Developing Web Applications

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• Developing Web Applications
• Dr. Ralph Moseley

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Contact

• Email ralph_at_ralph-moseley.co.uk
• Web www.ralph-moseley.co.uk/

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Assignments

• Put your assignment here!

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Subject Areas

• Protocols, basic structure of the Internet
• Client and Server-side languages
• (X)HTML
• JavaScript
• XML and XSLT
• PHP
• MySQL

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Jobs

• A typical job vacancy advertisement...
• Web Developer
• Overview Tech is a very successful
  e-solutions provider who, through a strategy of
  emphasising sustainability, have achieved year on
  year growth since inception in 1995, even through
  the dotcom bubble burst of 2001.We require
  enthusiastic development staff to increase our
  production capacity. These development staff will
  have responsibility building solutions to meet
  our clients' needs using both cutting edge and
  tried and tested technologies such as PHP, ASP,
  HTML, MySQL, and XML.

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Moseley, 2006, Developing Web Applications, John
Wiley Sons Ltd, ISBN 0-470-01719-8
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Sources Web

• http//www.w3schools.com/
• http//www.php.net/
• http//www.apache.org/
• http//www.mysql.com/

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Software

• XAMPP preconfigured package includes Apache
  server, PHP, MySQL etc.
• Available from
• http//www.apachefriends.org/index-en.html

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Question Sheet 1

• What do you expect from the course?
• How do you rate your knowledge of the Internet?
• When did the Internet begin?
• When did the Web begin?
• Draw a mind-map of as many Internet based
  applications as possible
• What kinds of applications might be developed in
  the future?
• How safe is the Web? Name some potential dangers
  and their possible solutions