Publisher: K-i-s-publishing
Nick Ramirez, Nicholas Matthew Ramirez, Rob Mensching
The cryptic science of Windows Installer can seem far off from the practical task of simply getting something installed. Luckily, we have WiX to simplify the matter. WiX is an XML markup, distributed with an open-source compiler and linker, used to produce a Windows Installer package. It is used by Microsoft and by countless other companies around the world to simplify deployments.WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML promises a friendly welcome into the world of Windows Installer. Starting off with a simple, practical example and continuing on with increasingly advanced scenarios, the reader will have a well-rounded education by book's end.With the help of this book, you'll understand your installer better, create it in less time, and save money in the process. No one really wants to devote a lifetime to understanding how to create a hassle-free installer. Learn to build a sophisticated deployment solution targeting the Windows platform in no time with this hands-on practical guide. Here we speed you through the basics and zoom right into the advanced. You'll get comfortable with components, features, conditions and actions. By the end, you'll be boasting your latest deployment victories at the local pub.Once you've finished WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML, you'll realize just how powerful and awesome an installer can really be.
Nick Ramirez, Rob Mensching, Nicholas Ramirez
WiX is an open source project and a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. WiX, which is used internally by Microsoft and by many companies around the World, simplifies many of the installation tasks that used to be shrouded in mystery. The tool set provides a command-line environment that you can integrate into your old-style build processes or you can use the newer technology from inside integrated development environments to build your setup packages. You'll find that you understand your installer better, can create it in less time, and save money in the process. No one really wants to devote a lifetime to understanding how to create a hassle-free installer for any software.This hands-on guide takes the mystery out of Windows Installer by showing how simple XML elements can be leveraged to create a sophisticated install package. By relying on Microsoft standards, you'll be able to use features like Property elements to customize your application's entry in Add/Remove Programs, the Shortcut element to create Start menu shortcuts, and other specialized elements for building upgrade and patch support and more.This book will show you the fundamental ingredients needed to build a professional-grade installer using Windows Installer XML. The initial chapters will introduce you to the set of required elements necessary to build a simple installer. We'll then explore those basic elements in more detail and see how best to use them in the real world.In the ensuing chapters, you'll move on to learn about adding conditions that alter what the user can install, then how to add actions to the install sequence and how to author a user interface. We'll move on to advanced topics such as editing data in the Windows Registry, installing a Windows service, and building your project from the command line. Finally, you'll learn to localize your package for different languages and detect older versions during upgrades. Each chapter uses to-the-point examples to illustrate the best way to use the language.
Nicholas Matthew Ramirez, Nick Ramirez
George S. Patton
Wspomnienia wojenne generała George’a Smitha Pattona jr (1885 –1945) przybliżają czytelnikowi tę niezwykle barwną i kontrowersyjną postać. Po ukończeniu elitarnej uczelni wojskowej w West Point, ten doskonały kawalerzysta, szermierz i strzelec (reprezentant USA podczas Olimpiady w Sztokholmie w 1912 r. w pięcioboju nowoczesnym, zaprojektował też szablę kawaleryjską wz. 1913 dla amerykańskiej armii) został adiutantem gen. Johna Pershinga, pod którym służył w Meksyku i podczas I wojny światowej we Francji. W 1942 roku dowodził operacją lądowania w Maroku (operacja „Torch”), następnie w ramach operacji „Husky” dowodził 7. Armią podczas inwazji na Sycylię. W 1944 r. został dowódcą 3. Armii, która wsławiła się walkami we Francji, w Niemczech i Czechosłowacji. Po wojnie gen. Patton został gubernatorem Bawarii. Zginął w wypadku samochodowym 21 grudnia 1945 r.
Lucjan Żeligowski
„Wojna w roku 1920” to obraz szczególny, widziany oczami dowódcy legendarnej 10 Dywizji Piechoty. Sam będąc doświadczonym oficerem Żeligowski stara się wyjaśnić motywy swoich działań oraz konsekwencje, czasami negatywne, rozkazów które otrzymywał. Książka zawiera liczne uwagi zarówno pod adresem szeregowych żołnierzy, jak i oficerów dając świadectwo głębokiej znajomości praktycznej strony wojny.
Jean-Baptiste Jung, Matt Mullenweg
About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay.The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security.Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Tessa B. Silver, Matt Mullenweg
Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward.It's easy to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress web site when you've got this book to hand. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions to create a robust and flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site's design and branding.