Professional Linux Programming

• Data storage in Linux - including coverage of PostgreSQL, MySQL and XML
  
• Implementation of Linux GUIs - covering both KDE and GNOME
  
• Web-based interfaces - using the PHP module for Apache
  
• Python - including extending and embedding the language
  
• Using RPC and CORBA to construct distributed object-based applications
  
• Versioning (with CVS), documentation, internationalization and project distribution
  
• Distributed hardware solutions such as diskless Linux and Beowulf clustering
  

Book Overview

As Linux increases its presence throughout the world as a target platform for professional application development, its growth as a powerful, flexible system offering many free development tools assures its place in the future. By giving you easy access to this comprehensive range of tools, supporting new and nascent technologies, at little or no cost, developing with Linux allows you to apply the solution that's right for you.

In this follow-up to the best-selling Beginning Linux Programming, you will learn from the authors' real-world knowledge and experience of developing software for Linux; you'll be taken through the development of a sample 'DVD Store' application, with 'theme' chapters addressing different aspects of its implementation. Meanwhile, individual 'take-a-break' chapters cover important topics that go beyond the bounds of the central theme. All focus on the practical aspects of programming, showing how crucial it is to choose the right tools for the job, use them as they should be used, and get things right first time.

Who is this book for?

Experienced Linux programmers and aspiring developers alike will find a great deal of practical information in this book on libraries, techniques, tools and applications. You should be familiar with a simple Linux system, have a good working knowledge of programming in C, and a basic understanding of object-oriented programming with C++ for the Qt/KDE chapters.

 Introduction
 Chapter 1:  Application Design 
 Chapter 2:  Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
 Chapter 3:  Databases
 Chapter 4:  PostgreSQL interfacing     
 Chapter 5:  MySQL              
 Chapter 6:  Tackling Bugs      
 Chapter 7:  LDAP Directory Services
 Chapter 8:  GUI programming with GNOME/GTK+
 Chapter 9:  GUI Building with Glade and GTK+/GNOME
 Chapter 10: Flex and Bison     
 Chapter 11: Testing Tools      
 Chapter 12: Secure Programming
 Chapter 13: GUI programming with KDE/Qt
 Chapter 14: Writing the dvdstore GUI using KDE/Qt
 Chapter 15: Python             
 Chapter 16: Creating Web interfaces with PHP
 Chapter 17: Embedding and extending Python with C/C++  
 Chapter 18: Remote Procedure Calls
 Chapter 19: Multi-media and Linux
 Chapter 20: CORBA.
 Chapter 21: Implementing CORBA with ORBit
 Chapter 22: Diskless systems   
 Chapter 23: XML and libxml
 Chapter 24: Beowulf Clusters           
 Chapter 25: Documentation      
 Chapter 26: Device Drivers             
 Chapter 27: Distributing the application.
 Chapter 28: Internationalization
 Appendix A: GTK+/GNOME Object Reference
 Appendix B: DVD RPC Protocol Definition
 Appendix C: Open Source Licenses
 Appendix D: Support, Errata & P2P.Wrox.Com