Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP (Paperback)
A practical tutorial for creating your first Joomla! 1.5 extensions with PHP In Detail Joomla! is the world’s hottest open-source content management system, and the winner of the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. While Joomla! is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible, allowing any number of complex applications to be cleanly integrated. Shopping carts, forums, social networking profiles, job boards, and real estate listings are all examples of extensions developers have written for Joomla!. All of these can run off one Joomla! site, while only one database, template, and core need to be maintained. When you build an extension to Joomla!, it will inherit the look and feel of the overall site. Any type of program that can be coded in PHP is a potential component waiting to be written! If you’re eager to start creating extensions for Joomla!, this book is for you. Walk through the development of complete Joomla! components and mo (more…)
How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money (Paperback)
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“…Anyone considering a web business will find this book valuable reading.” — Michael Warren, President; USA4SALE Networks, Inc.”…Anyone considering a web business will find this book valuable reading.” –Michael Warren, President; USA4SALE Networks, Inc.
Interested in promoting your business and/or Web site, but don t have the big budget for traditional advertising? This new book will show you how to build, promote, and make money off of your We (more…)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5: The best-selling Joomla! tutorial guide updated for the latest 1.5 release (Paperback)
In Detail Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a “Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable.” While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included. Approach This book takes the reader through the tasks essential to create a Joomla! website as rapidly as possible. The (more…)
WordPress for Business Bloggers: Promote and grow your WordPress blog with advanced plug-ins, analytics, advertising, and SEO (Paperback)
In Detail Blogging has been part of the web landscape for over a decade and has matured into a ubiquitous mode of live communication. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful weapon in their digital arsenal. Done well, blogging can bring myriad benefits to businesses of any size. Done badly, it can cause more harm than good. Central to the success of any business blog is a thorough understanding of the technology. This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you to create an engaging, effective, and well polished business blog. WordPress allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with many outstanding features. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users, who have created a large and diverse collection of plug-ins. It has various features that can help business bloggers to boost their business strategy. This book will tak (more…)
Twitter API: Up and Running: Learn How to Build Applications with the Twitter API (Paperback)
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The purpose of Twitter API: Up and Running is to provide an introduction to using the Twitter API–the means to get at the rich Twitter data–to build web applications. This book has three main parts: an overview of the Twitter ecosystem and culture; background information on the languages and environment you need to create your applications; and working code for a suite of sample applications meant to get you started on your programming adventure. As Twitter lowers barriers to publication through its simplicity, so this book will provide easy access to the skills and resources you’ll need to build web applications for its API. From Author Kevin Makice One of the strengths of Twitter is its flexibility. Every information stream is unique and can be customized in the way that best fits the individual at that moment. Are you getting too much information? Unfollow some people. Do you not have time to tweet? Don’t. Want to chat with your tw (more…)
All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter (Paperback)
Make Twitter work for you–right now! Twitter! Everyone’s talking about it. Its membership grew over 700% in just one year! Now, learn how to make the most of Twitter–in your personal life, your business, everywhere! All a Twitter delivers quick, smart answers to the questions everyone’s asking about Twitter: What’s it about? What’s it good for? Is it worth your time? How do you get started? Where can you find great Twitter feeds to follow? How can you build a worldwide audience for your own Tweets? You name it, Tee Morris answers it–and shows you exactly how to do it, step-by-step, in plain English. No experience? Looking for something new to do with your Tweets? No problem: this is the Twitter book for everyone! Covers all this, and more… • Setting up your Twitter account and getting started in minutes • Creating great Tweets: making the most of the 140 characters Twitter gives you • Using Twitter to make connections, exchange g (more…)
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Facebook Me! A Guide to Having Fun with Your Friends and Promoting Your Projects on Facebook (Paperback)
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“No better Virgil than Dave Awl when it comes to orienting the uninitiated to this strange and many-circled world of Facebook.”—Ayun Halliday, author of No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
Facebook Me! Group on Facebookound the water cooler—but you’re not sure what it’s all about. Relax and join in. There are more than 110 million members of Facebook these days, and adults are the fastest-growing segment of users. And it’s about more than just kid stuff; Facebook can actually be a good business tool as well as a great way to promote creative projects. In Facebook Me! Dave Awl shows you around the newly redesigned Facebook and helps you take full advantage of all it has to offer, while helping you avoid some of its pitfalls.• Find out what you can do on Facebook, and what it can do for you. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones, let your friends know what you’re up to, send greetings, share pho (more…)
Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Paperback)
Maybe you’re a great programmer or IT professional, but marketing isn’t your thing. Or perhaps you’re a tech-savvy search engine marketer who wants a peek under the hood of a search engine optimized web site. Search engine marketing is a field where technology and marketing are both critical and interdependent, because small changes in the implementation of a web site can make you or break you in search engine rankings. Furthermore, the fusion of technology and marketing k (more…)
Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Packed with insider tips and tricks, this how-to guide is fully revised to cover the latest version of Google Analytics and shows you how to implement proven Web analytics methods and concepts. This second edition of the bestselling Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics is the perfect book for marketers, vendors, consultants, and Webmasters who want to learn the installation, configuration, tracking techniques, and best practices of Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tool that measures Web site effectiveness and helps users better understand how web site performance; this book is a detailed usage guide written by one of the software’s original creators Explains what filters keep data accurate, how to measure Flash usage and tag for e-mail marketing, and what visitor segmentation provides the most useful feedback Examines principles and practices of Web analytics, then shows how to use GA’s reports and how to track dynamic Web pages, (more…)
Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach, Second Edition with Workbook (Hardcover)
Editor Merida L. Johns, PhD, RHIA, and her distinguished colleagues have updated and revised the health information management technology concepts from their first edition, the most widely used textbook in health information management technology programs in the country. Creating a blueprint for success in the health information technology (HIT) field, Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach models the current AHIMA curriculum for health information technol (more…)
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- CVE-2012-1034 (episerver_cms) February 7, 2012Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the admin interface in EPiServer CMS through 6R2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-5076 (hdwiki) February 6, 2012SQL injection vulnerability in model/comment.class.php in HDWiki 5.0, 5.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the PATH_INFO to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1021 (4images) February 6, 2012Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/categories.php in 4images 1.7.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the cat_parent_id parameter in an addcat action. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1031 (episerver_cms) February 6, 2012Unspecified vulnerability in EPiServer CMS 5 and 6 through 6R2, in certain configurations using Forms Authentication, allows remote authenticated users to obtain WebAdmins access by leveraging Edit Mode privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3416 and CVE-2011-3417. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1008 (officesip_server) February 6, 2012OfficeSIP Server 3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted To header in a SIP INVITE message. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-0992 (openemr) February 6, 2012interface/fax/fax_dispatch.php in OpenEMR 4.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the file parameter. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1004 (foswiki) February 6, 2012Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in UI/Register.pm in Foswiki before 1.1.5 allow remote authenticated users with CHANGE privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) text, (2) FirstName, (3) LastName, (4) OrganisationName, (5) OrganisationUrl, (6) Profession, (7) Country, (8) State, (9) Address, (10) Location, (11) Telephon […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1019 (xwiki_enterprise) February 6, 2012Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in XWiki Enterprise 3.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) XWiki.XWikiComments_comment parameter to xwiki/bin/commentadd/Main/WebHome, (2) XWiki.XWikiUsers_0_company parameter when editing a user profile, or (3) projectVersion parameter to xwiki/bin/view/DownloadCode/D […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1002 (openconf) February 6, 2012Unspecified vulnerability in OpenConf 4.x before 4.12 has unknown impact and attack vectors. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1029 (tube_ace) February 6, 2012SQL injection vulnerability in mobile/search/index.php in Tube Ace (Adult PHP Tube Script) 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the q parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1034 (episerver_cms) February 7, 2012