MediaWiki
MediaWiki

Author: Daniel J. Barrett

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0596156545

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"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation."-Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line."-Rob Church, a developer of MediaWiki MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and organizing knowledge. In corporate environments, MediaWiki can transform the way teams write and collaborate. This comprehensive book covers MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features, helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll learn how to: Find your way around by effective searching and browsing Create and edit articles, categories, and user preferences Use advanced features for authors, such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of articles Install and run your own wiki, and configure its look and behavior Develop custom wiki features, called extensions, with the PHP programming language and MySQL database This book also provides special guidance for creating successful corporate wikis. For beginners who want to create or work on collaborative, community-driven websites with this platform, MediaWiki is the essential one-stop guide. "I was a MediaWiki newbie before reading this book. Now, many aspects of the platform that were murky before are crystal clear."-JP Vossen, author of O'Reilly's Bash Cookbook

Professional Wikis
Professional Wikis

Author: Mark S. Choate

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-01-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0470281995

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This book shows you how to install, use, manage, and extend a wiki using MediaWiki—the wiki engine used to power Wikipedia. You’ll learn wiki terminology, how to create user accounts and new pages, and find your way around the wiki. Special focus is placed on how wikis are used in software and web development projects and how their capabilities ideally suit a specific environment and audience. You’ll quickly come to discover why wikis are a valuable addition for any organization that wants to increase productivity using web-based collaboration tools.

Build a Website for Free
Build a Website for Free

Author: Mark William Bell

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2009-01-23

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0768687144

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Build a Website for Free Build yourself a state-of-the-art website.It’s incredibly easy... and it won’t cost you a dime! You need a website. But you don’t need the hassles that usually go with building one, or the expense of hiring someone else to do it. Here’s your solution: Build a Website for Free! You’ll learn how you can use new Web 2.0 technologies to create a site that’s impressive and effective. And here’s the best part: You’ll do it all with software and tools that won’t cost you a dime! • Plan, organize, and design a site that really works, using tools you can find for free • Discover the simple secrets of writing pages people want to read • Use video on your site—and get someone else to pay for hosting it • Add an easy-to-update blog and start building your own web community • Quickly and easily handle “nuts and bolts” tasks, from getting your site name to uploading your content • Get your site picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and other search engines • Adapt your site for easy viewing on cell phones Mark Bell is a Ph.D. student in the Indiana University Telecommunications department. He studies virtual worlds and mediated trust with the Synthetic Worlds Initiative and has spent 15 years in the computer industry. Mark created his first website in 1992, ran a web design company in the ‘90s, and consults on several academic web projects. CATEGORY: Internet/Web

Lifehacker
Lifehacker

Author: Adam Pash

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-06-03

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1118133439

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A new edition, packed with even more clever tricks and methods that make everyday life easier Lifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable. This new edition of a perennial bestseller boasts new and exciting tips, tricks, and methods that strike a perfect balance between current technology and common sense solutions for getting things done. Exploring the many ways technology has changed since the previous edition, this new edition has been updated to reflect the latest and greatest in technological and personal productivity. The new "hacks" run the gamut of working with the latest Windows and Mac operating systems for both Windows and Apple, getting more done with smartphones and their operating systems, and dealing with the evolution of the web. Even the most tried-and-true hacks have been updated to reflect the contemporary tech world and the tools it provides us. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier by helping us work more efficiently. Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better, Third Edition is your guide to making that happen!

A Semantic Wiki-based Platform for IT Service Management
A Semantic Wiki-based Platform for IT Service Management

Author: Kleiner, Frank

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2015-02-25

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 3731503336

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The book researches the use of a semantic wiki in the area of IT Service Management within the IT department of an SME. An emphasis of the book lies in the design and prototypical implementation of tools for the integration of ITSM-relevant information into the semantic wiki, as well as tools for interactions between the wiki and external programs. The result of the book is a platform for agile, semantic wiki-based ITSM for IT administration teams of SMEs.

NGINX Cookbook
NGINX Cookbook

Author: Tim Butler

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1786469774

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A practical book on real-world NGINX deployments to get you up and running quickly. About This Book Be the first to immerse yourself in the NGINX 1.9x web server and explore the plethora of advanced features. Master the skills of load balancing TCP-based applications and implementing HTTP/2. A recipe-based approach book that provides you with up-to-date information on NGINX, allowing you to implement specific use cases immediately. Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at smaller-to-medium developers, who are just getting started with NGINX. It assumes they already understand the basics of how a web server works and how basic networking works. What You Will Learn Practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX Common CMS deployments such as WordPress, Joomla and more NGINX configurations for frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django and more Detailed SSL recipes, including HTTP/2 Real world rewrite examples Basic web and TCP load balancing configuration Bandwidth management and connection limiting Detailed NGINX deployment scenarios with Docker Performance tuning and monitoring of your NGINX deployments OpenResty deployment guides Advanced deployments with NGINX Plus features In Detail NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.

Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Advanced Information Systems Engineering

Author: Haralambos Mouratidis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 699

ISBN-13: 3642216390

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2011, held in London, UK, in June 2011. The 42 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 submissions. In addtion the book contains the abstracts of 2 keynote speeches. The contributions are organized in topical sections on requirements; adaptation and evolution; model transformation; conceptual design; domain specific languages; case studies and experiences; mining and matching; business process modelling; validation and quality; and service and management.

Wiki
Wiki

Author: Anja Ebersbach

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-05-20

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 3540681736

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Wikis provide a basis for many applications in the area of collaborative work and have become a serious alternative to expensive content management systems. In this book, the authors explore wiki philosophy and functions, and explain basic controls and components. The book includes a step-by-step guide to the installation and configuration of the wiki-clones MediaWiki, TWiki and Confluence, along with a realistic tutorial based on collaborative planning for a conference.

MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide
MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide

Author: Mizanur Rahman

Publisher: Packt Pub Limited

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9781904811596

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This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates. The author, Mizanur Rahman, is a Senior Software Engineer at ReliSource Technologies (http: //www.relisource.com). The book has a fast-paced, friendly tutorial style and uses a fun example to teach all of MediaWiki's key features. Run your own MediaWiki collaborative website with this fast-paced, friendly tutorial, which is full of information and advice for creating powerful MediaWiki sites, and filling them with varied and useful collaborative content. Whether you are creating a public wiki for completely open contributions, a private wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends, or even a wiki for personal use, this book will show you all the essential steps. You will see the various ways of organizing and managing content, and preventing collaboration from getting out of control. You'll learn how to incorporate images and other media into your pages, as well as becoming a wiki markup wizard to produce intricately formatted pages with tables, lists, and more. On the technical side, the book covers how to administer users, back up and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another server or database, and even make hacks to the code. The power that makes MediaWiki so popular also makes it daunting for many would-be administrators. This book puts MediaWiki in the hands of busy administrators with no time for trial and error, enabling them to get their site up and running quickly and easily. A fun example that runs through the book holds everything together as you see how a real site develops and improves as more and more features of MediaWiki are used. This book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki. They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although some chapters at the end include some PHP code. Table Of Contents: 1 Introducing MediaWiki 2 Installation and Configuration 3 Creating Your First Wiki 4 Advanced Formatting and Multimedia Content 5 Organizing Content with MediaWiki 6 Managing Multiple Users 7 Administration Essentials 8 Templates and Themes 9 Customizing MediaWiki 10 Backing Up and Moving a MediaWiki 11 Cool Hacks