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CCNP Practical Studies: Layer 3 Switching

Friday, February 8th, 2008

“>Introduction to Layer 3 Switching - Title PageIn the previous chapter, you were introduced to the

XML Protocols

Friday, February 8th, 2008

The area of XML protocols is vying with B2B vocabularies for the most heavily press-released topic in XML today. It would have been difficult to miss the recent announcement of SOAP 1.1 by Microsoft, IBM, et al. Yet as Microsoft’s Henrik Frystyk Nielsen observed, SOAP is “still only a child protocol.” [...]

Dictionaries and Datagrams

Friday, February 8th, 2008

This week XML-DEV examined two aspects relating to the textualencoding of XML: verbosity and multilingual elements.Text CompressionIt seems that many developers, used to dealing with binary dataformats, are still uncomfortable about embracing text formats likeXML. Yet the received wisdom is that switching to a binary format doesnot offer many advantages. Surprised by this counter-intuitiveviewpoint, Mark [...]

Web Services Security, Part 3

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In the firstarticle of this series, I explained why traditional network firewallsare inadequate to provide security to web service applications, whichis why we need to implement web service security at the XML messaginglayer.In the secondarticle, I discussed signed and encrypted XML messages and a B2Bscenario to elaborate the application of XML signature and encryptionin web [...]

Seattle Movie Finder: An AJAX- and REST-Powered Virtual Earth Mashup

Friday, February 8th, 2008

I am a big fan of movies, especially summer blockbusters. Last summer I saw Fantastic Four, War of the Worlds, Batman Begins and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Every Friday I visit sites like MSN Movies and IMDB to learn what new movies are available in my neighborhood and in what theaters they will be showing. [...]

The XML.com Interview: Eric Meyer

Friday, February 8th, 2008

One of the key players in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) world isEric Meyer. Meyer, an employee of Netscape, is an InvitedExpert member of the CSS working group for the World Wide WebConsortium (W3C). He is also the author of several popular bookson CSS: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly2000), Cascading Style [...]

Closing the Gap Between Mobile Workers and Critical Information

Friday, February 8th, 2008

“>A Gaping ProblemMobile technology is designed to bridge the large gap between the mobileworker and

Daily Security Tips from Ed Skoudis - Week of January 20, 2003

Friday, February 8th, 2008

“>Security Tip for Friday, January 24th, 2003Don't Forget The Incident Handling Final ReportThe

Introducing RDFa, Part Two

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In part 1 of this article, we saw that RDFa, a new syntax for representing RDF triples, can be embedded into arbitrary XML documents more easily than RDF/XML. RDFa is particularly good for embedding these triples into XHTML 2, which has a few new attributes that make it easier to use RDFa. Part 1 of [...]

C++ Preprocessor: Always Assert Your Code Is Right

Friday, February 8th, 2008

(Page 1 of 4 )Are you looking for a way to speed up the debugging process in C++? This article expla