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Business Computing Skills

 

 

 

Rationale

Computer skills are still undervalued in the UK board room, according to software giant Microsoft.

It surveyed 500 UK business leaders and found that a knowledge of information technology (IT) was seen as the seventh most important workplace skill. Instead, team working and interpersonal skills were seen as the core factors, followed by initiative.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said IT skills were needed from the shop floor to the chief executive.

• Learning and Teaching Information Technology
• Computer Skills in Context

 

 

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Teaching and Learning Resources

• Learning Environment
• Learning Contents
• Teaching Strategies

 

 

Basic Computer Skills

Tutorials

• Basic Computer Skills

 

Readings

The Internet Protocol Suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commercial networks run. It is sometimes called the TCP/IP protocol suite, after the two most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were also the first two defined.

The Internet protocol suite — like many protocol suites — can be viewed as a set of layers, each layer solves a set of problems involving the transmission of data, and provides a well-defined service to the upper layer protocols based on using services from some lower layers. Upper layers are logically closer to the user and deal with more abstract data, relying on lower layer protocols to translate data into forms that can eventually be physically transmitted.

The OSI model describes a fixed, seven layer stack for networking protocols. Comparisons between the OSI model and TCP/IP can give further insight into the significance of the components of the IP suite, but can also cause confusion, as TCP/IP consists of only 4 layers.

 

Internet protocol suite Layer Protocols Application DNS, TLS/SSL, TFTP, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, IRC, NNTP, NTP, POP3, SIP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TELNET, BitTorrent, RTP, rlogin, … Transport TCP, UDP, DCCP, SCTP, IL, RUDP, … Network IP (IPv4, IPv6), ICMP, IGMP, ARP, RARP, … Data link Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Token ring, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, ATM, DTM, Frame Relay, SMDS, …   History Layers in the Internet protocol suite stack OSI model comparison The layers Application layer Transport layer Network layer Link layer Physical Layer Implementations   See also Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) OSI Model DoD Model List of TCP and UDP port numbers Important "over HTTP users/examples": HTML, SOAP. Notes References Further reading   External links TCP/IP State Transition Diagram (PDF) RFC 1180 A TCP/IP Tutorial - from the Internet Engineering Task Force (January 1991) TCP/IP FAQ The TCP/IP Guide - A comprehensive look at the protocols and the procedures/processes involved A Study of the ARPANET TCP/IP Digest TCP/IP Sequence Diagrams The Internet in Practice Chapter from Understanding TCP/IP book.

IP suite stack showing the physical network connection of two hosts via two routers and the corresponding layers used at each hop

 

The Domain Name System (DNS) stores and associates many types of information with domain names, but most importantly, it translates domain names (computer hostnames) to IP addresses. It also lists mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for each domain. In providing a worldwide keyword-based redirection service, DNS is an essential component of contemporary Internet use.

 

 

Useful for several reasons, the DNS pre-eminently makes it possible to attach easy-to-remember domain names (such as "wikipedia.org") to hard-to-remember IP addresses (such as 66.230.200.105). Humans take advantage of this when they recite URLs and e-mail addresses. In a subsidiary function, the domain name system makes it possible for people to assign authoritative names without needing to communicate with a central registrar each time.

• History of the DNS
• How the DNS works in theory
  • Understanding the parts of a domain name
  • The address resolution mechanism
  • Circular Dependencies and Glue Records
• DNS in practice
  • Caching and time to live
  • Caching time
  • DNS in the real world
    • Broken resolvers
  • Other DNS applications
  • Extensions to DNS
  • Implementations of DNS
• Standards
• Types of DNS records
• Internationalised domain names
• Security issues in DNS
• Legal users of domains
  • Registrant
  • Administrative contact
  • Technical contact
  • Billing contact
  • Name servers
• Politics
  • Truth in Domain Names Act

 

See also

• Cybersquatting
• Domain hack
• Dynamic DNS
• DNS cache poisoning
• DNSSEC
• ICANN
• Root nameserver
• DNS hosting service
• EveryDNS
• Geodomain
• NBNS
• NIS
• Hesiod
• References

 

External links

• RFC 1034 Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
• RFC 1035 Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
• Dnsbench.com Webbased DNS Check

 

 

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a set of rules used by a communications device (such as a computer, router or networking adapter) to allow the device to request and obtain an Internet address from a server which has a list of addresses available for assignment.

 

• Introduction
• Overview
• Implementations
• Extent of DHCP usage
• IP address allocation
• DHCP and firewalls
  • Example in ipfw firewall
  • Example in Cisco IOS Extended ACL
• Technical details
  • DHCP discovery
  • DHCP offers
  • DHCP requests
  • DHCP acknowledgement
  • DHCP selection
  • DHCP information
  • DHCP releasing
  • Client configuration parameters

 

See also

• RARP
• BOOTP
• Zeroconf

 

External links

RFC 2131 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

RFC 2132 - DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions

DHCP RFC - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol RFC's (IETF)

DHCP Server Security - This article looks at the different types of threats faced by DHCP servers and counter-measures for mitigating these threats.

RFC 4242 - Information Refresh Time Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6

DHCP Sequence Diagram - This sequence diagram covers several scenarios of DHCP operation.

RFC 3046, Recommended Operation for Switches Running Relay Agent and Option 82 describes how DHCP option 82 works

 

 

Operating Systems

 

Readings

An Operating System (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. At the foundation of all system software, the OS performs basic tasks such as controlling and allocating memory, prioritizing system requests, controlling input and output devices, facilitating networking, and managing files. It also may provide a graphical user interface for higher level functions.

 

Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop. Introduction Services Process management Memory management Disk and file systems Networking Security Internal security External security Graphical user interfaces Device drivers History Today Unix-like Microsoft Windows Other   See also General topics Operating systems category History of operating systems List of operating systems Comparison of operating systems Comparison of open source operating systems Comparison of Linux distributions Comparison of BSD operating systems Comparison of kernels Operating systems timeline Important publications in operating systems Hollywood operating system

Tutorials Operating Systems   Part 1: Introduction to Hardware, Software and Operating Systems 1. Introduction to Operating Systems 2. Hardware and Software Concepts   Part 2: Processes and Threads 3. Process Concepts  4. Thread Concepts  5. Asynchronous Concurrent Execution 6. Concurrent Programming 7. Deadlock and Indefinite Postponement 8. Processor Scheduling   Part 3: Real and Virtual Memory 9. Real Memory Management and Organization 10. Virtual Memory Organization 11. Virtual Memory Management   Part 4: Secondary Storage, File Systems and Database Systems 12. Disk Performance Optimization 13. File and Database Systems   Part 5: Performance, Processors and Multiprocessor Management 14. Performance and Processors 15. Multiprocessor Management   Part 6: Networking and Distributed Computing 16. Introduction to Networking 17. Introduction to Distributed Systems 18. Distributed Systems and Web Services   Part 7: Security 19. Security   Part 8: Operating System Case Studies 20. Case Study: Linux 21. Case Study: Windows XP

 

Other topics

• Monolithic Kernel – Microkernel – Exokernel – Virtual machine – System call
• Asymmetric and Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) – Clustering – Distributed computing
• Real-time operating system – Time-sharing – Multitasking – Embedded system – Single-user – Multi-user
• Orthogonally persistent capabilities versus access control lists
• Object-oriented operating system
• Disk operating systems
• Hard disk drive partitioning
• LiveCD OS - Operating Systems bootable from a CD without need of hard disk installation.
• Operating system advocacy
• OS-tan (Personification of operating systems)
• Open Colinux - Running Linux inside Windows
• ReactOS - Windows Compatible OS
• References

 

External links

• Operating systems at dmoz.org
• Official OSDev Project list (130+ OS projects)
• Operating systems at TUNES - wiki with reviews of operating systems
• Multics History and the history of operating systems
• operating system at elook.org - explains what an operating system is and provides various examples
• How OSs Work
• OS History - Historic timeline of Non-Unix OS Developments, over 700 systems and versions
• Humor: If OS's Were Airlines

 

 

Microsoft Windows

 

 

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market. At the 2004 IDC Directions conference, IDC Vice President Avneesh Saxena stated that Windows had approximately 90% of the client operating system market.^[1]

• Versions
  • 16-bit operating environments
  • Hybrid 16/32-bit operating environments
  • Hybrid 16/32-bit operating systems
  • 32-bit operating systems
  • 64-bit operating systems
• History
• Security
  • Windows Defender
  • Third-party analyses
• Emulation software

 

See also

• General
  • Comparison of operating systems
  • List of operating systems
  • Comparison of Windows and Linux
  • Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X
• Further reading
  • Architecture of the Windows NT operating system line
  • List of Microsoft Windows components
  • Microsoft Windows topics
  • Windows Explorer
  • Windows Genuine Advantage
  • Windows Media
• References

 

External links

• Official
  • Microsoft's Official Windows Website
  • Windows history time line from Microsoft
• Programming
  • Microsoft Development Network for programming Microsoft Windows
  • Windows API tutorial in C++
  • Programming Windows in Assembly Language
• Reviews and evaluation
  • Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows – an exhaustive evaluation of Microsoft's products and technologies
  • "Time to Live on the Network" – a security study by Kevin Mitnick and Avantgarde (PDF)
  • Windows XP: rough around the edges – an UI review of Windows XP
  • AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance Online Safety Study (October 2004) (PDF)
• High Performance Computing
  • WindowsHPC.net
  • WinHPC.org Windows HPC Portal
• Other
  • Windows history – a Windows history time line graph by Éric Lévénez (detailed, continually updated)
  • GUIdebook: Windows Gallery – a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing graphical user interfaces
  • Windows 20th Birthday

 

 

Data Bases

A relational database is a database that conforms to the relational model. The term refers to the database's data, and to the database's structure of that data, known as a schema. The software used to create a relational database is called the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), but sometimes that software is mistakenly called the relational database.

The term was originally defined and coined by E.F. Codd.^[1] Codd's definition is now not the only usage of the term, as many modern DBMS manufacturers have adopted a more relaxed usage of the term.

 

Definitions Contents Relations or tables Constraints Data domain Keys Foreign keys Transition constraints Other constraints Relvars Stored procedures Indices Relational operations Normalization References   External links Relational Database Principles by Colin Ritchie. ISBN 0-8264-5713-4 Database in Depth by Chris Date. ISBN 0-596-10012-4. A new book (2005) by perhaps the best-known author in this field. Limitations of the relational model Introduction to Relational Database Design 15 Seconds: Introduction to Relational Databases Introduction to Relational Databases Database Normalization Tutorials

 

 

Access

Microsoft Access (current full name Microsoft Office Access) is a relational database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface.

 

Microsoft Access can use data stored in Access/Jet, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant data container. Skilled software developers and data architects use it to develop application software. Relatively unskilled programmers and non-programmer "power users" can use it to build simple applications. It supports some object-oriented (OO) techniques but falls short of being a fully OO development tool. Microsoft Access was also the name of a communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. This Microsoft Access proved a failure and was dropped. Years later Microsoft reused the name for its database software. History Uses Features Development References Further reading   External links Microsoft Access Articles and Tutorials MS Access for the Business Environment Microsoft Access Tutorial More Access tutorials Utter Access Forums A FAQ site about Microsoft Access Microsoft Access Linklist Microsoft Access Newsgroups Microsoft Access for Beginners Open source alternatives to Microsoft Access

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Business Online

Readings

Larger Map

 

Electronic Business, or "E-business", may be defined broadly as any business process that relies on an automated information system. Today, this is mostly done with Web-based technologies. The term "e-business" was coined by Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM.

Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers.

 

 

In practice, e-business is more than just e-commerce. While e-business refers to more strategic focus with an emphasis on the functions that occur using electronic capabilities, e-commerce to be a subset of an overall e-business strategy. E-commerce seeks to add revenue streams using the Worldwide Web or the Internet to build and enhance relationships with clients and partners and to improve efficiency using the Empty Vessel strategy. Often, e-commerce involves the application of knowledge management systems.

E-business involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners. Special technical standards for e-business facilitate the exchange of data between companies. E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes. E-business can be conducted using the Web, the Internet, intranets, extranets, or some combination of these.

• E-business includes
• E-business Models
• References

 

External links

• Wikibooks
  • E-Commerce and E-Business

 

Activity

• Explanation of the Internet and the WWW: How Does it Work?
• Principles of Online Presence
• Simple Business Web site: Development Lifecycle
• Simple Business Web site: Domain Names and Hosting
• Simple Business Web site: How to Create Web Pages
• Simple Business Web site: Legal Obligations
• Simple Business Web site: Measuring Success
• Simple Business Web site: Glossary of Terms

 

See also

• Web Design
  

 

 

All about the Internet

 

 

Activity 1 Click on Image

The is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail, file sharing, and others described below.

Creation of the Internet Today's Internet Internet protocols Internet structure ICANN The World Wide Web Remote access Collaboration File sharing Streaming media VoIP Language Internet and the workplace Censorship Internet access Leisure Complex architecture Marketing The name Internet Significant Internet events Malfunctions and attacks   See also List of Internet topics Major aspects and issues Functions Underlying infrastructure Regulatory bodies References Citations and notes General   External links All about internet General Articles WikiBook History

 

Activity 2

Image copyright: Melanie K., stock.xchng

 

 

Server

In information technology, a server is a computer system that provides services to other computing systems—called clients—over a network. The term server can refer to hardware (such as a Sun computer system) or software (such as an RDBMS server).

 

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Description History Server hardware Server software Operating systems Server applications Servers on the Internet   See also Application server Central ad server Communications server Client-server model CORBA Data center Database server Daemon Dedicated server Fax server File server FTP server Game server History of computing hardware (1960s-present) Image server Instant messaging server Mail server News server Proxy server Peer-to-peer Print server Server log Sound server Streaming media server Terminal server Web server   External links SUN Servers IBM Servers HP Servers Dell Servers Motorola Communications Servers

 

 

Windows Server System is an integrated set of server software from Microsoft. It forms the infrastructure for operating the back end of an information technology system.

Microsoft divides its server offerings into four major categories: "Security", "IT Operations", "Applications", and "Collaboration". Many of the products integrate deeply with Visual Studio to help software developers and designers build solutions using familiar tools.

• Platforms
  • Microsoft Windows Server
    • Active Directory
    • Internet Information Services (IIS)
    • Services for UNIX
    • Terminal Services
    • Windows Media Services
    • Rights Management Services
  • Windows Storage Server - File server-focused edition of Windows Server, with built-in back-up tools
  • Windows Small Business Server
• Server products
  • Security
  • IT Operations
  • Applications
  • Collaboration
  • Other Windows server products
  • Past Server Products

 

External links

 

 

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

 

 

In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can provide additional cues, such as embedded scripting language code, that can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.

HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).

• History of HTML
  • Version history of the standard
  • HTML as a hypertext format
• HTML markup
  • The Document Type Definition
  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • Other markup
• Semantic HTML
• Delivery of HTML
  • Publishing HTML with HTTP
  • HTML e-mail
• Current flavors of HTML
  • Traditional vs. XML-based HTML
  • Transitional versus Strict
  • Frameset versus Transitional
  • Summary of Flavors
• References

 

See also

• Alt attribute
• Character encodings in HTML
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Dynamic HTML
• The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML (historical reference from 1995)
• HTML editor
• HTML element
• HTML scripting
• microformats
• Parsing
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Unicode and HTML
• Web colors
• List of document markup languages
• Comparison of document markup languages
• Comparison of layout engines (HTML)
• XHTML
• Website Builder
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/HTML

 

External links

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• W3C Specifications
  • HTML 4.01 Specification and its errata
  • XHTML 1.0 Specification
  • XHTML Media Types
• Tutorials and guides
  • HTML Source: HTML Tutorials
  • HTML Dog
  • HTML.net
  • HTMLQuick.com tutorials
• Validators
  • Accessibility Validator
  • W3C's Markup Validator
  • WDG HTML Validator
  • Validators and checkers (Site Check)
  • Off-line HTML Validator v1.0 for Windows
  • Multipage Validator
• Other specifications
  • Web Applications 1.0
  • 365 NET A professional website design company.

 

The Extensible Markup Language ( XML ) is a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages . [1] It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet , [2] and it is used both to encode documents and to serialize data. In the latter context, it is comparable with other text-based serialization languages such as JSON and YAML . [3]

It started as a simplified subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and is designed to be relatively human-legible. By adding semantic constraints, application languages can be implemented in XML. These include XHTML , [4] RSS , MathML , GraphML , Scalable Vector Graphics , MusicXML , and thousands of others. Moreover, XML is sometimes used as the specification language for such application languages.

XML is recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is a fee-free open standard . The recommendation specifies both the lexical grammar and the requirements for parsing.

Well-formed and valid XML documents Well-formed documents: XML syntax Entity references Numeric character references Well-formed documents Automatic verification Valid documents: XML semantics DTD XML Schema RELAX NG ISO DSDL and other schema languages International use Displaying XML on the web XML extensions Processing XML files Simple API for XML (SAX) DOM Transformation engines and filters Pull parsing Data binding Specific XML applications and editors History Sources Versions Patent claims Critique of XML Advantages of XML Disadvantages of XML Standardization   See also The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language , or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML , but also conforms to XML syntax. While HTML is an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an application of XML , a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because they need to be well-formed , true XHTML documents allow for automated processing to be performed using standard XML tools—unlike HTML, which requires a relatively complex, lenient, and generally custom parser . XHTML can be thought of as the intersection of HTML and XML in many respects, since it is a reformulation of HTML in XML. XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26 , 2000 . XHTML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation on May 31 , 2001 . Notes and references   External links Specifications Parsers Sources Retrospectives Papers

Tutorials 1. Introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web Introduction. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). History of the Internet. History of the World Wide Web. Future of Computing. History of SGML. XML and XML How to Program. A Tour of the Book. W3C XML Resources. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 2. Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part I Introduction. Markup Languages. Editing HTML. Common Elements. Headers. Linking. Images. Special Characters and More Line Breaks. Unordered Lists. Nested and Ordered Lists. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 3. Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part II Introduction. Basic HTML Tables. Intermediate HTML Tables and Formatting. Basic HTML Forms. More Complex HTML Forms. Internal Linking. Creating and Using Image Maps. <<meta>> Tags. frameset Element. Nested framesets. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 4. Cascading Style Sheets™ (CSS) Introduction. Inline Styles. Creating Style Sheets with the style Element. Conflicting Styles. Linking External Style Sheets. Positioning Elements. Backgrounds. Element Dimensions. Text Flow and the Box Model. User Style Sheets. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 5. Creating Markup with XML Introduction. Introduction to XML Markup. Parsers and Well-Formed XML Documents. Parsing an XML Document with msxml. Characters. Markup. CDATA Sections. XML Namespaces. Case Study: A Day Planner Application. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 6. Document Type Definition (DTD) Introduction. Parsers, Well-Formed and Valid XML Documents. Document Type Declaration. Element Type Declarations. Attribute Declarations. Attribute Types. Conditional Sections. Whitespace Characters. Case Study: Writing a DTD for the Day Planner Application. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 7. Schemas Introduction. Schema vs. DTDs. Microsoft XML Schema: Describing Elements. Microsoft XML Schema: Describing Attributes. Microsoft XML Schema: Data Types. W3C XML Schema. Case Study: Writing a Microsoft XML Schema for the Day Planner Application. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 8. Document Object Model (DOM™). Introduction. DOM Implementations. DOM with JavaScript. Setup. DOM Components. Creating Nodes. Traversing the DOM. Case Study: Modifying the Day Planner Application to Use the DOM. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 9. Simple API for XML (SAX) Introduction. DOM vs. SAX. SAX-Based Parsers. Setup. Events. Example: Tree Diagram. Case Study: Using SAX with the Day Planner Application. SAX 2.0. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 10. Case Study: XmlMessenger Program Introduction. Setup. Overview: Server Side of XmlMessenger. Implementation: Server Side of XmlMessenger. Overview: Client Side of XmlMessenger. Implementation: Client Side of XmlMessenger. 11. XML Path Language (XPath) Introduction. Nodes. Location Paths. Node-Set Operators and Functions. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 12. XSL: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) Introduction. Setup. Templates. Creating Elements and Attributes. Iteration and Sorting. Conditional Processing. Copying Nodes. Combining Stylesheets. Variables. Case Study: XSLT and XPath. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 13. XSL: Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects Introduction. Setup. Examples of XSL Formatting-Object Documents. Lists. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 14. XLink, XPointer, XInclude and XBase Introduction. XML Linking Language (XLink). XLink and DTDs. XML Pointer Language (XPointer). XML Inclusions (XInclude). XML Base (XBase). Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 15. Case Study: Message Forum with Active Server Pages Introduction. Setup and Message Forum Documents. Forum Navigation. Adding Forums. Forum XML Documents. Posting Messages. Other HTML Documents. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 16. Server-Side Java Programming Introduction. Cocoon. Extensible Server Pages (XSP). Case Study: A Wireless Online Bookstore. Jakarta Tomcat Setup. WAP and WML: Client-Side Documents. Java Servlets. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 17. Perl and XML: A Web-Based Message Forums Application Introduction. Perl and XML. Setup. Displaying the Forums using XML::Parser. Using XML::DOM to Add Forums and Messages. Alterations for Non-XSL Browsers. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 18. Accessibility Introduction. Providing Alternatives for Multimedia Content. Maximizing Readability by Focusing on Structure. Accessibility in HTML Tables. Accessibility in HTML Frames. Accessibility in XML. Using Voice Synthesis and Recognition with VoiceXML™. JAWS® for Windows. Other Accessibility Tools. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 19. XHTML and XForms Introduction. XHTML. XForms. Extended Forms Architecture (XFA). Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 20. Custom Markup Languages: Part I Introduction. Mathematical Markup Language (MathML). OpenMath. Chemical Markup Language (CML). Wireless Markup Language (WML). Geography Markup Language (GML). Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Bean Markup Language (BML). Extensible 3D Language (X3D). Additional Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 21. Custom Markup Languages: Part II Introduction. Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Bank Internet Payment System (BIPS). Electronic Business XML (ebXML). Visa XML Invoice Specification. Commerce XML (cXML). LegalXML. NewsML. Open eBook Publication Structure. Extensible User Interface Language (XUL). Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 22. XML Technologies and Applications Introduction. XML Query Language (XQL). Directory Services Markup Language (DSML). Resource Definition Framework (RDF). XML Topic Maps (XTM). Virtual HyperGlossary (VHG). Channel Definition Format (CDF). Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Protocol. Rich Site Summary (RSS). Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P). Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BXXP). XML Digital Signatures. Extensible Rights Markup Language (XrML). XML Metadata Interchange (XMI). W3C's XML Protocol. XMAL. 23. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Microsoft BizTalk™ Introduction. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Microsoft BizTalk. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 24. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Scripting with VBScript ® Introduction. Operators. Data Types and Control Structures. VBScript Functions. VBScript Example Programs. Arrays. String Manipulation. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 25. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Active Server Pages (ASP) Introduction. How Active Server Pages Work. Client-Side Scripting versus Server-Side Scripting. Using Personal Web Server and Internet Information Server. Active Server Page Objects. A Simple ASP Example. Server-Side ActiveX Components. File System Objects. Session Tracking and Cookies. Databases, SQL, Microsoft UDA and ADO. Accessing a Database from an Active Server Page. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 26. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Perl Programming Introduction. Perl. String Processing and Regular Expressions. Viewing Client/Server Environment Variables. Form Processing and Business Logic. Server-Side Includes. Verifying a Username and Password. Using ODBC to Connect to a Database. Cookies and Perl. Internet and World Wide Web Resources. 27. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Java 2 Programming Introduction. Java Keywords, Primitive Data Types and Class Libraries. Command-Line Java Applications. Arrays. Class Vector. Graphical User Interfaces: A Windowed Application with JFrames and Event Handling. Graphical User Interfaces: Event Handling with Inner Classes. Graphical User Interfaces: Miscellaneous Components. Graphical User Interfaces: Layout Managers. Graphical User Interfaces: Customizing a Component and Introducing Graphics. Multithreading. Networking with Sockets and Streams. Enhancing a Web Server with Servlets. Internet and World Wide Web Resources.

 

 

Web Design/Basic HTML and CSS

 

We're going to start slowly and introduce some of the most useful features of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading StyleSheets (CSS) through some hands-on, practical activities. As Patrick Griffiths says: "The thing to keep in mind is that HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are all about separating the content (HTML) and the presentation (CSS). HTML is nothing more than fancy structured content"...we'll control the way that this content is displayed with our stylesheet! But before we can design glamorous pages like those you'll see on CSSZenGarden, we'll need to learn how to use some basic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

 

Module aim Suggested Activities Your learning resources Online tutorials Online References Books An HTML Editor Checklist Related Qualifications See also Web Design/Basic HTML and CSS Web Design Level 1 Online Tutorials HTMLDog's HTML Beginners Guide and   CSS Beginners Guide provide excellent step-by-step learning pathways! WestCiv's Hands-on CSS tutorial - An excellent hands-on project-based CSS tutorial (this tutorial builds on your HTML foundation)! This tutorial extends past the basics of CSS but includes an excellent intro too! Mezzoblue's HTML markup guide - From the guy who created CSSZenGarden, this guide covers HTML basics including Headings, paragraphs, a number of inline text tags and lists. CSS From the ground up - Another excellent step-by-step tutorial for learning the basics of HTML/CSS coding. W3Schools tutorials - Some great step-by-step tutorials, but lots of ads. Wikibooks CSS Guide - A detailed wikibook on CSS Authoring Webpages - Another Wikibook tutorial Several other tutorials can be found online.

 

Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is a web development tool, created by Macromedia (now Adobe Systems), which is currently in version 8. Initial versions of the application served as simple WYSIWYG HTML editors but more recent versions have incorporated notable support for many other web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting frameworks. Dreamweaver has enjoyed widespread success since the late 1990s and currently holds more than 70% of the HTML editor market.[1] The software is available for both the Mac and Windows platforms, but can also be run on Unix-like platforms through the use of emulation software such as Wine.

 

Syntax highlighting Versions   See also List of HTML editors Macromedia Home Site List of HTML editors Macromedia Home Site   External links Dreamweaver Macromedia Dreamweaver Extensions DHTML Menu Dreamweaver Extensions DreamWeaver Flash Tutorials Dreamweaver 8 Tutorials Dreamweaver at about.com photoshopsupport.com dreamweaver tutorials MX (Copyright © 1995-2003 Computer Ease. All Rights Reserved)

 

Efficient Searching

Tutorial: Efficient Searching

A search engine or search service is a document retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of items that match those criteria. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently. Without further qualification, search engine usually refers to a Web search engine, which searches for information on the public Web. Other kinds of search engine are enterprise search engines, which search on intranets, personal search engines, which search individual personal computers, and mobile search engines. Different selection and relevance criteria may apply in different environments, or for different uses.

Some search engines also mine data available in newsgroups, large databases, or open directories like DMOZ.org. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically. Most websites which call themselves search engines are actually front ends to search engines owned by other companies.

 

• History
  • Google
  • Yahoo! Search
  • Microsoft
  • Ask.com
  • Others
• Challenges faced by search engines
• How search engines work
• Storage costs and crawling time
• Geospatially enabled search engines

 

See also

• List of search engines
• Automatic summarization
• Bibliographic database
• Country-specific search engines
• Data mining
• Desktop search
• Federated search
• History of the Internet
• Inverted index
• Instant indexing
• Local search
• Metasearch engine
• Organic search
• Page hijacking
• Search engine marketing
• Search engine optimization
• Search oriented architecture
• Search Engine Indexing Process
• Spamdexing
• Sponsored link
• Text mining
• Vertical search
• Web indexing
• Notes
• References

 

External links

• How to Use Search Engines to Find Information on the Internet
• Scientific American Magazine (February 2005 Issue) "Seeking Better Web Searches"

 

 

Computer Graphics

Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world.

William Fetter was credited with coining the term Computer Graphics in 1960, to describe his work at Boeing. The first major advance in computer graphics was the development of Sketchpad in 1962 by Ivan Sutherland. This field can be divided into several areas: real-time 3D rendering (often used in video games), computer animation, video capture and video creation rendering, special effects editing (often used for movies and television), image editing, and modeling (often used for engineering and medical purposes). Development in computer graphics was first fueled by academic interests and government sponsorship. However, as real-world applications of computer graphics in broadcast television and movies proved a viable alternative to more traditional special effects and animation techniques, commercial parties have increasingly funded advances in the field. It is often thought that the first feature film to use computer graphics was 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which attempted to show how computers would be much more graphical in the future. However, all the "computer graphic" effects in that film were hand-drawn animation, and the special effects sequences were produced entirely with conventional optical and model effects. Perhaps the first use of computer graphics specifically to illustrate computer graphics was in Futureworld (1976), which included an animation of a human face and hand--produced by Ed Catmull and Fred Parke at the University of Utah.

 

Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop. External links A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation History of Computer Graphics series of articles The ARTS: Episode Review of free graphic and rendering tools linux open source computer graphicslinks forum news Computer Graphics NewsCG News TDT3D European CG network(Updates every day)

3D Shading Image-Based Rendering Texturing   See also Color theory Raster graphics Vector graphics Geometric surface representations including, polygons, Bézier surfaces, splines, Subdivision surfaces, Implicit surfaces, point-set surfaces, and NURBS Material properties, including BRDFs Image compression Animation Rendering Compositing Projection 3D projection Hidden surface determination Vertex shaders and pixel shaders Full screen effects Non-photorealistic rendering Real-time computer graphics Optical feedback Toolkits & APIs Adobe Systems AmanithVG Autodesk Blender3d BRL-CAD Cairo (graphics) Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) Crystal Space Power Render DirectX GLUT Graphical Kernel System (GKS) Macromedia Flash Macromedia Shockwave Open Inventor OpenGL Pixia PostScript Renderman Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) svgalib X Window System Miscellaneous Digital geometry (e.g., Bresenham's line algorithm) Computer-generated imagery Digital image editing Timeline of CGI in films Computer vision Image processing Graphics processing unit POV-ray Graphical output devices List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics Utah Teapot Stanford Bunny SIGGRAPH ASCII art

 

Adobe Fireworks

Features Docked menus Toolbar Pointer tool Scale tool

Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks, also known as FW for short) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, developed by Macromedia and aimed at web designers (with features such as: slices, the ability to add hotspots etc.). It is designed to integrate easily with other Macromedia products, such as the popular Dreamweaver and Flash, and is part of the Macromedia Studio 8 suite. In December 2005, Adobe completed the acquisition of Macromedia. How the two product lines will merge is still under speculation. Fireworks is most similar in purpose to Adobe ImageReady, in that it is designed specifically for web-based graphics, with somewhat limited print-based capabilities. Unlike ImageReady, Fireworks features vector editing capabilities, and a more robust feature set overall. Fireworks may be purchased alone or bundled with Macromedia Studio 8. Many web developers love the features and functionality that the entire program suite offers. However, for those who need only an image editor, the stand-alone copy is more than sufficient. The development of Fireworks continues after the acquisition, Fireworks 9 is now in Beta stage.

 

External links

• Macromedia Fireworks
• Macromedia Fireworks Extensions
• solarDreamStudios - The site of a very talented FW user, contains some useful tutorials
• Playing With Fire - FW resource site
• CBT Cafe Fireworks Video Tutorials
• FireworksGuru - Online community of Fireworks users
• Bleuprint - Fireworks Digital Artist and tutorials
• Firenet - Russian tutorial and community site
• Fireworxfun - Request free fireworks graphics
• Demon Web Design - Download Free Ebook of Fireworks Tutorials

 

 

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and before that FutureSplash), or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies). The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (which bought Macromedia), is a client application available in most dominant web browsers. It features support for vector and raster graphics, a scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of audio and video.

Strictly speaking, Adobe Flash is an integrated development environment (IDE) while Flash Player is a virtual machine used to run, or parse, the Flash files, but in contemporary colloquial terms "Flash" can refer to the authoring environment, the player or the application files.

Since its introduction in 1996, Flash technology has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web-page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

The Flash files, traditionally called "Flash movies", have a .swf file extension and may be an object of a web page, strictly "played" in a standalone Flash Player, or incorporated into a Projector, a self-executing Flash movie.

 

History Programming language Content protection Competition Format and plug-in Free software alternatives Authoring Criticisms Usage Local Shared Objects Application flaws Accessibility issues Flash Player on various platforms "Click to activate and use this control" Market share Related file formats and extensions Flash-specific file formats Generic file formats used by Flash Product history (Authoring Tool) Future developments   See also ActionScript Animutation Flash animation Flash satay Gnash, F4l, KToon - opensource alternatives Java applet Adobe Flash Lite Adobe Flash Remoting OpenLaszlo Rich Internet application Dreamweaver Shockwave Streaming media SWiSH Max Screencast   External links Adobe Flash Player Adobe Flash Professional 8 The History of Flash Flash Developer Center Adobe Flash Player Version Penetration Adobe Web Players Download Page Adobe Archived Players for development testing Adobe Flash File Format (SWF) Specification Adobe Security Zone Flash player for GP2X

 

 

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows, and Apple Computer's Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. As well as the core office applications, the Microsoft Office brand includes associated servers and Web-based services. Recent versions of Office are now called the "Office system" rather than the "Office suite" to reflect the fact that they include servers as well.

Office made its first appearance in 1989 on the Macintosh, with a version for Windows following it in 1990 [1]. It was initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications that were previously marketed and sold separately. The main selling point was that buying the bundle was substantially cheaper than buying each of the individual applications on their own. The first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Additionally, a "Pro" version of Office included Microsoft Access and Schedule Plus. Over the years the Office applications have grown substantially closer together from a technical standpoint, sharing features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration, and the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software.

 

• Common Office programs
  • Word
  • Excel
  • Outlook/Entourage
  • PowerPoint
• Other programs included in the Windows versions
• Other programs included in the Mac versions
• Web services associated with Microsoft Office
• Older programs no longer included
• Older suites no longer supported
• Other related companion servers
• Editions
• Cross-platform use
• Versions
  • Versions for Microsoft Windows OS
  • Versions for Apple Macintosh OS
• Add-ins
• Trivia
• Criticisms

 

See also

• List of office suites
• Comparison of office suites
• Open format
• Microsoft Dynamics

 

External links

• Microsoft Office (for Windows) Official Website
• Microsoft Office 2004 (for Mac OS X) Official Website
• MSDN Office Developer Center
• Microsoft Office X (for Mac OS X) Official Website
• Microsoft Office 2001 (for Mac OS 8-9) Home Page
• Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers
• Microsoft Office 2003 Editions - Quick Reference Matrix

 

Excel

Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers. It features an intuitive interface and capable calculation and graphing tools which, along with aggressive marketing, have made Excel one of the most popular microcomputer applications to date. It is overwhelmingly the dominant spreadsheet application available for these platforms and has been so since version 5 in 1993 and its bundling as part of Microsoft Office.

 

• History
• Versions

 

See also

• List of spreadsheets
• Excel serial day

 

External links

• Microsoft Excel official site
• Review of first Excel version for Windows
• The History of Spreadsheets
• Microsoft Office training
• Excel 2000 Tutorial
• Excel Developer's Kit, Microsoft Press, 1994; Excel API, SDK and description of Excel file formats.
• Excel file format documentation by the OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Project.
• Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? (Concerns versions 10.0 and below.)
• pdfonline.com Upload a .xls file and get a converted .pdf via email

 

PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint (full name Microsoft Office PowerPoint) is a ubiquitous presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Being widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers, it is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology.

 

Operation History Cultural effects Criticism of PowerPoint   See also PowerPoint animation Beamer a LaTeX class for creating presentations. Impress, a program similar to PowerPoint Apple Keynote oNLine System File viewers HyperCard Worship presentation program Microsoft Equation Editor Pecha Kucha

 

 

External links

Official website of PowerPoint at Microsoft

PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial

Powerpoint Tips and Tutorials Categories

flashgeek PowerPoint tutorials and community, especially in regards to using PowerPoint in combination with Macromedia Flash.

PowerPoint Heaven — The Power to Animate Contains PowerPoint movies, showcases, PowerPoint games, animation templates and tutorials on creating animations for your PowerPoint Presentations.

PowerPoint FAQ pages Compilation of Frequently Asked Questions in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Discussion Groups.

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 Download (freeware, 1.7 MiB.) Free PowerPoint Viewer provided by Microsoft, supports presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2003. (only Windows)

pdfonline.com Upload a .ppt and get a .pdf via email

 

Discussion Groups

• Microsoft Office PowerPoint Discussion Group
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint Yahoo! Group — Help and advice for users of PowerPoint

 

Articles

Atkinson, Cliff (2004). PowerPoint usability: Q&A with Don Norman. Retrieved on 2006-05-28.

Parker, Ian (May 2001). "Absolute PowerPoint: The software that tells you what to think". The New Yorker (May 28, 2001): 76–87.

Tufte, Edward R. [1997] (January 2002). “The decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger”, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, 5th rev. printing, Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 38–53. ISBN 0-9613921-2-6.

EServer TC Library: Presentations (2001–2006). Retrieved on 2006-05-28.

Making a list, checking it twice: Interiew with Dean Eppler. Astrobiology Magazine (2005-10-13). Retrieved on 2006-05-28. (Astronauts using PowerPoint to replace paper checklists.)

Rutledge, Patrice (2003). Creating Streaming Media Presentations with Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Retrieved on 2006-09-13.

 

MS Word

Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Office Word, is Microsoft's flagship word processing software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.^[1] Versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows (1989). It became part of the Microsoft Office suite, in which it is referred to as Microsoft Office Word, although it is still also sold as a standalone product or bundled with Microsoft Works.

 

 

• Basic Navigation in Word 2007
  • The Ribbon
  • The Mini Toolbar
  • Dialog Box Launchers
  • Special Tabs
  • Quick Access Toolbar
• Autocorrect and Autoformat
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
• Special Characters
  • Paragraph Marks
  • Adding special characters
• Formatting
• Mail Merge
• Adding Line Numbers
• Changing Default Paragraph Spacing
• Additional Resources

 

 

Project, Microsoft

Microsoft Project (or MSP) is a project management software program developed and sold by Microsoft which is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. The first version, Microsoft Project for Windows v1.0, was started in 1987 on contract to a small external company. In 1988 the company was acquired by Microsoft, bringing the development project in-house where it was finished and released in 1990 as part of the company's applications offerings for Microsoft Windows 3.0. Microsoft Project was the company's third Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction WinProj was the dominant PC-based project management software. A Macintosh version was released in July 1991. Further Windows and Macintosh versions were released in 1992 (v3), 1993 (v4), 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2003 [1]. There was no Version 2 on either platform; the original design spec was augmented with the addition of macro capabilities and the extra work required to support a macro language pushed the development schedule out to early 1992 (Version 3).

The application creates critical path schedules, although critical chain third-party add-ons are available from Advanced-Projects, ProChain and Spherical Angle. Schedules can be resource leveled, and chains are visualized in a Gantt chart. Additionally, Project can recognize different classes of users. These different classes of users can have differing access levels to projects, views, and other data. Custom objects such as calendars, views, tables, filters and fields are stored in an enterprise global which is shared by all users.

Microsoft Project and Project Server are the cornerstones of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution

 

Resource rates Enhancements   See also List of project management software   External links Official web site Official Microsoft Project team blog

 

 

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, and a journal.

It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, public folders and meeting time allocation.

 

 

• Different versions
• Security concerns
• Upcoming releases

 

See also

• Comparison of e-mail clients
• Comparison of personal information managers
• List of personal information managers
• Outlook Express
• Outlook Redemption
• Outlook Web Access
• References
  • Fortune Magazine interview with Bill Joy
  • Microsoft Office 2003 editions comparison
  • Microsoft 'Security at Home' website
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 product overview

 

External links

• Dan's Mail Format Site (help with Oulook settings)
• Get the (public) beta
• Official Microsoft Outlook site
• Outlook Developer Portal
• Horizon Net Tutorial Center
• Slipstick Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center

 

 

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