Software

Software is becoming more complex day-by-day and without a test harness, maintenance will be near impossible. Although unit testing and TDD have become mainstream, neither is enough to guarantee bug-free software. That's where integration tests enter the scene.

I wrote this book for CakePHP developers who want to know how to handle users and user related functions. For people who do not want to reinvent the wheel but wants flexibility and like to write their own code using best practices. The examples in this book use CakePHP, but the presented ideas themselves are not framework or language specific. All the examples and codes in the book are CakePHP 2 specific. CakePHP 3 is not included.

Genesis 2.0 incorporates 131 fixes, improvements, additions and removals, and this guide covers all of them with detailed explanations, screenshots and code snippets. Includes Changes in Genesis 2.0.1 as well.

HTML5 APIs are quickly becoming common packages in browsers. As new browser technologies are distributed, the arsenal of tools available to web developers grows. HTML5 involves a host of new features available to JavaScript developers. It helps in creating more engaging, performant, and scalable web applications.

Master Active Record and have a ton of fun doing it! "Easy Active Record for Rails Developers" is the definitive guide to Rails' Active Record ORM, covering migrations, mass data import, validations, associations, eager loading, forms integration, performance enhancements, debugging, and more!

This book teaches you many common, but also some rarely known and never documented tricks for creating, processing and handling PDFs with Ghostscript and other commandline tools. After understanding, mastering and applying all of the *rare* tricks you'll have passed the yellow belt certificate of PDF-KungFoo!