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Introduction to ASP For Web Developers

Introduction to ASP for Web Developers is a three-part course designed by Selena Sol and Edi Baker-Wells.

Introduction to the Web Application Development Environment (Tools)
In this tutorial, Selena Sol steps back from the realm of specific technologies and focuses on a general survey of web application development tools.

Introduction to XML For Web Developers
In this tutorial, Selena Sol walks you through XML and the sister XSL style sheet language. Using simple, well-explained examples, Sol shows you how to get up to speed with the syntax of XML.

Extropia WebWare Suite 2.0: Towards a New Application Development Framework for Server-Side Web-Based Applications in Perl and Java
This article focuses on how application development changes within the environment of the Open Source movement. Using the example of CGI/Perl development, Selena Sol discusses such concepts as interface-driver architecture, object oriented design, and API development which are central to the open source development model.

Extropia.com: A Case Study in Open Source Software
It is hard to pick up an industry rag these days without reading about the "Open Source" business and software development revolution. Following the funding of RED HAT by Netscape and Sun, the creation of Scriptix (out of TCL), and the Microsoft "Halloween" document, this article hopes to explain what the Open Source model is all about by reviewing the development of one Open Source Software Shop, Extropia.

Written as a case study, this article attempts to give the reader an ethnographic feel for how this model changes life on the web!

An Introduction to Perl 5
Suitable for those who already have some familiarity with Perl 4, this tutorial highlights the new features of Perl 5: A new data type: the reference; A new localization tool: the my keyword; Tools to allow object oriented programming in Perl; An object oriented based library system focussed around "Modules"; New shortcuts like "qw" and "=>"

Introduction to Databases for the Web
This is a free four part course, suitable for webmasters and web developers with little or no database experience. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce database concepts and give you the tools you need to get to work using the databases available to you. The first part introduces the various types of database systems, especially relational databases and the SQL language. Examples are given of creating and manipulating a database and tables within it.

Introduction to UNIX for Web Developers
This is a free three part course, suitable for webmasters and web developers with little or no UNIX experience. The first part introduces the basic concepts of operating systems; the UNIX kernel; shells; utilities; executing utilities; wild cards; input, output, and redirection; the 'man' utility; UNIX and webmasters; history of UNIX; logging in and out; and resetting your password.

An Introduction to Photoshop
A three half day course for the novice to intermediate Photoshop user. Day one and two cover tools and definitions with the focus changing from definitions to the actual process by day three. Instructions are given for creating a 3D logo, shape with shadows, cast and drop shadow, buttons, relief arrows and beveled frame using such tools as Layers, Channels, Masks, Filters, Gradients and more.

What is a Webmaster ?
There are five tasks that must be accomplished at any successful web site. These include the following: Content Creation; Architectural Design; Implementation; Visual Design; Management. Selena describes these tasks and answers the question "What is a Webmaster ?"

Security Issues When Installing and Customizing Pre-Built Web Scripts
CGI scripts are as dangerous as they are useful. This is not to say that you should not use them. Computer security is a give and take situation. You can never be safe so long as you offer services. However, without offering services you may as well not have the computer in the first place. Thus, security becomes more about acceptable risk and emergency recovery than impregnability. It is your job to make sure that the cons of a break have far less impact than the pros of having a web site. Selena discusses the fundamental concerns of security when installing and customizing pre-built CGI scripts, and gives pointers to further information.

Introduction to Web Design
This is a three half-day course designed by Selena Sol. It deals with The Basics of HTML, Hyperlinks and Images, and Advanced Formatting by means of step-by-step instructions, examples, and exercises. Editorial notes by the WDVL staff link the material to more advanced references.

Introduction to Web Programming
A four half-day course designed by Selena Sol.

1. The Basics of Web Programming
2. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
3. Java Basics
4. Advanced Java

Web Programming 101
Part One: Server Side Scripting
Part Two: Client Side Scripting

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Broken CGI Script
Debugging in Depth.

The Art of Talking in Circles

The really unfortunate thing about this predicament is that now, more than any other period in the history of computing, is when we really need good, clear writing out there.

Whether the established priesthood of computer science likes it or not, the web has opened the flood gates and computer science is being secularized post haste. Droves of non-technically oriented people are finding themselves face to face with a command line and finding that they are being treated as imbeciles by system administrators who seem more interested in maintaining the shroud of mystery which keeps their salaries high than actually helping people solve problems.

Well the fact is that most people learning how to make a living on the web are not morons and if given the proper instructions can do just about everything they want to with their web sites if not more.

The big secret is that web programming is actually very easy.

And so that is what this monthly column hopes to show. Every month, I will try to cover some aspect of web programming in a way that I hope you will find useful in your daily work and at the same time fun to read. If you come back regularly, before you know it and with little struggle, you will be installing or even writing your own web applications.

- Sol
PS: please send me email if you have some topics that you would like me to address!