Useful Tutorials



Cleaning Your Web Pages with HTML Tidy

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“>IntroductionAfter many years and the efforts of countless evangelists, web standards arefinally be

Night of the Living Wi-Fi’s (A Security Parable for Our Times)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“>Wireless InsecurityIn most organizations today, the phrase wireless security is anoxymoron. Compan

The Slippery Soap

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

In last month’s column we put a stake in the ground, offering adefinition of “web service”. This month we’re going to examine one ofthe underlying protocols upon which such services are being built,namely, SOAP. The original SOAP specification, version 0.9, waspublished in September 1999 and was revised twice before thepublication of SOAP 1.1 in December [...]

The 2.5 Linux Kernel

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“>The 2.4 Linux kernel, released on January 6, 2001, has been waiting for asuccessor for a significa

A Family Affair

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

To say that you are a human being is like saying that aparticular document is an XML document. Both statements lackprecision. Obviously, you are a member of the human race but, moreparticularly, you are a person, you speak a particular language, youlive in a particular place, and so on and so forth.Similarly, an XML document [...]

Building the User Interface for a Web Site Indexing Application with Prototype

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

(Page 1 of 4 )The Prototype JavaScript library makes it easy to perform certain JavaScript tasks. In

Configuring Boot Disks

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“>Editor's NoteThis article is the complete fourth chapter of the Sun BluePrints book,Boot Disk

“Open Sesame” or Not? Use the Right Access Controls

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“>In our previous article, Stick to the Essentials,we made the point that more than 99 percent of

Service Oriented Architecture with Apache Axis

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“>My 10-year passport expired recently and I had to use one of thosenew-fangled passport photo machi

Washed Clean, Washed Up

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Welcome to the first installment of my new biweekly XML.com column,<taglines/>. I’ll be examining recent events in XML andproviding an alternative spin on the industry. If you think you’ve got astory or a juicy piece of gossip, feel free to send me mail (put”taglines” in the subject).Slippery SOAPEarlier this month, the W3C’s XML Protocol Working [...]