Afsha Walele - Articles

Convert 'paper' resources and face-to-face lessons into Moodle
"Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide" by Ian Wild, will help taking existing classes online quickly. This book shows you the quickest way to start using Moodle and e-learning, by bringing your existing lesson materials into Moodle. You can move your existing course notes, worksheets, and resources into Moodle quickly. It requires no prior knowledge of Moodle; but even experienced Moodlers will find this useful for converting 'paper' resources and face-to-face lessons into Moodle. Read
By: Afsha Walele | 06/07/2009 | E-Learning

Build a complete website using Packt's Drupal book
"Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions" by Mark Noble will help build powerful website features for your business and you would be able to connect to your customers through blogs, product catalogs, newsletters, and maps. This book gives a complete example of a real world site with clear explanation. It is a practical guide with clear, step-by-step instructions for setting up a home page, product catalog, blog, events calendar, and much more. Read
By: Afsha Walele | 06/07/2009 | Programming

How to create webpages using ExpressionEngine
Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6 by Leonard Murphy is a clear,concise and a practical guide to create professional ExpressionEngine websites. This book includes carefully explained steps for creating a professional ExpressionEngine website. It will get you you set up and running as quickly as possible. It will also help you customize the look of your site and manage its content and users. Read
By: Afsha Walele | 29/06/2009 | Programming

Build scalable, powerful and easy-to-maintain WCF services
WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ helps build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform. It is Ideal for beginners who want to build scalable, powerful, easy-to-maintain WCF services. This book is rich with example code, clear explanations, interesting examples, and practical advice – a truly hands-on book for C++ and C# developers Read
By: Afsha Walele | 18/06/2009 | Programming

How to create blogs, online discussions and a community website using Drupal
Packt's "Drupal for Education and E-Learning" by Bill Fitzgerald consists of clear step-by-step instructions, which help create blogs, online discussions, groups, and a community website using Drupal. There is no need for code with this simple, teacher-friendly, comprehensive guide. Read
By: Afsha Walele | 18/06/2009 | Programming

Packt's free "Building Websites with Plone" eBook
Building Websites with Plone is an in-depth and comprehensive guide to the Plone content management system. It will help design, build, and manage content rich websites using Plone. It will extend Plone's skins and content types in addition to customizing and optimizing Plone websites. It is a practical guide to Plone and is written in a tutorial style, using examples and case studies to take you from the basics thorough to advanced Plone implementations. Read
By: Afsha Walele | 18/06/2009 | Programming

Learn how to build robust and scalable ASP.NET applications easily
Application architecture is an essential skill for ASP.NET developers.It is always tempting to jump in and start coding, but planning your architecture early in the project will leave you with a solid application that scales well, is easy to modify and extend, and saves you time and effort later on.This book takes a pragmatic approach to Application Architecture in ASP.NET3.5.It presents a series of common architectural models and shows how to select the best ones for your project and apply them Read
By: Afsha Walele | 26/05/2009 | Programming

Learn how to customize the entire Alfresco platform
Alfresco is an open source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. ECM includes things like Document Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration/Enterprise 2.0, Digital Asset Management, Records Management, and Imaging. At its core is a repository for rich content like documents, web assets, XML, and multimedia.Implementing Alfresco usually involves extending the repository to accommodate your business-specific metadata and business logic. Read
By: Afsha Walele | 26/05/2009 | Software

How to install and configure Nagios on different operating systems
Learning Nagios 3.0 is a comprehensive configuration guide to monitor and maintain your network and systems.It is a practical guide to setting up the Nagios 3.0 open source network monitoring tool,installing and configuring Nagios 3 on various operating systems.It will help understand system monitoring.Nagios 3 watches to see whether hosts and services are working properly,and notifies users when problems occur.The book is an introduction to Nagios and will teach readers to use advanced features Read
By: Afsha Walele | 14/04/2009 | Networks