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Use PhoneGap to build cross-platform mobile applications quickly and efficiently

About This Book

 Build native mobile phone applications with HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS
 Incorporate smartphone capabilities such as GPS, camera, accelerometer, and more into your apps for any mobile platform
 Use Cordova view to embed PhoneGap into native applications to either transit smoothly to PhoneGap or incorporate PhoneGap functionalities

Who This Book Is For

If you are a mobile application developer in iOS or Android, or a web application developer who wants to learn how to make cross-platform mobile applications using PhoneGap, this book is perfect for you. To make the most of this book, it will be helpful if you have prior knowledge of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

What You Will Learn

 Get to grips with the fundamentals of PhoneGap to get started
 Set up a development environment for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows
 Use Cordova CLI, workflows, and Plugman Plugin manager to create mobile applications efficiently
 Understand the development workflow to create native cross-platform mobile applications
 Embed plugin support to transition to PhoneGap or use it to enhance existing applications
 Improve your mobile development knowledge using object-oriented programming (OOP), reusable components, and AJAX closures
 Be empowered to build your own mobile apps quickly with ease
 Discover tips and tricks to make app development fun and easy

In Detail

PhoneGap is an open source framework that allows you to quickly build cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. PhoneGap Build is a cloud service that allows you to quickly develop and compile mobile applications without SDKs, compilers, and hardware. PhoneGap allows you to use its existing plugins or create new ones, as per your requirements, to enhance your mobile applications.
Starting by installing PhoneGap, you'll develop an app that uses various device capabilities through different plugins and learn how to build an app in the cloud with PhoneGap's Build service.
You'll discover how to use PhoneGap to create an application view, along with how to use a camera, geolocation, and other device capabilities to create engaging apps. Next, you'll augment applications with PhoneGap's plugins using minimalistic code. You'll explore the app preparation process to deploy your app to the app store.
By the end of the book, you'll have also learned how to apply hybrid mobile UIs that will work across different platforms and different screen sizes for better user experience.

Style and approach

This is an example-based, fast-paced guide that covers the fundamentals of creating cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap.

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In his daily wanderings around Willemstad, Curacao, an old man comes into contact with the underbelly of society: drunks, bums, thieves, and drop-outs. He stays out as late as possible because he is afraid of his fearful dreams about the horse of Johnas described in the Apocalypse.

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A vivid description of the Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Alan Levy, an American journalist who lived there from 1967 to 1971.

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Facilitating Creativity for Dramaturgs, Playwrights, and Everyone Else

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"This is a book for dramaturgs of new work, but it is also a particularly effective book for anyone working on new plays: playwrights, directors, producers, even actors. Lenora skillfully dissects the process of workshopping new writing, and clearly defines the roles for all involved. I learned not only how to make a new play workshop more effective, but how to approach my writing and my directing, and how to meaningfully collaborate with others in this unique process. This is a necessary handbook for anyone working on new plays today." --Anne Marie Cammarato, Director

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An Actor's Task provides a framework for studying the dual arts of acting: inhabiting a character both physically and psychologically. Actors at all levels can use this book to explore, develop, and review the sensory tools and training that enable them to be the best versions of themselves and, ultimately, to bring that understanding of "self" to their art. Innovative new exercises and selected classics--updated for today's students--comprise more than 100 exercises. Introductions to each exercise explain its aims and benefits. Clear step-by-step prompts provide guidance. Debriefing sections engage actors in reflection on what they have experienced and learned. This inspired text is equally suited to classroom use and individual study.

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The New Kittredge Shakespeare King John and Henry VIII offers the text of both plays, and glosses, as prepared by William Kittredge for his Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Performance notes by the New Kitteredge Shakespeare editors help readers imagine how key scenes have been, and might yet be, performed on stage and screen. New Introductions, Timelines, Topics for Discussion and Further Study, as well as Bibliographies and Filmographies, combine to help make this the edition of choice for performance-minded students of these fascinating historical dramas.

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William Shakespeare, James H. Lake, Jane Wells, Courtney Lehmann, James Lake

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Through a series of systematic explorations across a wide range of scenarios, Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen offers script writers exercises for attending to their own sensory experiences as a means to exploring the sensory experiencesand worldsof the characters they create.

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Translations of Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic Narratives

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Ideally suited for use in broad, swift-moving surveys of Latin American and Caribbean history, this abridgment of McKnight and Garofalo's Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 (2009) includes all of the English translations, introductions, and annotation created for that volume.

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"Seven Myths of the Crusades' rebuttal of the persistent and multifarious misconceptions associated with topics including the First Crusade, anti-Judaism and the Crusades, the crusader states, the Children's Crusade, the Templars and past and present Islamic-Christian relations proves, once and for all, that real history is far more fascinating than conspiracy theories, pseudo-history and myth-mongering. This book is a powerful witness to the dangers of the misappropriation and misinterpretation of the past and the false parallels so often drawn between the crusades and later historical events ranging from nineteenth-century colonialism to the protest movements of the 1960s to the events of 9/11. This volume's authors have venerable track records in teaching and researching the crusading movement, and anyone curious about the crusades would do well to start here." Jessalynn Bird, Dominican University, co-Editor of Crusade and Christendom

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"One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative, which encompasses a brutish childhood, an overprotective mother, temporary gender bending, sexual violence, and a final coming to manhood with the promise of future military prowess, may be unparalleled in a single narrative of such brevity. The text has survived in hundreds of manuscripts, sometimes copied with Statius much longer and lugubrious Thebaid, but just as often with other racy short narratives and dramas taught in the medieval schools. The poems literary playfulness, visual imagery, and lighthearted treatment of mythological and historical data made itand can still make ita goldmine in the classroom. Until now, however, it has been virtually impossible to get a sense of the work if one did not know Latinrecent translations notwithstanding. Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Achilleid is a dream: its sound, enthralling, and will fully engage readers with this enticing, perplexing, at times distressing, but ultimately rewarding work."     Marjorie Curry Woods, Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

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George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishmentsall of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.These plays are being made available by Focus with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.

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William Shakespeare, Annalisa Castaldo, James H. Lake, Michèle Willems

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The New Kittredge Shakespeare Cymbeline offers the text of the play, and glosses, as prepared by William Kittredge for his Complete Works of William Shakespeare.Hannah C. Wojciehowski's performance notes and additional textual notes offer readers a streamlined reading experience aimed at helping them understand the play and envision how key "interpretive junctures" in it have been, and might yet be, performed on stage or screen. Wojciehowski's Introduction brilliantly illuminates the play's plot and lyricism as well as its treatment in recent stage and screen productions--including Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline (2014).In "How to Read Cymbeline as Performance" an interview with James Loehlin, Director of the Shakespeare at Winedale program at the University of Texas, offers practical reflections on making the leap from reading this challenging play to imagining its performance.Notes on Names, Pronunciation, and Language; A Cymbeline Timeline; Topics for Discussion and Further Study; and Bibliography and Filmography are also included.

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William Shakespeare, James H. Lake, Hannah C. Wojciehowski

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Mapeando a Lingua Portuguesa atraves das Artes, Corrected Edition

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Winner of the 2015 Brazilian International Press Award for outstanding contribution to the teaching of Portuguese Language in the United States of America from the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese.Mapeando a Lingua Portuguesa atraves das Artes is an exciting, comprehensive textbook for intermediate Portuguese courses. Mapeando features interviews, authentic texts, and works of art, all of which serve as springboards for students to express themselves in Portuguese through performance, debate, and communicative exercises. Each of the twelve units is structured around a particular art form, such as photography or literature, and includes three grammar lessons, three original texts, and integrated audio and video activities.Features:Engaging, authentic works of art create an abundance of opportunities for students to speak in the target languageInviting chapter-opening activities (Primeiros acordes) draw students into the genre explored in each unit via exercises intended to help students make personal connections with the materialCommunicative and task-based exercises throughout the units guide students through a systematic review and expansion of Portuguese grammarA website featuring streaming video and audio files (visit: www.hackettpublishing.com)Accompanying workbook: Caderno de Producao

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German for Reading presupposes no previous acquaintance with German and can be used with equal effectiveness by graduate students in the arts and sciences who are preparing to pass a reading knowledge examination, or by undergraduates who are beginning to deal seriously with the problems of reading. Its programmed format permits it to be used either as a classroom text or by individuals working on their own. The second edition builds on strengths of the first while updating outdated terminology, removing terms and phrases no longer in use, and incorporating many revisions made in light of suggestions from readers.

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Written in the reign of Nerothe emperor against whom Lucan was implicated in a conspiracy and by whom he was compelled to commit suicide at the age of 25the poet's dark, ambiguous, unfinished masterpiece focuses on the disintegration of the Roman body politic and the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey that ultimately lead to the end of the Roman republic. While aiming for a poem both as rugged as Lucan'swith its mix of history and fantasy, of high and low registers, of common and uncommon turns of phrase, of narrative and declamationand as reader-friendly as possible, Brian Walters owns that he has "nowhere tried to simplify the rhetorical excesses that are the essence of Lucan's poem, the real meat and bone of the Civil War." A brilliant Introduction by W. R. Johnson discusses the poem's relationship to Nero and monarchy; its invocations of both the gods and chaos; the real hero of the Civil War; and the poem's end and narrative styles. Synopses of individual books; suggestions for further reading; a glossary of names, places, and Roman institutions; and a map are also included.

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While preserving the line structure of the German original and verbal echoes that permeate the poem, Margaret Kirby's translation of Faust I attempts to capture in unrhymed modern English the distinctive voices, wide metrical range, quick shifts in tone, comic and tragic registers, and other key stylistic elements of Goethes greatest poetic and dramatic masterpiece.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Margaret Kirby

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George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishmentsall of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.These plays are being made available by Focus with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.

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William Shakespeare, Jane W. Wells, James H. Lake

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"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisamis verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance."  Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary Supplement

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Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

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Design, implement, and improve your infrastructure administration with System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2's automation process

About This Book

 Learn about the components of Orchestrator, the design and implementation process, and the way it interacts with your environment to create outstanding automation processes
 Gain an in-depth understanding of Runbooks, while exploring its security and troubleshooting aspects
 Follow this step-by-step guide at your own pace and get yourself in the frontline of the Orchestrator world

In Detail

With the increasing complexity of systems in our infrastructure designs, administrating these systems has become more complex and repetitive. This ultimately translates into an inefficient environment and loss of time. System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 is the tool that can help you regain that time again, by simplifying repetitive tasks (or complex ones) into a simple one that will require minimum intervention from you, or even none.
This technology will drive you one step forward towards a more dynamic infrastructure and can also be used to make a customized Private Cloud environment setup.
Starting off with the fundamentals of Orchestrator, this book helps you to learn the configuration and deployment of the Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment to successfully deploy and mitigate real-life issues that you might encounter. You'll learn the most used part of Orchestrator, the Runbook Designer, with all its components and mechanisms to help you efficiently design and implement your Runbooks from top to bottom. Additionally, you will also get familiarized with configuring key Integration Packs available for Orchestrator to extend its functionality and enhance the automation solution.
Furthermore, you will explore the possibilities of extending and integrating Orchestrator with other parties and learn to set up core infrastructure administrative tasks that can save time and effort when automated with Orchestrator. You finally round off by gaining insights on the maintenance aspects of Orchestrator, while simultaneously covering the troubleshooting, backup, and recovery features.

What You Will Learn

 Plan, assess, design, and implement Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment
 Master the Runbook Designer and discover all about the Runbook creation process
 Import and integrate more technologies through new imported functionalities and learn what they bring to your environment
 Extend your possibilities and interaction with your environment while you get a hand of the best practices for this system
 Implement high-availability, security, backup, and recovery procedures and fine-tuning of the platform
 Familiarize yourself with the Runbook design and its implementation with an insight into the methodology for a more dynamic Datacenter

Who This Book Is For

This book is targeted for those who want to gain time in their administrative tasks and profit from it to improve also their environment by reaching a more autonomous infrastructure. Experience with other System Center family products as well as Active Directory and other core datacentre components would be useful to help you understand and execute the information given in this book.

Style and approach

Written in a step-by-step guide format, the chapters are organized in a sequence of what you need to know first to move on to the next component. Each chapter contains a broad explanation of what we are working on at that moment and the tips provided are based on real-world experience.

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Deploy Microsoft Virtualization and VDI solutions using real-world Hyper-V configurations

About This Book

 Get acquainted with the basics of Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 and understand how to efficiently design a highly available virtualization solution
 Assess your physical server environment and understand the fundamentals of server consolidation and sizing of Hyper-V hosts
 Design practical solutions for common design patterns with explanations of these design decisions

In Detail

The IT community has already experienced the benefits of server virtualization. However, they were limited to one option primarily until Microsoft released its flagship Hypervisor platform. Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 and R2 along with Hyper-V Server 2012 and R2 present a cost effective yet robust virtualization solution to enterprises who wish to consolidate their physical server workloads or migrate their pre-existing VMware workloads to Hyper-V. Hyper-V has proven to be a stable and an economical virtualization solution and with its high availability, live migration, and new network virtualization and storage enhancement features, enterprises will never feel the need to consider another alternative.
This book is a practical, example-oriented tutorial that will guide you through the basics and architecture of the Hyper-V platform and thereafter help you understand how to build your Virtualization infrastructure from the ground up.
The book then goes on to focus on scalability and high availability aspects and trains you in setting up highly available Hyper-V clusters and the live migration of virtual machines. You will also learn about the advancements in virtual networking and storage in Windows Server 2012.
After the implementation guidance, the book then advises you on how to set up backup and recovery and how to prepare a disaster recovery plan via Hyper-V Replica.
The book concludes with a good insight into Microsoft VDI implementation guidance.

What You Will Learn

 Set up independent and highly available clustered Hyper-V hosts via GUI and PowerShell
 Acquire knowledge about Generation 1 and 2 Virtual Machines, their creation and management, and also look at the VM Conversion process
 Understand NIC Teaming, Extensible Virtual Switch, and other networking advancements
 Gain insight into virtual machine storage changes and its follow-up benefits
 Discover backup and recovery patterns for Hyper-V
 Familiarize yourself with the essentials of Hyper-V Replica
 Leverage the benefits of Microsoft VDI

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at IT admins, consultants, and architects alike who wish to deploy, manage, and maintain Hyper-V solutions in organizations of various sizes. Readers are expected to have a working knowledge of managing Windows Servers and a fair understanding of networking and storage concepts.

Style and approach

This is a handy and easy-to-follow guide that describes virtualization concepts and the Hyper-V design approach. Each topic is explained sequentially and is enhanced with real-world scenarios, practical examples, screenshots, and step-by-step explanations to help readers understand clearly.