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Web Development Special Interest Group

Web Development Articles & News

• Attend the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
  OSCON is the place to learn about all the great technologies being employed by developers who rely on open source software. Register by June 20th to get the substantial "Early Bird" discount, and take another 15% off just for being in the LWG User Group! Remember to use the code "os05grpusr" when you register.

• Codeplex Developers Wanted for Microsoft Open Source Research
  Just spotted this by Paula Bach over on Microsoft's Port 25 site... CodePlex project developers wanted The data from the project will be used for Paula's PhD dissertation project which looks at usability support features in Open Source projects....

• Seneca, Fedora, and LUX
  Teaching Open Source development requires Open Source ways. I teach at Seneca College in Toronto, and we've been teaching inside the Mozilla community for the last three years with some very good results (I'll be talking about this at OLS in a...

• BillG Has Left the Building - Will Microsoft Become Friendlier with Open Source?
  When I saw this ZDNet blog headline in my RSS feed the other day... ZDNet - Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney: Will Bill Gates’ departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft? ...my first thought was: Here we go again, another...

• The Meaning of Open Source (to the U.S. Govt.)
  I read about the U.S. government's USAsearch.gov site using the Vivisimo engine for search federal, state, and local government sites in the U.S. This is the same engine used by the Clusty search site (which somehow always reminds me of Krusty the...

More Articles of Interest

This is where I need your help! If you have encountered and solved a particularly sticky issue while developing for the World Wide Web, please write it up so others can grow from your hard-earned wisdom! You'll gain immortality (at least for as long as this page stays up!), and have something to tell your friends about.

• I've written a tutorial on Launching a Web site.

• Good advice in this article on Database Templates with MySQL on the O'Reilly Network.

• Checkout the Web Development Center on the O'Reilly Network. THere are always great new articles on HTML, Javascript, and more.

• Database Templates with MySQL

• PHP Security - Part 1

• Using PHP to access Amazon.com Web Services

• Tips for Building Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL from ONLamp.com

RESOURCES

HTML

• W3C's HTML Home Page. They wrote it-- so they ought to know.

• An HTML Quick Reference Guide at the Univeristy of Kansas.

• HTML Color Table - You'll come back again and again and again...

• O'Reilly's site for HTML, XHTML, and DHTML.

JavaScript

• Javascript Guide and Reference Manual at the Netscape Developer's Edge.

• A Javascript Tutorial from W3C.

• The Javascript Source "Cut & Paste" JavasSript Library.

• Visit O'Reilly's Web DevCenter - It covers JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.

PHP

• The Ultimate Source: the PHP Home Page. Includes complete PHP documentation set, mailing lists, forums, and bug reporting.

• O'Reilly's PHP DevCenter - A rich source of info for PHP Developers.

• O'Reilly's PHP Foundations - A programmers guide to learning PHP for people with no PHP experience.

MySQL

• Getting Started with mySQL - The name says it all.

• O'Reilly's Articles on mySQL - Also provides links to relevant books and MySQL Recipe of the Day.

Servers

• Apache Web Server - Open Source HTTP Server. The best!

• O'Reilly's Apache DevCenter - There is just a ton of good stuff here!

• Apache Week - Weekly e-magazine for deployers of Apache server.

Web Development on Mac OS X

• Visit O'Reilly's Mac OS X Apache site - There's even a 6-part series on Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X!

• Apple's Developer Connection provides a section of usful article on web development using Mac OS X.
  • Introduction

  • Information Architecture

  • Mac OS X Security Introduction

  • Security: Mac OS X and UNIX

  • Using mod_ssl on Mac OS X

  • Installing Perl on Jaguar

  • PHP on Mac OS X

  • PHP with Apple's Developer Tools

  • MySQL on Mac OS X

  • PostgreSQL on Mac OS X

  • Version Control with CVS

TUTORIALS

• Launching a Web Site - So you've written the HTML, and now you want to get it out on the web. Paul Wren tells you how!

• Fail Safe Amazon Images - Paul Bausch at O'Reilly's Web Dev Center tells you how to use the product images from AWS (Amazon Weeb Services) safely.

FEATURED BOOK 

Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Philip Greenspun This fairly technical work is called a "must read" by nearly all who own it. MIT's Philip Greenspun cuts through the crap and delivers highly useful chapters on building a web site that really works. He encourages the reader to think about Web content and functionality as something designed to help visitors answer questions or do something useful. The first chapter is called "Envisioning a Site That Won't Be Featured In suck.com"! Many illuminating examples appear throughout. I have only read two chapters myself, and once I get all the way through I'll write a complete review!

BOOKS

	HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS (5th ed.) by Elizabeth Castro Nearly everything I know about HTML I learned from the 4th edition of this book. It's organized around things you can do on a web page, rather than by tags or tag types. The new sections on Cascading Style Sheets is extremely important, because noone should be doing all of their layout using raw html tags anymore. This is an essential book for any new web developer!
	HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by Jennifer Niederst Indispensable! Even when you've been programming web pages for years, there's always some syntax that eludes you... and then you're glad you keep the O'Reilly HTML Pocket Reference in your bag. I never go anywhere without it!
	PHP for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide by Larry Ullman I love these Visual Quickstart guides, and the PHP one is wonderful. It takes you through the very forgiving syntax for PHP, and shows you how to become a server-side guru in a matter of hours. Database connectivity is discussed, and simple web applications are also covered. This book is a great starting point for those new to PHP.
	Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL by Williams & Lane Now it's getting serious. You've learned HTML, dabbled with PHP, and even created a recipe card file in MySQL... but what about a full-blown, server-side, database-driven e-commerce web site? Yes, you can do it with PHP and MySQL. This book takes you through the steps of creating a fully functional (although fictional) Wine store on the web. You'll deal with security, user registration, inventory control, anda lot more. And don't forget: This stuff is FREE. You can be your own .com entrepreneur in no time!