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WebReference Update: October 3, 2005

New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:

1. FEATURE: Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL: Part 2
2.OTHER VOICES:

• How Is Information Passed Around the Web?
• Using XML in Java Gets Easier with DOM4J
• MDX Essentials: The DRILLTHROUGH Statement

3. NET NEWS:

• A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut
• More States Step Toward Net Tax
• OpenDocument Could 'Turn Everything Inside out'

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1. FEATURE: Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL: Part 2

This installment continues with learning how to write Web applications. You'll learn about the basic layout of Web applications, the user interface, 3-tier and n-tier architectures, performance, scalability applications and more.

[Read the entire article ]

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2.OTHER VOICES

• How Is Information Passed Around the Web?

  Which type of advertising is more effective: press releases or Google pay-per-click ads? A recent study may be an eye-opener to many online advertisers. If you understand how online information travels, you have a better chance of getting noticed.
  ClickZ, October 3, 2005,

• Using XML in Java Gets Easier with DOM4J

  Have you experienced the pain of parsing and extracting XML data inside Java applications? Then you'll love DOM4J. Find out how flexible, high-performance, and memory-efficient implementations of this XML framework can ease the hardships of XML-based Java application development.
  DevX, September 2, 2005,

• MDX Essentials: The DRILLTHROUGH Statement

  MSAS Architect Bill Pearson introduces Drillthrough concepts, and then focuses on the use of the DRILLTHROUGH statement within MDX.
  Database Journal, October 3, 2005,

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3. NET NEWS

• A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut

  The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online.
  Search Engine Watch, October 3, 2005

• More States Step Toward Net Tax

  Just in time for the holiday shopping season, 18 states are preparing to clear the path this weekend for imposing online sales taxes. Clearing and collecting, however, are entirely different matters.
  internetnews.com, September 30, 2005

• OpenDocument Could 'Turn Everything Inside out'

  Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia late last week that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did.
  C|Net News, October 3, 2005

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That's it for this Monday. I'll have more for you next time.

Lee Underwood
Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com
lunderwood(at)jupitermedia.com

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Created: October 3, 2005

URL: http://www.webreference.com/new/051003.html