About this product: This new dynamic self-paced training from Brad Stone allows you to leverage your existing RPG skills to bring your iSeries applications to the web.
By using the core RPG skill you already have, you will avoid resource intensive solutions with a long learning curve.
RPG Web Skills Accelerator features 8 hands-on labs and comes complete with an exercise source code CD. You get step by step instructions that will show you how to easily get iSeries applications on the web.
Here's what you will learn to do: Experience the speed and low-resource processing that native RPG has to offer when creating web applications, learn how to use the FREE APIs that are available to you right now on your iSeries for creating dynamic web applications, learn the basics of HTML including tables, forms, images and hyperlinks, hain important knowledge and experience with web technologies such as JavaScript, Cookies, Stylesheets and Server Side Includes, learn how to create, start, stop and configure web servers on your iSeries using either the IBM web interface or the green screen, easily walk through configuring either the Classic or Powered By Apache web server for serving static and dynamic content from your iSeries, learn what goes on behind the scenes with CGI programs and how they interact with your web server, eliminate the need for bulky and resource intensive products such as WebSphere and use native and FREE APIs already on your iSeries, eliminate the need for intensive and time-consuming training for other web application programming languages, and impress your manager, co-workers and customers by creating web applications leveraging your existing RPG skills!
About this product: This Wrox Blox demonstrates how standards compliance in Internet Explorer 8 will impact your Web sites. It will teach you how to immediately ensure visitors to your sites have a positive experience using IE 8, while also giving you time to test your site or make any necessary changes. The IE 8 browser will undoubtedly cause many current web sites to render or behave incorrectly, since so many web sites were either developed prior to modern web standards, or without consideration for standards. In addition, many Web developers used non-standard techniques in order to get their sites to work properly in older versions of browsers.
There are several new features in IE 8 designed to drive traffic to your Web site. Accelerators provide the ability to highlight content on a web page and perform an action on it. How often have you selected an address on a web page, copied it, and then pasted it into the proper fields of a mapping Web site? In IE 8 you can select the address and use a mapping accelerator to quickly display that address on a map. By creating your own accelerators, you can provide this feature to save users time and bring them to your site. Web slices are similar to RSS feeds, but let you subscribe to content directly within a web page. Your users can easily determine that new content exists, and it is easy for content creators to setup.
IE 8 compliance with CSS provides several improvements with support for pseudo classes, counters, and the selectors API. The pseudo classes “:before” and “:after” can be used to add content to web pages from within a stylesheet. CSS counters are perfect for content that needs to be numbered, without requiring the numbers to be embedded in the content. The selectors API utilizes CSS selectors in JavaScript to locate elements rather than traversing the DOM tree.
AJAX has been growing in popularity and is used on many web sites, but it also introduces some problems. Changes made on the client are not recognized, so the browser back and forward buttons don’t work as expected. IE 8 provides a mechanism to use AJAX without losing the typical navigation experience. AJAX developers often want to utilize content from 3rd party web sites, but current browser implementations block this due to security concerns. IE 8 includes a new object and technique to enable these cross domain calls.
IE 8 will certainly impact web developers with its strict support for existing standards, which will cause many existing sites to render and behave incorrectly. It also provides many new features that can be used to simplify creation of web sites and increase productivity.
Table of Contents
Compatibility
Document Compatibility
Setting Document Compatibility
Determining Document Compatibility
Compatibility View
Accelerators
Web Slices
Connections
Additional Background Connections
Connection Related Events
Data URI
CSS Improvements
Pseudo Classes
CSS Printing
CSS Counters
Selectors API
Developer Toolbar
General
Script Debugging
Profiler
AJAX Improvements
AJAX History
Cross Domain Calls
XmlHttpRequest Timeouts
AJAX Security
Conclusion
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About this product: This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A050083. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In 1999, data were gathered from 2537 enlisted members of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) who were in the process of ending active duty service. The purpose of the web-based Exit Survey was to assess the factors contributing to the decision to leave active duty service. Items included in the survey represented such factors as: pay and benefits, job characteristics, career issues, family and personal life, leadership, culture, standards, unit morale, personal freedom, and optempo. Overall findings are reported for the total sample, as well as specific subgroup comparisons of interest (e.g. those with hi-tech skills; "careerists"vs. first termers; married vs. single; ethnic minorities; women). Findings show that, overall, three factors were most influential in respondents' decision to leave: civilian career opportunities, pay, and limitations on personal freedom. Additional factors given high ratings include: unit morale, time away from home and family, limited opportunities in primary MOS, promotion fairness, and changes in the way the Marine Corps is being utilized. This report also includes data on the factors respondents reported were "hardest to give up" in making this decision. Specific subgroup findings are presented as well as implications improving retention.
About this product: Apress has been profuse in both its quantity and quality of releases&emdash;and (this book is) surely worth adding to your technical reading budget for skills development. I stayed up clear past my 'bedtime' several nights while implementing the covered modules in my program, unable to pull myself away. From Pear packages to parsing XML files, this book is a huge time-saver to developing your own solutions.
— Richard Testani, Apple-Sauce.com
This book is an essential guide to some of the best free add-ons to PHP. These add-ons, or tools, provide invaluable functionality for improving your PHP Web applications, including accessing databases, generating robust Web forms, using page templating systems, creating and parsing XML documents, authenticating users, and much more.
In response to the existing shortage of documentation about the tools, Sklar packs this book with details about installing, configuring, and using each tool&emdash;along with plenty of examples tailored to PHP 4 and 5.
Sklar also lays out the details of Auth and HTML_QuickForm&emdash;two hard working PEAR modules&emdash;so you don't have to code your own authentication system or Web form construction set! Also included are chapters on debugging programs, and increasing Web server speed. In short, you will learn to eliminate inefficiencies in PHP, and enhance performance without any code modification.
About this product: This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A888504. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The Basic School (TBS) is the first school assignment for every new Marine officer as they begin their careers. As the first example of life in the Marine Corps, the school should be a model of efficiency and display all of the traits that will be taught in the course of the Period of Instruction. The information management system at TBS is a mixed bag of stand alone applications, memorandum books, and self generated spreadsheets. The current system is not efficient in regards to time management or visibility of the data. The primary data storage systems used by the Marine Corps do not accommodate the type of text documents that are recorded at TBS nor do they allow for adequate visibility of an officers performance during the POI. The result is a duplication of effort at each level of the command. This joint thesis team has produced a Two-Tier Client/Server Information Management System for use at The Basic School, known as SWORD. The system was developed using current industry standards that are compliant with the policies of the Department of Defense. The management tools are also compliant with the anticipated policies of the Navy and Marine Corps Internet (NMCI).
About this product: This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A523093. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The purpose of this thesis was to analyze the job satisfaction of first-term male enlisted Marines. Prior research has shown that job satisfaction is an important variable in the retention decisions of both military and civilian workers. Data were extracted from the 1999 USMC Retention Survey and matched with Marine Corps personnel master files. The sample was restricted to E-2 through E-4. Job satisfaction was investigated by separating the data set by occupational group. Results indicate that over one-third of the respondents are dissatisfied with their job, a majority feel they have to 'pick up the load' because the unit is understaffed, and over sixty percent feel their original expectations of the job have not been met. In the comparison of occupational groups, personnel in the combat arms community are significantly more dissatisfied with their job than the other four MOS communities. These findings can provide Marine Corps leaders with targeted information regarding occupational groups to use in improving job satisfaction and retention.
About this product: It's hard to believe that there was a time--not long ago--when the digital fairyland of commerce, soapboxing, and pornography called the World Wide Web was just a file-sharing tool for nerds, but there's a first time for everything. How the Web Was Born, by CERN's James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, follows the trail from the dawn of ARPANet through the mid-90s, just as the Web boom was beginning to take off in earnest. That may seem like an odd ending point, but the post-1995 story has already been told ad nauseam, and the writers know how to quit while they're ahead. The story is told from widely varying viewpoints and across shifting timelines as the various players are introduced and observed; this adds some complexity to the narrative, but yields a truer picture of the team efforts required to devise and launch the Web. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Marc Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee (of course), and many more, figure prominently in the interwoven tales, and are briefly summarized in an abridged cast list at the end of the book, along with a paper and electronic bibliography. The book assumes some knowledge and interest on the part of the reader and saves its big-picture context for the end, but provides reader motivation both by its subject's inherent interest and the recurrent personalization of the story. Neither textbook nor CERN propaganda, How the Web Was Born offers an engagingly networked collection of characters that, like their invention, creates something larger than the sum of its parts. --Rob Lightner
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