become another indispensable tool in your kit.