Blogs

Twitter Bootstrap Web Development How-To written by David Cochran an Associate Professor of Communication at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He alongwith his students is fond of envisioning and producing exciting projects, with well-built standards-compliant websites playing a central role in them. He frequently publishes online tutorials to share insights gained in the course of those projects.

Java Persistence with MyBatis 3 by K. Siva Prasad Reddy, a Sun Certified Java Programmer based in Hyderabad, has more than 6 years of experience working with Java and JavaEE technologies. In addition to this, he has gained ample of experience working on server-side technologies like Spring, Hibernate, MyBatis, JSF and web services.

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook by John Horton dedicates his time helping people make their websites, applications and e-commerce solutions. Along with his professional activities, he likes shooting zombies especially with his two sons.

To understand the concepts of this book, one needs to know the basics of Joomla! (hands-on Joomla! is an added advantage) and there is no prior working experience required in VirtueMart.

Solr is a well-known robust open source search platform that is been brought to us by Apache Lucene. It is Java-based and runs within a servlet container (Tomcat / Jetty) as a stand-alone search server. Solr core constitutes of Lucene Java search library that is primarily responsible to perform full-text index and search operations. Additionally, Solr core consists of REST-like HTML / XML and JSON APIs that makes Solr compatible with any programming and/or scripting language. We can even scale our Solr and its external configuration without writing a single line of Java code.