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| Mastering Web 2.0 Technologies |
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Duration:
5 Days |
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This course is intended for web developers who already have experience with building
web applications and want to learn how to build the next generation of web applications.
- Experienced web developers
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Attendees must be proficient in web application programming in order to do the labs.
In particular, attendess should be proficient with both HTML and JavaScript.
Attendess should also be proficient with at least one server-side platform, such as Java, Ruby on Rails, or PHP.
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Description
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Once the province of client-server applications with very limited GUIs,
the web has become a rich platform for application development. Recently
the web has spawned a new generation of software that fosters communities
of users, empowering them to create, share, and participate in the virtual
community. Another trend has been the maturing of the ASP model, where
software or services are hosted on a server and delivered via the web.
What distinguishes these applications from the earlier generation of web
applications is both conceptual and technological.
On the conceptual side is the commitment to the web as a platform, from
the business model to the user interaction. Instead of using the web as
another broadcast medium or a fancy mail-order catalog, a Web 2.0 application
tries to take advantage of the web-as-platform, bringing together users with
the site creators and with each other.
On the technological side lie a host of special techniques designed to enhance
the user experience and to overcome the technological limitations of previous
web applications.
This course will focus on the technological side of Web 2.0, giving you all the
information you need to build Web 2.0 applications, including how to build
rich browser-based user interfaces with Ajax, how to build hybrid offline/online
web applications with Adobe AIR, how to syndicate content with XML and RSS or Atom,
how to use and create web APIs, how to combine (i.e., mashup) data and services
from different sources into a single application, how to work with video streams
in a browser or other rich internet application (RIA) platform, how to provide
forums for your users to interact via wikis or blogs, and how to manage the content
of Web 2.0 applications.
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Objectives
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Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Understand Web 2.0 applications
- Identify different Web 2.0 business models and applications
- Build rich browser-based user interfaces
- Use popular Web APIs to connect to other web applications
- Build a wiki and/or blog using QEDWiki
- Maintain a web application using a content management system
- Integrate rich content, such as video, into a web application
- Build web applications that can function even when the web is unavailable
- Syndicate your web application's content
- Process other web syndications
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Course Outline
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Coming to Terms with Web 2.0
- What is Web 2.0?
- A Taxonomy of Web 2.0 Applications
- Web 2.0 Technology Overview
Introduction to Ajax
- The problem with traditional web applications
- UI Widgets for Ajax applications
- Contacting the server without page refreshing
- Handling the back button
Building Mashups
- What are mashups?
- Google Maps API
- Del.icio.us API
- Videos with the YouTube widget
- A Sample Mashup
Linking Your Users
- Creating mashups with QEDWiki
- Collaborative documents with QEDWiki
- Categorizing with tags
- Customizing content for users
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Content Management Systems
- Introduction to CMSs
- Joomla!, a free, powerful CMS
- Installing Joomla!
- Customizing Joomla! websites
- Building Joomla! extensions
Network and Cloud Computing
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Google's MapReduce
- Network Storage with Amazon S3
- Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2
Building Offline Applications
- ASP model
- ASP mission-cricital applications
- Cutting the network cord
- Introduction to Adobe AIR
- Accessing local files and resources
- Using a local database
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