Book Description
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying web applications. While the framework has a lot of documentation and reference guides available for beginners, developing more sophisticated and scalable applications require a deeper knowledge of CakePHP features, a challenge that proves difficult even for well established developers.
The recipes in this cookbook will give you instant results and help you to develop web applications, leveraging the CakePHP features that allow you to build robust and complex applications. Following the recipes …

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Written for novice to intermediate Rails developers, Rails Recipes:Rails 3 Edition is packed with solutions to 70 of the most vexing problems you’re likely to face on the job. From building custom forms and powering pages with JQuery to integrating with legacy databases, it’s all here. Each recipe has been updated to reflect the latest features of Rails 3.1 and each lays out a distinctive solution to a problem you may be facing today or could well encounter tomorrow. In addition, you’ll find half the book is stocked with new eye-opening solutions to such common problems as …

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There’s a wealth of data online, but sorting and gathering it by hand can be tedious and time consuming. Rather than click through page after endless page, why not let bots do the work for you?
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers will show you how to create simple programs with PHP/CURL to mine, parse, and archive onlinedata to help you make informed decisions. Michael Schrenk, a highly regarded webbot developer, teaches you how to develop fault-tolerant designs, how best to launch and schedule the work of your bots, and how to create Internet agents that:

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Summary
Hello! Python fully covers the building blocks of Python programming and gives you a gentle introduction to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming, functional programming, network programming, and program design. New (or nearly new) programmers will learn most of what they need to know to start using Python immediately.
About this Book
Programmers love Python because it’s fast and efficient. Shouldn’t learning Python be just the same? Hello! Python starts quickly and simply, with a line of Python code. You’ll learn the basics the right way–by writing your own programs. Along …

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This book provides a complete and comprehensive guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners. Modeling is a fundamental process in many aspects of scientific research, engineering, and business. This text beautifully illustrates the breadth of the modeling capabilities that are supported by this new software and its handling of complex real-world applications.
Pyomo is an open source software package for formulating and solving large-scale optimization problems. The software extends the modeling approach supported by modern AML (Algebraic Modeling Language) tools. Pyomo is …

Book Description:
There’s a wealth of data online, but sorting and gathering it by hand can be tedious and time consuming. Rather than click through page after endless page, why not let bots do the work for you?
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers will show you how to create simple programs with PHP/CURL to mine, parse, and archive online data to help you make informed decisions. Michael Schrenk, a highly regarded webbot developer, teaches you how to develop fault-tolerant designs, how best to launch and schedule the work of your bots, and …

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What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive atMongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant databaseapplications with MongoDB and PHP.
Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen—the company that develops and supports this open source database—this book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations and scale.

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Dive into Python’s advanced possibilities, including algorithm analysis, graphs, scale-free networks, and cellular automata with this in-depth, hands-on guide. Whether you’re an intermediate-level Python programmer, or a student of computational modeling, you’ll examine data structures, complexity science, and other fascinating topics through a series of exercises, easy-to-understand explanations, and case studies.
Think Complexity presents features that make Python such a simple and powerful language. Author Allen Downey provides code to help you get started, along with a solution for each exercise. With this book, you will:

Work with graphs and graph algorithms, …

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Sphinx is an open-source full-text search server, designed from the ground up with a focus on performance, relevance, and integration simplicity. With Sphinx, you can either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as a database server.
Sphinx Search Beginner’s Guide serves as a guide to everything you need to know about running a Sphinx Search Engine. In today’s world, search is an integral part of any application and having a reliable search engine …

eBook Description:
60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for Ajaxification of web 2.0 sites.

Learn how to develop and deploy iPhone web and native apps.
Optimize the performance of Ajax applications.
Build dynamic websites with faster response from the server using the asynchronous call feature of PHP Ajax.
Using Ajax allows quick and efficient access of data from the server, thus precluding a total web page refresh.
Leverage the power of PHP Ajax using practical recipes with example codes.

In Detail
Ajax is the necessary paradigm in Web 2.0 sites. Most of the Web 2.0 sites are built …