The Quick Reference Guide

• Chef: An Open Source Tool for Scalable Cloud and Data Center Automation

  Chef is a new breed of open-source "infrastructure as code" tools to manage infrastructures of any size, including cloud infrastructures. It provides administrators and developers with the capability to define “cookbooks” that can be applied repeatedly and consistently to server and application configurations. After reading this refcard, you’ll be able to download and use Chef to easily create an elegant, fully automated infrastructure of any size.

   

  

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• Mastering Portal UI Development With Vaadin and Liferay

  The open source Liferay Portal is a popular technology for building enterprise websites and business applications. Vaadin, an open source web framework, allows you to build web apps with a process that is familiar to desktop developers. This Refcard gives a quick overview of the user interface development with Vaadin on Liferay and it covers topics like portlet setup, configuration, inter-portlet communication (IPC), UI composition, and theming. After reading this card, get an even better understanding of Liferay Portal and Vaadin framework by downloading "Liferay Essentials" and "Vaadin: A Familiar Way to Build Web Apps with Java".
  

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• NetBeans IDE 7: Programming in Java 7

  Developers from the Java Development Kit team have worked closely with developers from the NetBeans team to create a well aligned JDK 7 development experience with support for new language features, such as the diamond operator, strings in switch, and multicatch. When you use these constructs in your code, NetBeans IDE recognizes them, offers correct classes in code completion, correctly highlights errors, and lets you automatically fix old syntax.  You’ll find this reference card helpful if you want to get as much out of JDK 7 and NetBeans IDE 7 as their creators intended.

  

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