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Do you want to host the most innovative and fun tasting party ever? This easy-to-use software combines the power of your home computer with the fun of wine tasting. Compile tasters' results on your computer as they sip, savor and score...then print or email results including colorful graphs. Personalized party kit items add even more pizzazz. This makes a terrific gift for wine lovers, wine tasting club members or anyone who wants to host a great party.
Additional Information: TastingMaster is a unique, easy-to-use software product designed to be used for home tasting parties.
TastingMaster makes wine tastings even more fun! Using one of a variety of common scoring templates (e.g., rating 1-5, stars, 100-point scale, etc.), tasters record scores and comments about the wines they taste using simple entry screens on their home computer. Tasters also have an option to fill out preprinted tasting forms that can be entered later. Once the tasters' scores are collected, you can show color graphs and details of the scoring (including the amount of agreement). At that point you can print full tasting reports on the spot and/or email them to the tasters so they can see how each wine fared along with all tasting scores and notes. Since all tasting results are saved, it is easy to compare wines from multiple tastings, making it perfect for wine clubs and wine competitions.
In addition, TastingMaster Wine Tasting Edition includes educational content ranging from "how to taste wine" to "all about wine tasting parties" to links and references to relevant online wine resources. A tasting party kit makes it easy to send personalized invitations and print tasting party items like personalized wine glass rings and a colorful listing of the wines to be tasted and scored.CD-ROM: CD-ROMUnique Windows product for home wine tasting parties & wine tasting clubs, Keeps track of tasters, wines, and tasting notes--and lets you add your results to our web community, Party Kit helps you organize--invitations, wine glass rings and much more!, Very easy to use--tutorials, wizards, & extensive help, A great gift for any wine lover!
Company: TastingMaster LLC
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A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. This book has been written against the latest release v4.7.
Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.
Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.
This book will suit anyone who has a need to create a content rich website. Whether you are:
- Adding a personal web page
- Building a forum
- Writing a collaborative book
- Retailing goods
- Creating a blog
- Launching a community Website
Drupal’s power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes you from initial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.
Chapter 1 introduces you to the world of Drupal and looks at where Drupal comes from, where its going and what it can offer you. Because it is important to understand the nature of the tasks which lie ahead, it also discusses how to plan and build your website, taking a sneak preview of the book's demo Website in the process. Finally, we scrutinize the Drupal community and learn how to make the most of Drupal as an organized, living entity and not just a piece of software.
Chapter 2 deals with how to get everything you need up and running on a development machine and also briefly looks at how all the requisite technologies gel together to produce your working Drupal site. Once everything is up and running, and after looking over some of the more common installation problems, the chapter presents a short tour of Drupal in order to give you an idea of what to expect.
Chapter 3 looks at the most general settings which all Drupal administrators need to contend with. Everything from determining your site's name to dealing with the cache or file system settings gets treated here before we look at more focused and complex issues in the chapters to come.
Chapter 4 sees us adding functionality to the newly created site. The focus of this chapter is really on modules and how they can be added and enabled, or even how to obtain modules that are not part of the standard distribution. Since blocks are often required to display the functionality provided by modules, this chapter ends off with a discussion on how to control blocks.
Chapter 5 concerns itself with the topic of access control. Drupal has a sophisticated role based access control system, which is fundamentally important for controlling how users access your site. This chapter will give you the information you need to implement whatever access controls you require.
Chapter 6 gets to the heart of the matter by beginning the book's coverage on content. Working with content, what content types are available, administering content and even a discourse on some of the more common content related modules serve as a basis for moving to more advanced content related matters that follow in the next chapter.
Chapter 7 gives you the edge when it comes to creating engaging and dynamic content. While this chapter doesn't require you to be an expert in HTML, PHP and CSS it does introduce you to the basics and shows how, with a little knowledge, extremely powerful and professional content can be created. That's only half the story, because later on it looks at categorization and how this particular feature of Drupal sets it apart from everything else out there.
Chapter 8 gives you a run down of how attractive interfaces are created in Drupal through the use of themes. As well as discussing briefly some of the considerations that must be taken into account when planning your website, it ends off by looking at how to make important modifications to your chosen theme.
Chapter 9 really adds the icing on the cake by looking at a host of more advanced topics. From creating flexible content types and generating revenue from ads, all the way through to building dynamic content using Ajax, you will find something to enhance your website and add that something special.
Chapter 10 takes a pragmatic look at the type of tasks you will need to be proficient in in order to successfully run and maintain a Drupal site. Whether its setting up cron jobs or making backups of your database, everything you need to do throughout the course of running your newly created website will be covered here.
Appendix A deals with the all important topic of deployment. Because all major work should be done on a copy of your Website on a development machine, this appendix presents a sound process for taking the finished product and making it available for public consumption on your host site.
Author: David Mercer
Paperback:
284 pages
Company: Packt Publishing
(2006-11-05)
(2006-11-05)
ISBN: 1904811809
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If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone. Many developers believe in releasing their software freely, but have hesitated to do so because they're concerned about losing control over their software. Licensing issues are complicated, and both the facts and fallacies you hear word-of-mouth can add to the confusion. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing helps you make sense of the different options available to you. This concise guide focuses on annotated licenses, offering an in-depth explanation of how they compare and interoperate, and how license choices affect project possibilities. Written in clear language that you don't have to be a lawyer to understand, the book answers such questions as: What rights am I giving up? How will my use of OS/FS licensing affect future users or future developers? Does a particular use of this software--such as combining it with proprietary software--leave me vulnerable to lawsuits?
Following a quick look at copyright law, contracts, and the definition of "open source," the book tackles the spectrum of licensing, including:
The MIT (or X), BSD, Apache and Academic Free licenses
The GPL, LGPL, and Mozilla licenses
The QT, Artistic, and Creative Commons licenses
Classic Proprietary licenses
Sun Community Source license and Microsoft Shared Source project
The book wraps up with a look at the legal effects--both positive and negative--of open source/free software licensing.
Licensing is a major part of what open source and free software are all about, but it's still one of the most complicated areas of law. Even the very simple licenses are tricky. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing bridges the gap between the open source vision and the practical implications of its legal underpinnings. If open source and free software licenses interest you, this book will help you understand them. If you're an open source/free software developer, this book is an absolute necessity.
Author: Andrew M. St. Laurent
Paperback:
224 pages
Illustrated
Company: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
(2004-08)
ISBN: 0596005814
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This two-volume set LNCS 4277/4278 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14 international workshops held as part of OTM 2006 in Montpellier, France in October/November 2006.
The 191 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 493 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 26 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2006 main conferences. Topics of the workshop papers contained are agents, Web services and ontologies merging (AWeSOMe 2006), community informatics (COMINF 2006), information security (IS 2006), knowledge systems in bioinformatics (KSinBIT 2006), modeling inter-organizational systems, focusing on collaboration and interoperability, architectures and ontologies (MIOS-CIAO 2006), mobile and networking technologies for social applications (MONET 2006), ontology content and evaluation in enterprise (OnToContent 2006), object-role modeling (ORM 2006), pervasive systems (PerSys 2006), a PHD symposium (OTM 2006 Academy Doctoral Consortium), reliability in decentralized distributed systems (RDDS 2006), semantic-based geographical information systems (SeBGIS 2006), and Web Semantics (SWWS 2006).
Paperback: 1004 pages
Company: Springer (2007-05-07)
ISBN: 3540482733
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