Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 4. A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own DotNetNuke website, and developing new modules and skins

Steve Valenzuela, Michael Washington, Daniel N. Egan, Shaun Walker, ...

DotNetNuke is an open-source Content Management System and web application framework. DotNetNuke has taken the Microsoft world by storm and now at version 4, its community has grown to over 200,000 users.This book covers virtually everything you need to know to get your DotNetNuke website up and running. Concisely written and with clear explanations, this book is covers installation, administration, deployment, site creation and all of the basic built in DotNetNuke modules. For developers, chapters on the core architecture, skinning and custom modules, including coverage of the DAL+, give you the skills to customize and extend your site.The book starts off by giving you a deep understanding of working with basic DotNetNuke sites, guiding you through the features and giving you the confidence to create and manage your site. After that, you will journey to the heart of DotNetNuke, and learn about its core architecture. Always concise, relevant and practical, you will find out what makes DotNetNuke tick, and from there, you will be ready to customize DotNetNuke. Developers will enjoy the detailed walkthrough of creating a new custom modules. Special emphasis is given to the DAL+, an extended feature set of the DotNetNuke Data Access Layer (DAL). You will see how to create custom modules with the DAL+, and invigorate your module development.Web designers will enjoy the material on skinning, helping them to create a new look for their site. You will learn about creating new skins, and packaging them up for easy deployment.You will master all of this as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 4 site.

Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino. Leverage the powerful Arduino and XBee platforms to monitor and control your surroundings

Matthijs Kooijman

Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0. A fast-paced, hands-on guide to building a 3D game for the Windows Phone 7 platform using XNA 4.0

Brecht Kets, Thomas Goussaert

With the dawn of the Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft has offered us an easy way to create 3D mobile games. In this book, we will build a 3D game for Windows Phone 7 together, taking full advantage of the graphics and touch capabilities, along with the sensors of the platform.Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0 is the book for starting game development on the Windows Phone 7 platform. This book will go over the technical aspects of building games along with designing your own framework. Finally we'll build an actual game together from the ground up! This book will set future mobile game developers in the right direction.The XNA framework empowers us to build 2D and 3D games for PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7. We will use those capabilities to create stunning 3D games for the Windows Phone 7 platform. We will start by covering the basics like drawing graphics, followed by building a custom framework and end with building a game together!In this book, we will cover drawing 2D and 3D graphics, both static and animations. We will also cover the various ways of handling user input and help set the mood of our game playing both 2D and 3D sound, and accessing the user's media library. The only thing left before building a game is covering several techniques created for making our life easier while building the game, whilst building a framework to do just that. Finally, we'll build a 3D game together that will run on the Windows Phone 7 platform.Building your First Mobile Game using XNA 4.0 is the book you need to get started with mobile game development for Windows Phone 7. Its hands on approach will set you on your way in no time. Let's build some games!

Building Your Own JavaScript Framework. Architect extensible and reusable framework systems

Vlad Filippov, Mike Taylor

JavaScript frameworks play an essential role in web application development; however, no single framework works perfectly for all projects. This book will help you understand existing projects, design new software architecture, and maintain projects as they grow. You’ll go through software architecture principles with JavaScript, along with a guided example of structuring your project and maintenance guidance.This book covers framework planning aspects, enabling you to identify key stakeholders, understand JavaScript API design, and leverage complex abstraction. The second part of the book takes a practical programming approach to building your own framework by showing you how to structure modules and interfaces. As you advance, you’ll discover how to develop data-binding components, work with JavaScript APIs, and much more. While writing a framework is half the job, continuing to develop it requires effort from everyone involved. The concluding chapters help to achieve this by teaching you the crucial aspects of software maintenance and highlighting the constants of framework development.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of the JavaScript framework landscape, along with the ability to build frameworks for your use cases.

Buildings 2020+. Constructions, materials and installations

Dorota Anna Krawczyk (Editor)

This book was developed by a group of teachers and scientists from Bialystok University of Technology (Poland), the University of Cordoba (Spain) and Vilnius College of Technologies and Design (Lithuania) working within the VIPSKILLS project (Virtual and Intensive Course Developing Practical Skills of Future Engineers) Erasmus+ 2016-1-PL01-KA203-026152. The continual development of technologies, changing requirements in law regarding standard of new buildings’ constructions reshapes European cities. The book explores relations between architecture, environmental and civil engineering. Collaboration in a process of buildings’ design and construction is extremely important for further proper operation and thermal comfort of users, as well as achieving low energy consumption and good indoor air quality.

Buildings 2020+. Energy sources

Dorota Anna Krawczyk (Editor)

In the last decades, significant energy market changes have been observed. Along with improvements within the building structure and systems leading to reduction of energy consumption, there have been introduced a relevant modification in the global energy sources balance. Fossil fuels have been displaced by different kinds of alternative energy sources. New technologies have been applied that allow to make heating, cooling, hot and electricity systems much more efficient and environmentally friendly. In this book we show the development of renewable energy sources. We present several examples of technologies using solar, wind, geothermal energy as well as systems using biomass or cogeneration. The book was developed by a group of teachers and scientists from Bialystok University of Technology (Poland), the University of Cordoba (Spain) and Vilnius College of Technologies and Design (Lithuania) working within the VIPSKILLS project (Virtual and Intensive Course Developing Practical Skills of Future Engineers) Erasmus+ 2016-1-PL01-KA203-026152.

Bujda

Agnieszka Kulbat

A ty co zrobisz, gdy na twoich oczach ktoś zginie? Mimo upływu czasu Kalina wciąż nie otrząsnęła się po samobójstwie starszej siostry. Pewnego dnia nieoczekiwanie staje się świadkiem morderstwa. Z dachu bloku, w którym mieszka, zostaje zepchnięty mężczyzna. Na wycieraczce przed drzwiami swojego mieszkania nastolatka znajduje list nawiązujący do jej siostry. Czy obie te śmierci są ze sobą powiązane? UWAGA! 16+ Książka porusza takie tematy, jak: trauma, syndrom dorosłego dziecka alkoholika (DDA), załamanie nerwowe, gwałt, morderstwo, toksyczne relacje w rodzinie, samobójstwo.

Bukareszt. Kurz i krew

Małgorzata Rejmer

"Bukareszt (...) jest jak wrzątek albo kipiel, wzburzony i zmętniały. (...) Atrybuty miasta: czarne kłęby przewodów na słupach jak gniazda porzucone przez ptaki, atmosfera rozkopania i prowizorki obok bankietów w sklepowych witrynach, przeszywający zapach lip i rozgniecionych winogron. Elegancja architektury z zamierzchłego świata. Stukot rozchybotanych tramwajów, klaksony rozwścieczonych taksówek na sekundę przed stłuczką. Zaśpiew cygańskich dzieci i staruszek włóczących się w pobliżu niezliczonych kwiaciarni, które prowadzą matki tych dzieci i córki tych staruszek. Wszędzie psy jak czarne i szare tobołki porzucone przez kogoś, kto bardzo się spieszył." Zapytałam przyjaciół, co jest pięknego w Bukareszcie. Odpowiedzieli: Bukareszt jest jak ciastko kupowane w niedzielę, niby czekoladowe i słodkie, ale z gorzką polewą. Nie znajdzie się tu łatwego piękna. Bezwstyd, histeria stylu, fasadowość. Przy Bukareszcie każde europejskie miasto wydaje się tak statyczne, że aż nudne. Dostałam też zdjęcie: nogi w czarnych rajtuzach i kolorowych skarpetkach, wetknięte do plastikowego kosza. Nurkujący manekin, który chce się utopić w śmieciach. I dopisek: "Trzeba na siłę wymyślać, co jest w Bukareszcie pięknego, a i tak się umiera z tęsknoty". Małgorzata Rejmer