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WebReference Update: October 13, 2005
New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1.OTHER VOICES:- Building a Stored Procedure Generator
- Developing Portlets with Apache Pluto
- Pricing Essentials for Designers
3. NET NEWS:
- Study: RSS Still Not Widely Adopted
- Data on Billions of Web Pages Made Available
- Browser wars: Netscape gains as Firefox wanes?
1.OTHER VOICES
- Building a Stored Procedure Generator
Creating basic data access stored procedures is time consuming and boring work. Relieve the tedium by writing code that writes these stored procedures for you.
DevX, October 5, 2005, - Developing Portlets with Apache Pluto
Discover the advantages of using Pluto (the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification [JSR-168]) as a portlet development environment and the practical steps needed to set up such an environment.
Developer.com, October 7, 2005, - Pricing Essentials for Designers
When figuring out how to charge a client for creative services, designers have several different pricing models to choose from. How do you select the most appropriate one? This article explains each category of pricing.
Graphics.com,
2. SIGHTINGS AROUND THE WEB: A Sampling of New Words From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Find a sample of the nearly 100 new words and senses that have been
added in 2005 to this well-known dictionary of American English. Terms
include "cybrarian: a person whose job is to find, collect, and manage
information that is available on the World Wide Web."
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3. NET NEWS
- Study: RSS Still Not Widely Adopted
New research from Yahoo and Ipsos suggests that although blogs and feeds are trendy among the technorati, awareness of RSS remains quite low among most U.S. based internet users.
Search Engine Watch, October 12, 2005 - Data on Billions of Web Pages Made Available
Amazon.com's Alexa Internet division has launched a service for developers that offers over a hundred terabytes of Web site information. Alexa Internet, which has been crawling the Web since 1996, said it has data on some 4.5 billion Web pages covering 16 million sites.
internetnews.com, October 11, 2005 - Browser wars: Netscape gains as Firefox wanes?
A feature that allowed users of the Netscape 8.0 Web browser to switch how pages are displayed may have artificially inflated the market share of rivals Firefox and Internet Explorer, according to Web tracking firm NetApplications.com.
Computerworld, October 11, 2005
That's it for this Thursday. I'll have more for you next time.
Lee Underwood
Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com
lunderwood(at)jupitermedia.com
Created: October 13, 2005
URL: http://www.webreference.com/new/051013.html
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