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ActiveX is a technology - a way of using a computer’s environment to communicate over the Web efficiently and reliably. HTML, C++ Visual Basic, DirectX, and many other tools can be used to take advantage of ActiveX technologies.
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Perl for the Web provides tools and strategies to improve the performance of existing Web applications in Perl. It also provides principles and ideas that help Web programmers create an extensible framework for future growth.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Problems
- Sources of Unexpected Traffic
- Budget and Schedules Aren’t Ideal
- Site Design vsApplication Design
- Prototypes vsLive Sites
- Architecture-Based Performance Loss
- Often-Overlooked Problems
- Part II: The Solutions
- Perl For the Web
- Performance Myths
- The Power of Persistence
- Tools For Perl Persistence
- Problems With Persistence
- Environments For Reducing Development Time
- Using Templates with Perl Applications
- Database-Backed Web Sites
- Testing Site Performance
- Part III: Planning For the Future
- XML And Content Management
- Publishing XML for the Future
- XML as a B2B Interface
- Web Services
- Scaling a Perl Solution
- Perl 6 and the Future
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WordPress is a free powerful publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.
The documentation site for Wordpress (the Codex) is massive with hundreds of pages devoted to the overall project features, screenshots, how to contribute. The codex also includes entire sections for basic and advanced users to get a feel for using Wordpress and get their hands dirty on the internals. From getting started, to http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress, design and layout, advanced topics, developer documentation and troubleshooting the Wordpress Codex has you covered.
It covers versions all the way back to 1.2 (current as of this writing is 2.2) with changelogs of each version, many of which include diffs of the changed files.
Link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
“WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there.”
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The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. I like the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best features of Mathematics, Engineering, and Natural Science. Like mathematicians, computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computations). Like engineers, they design things, assembling components into systems and evaluating tradeoffs among alternatives. Like scientists, they observe the behavior of complex systems, form hypotheses, and test predictions.
The single most important skill for a computer scientist is problem-solving. By that I mean the ability to formulate problems, think creatively about solutions, and express a solution clearly and accurately. As it turns out, the process of learning to program is an excellent opportunity to practice problem-solving skills. That's why this chapter is called "The way of the program." Of course, the other goal of this book is to prepare you for the Computer Science AP Exam. We may not take the most direct approach to that goal, though. For example, there are not many exercises in this book that are similar to the AP questions. On the other hand, if you understand the concepts in this book, along with the details of programming in C++, you will have all the tools you need to do well on the exam. See also Python and Java versions.
How to Think… is a free textbook available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.
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Link: http://research.microsoft.com/%7Edaniel/unix-haters.html
Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It's the "Un-Operating System": unreliable, unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more frustrating than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. Modern Unix impedes progress in computer science, wastes billions of dollars, and destroys the common sense of many who seriously use it. An exaggeration? You won't think so after reading this book.
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Link: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html
Computer programming is taught in courses. The excellent books: The Pragmatic Programmer [Prag99], Code Complete [CodeC93], Rapid Development [RDev96], and Extreme Programming Explained [XP99] all teach computer programming and the larger issues of being a good programmer. The essays of Paul Graham[PGSite] and Eric Raymond[Hacker] should certainly be read before or along with this article. This essay differs from those excellent works by emphasizing social problems and comprehensively summarizing the entire set of necessary skills as I see them.
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