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Flex Tutorials at learn.adobe.com

computer_teacher — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:30 +0000

Here are several excellent Adobe Flex Tutorials and Learning Materials, at learn.adobe.com, that explain how Flex works and how to use it to effectively build and create Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Flex uses the Adobe Flash platform to create user friendly, interactive, and multimedia web applications. These Flex tutorials start out with the basics, move onto creating a sample RIA, and then teach the things that Flex developers need to know for building compelling and interactive Flex applications.

Get Oriented to Flex
This section introduces you to Flex with an overview in animation and the technology comparisons between Flex, ASP.Net, ColdFusion, Java and PHP.

- Animated Overview
- Technology Comparisons
   - Flex and ASP.NET
   - Flex and ColdFusion
   - Flex and Java
   - Flex and PHP

Part I. Creating a Simple RIA
This Flex tutorial discusses the different code anatomy, code files and learning points used to create a simple RIA.

- Learning Points
- Code Files
- Code Anatomy
- RIA Tutorial

Part II. Exchanging Data
This section shows you how data is exchanged between different services in both XML and plain text formats.

- Learning Points
- Code Files
- Code Anatomy
- Tutorial

Part III. Top Things You Need to Know
This Flex tutorial teaches some of the important things you need to know when working with Flex, such as working with data, designing a UI, displaying a list of items, and multi-page applications.

- Working with Data
   - Binding and Modeling
   - CRUD - Dynamic
   - CRUD - Static
   - E4X
   - External Interface
   - Local Connections
   - Shared Objects
   - Validation and Formatting
- Handling Events
   - Event Demo
   - Event Listeners
   - Event Propagation
   - Simple UI Event
- Designing a UI - Layout
   - Application Container
   - Box Model
   - Canvas - absolute
   - Canvas - relative
   - Combined Layout
   - Form
   - MXML vs ActionScript 3.0
   - Panel
- Displaying lists of items
   - DataGrid
   - Item Renderers
   - Lists
   - TileList
- Multi-page applications
   - Accordion
   - TabBar and LinkBar
   - TabNavigator
   - ViewStack
- Customizing components
   - ActionScript 3.0
   - Code Behind
   - Composite Component
   - Multiple Composite Components
   - MXML
- Debug your application
   - Debugging tutorial

Part IV. Building Your Own Flex Application
This section discusses and shows how to build your own Flex applications and how to integrate them into web pages.

- Backwards Compatibility Issues
- Creating Flex Builder Projects that Use Server Technologies
   - Creating a BlazeDS messaging application in Flex Builder
   - Creating a BlazeDS web service application in Flex Builder
- Flex Builder 3 Compiler Errors
- Moving to Flex from Authorware
- Tips, tricks, and techniques

Resources
This section contains further resources for Adobe Flex including projects, documents, development center and a showcase.

- Download Projects
- Flex 3 LiveDocs
- Flex 3 Component Explorer
- Flex 3 Style Explorer
- Flex Developer Center
- Flex.org
- Flex Showcase
- Flex Cookbook

849 Books on Linux and Open Source

computer_teacher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:10:27 +0000

Here are 849 online books covering Linux and Open Source topics, as linked below. These are excellent resources that will help you learn and understand these important technical and I.T. areas. Some of these freely available computer books are in Chinese, but most are in English.

- Backup (3)
- Database (61) Mysql
- Email (37)
- Embedded Linux (17)
- Enterprise/Business (24)
- Games (4)
- Graphics Engine (2)
- Interface (55)
- Linux Kernel (4)
- Linux Distributions (74)
- Linux Tools (11)
- Multimedia (10)
- Network Management (18)
- Office/Text Editors (24)
- Open Source Sponsor (7)
- Science (1)
- Security (33)
- Software Development (191)
- System administration (183)
- Version Control Software (6)
- Web Authoring (80)
- Wireless (4)

Ruby On Rails References And Cheat Sheets

computer_teacher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:52:11 +0000

These Ruby On Rails Reference Cards And Cheat Sheets provide important reference material, techniques, and tips to be used for quick development in Ruby On Rails. Ruby On Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology which is used by web developers for rapid development of web applications. These reference materials are available for several topic,s such as the Core Call Stack diagram, Migrations, String Extensions and the Action Mailer. (pdf format)

- Capistrano Cheat Sheet 229K
- Essential Ruby 1.5M
- Jumpstart Credit Card Processing 9.4M
- RESTful Rails Cheatsheet 79K
- RJS Demistified 394K
- RoR blog CheatSheet 77K
- Ruby Cheat Sheet 66K
- RubyCheatSheetPart1-v1.0_0.pdf 344K
- Ruby Cheatsheet for Ruby 1.8.4 55K
- RubyOnRails Cheatsheet BlaineKendall 105K
- Ruby Quick Reference 183K
- Ruby on Rails 1.16 - Edge Reference 77K
- Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet - ActiveRecord Relationships 52K
- Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet - Form Helpers 77K
- Ruby on Rails Short Reference 1.1.2 492K
- Action Mailer 206K
- Active Record Validation Errors 201K
- Form Helpers 190K
- Merb Core Call Stack Diagram 608K
- Microformats Helper 23K
- Peepcode Textmate For Rail2 Cheat Sheet 96K
- Rails Migrations 306K
- Rspec Cheatsheet 34K
- Ruby And Rails Assertions 25K
- Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet 185K
- Ruby on Rails CheatSheet 98K
- Ruby on Rails Active Resource Cheat Sheet 85K
- Ruby on Rails String Core Extentions Cheat Sheet 106K
- Shoulda Cheat Sheet 38K

Web Technology Talks

computer_teacher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:42:37 +0000

Here are some excellent Web Technology Talks, available at CDATA Zone. These talks cover various web technologies, including web services, XML, PHP, SOAP, SOA, and digital identity. All of these topics are drafted either in a pdf or a PowerPoint presentation. These user friendly slides contain screenshots which help make understanding and learning these technologies easier.

- Working with Web Services
- Advanced XML and Web Services in PHP
- Who am I? The Age of the Digital Identity
- Advanced XML and Web Services in PHP
- Digital Identity
- SOAP Tips, Tricks & Tools
- Advanced XML and Web Services in PHP
- Working With Web Services
- XML Encryption and Authentication
- Streaming XML
- Streaming XML
- XML Encryption and Authentication
- Advanced XML with PHP 5
- Who am I? The Age of the Digital Identity
- SOA: Beyond The Hype
- Who am I? The Age of the Digital Identity
- Web Services and SOA Web Services and SOA
- Who am I? The Age of the Digital Identity
- Robert Richards
- Introduction to PHP 5

Oracle Database 10g Documentation Library

computer_teacher — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:41:43 +0000

Here is the Oracle Database 10g Documentation Library for Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2), hosted at web.njit.edu. These freely available Oracle books and guides will help you to get started using Oracle Database 10g, along with assisting with installing and administering it. In addition, there are books to help you use it with PL-SQL. Also, here are some mirrors of this library: stanford, csueastbay, njit, and wtamu.

Getting Started

These books provide background information for new users:

2 Day DBA: HTML PDF
Concepts: HTML PDF
Administrator's Guide: HTML PDF
Master Glossary: HTML
New Features Guide: HTML PDF

Most Popular

These books contain the most commonly used information for general database administration and application development:

2 Day DBA: HTML PDF
Concepts: HTML PDF
Administrator's Guide: HTML PDF
Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals: HTML PDF
Reference: HTML PDF
Performance Tuning Guide: HTML PDF
PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference: HTML PDF
SQL Reference: HTML PDF

Installation Guides

Installation documentation, READMEs, and release notes are on the product media for your operating system. If you have an Internet connection, you can find the latest editions on the Oracle Technology Network site.

Access Manager for AS/400 Installation and User's Guide for IBM iSeries OS/400: HTML PDF
Backup Installation Guide: HTML PDF
Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation and Basic Configuration for Linux x86: HTML PDF
HTML DB Installation Guide: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for AIX 5L Based Systems (64-Bit): HTML PDF
Installation Guide for hp-ux Itanium: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for hp-ux PA-RISC (64-Bit): HTML PDF
Installation Guide for IBM z/OS (OS/390): HTML PDF
Installation Guide for IBM zSeries Based Linux: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Linux Itanium: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Linux on POWER: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Linux x86: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Linux x86-64: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium: HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64): HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Solaris Operating System (SPARC 64-Bit): HTML PDF
Installation Guide for Solaris Operating System (x86-64): HTML PDF
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide for AIX: HTML PDF
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide for hp HP-UX PA-RISC (64-Bit): HTML PDF
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows Platforms: HTML PDF
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide for Solaris Operating System (SPARC 64-Bit): HTML PDF
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Linux: HTML PDF
Universal Installer and OPatch User's Guide for Windows and UNIX: HTML PDF
Vault Installation Guide for Linux: HTML PDF

Upgrade Information

If you are familiar with earlier Oracle releases and are moving to Oracle Database 10g, these books describe the new features, and explain how to upgrade your database.

New Features Guide: HTML PDF
Upgrade Guide: HTML PDF

2 C++ Reference Cards

computer_teacher — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:25:18 +0000

Here are two nice C++ Reference Cards that discuss some simple and quick references, tips, and techniques for developers working in C++. C++ is widely used to write high level and low level applications on many platforms.

C++ STL Quick Reference (298K, 8 pages, pdf)
This downloadable reference document lists out important C++ techniques, coding styles and examples for the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).

- Notations
- Containers
- Container Adapters
- Algorithms
- Function Objects
- Iterators
- Examples

C++ Syntax Cheat Sheet (11K, 3 pages, pdf)
This cheat sheet provides understanding on using the C++ syntax when programming and developing applications in C++.

Programming Tutorials and eBooks

computer_teacher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:26:05 +0000

Here are many Programming Tutorials and eBooks, hosted at Arab American University. These programming ebooks and tutorials will help you learn most of the popular programming languages. After going through these you will be able to understand and apply tips, tricks, and techniques to effectively use in your programming and code development. Programming languages that are covered here include C++, Perl, Java, EJB, C#, VB .NET, Assembly, UML, and XML. All of these ebooks and programming learning materials can be used as references by both novice and expert developers. They are in pdf format. Here is a small number of these programming ebooks and tutorials:

- Flash MX ActionScript ebook
- Java ebook Java ebook 2
- Intoduction to Java
- Java 2 Network Security
- C++ ebook
- Borland C++ ebook
- Perl ebook Perl ebook 2
- Java Programming Handbook
- Enterprise JavaBeans EJB ebook 2
- Developer's Guide
- Assembly Language 32-bit
- Thinking in C++, 2nd ed
- Thinking in Java, 2nd Edition
- JBuilder ebook
- Building Applications with JBuilder
- Linux Administrators Security Guide
- Developing opentools
- VB .Net Programming Guide
- C# and dotNet Developer guide
- C# building .NET applications
- Visual Basic .NET ebook
- Web Application Development
- Web Services Development
- MCSD Study Guide
- Java Programming Language, Part 1
- Java Programming Language, Part 2

7 Flash ActionScript 3.0 eBooks

computer_teacher — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:56:36 +0000

Here are 7 downloadable ebooks for ActionScript 3. These ebooks will help you learn and code Flash ActionScript with building web applications. These ebooks are in pdf format.

ActionScript topics covered by these ebooks:

- ActionScript 3.0
- Advanced ActionScript
- Actionscript Animation
- Open Source Flash Programming
- ActionScript 3 Programming

121 Software Engineering Process & Methodology Learning Docs

computer_teacher — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:57:19 +0000

Here are 121 Software Engineering Process & Methodology Tutorials and Articles at Object Management Group - UML. These Software Engineering Process & Methodology tutorials cover the basic concepts of the software engineering process and framework and serve as good references for novice and expert developers alike. These Software Engineering Process & Methodology tutorials and learning documents discuss various topics such as process agility, software usability, testing, test plan project, user interface software, model driven architecture, effective STL, and others. All of the Software Engineering Process & Methodology documents provided below are in pdf format.

121 Software Engineering Process & Methodology Tutorials:

- Lightweights, Heavyweights, and Usability
- Process Agility and Software Usability
- White Paper Microsoft Solutions Framework version 3.0 Overview
- HKSQA Procedure Handbook Software Testing ST.1 Overall Testing
- Abstraction and Reuse Mechanisms in Web Application Models
- Executive Summary This paper outlines a number of commonly used
- ST.A Document Template for Software Verification and Validation
- Testing
- Understanding HCI methodologies
- Test Plan Project:
- Generating User Interface Prototypes from Scenarios
- SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT GUIDEBOOK
- Stop Promising Miracles
- Agile Software Development: The People Factor
- PowerDesigner WarehouseArchitect The Model for Data Warehousing
- SCA Service Component Architecture
- SCA Service Component Architecture
- A Pattern Language for Online Auctions Management
- Prototyping User Interfaces in HyperCard
- Finite State Machines 1
- JBCM
- Xtreme Rational Unified Process
- The Key to Successful Automated Testing: Planning
- Reaching CMM Levels 2 and 3 with the Rational Unified Process.
- CRC Modeling
- Software Configuration Management
- The Past, Present, and Future of Configuration Management
- EC Journal.qxd
- A Pattern Language for Key Management
- PowerPoint -CMM v1.1 Overview
- After the Program Runs After the Program Runs
- Evictor
- Agile Software Development: The Business of Innovation
- Testing with JUnit
- Security Engineering with Patterns
- Automated Testing: A Silver Bullet?
- Patterns for e-Commerce Agent Architectures: Using Agents as Delegates
- Microsoft PowerPoint - Lecture4_MDA
- NATO STANDARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS
- Testing J2EE Applications with Rational PurifyPlus
- User Interface Software
- Functional test automation tools
- The Personal Software Process 1 by Watts S. Humphrey watts@sei.cmu
- Agile Software Development: The Business of Innovation
- Using the Rational Unified Process for Small Projects: Expanding
- A Pattern Language To Visitors
- The Personal Software Process Overview, Practice, and Results1 by
- A Software Fault Injection Pattern System ( ) II. Architectural
- The Secret Partner Pattern Revision 3a by Bill Trudell, July 23
- Personas: Designing for Real People
- Real-Time Design Patterns Introduction
- Call Processing
- Rational PureCoverage
- Planning Agile Projects
- Organizational Multiplexing: Patterns for Processing Satellite
- Learning the PSP
- Defect Type Standard Design - DTS
- Software reliability and maintainability management
- Sybase PowerDesigner 9.0
- White Paper MSF Process Model v. 3.1
- PVCS® Professional™
- TTCN-3, Qtronic and SIP
- Interaction Patterns in User Interfaces
- Customer Rights and Responsibilities1
- AN INDUCTIVE METHOD FOR DISCOVERING DESIGN PATTERNS FROM OBJECT
- Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- CDC Style Guide
- P-CMM-02 Titles
- Dynamic CMM for Small Organizations
- White Paper MSF Risk Management Discipline v.1.1
- White Paper MSF Team Model v. 3.1
- The Personal Process in Software Engineering1
- A First Look: Rational RobotJ 1.0
- GRASP Patterns (Ch. 18) Responsibilities & Interactions Patterns
- IT Occupation Taxonomy v.3.0
- 5168_PD 9.5 Overview Brch v2
- White Paper MSF Readiness Management Discipline v.1.1
- Effective STL
- The Rational Edge -- December 2002 -- Progressive Acquisition
- Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Software Architecture Documentation in Practice: Documenting
- Free Download
- The Team Software Process (TSP )
- Test Summary Report for Project DATE
- Requirements Analysis with Use Cases Theory (9 Lessons)
- Effective STL
- Usability Case Study:
- 3118 J2EE Patterns
- ©2002 OMG Integrating Web Services with MDA Page 1 Using OMG's
- The WOODDES#1 Project: Building Better Embedded Systems
- How Not to Program in C++: 111 Broken Programs and 3 Working
- Benefits of CMM-Based Software Process Improvement: Initial Results
- SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT GUIDEBOOK Revision 1
- 28206 03 pp. 217-282 r11kp.ps
- A Modeling of Software Quality Management Base ISO 9001 *
- IntellAgile IntellAgile
- An Interview with Cem Kaner, Software Testing Authority - Part II
- The Rational Edge -- December 2002 -- An Integrated Approach to
- CHAPTER 9
- IBM® Rational® Rapid Developer Components & Web Services
- Misconceptions of the Capability Maturity Model
- ‰ q ‰ Sybase
- Chapter 1
- Usability Basics for Software Developers usability engineering
- Article Corvis and Telelogic's Excellent Adventure with DocExpress
- NATO STANDARD FOR MANAGEMENT OF A REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENT LIBRARY
- Model Driven Architecture
- Creating a Software Engineering Culture
- An Introduction to Design Patterns
- Powered by Tata Infotech The Third Wave of the Information Age
- A Rational Development Process
- Pattern Oriented Design:
- Software Process Improvement: Ten Traps to Avoid
- Self-Tuning Operating Systems
- IBM Rational ClearCase Integration with IBM WebSphere Studio
- Embedded System Architecture Design Based on Real-Time Emulati
- Why Is Process Improvement So Hard?
- WPKeep Software.qxd
- Personal Process Improvement
- DocExpress
- teamfly

AJAX and GWT Training Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:46:20 +0000

Here are several excellent AJAX and GWT Training Tutorials that are derived from Marty Hall's world-renowned live programming training courses, hosted on courses.coreservlets.com. These are intended as a fast introduction to the basics of Ajax and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for people that already know how to write the server-side part of the process using servlets and JSP. Although these tutorials provide the code for all of the servlets and JSP pages used, it does not explain the server-side code in depth or discuss how to deploy it...for detailed tutorials on writing server-side Java applications and explanations on how to deploy them on Tomcat, please see these Java EE tutorials.

These tutorials come with a complete set of text, PowerPoint files, pdf documents, and source so that your goal of learning Ajax and Google Web Toolkit will be easier and more productive. What follows here are the major topics, pdf tutorials files, and source code for these AJAX and GWT Tutorials:

Ajax Tutorials

Ajax Basics Tutorial: Part I: Ajax-Basics-1.pdf
Topics: Ajax motivation, The basic Ajax process, The need for anonymous functions, Using dynamic content and JSP, Using dynamic content and servlets, Displaying HTML results, Sending GET data. Source code: ajax-basics-1.zip. Web app used is bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Ajax Basics Tutorial: Part II: Ajax-Basics-2.pdf
Topics: Sending GET data, Reading textfield values, Sending POST data, Ajax toolkits and libraries, Recommended Ajax Books. Source code: ajax-basics-2.zip. Web app used is bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Ajax Development and Debugging Tools Tutorial: Ajax-Development-Tools.pdf
Topics: Tools for debugging Ajax, Tools for debugging JavaScript, Tools for building Ajax-based Web apps, Tools for developing xhtml, Tools for building and previewing style sheets, Tools for validating xhtml. Source code: ajax-basics-1.zip. Web app is bundled as a MyEclipse project.

JavaScript Core Language Features Tutorial: JavaScript-Core.pdf
Topics: Overview, JavaScript references, Embedding in browser, Basic syntax, Strings and regular expressions, Functions, Objects. Source code.javascript.zip. Web app is bundled as a MyEclipse project.

JavaScript Crash Course: Browser, XML, & HTML Support: JavaScript-Browser.pdf
Topics: XML, Getting document, Document, Element, and Node classes, HTML, HTMLDocument and HTMLElement classes, Specialized HTMLElement classes, The Window class, Event Handling, General event-handling attributes, Element-specific event-handling attributes. Source code: javascript2.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Ajax Data Handling: XML, JSON, and String Data Tutorial: Ajax-Data-Handling.pdf
Topics: Building HTML tables in JavaScript, Parsing XML data, Using MVC on the server, Parsing JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data, Parsing String data, Handling multi-format data. Source code: ajax-data.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Using JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) with Ajax Tutorial: JSTL.pdf
Topics: Obtaining JSTL documentation and code, The JSTL Expression Language, Looping Tags, Looping a certain number of times, Looping over data structures, Improving Ajax MVC data-handling examples, Conditional Evaluation Tags, Single choice, Multiple choices, Database Access Tags, Other Tags. Source code: jstl.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

XHTML: A Crash Course Tutorial: xhtml.pdf
Topics: Differences between xhtml and HTML 4, Basic structure of an xhtml document, Hypertext links and URLs, Block-level elements, Inline elements, Tables, References. Source code: xhtml.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Custom JSP Tag Libraries: Basics Tutorial: Custom-Tags-Basics.pdf
Topics: Java-based tags, Components of a tag library, Basic tags, Tags that use attributes, Tags that use body content, Tags that optionally use body content, JSP-based tags (tag files), Components of a tag library, Basic tags, Tags that use attributes, Tags that use body content. Source code: basicTags.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Custom JSP Tag Libraries: Advanced Capabilities Tutorial
Custom-Tags-Advanced.pdf.
Tags with dynamic attribute values, Tags with complex objects for attributes, Manipulating the tag body, Looping tags, Nested tags, Using SAX and TagLibraryValidator to validate tag library syntax. Source code: advancedTags.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Using JSP Custom Tag Libraries for Ajax Tutorial
Custom-Tags-Ajax.pdf.
Topics:
contextPath tag - Outputs the Web application context path (e.g., /myApp), to simplify relative URLs.
simpleAlert tag - Takes the result of a URL and puts it in popup dialog box.
alert tag - Takes the result of a URL and puts it in popup dialog box. Sends data from designated input element.
simpleButton tag - Takes the result of a URL and puts it in designated HTML element.
button tag - Takes the result of a URL and puts it in specified HTML element. Sends data from list of designated input elements.
Source code: custom-tags-ajax.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Using the AjaxTags Library: Basics Tutorial
AjaxTags-Basics.pdf.
Topics: Pros and cons of AjaxTags library, Installing AjaxTags, Using main components, Links that trigger server-side resource and display results within current page, Autocompleting textfields, Populating textfields based on values in another textfield, Populating combobox based on selection in another combobox, Forms whose results are displayed inside current page, Tabbed panels. Source code: ajaxtags.zip.
Web app used in the basic and advanced AjaxTags sections, bundled as a MyEclipse project.
ajaxtags-blank.zip.
Blank Web app to be used as a starting point for apps that use AjaxTags. Contains all required JAR files and JavaScript files. Bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Using the AjaxTags Library: Advanced Capabilities Tutorial
AjaxTags-Advanced.pdf.
Topics: Regions that display temporarily while server-side resource runs, Autocomplete textboxes with associated values displayed in other textboxes, Prefunctions and postfunctions, Arbitrary JavaScript that runs before or after server-side resource, Functions that run when server has error, Multiple triggers for server-side resources. Source code: ajaxtags.zip.
Web app used in the basic and advanced AjaxTags sections, bundled as a MyEclipse project.
ajaxtags-blank.zip.
Blank Web app to be used as a starting point for apps that use AjaxTags. Contains all required JAR files and JavaScript files. Bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Part I: Ajax Support Tutorial for the Prototype JavaScript Framework
Prototype-1.pdf.
Topics: Overview of Prototype, Installation, Ajax.Request, Basics, Options, HTML lookup and insertion, Ajax.Updater, Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater, Handling JSON Data. Source code: prototype.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Part II: General JavaScript Support Tutorial for the Prototype JavaScript Framework
Prototype-2.pdf.
Topics: Element, Helper methods for exploring DOM, Helper methods for updating DOM, Array, Helper methods that take simple arguments, Enumerable, Helper methods that take functions as arguments, Function, Helper functions that operate on other functions, Usually to build new functions that are based on old functions, Number, Methods called on numbers. Source code: prototype.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

The Prototype JavaScript Framework
Part III: OOP Support Tutorial
Prototype-3.pdf.
Topics: Constructor and prototype in one place, Single inheritance,
Merging objects, Multiple inheritance. Source code: prototype.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Part I: Ajax Support Tutorial for the Script.acul.us JavaScript Library
Scriptaculous-Ajax.pdf.
Topics: Overview of Scriptaculous, Installation and documentation, Autocomplete textfields, Local version, Ajax version, In-place Editor, Free-text values, Values from combo box. Source code: scriptaculous.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

Part II: Visual Effects Tutorial for the Script.acul.us JavaScript Library
Scriptaculous-Effects.pdf.
Topics: Overview of Visual Effects, Installation and documentation, Highlighting, Showing/hiding elements, Moving, resizing, and styling elements, Effect options. Source code: scriptaculous.zip.
Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Tutorials

GWT Basics.pdf
Topics: Pros and cons of GWT, Some commercial sites that use GWT, Installing GWT, Development process, Making a project, Editing auto-generated HTML file, Editing auto-generated application class, Testing process, Hosted mode, Web mode, Client-side listeners, Custom Java classes. Source code: GwtProject1.zip

This is the main app used in the basic GWT section. It is built as an Eclipse project that assumes you have GWT installed in C:\My Documents\GWT\gwt-windows-1.4.62. The Eclipse project links to several files in the GWT installation directory, so it will not run out of the box if you have GWT installed in a different location. If you have GWT installed in a different location, you could try importing gwt-user.jar and junit.jar into your app. But perhaps the easiest approach might be to make a new project and copy the sample code to the new project.
For example: Use projectCreator and applicationCreator to build a GWT Eclipse project with this name, as described in detail in the tutorial.
Go to the sample code here, navigate to the src folder, select everything under it (coreservlets, coreservlets.client, etc.), and select Copy.
Go to your new project, navigate to the src folder, delete everything under it, right-click on src, and select Paste.

GwtTestProject.zip
First "hello world" app used in the basic GWT section. This is simply what you get when you run projectCreator and applicationCreator, with no changes whatsoever. The Google Web Toolkit (GWT): Widget Event Handling

GWT Events Tutorial: GWT-Events.pdf
Topics: Main approaches to event handling, Separate listener classes, Main class implementing listener interface, Named inner classes, Anonymous inner classes, Basic widgets and their associated events, Pushbuttons and related widgets, Checkboxes and related widgets, Listboxes and related widgets, Textfields and related widgets. Source code

The following apps assume you have GWT installed in C:\My Documents\GWT\gwt-windows-1.4.62. See installation directions in previous section. GwtEvents1.zip - Version with separate listener class.
GwtEvents2.zip - Version with main class implementing listener interface.
GwtEvents3.zip - Version with named inner class.
GwtEvents4.zip - Version with anonymous inner class.

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT): Using RPC to Access Server-Side Data Tutorial

GWT-RPC-1.pdf
Topics: Idea of RPC, Development process, Defining client-side data service interfaces, Making a data service servlet, Specifying the data source, Defining client-side callback classes, Examples, Getting simple data from server, Getting complex types from serve,r
Getting serializable custom classes from server, Testing in hosted mode, To run using bundled server and GWT browser, Testing in Web mode, To run using bundled server and regular browser. Source code

GwtRpcProject.zip
Main app used in the RPC section. It is built as an Eclipse project that assumes you have GWT installed in C:\My Documents\GWT\gwt-windows-1.4.62. The Eclipse project links to several files in the GWT installation directory, so it will not run out of the box if you have GWT installed in a different location. If you have GWT installed in a different location, you could try importing gwt-user.jar and junit.jar into your app. But perhaps the easiest approach might be to make a new project and copy the sample code to the new project. For example:
Use projectCreator and applicationCreator to build a GWT Eclipse project with this name, as described in detail in the tutorial.
Go to the sample code here, navigate to the src folder, select everything under it (coreservlets, coreservlets.client, etc.), and select Copy.
Go to your new project, navigate to the src folder, delete everything under it, right-click on src, and select Paste.

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT): More RPC Topics

GWT-RPC-2.pdf
Topics: Handling multithreading, Avoiding race conditions in onSuccess and onFailure, Deploying, Creating new project, Adding JAR file, Copying WebContent files, Renaming main file to index.html, Fixing url-pattern, Fixing context-root. Source code,

GwtRpcDeploy.zip
Deployable MyEclipse app built from the GwtRpcProject of the previous section.

GWT and JSNI: The JavaScript Native Interface Tutorial

GWT-JSNI.pdf
Topics: Calling JavaScript from Java, Format of methods, The $wnd and $doc variables, Argument types, Calling Java from JavaScript, Format of method types, Designating overloaded methods, Argument types, Using Scriptaculous effects. Source code

The following app assumes you have GWT installed in C:\My Documents\GWT\gwt-windows-1.4.62. See installation directions in previous section. GwtJsni.zip.

Version with separate listener class.
Ajax4jsf: For details on using the Ajax4jsf library, please see the Ajax4jsf section of the tutorial on JSF and Apache MyFaces.

Ajax Exercises
View PDF of Ajax Exercises

Web Information Systems Course

computer_teacher — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:21:25 +0000

Here is an informative Web Information Systems Course at Cornell University. This Web Information Systems course explains building information systems on the World Wide Web. These course lecture notes cover markup languages, web services, protocols, ontology and knowledge modeling languages, semi-structured data parsing, and manipulation. This Web Information Systems course also includes readings, critical reviews, and technical projects that build expertise in tools and mechanisms for presenting and organizing information.

Web Information Systems Lecture Notes:

- Lecture Notes: Course Introduction - Points on a Spectrum
- Lecture Notes: Coherence and Invisibility: The Library Behind the Curtain
- Lecture Notes: Internet and Web: History, Politics, Standards
- Lecture Notes: Architecture of the World Wide Web
- Lecture Notes: Content: What is stuff
- Lecture Notes: Identifiers
- Lecture Notes: Markup Language
- Examples: Markup Language
- Lecture Notes: Namespaces and XML Schema
- Examples: Namespaces and XML Schema
- Lecture Notes: Manipulating XML (XPath and XSLT)
- Examples: Manipulating XML (XPath and XSLT)
- Lecture Notes: XSLT (2)
- Examples: XSLT (2)
- Lecture Notes: XSLT 3
- Examples: XSLT 3
- Lecture Notes: Syndication and Mashups
- Assignment: Project 1 Overview
- Examples: Project 1 Overview
- Lecture Notes: Web Publishing and Editing (Atom Publication Protocol)
- Lecture Notes: Semantic Web: Knowledge Representation on the Web
- Lecture Notes: Semantic Web Basics (RDF)
- Lecture Notes: RDF Meta Model and RDF Schema
- Lecture Notes: Description Logics and Web Ontology Language
- Lecture Notes: Inference and Querying Triple Stores(cont.)
- Examples: Inference and Querying Triple Stores(cont.)
- Lecture Notes: Building and Testing Ontologies with Protege and Racer
- Lecture Notes: Building and Testing Ontologies with Protege and Racer (2)
- Lecture Notes: Microformats and RDF-A
- Lecture Notes: Compound Information Objects
- Lecture Notes: Scholarly Communication, Escholarship, repositories
- Lecture Notes: Longevity and Preservation of Digital Information

2 Web and Ajax Programming Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:42:46 +0000

Here are 2 Web and Ajax Programming Tutorials, located at library.igcar.gov.in. These web development tutorials explain Web 2.0 programming and Ajax programming. Some of the interesting topics that are covered by these are Rich Internet Application technologies, why do we use Ajax, and some some key aspects of Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 Programming Web 2.0 Programming using AJAX & using AJAX & Blueprints (pdf, 534 Kb, 60 pages)
This Ajax tutorial explains the necessity of creating interactive web applications (or rich Internet applications) more efficiently, and thereby adding the power of AJAX to your websites.

- What is Web 2.0?
- What is Rich User Experience?
- Rich Internet Application (RIA) Technologies
- AJAX: Real-life examples
- What is and Why AJAX?
- Technologies used in AJAX
- AJAX usage cases
- Anatomy of AJAX interaction
- Toolkits

Web 2.0 To Go (pdf, 134 Kb, 16 pages)
This tutorial gives a brief guide and overview of Web 2.0, in relation to the recent intersection of Web technologies, content and communities.

- Background
- Definition
- Web 2.0: Some Key Aspects
- Web 2.0 Sites
- Bookmarks
- Word 2.0
- Music
- Cataloguing Records
- Video
- Social Networking
- News Stories
- The Virtual World
- Information Mashups
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Podcasts
- Library 2.0
- National Library of New Zealand School Services: Web 2.0
- Upgrade now! Web 3.0
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography

Crash Course on AJAX Programming

computer_teacher — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:16:37 +0000

Here is a nice, straight forward, Crash Course on AJAX Programming at library.igcar.gov.in. This short course on AJAX programming will help you to learn AJAX right from the basics to some of the more advanced features. After going through these tutorials you will be able to create interactive web applications or rich Internet applications more efficiently and thereby adding the power of AJAX to your websites. This tutorial is available as a pdf file, having 111Kb and 16 pages.

Contents of A Crash Course on AJAX Programming:

- AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
- AJAX is Based on Web Standards
- AJAX is About Better Internet Applications
- AJAX Uses HTTP Requests
- The XMLHttpRequest Object
- Your First AJAX Application
- AJAX - Browser Support
- AJAX - More About the XMLHttpRequest Object
- AJAX - Sending a Request to the Server
- AJAX - The Server-Side ASP Script
- Run Your AJAX Application
- AJAX Suggest Example
- Example Explained - The HTML Form
- Example Explained - The showHint() Function
- Example Explained - The GetXmlHttpObject() Function
- Example Explained - The stateChanged() Function
- AJAX Source Code to Suggest Example
- The AJAX TML Page
- The AJAX JavaScript
- The AJAX Server Page - ASP and PHP
- AJAX ASP Example
- AJAX PHP Example
- AJAX Database Example
- AJAX Example Explained
- The AJAX JavaScript
- The AJAX Server Page
- PHP & AJAX
- Why PHP and Ajax?

Downloadable Computer and Programming eBooks

computer_teacher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:45:58 +0000

Here are downloadable computer and programming ebooks, in the categories linked below. These technical ebooks are in pdf and chm formats.

Compter and Programming eBook Categories:

- Ada
- Adobe
- C Sharp (C#) programming
- C and C++ programming
- Database
- Delphi
- Game Programming
- Hacking
- Java
- Libraries
- MS Office
- Operating Systems
- Python
- VB
- Web
- Web Programming Tools

5 Python Tutorials and References

computer_teacher — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:51 +0000

Here are 5 Python Tutorials and Learning Resources at New Mexico Tech Computer Center. Through these five tutorials you will come to understand and learn about all things that you need to know about the Python programming language. The five Python tutorials and references below cover the following: an introduction to Python Programming, Python Quick Reference, Python GUI, Python Imaging Library (PIL), and Python XML processing.

A Python Programming Tutorial
This tutorial makes heavy use of Python's conversational mode. The basic features of the programming language are neatly explained in this section.

- Introduction
- Python's numeric types
- Character string basics
- Sequence types
- Dictionaries
- Branching
- How to write a selfexecuting Python script
- def: Defining functions
- Using Python modules
- Input and output
- Introduction to objectoriented programming

Python Quick Reference
This section serves as a reference guide to most of the common features of the Python programming language, version 2.5.

- Introduction: What is Python?
- Starting Python
- Line syntax
- Reserved words
- Basic types
- Numeric types
- Sequence types
- Types set and frozenset: Set types
- Type dict: Dictionaries
- Type file: Input and output files
- None: The special placeholder value
- Operators and expressions
- Basic functions
- Advanced functions
- Simple statements
- Compound statements
- def(): Defining your own functions
- Exceptions: Error signaling and handling
- Classes: Defining your own types
- pdb: The Python interactive debugger
- Commonly used modules

Tkinter Reference: a GUI for Python
This section explains the Tkinter widget set for constructing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the Python programming language.

- What is Tkinter?
- A minimal application
- Definitions
- Layout management
- Standard attributes
- The widget
- The Canvas widget
- The Checkbutton widget
- The Entry widget
- The Frame widget
- The Label widget
- The LabelFrame widget
- The Listbox widget
- The Menu widget
- The Menubutton widget
- The Message widget
- The OptionMenu widget
- The PanedWindow widget
- The Radiobutton widget
- The Scale widget
- The Scrollbar widget
- The Spinbox widget
- The Text widget
- Toplevel: Toplevel window methods
- Universal widget methods
- Standardizing appearance
- Connecting your application logic to the widgets
- Control variables: the values behind the widgets
- Focus: routing keyboard input
- Events
- Popup dialogs

Python Imaging Library (PIL) Quick Reference
This section of the tutorial describes an image-processing library, the Python imaging library(PIL) for the Python programming language.

- Introduction
- Definitions
- Creating objects of class Image
- The ImageDraw module
- Image enhancement: the ImageFilter module
- The ImageFont module
- The ImageTk module
- Supported file formats

Python XML Processing with lxml
This part of the tutorial explains the lxml package for reading and writing XML files with the Python programming language.

- Introduction: Python and XML
- How ElementTree represents XML
- Reading an XML document
- Creating a new XML document
- Modifying an existing XML document
- Features of the etree module
- class ElementTree: A complete XML document
- class Element: One element in the tree
- XPath processing
- Automated validation of input files
- etbuilder: A simplified XML builder module
- Implementation of etbuilder