Internet Application Workbook

"The concern for man and his destiny must always be the chief interest of all technical effort. Never forget it between your diagrams and equations."
-- Albert Einstein

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SQL for Web Nerds

After writing a preface lampooning academic eggheads who waste a lot of ink placing the relational database management system (RDBMS) in the context of 50 years of database management software, how does this book start? With a chapter placing the RDBMS in the context of other database management software.

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Application Servers

Application servers for Web publishing are generally systems that let you write database-backed Web pages in Java.

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Production Machines

A Web server is a big fast machine that has to be close to the Internet backbones, run for months without crashing, and be manageable remotely. My primary personal Web server now is a Hewlett Packard K460 running HP-UX. Racked up with its UPS, it weighs 3000 lbs. I would not want to have it on my desktop.

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HTML tutorial and page design guide

Hardcopy featured a 10-year-old boy one night back in the mid-1990s. His psychotic mother wouldn't take her meds and was beating him up. He wanted to live with his father but the judge wouldn't change his custody arrangement. So the 10-year-old kid built a Web site to encourage Internetters to contact the judge in support of a change in custody.

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