Web CMS

After we understand our requirements and learn the basics of using CMSs, we are will be ready to look at Web Content Management Systems (commonly known as WCMS, Web CMS, or WCM Systems). Web CMSs allow you to manage your web content easily. They are generic in nature and perform a variety of operations. If you ask someone about a CMS, they will most probably recommend you one of the systems we cover in this article. It's important to learn the features of the top web CMSs to make the right choice for your project.

In this article by Nirav Mehta, we will take a look at the top general-purpose Web CMSs. In the process, we will:

• Cover a variety of top Web CMSs
• Perform customizations and content management operations
• Discover interesting features in CMSs
• Examine which CMS could be right for you

Web Design Principles in Inkscape

On the Internet today one can find varying websites—some are personal sites, others are corporate, informational, instructional, and more. More commonly you can find personal blogs and small business storefronts. These two types of websites offer unique capabilities of creating the entire site with templates—or basic designs that are common throughout them.

In this article by Bethany Hiitola, author of Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers, we will cover the following:

• Web design principles for blogs and storefronts.
• Overview of RSS and ATOM feeds examples of designs for these two types of websites.

Web Scraping with Python

Web scraping is the set of techniques used the to get some information, structured only for presentation purposes, from a website automatically instead of copying it manually. This article by Javier Collado will show how this could be done using python in the steps that require some development.

Web Services in Apache OFBiz

In this article, by Ruth Hoffman, Apache OFBiz Cookbook, we shall look at various techniques to build OFBiz web service providers and consumers. In particular, you will find information on:

• Requesting web services using URL parameters
• Requesting web services using an HttpClient
• Creating HttpClient and passing XML documents
• Creating XML-RPC web service clients
• Becoming an XML-RPC web service provider
• Building SOAP messaging clients

Web Services Testing and soapUI

Quality is a key to success of service-oriented projects. Utilization of proper tools is important to the outcome of web service testing methodology. Being the leading open source web services testing tool, soapUI helps to build robust and flexible automated tests in a productive manner.

In this article by Charitha Kankanamge, author of Web Services Testing with soapUI, we will cover:

• Overview of some of the key characteristics of web services
• The role of web services in SOA
• Approaches of testing web services
• Web services testing challenges
• Introduction to soapUI
• Installing soapUI

Web services are one of the key building blocks of service-oriented solutions. Because of their usage and importance in the enterprise applications, the project teams are expected to be knowledgeable and familiar with the technologies which are associated with web services and service-oriented architecture(SOA).

WebGL: Animating a 3D scene

Objects in 3D scenes can have actions on their own. For instance, in a racing car game, each car has its own speed and trajectory. In a first-person shooting game your enemies can hide behind barricades then come and fight you or run away. In general, each one of these actions is modeled as a matrix transformation that is attached to the corresponding actor in the scene. These are called local transforms.

In this article by Diego Cantor author of WebGL Beginner’s Guide, we will study different techniques to make use of local transforms.

WebSphere MQ Sample Programs

In the previous articles IBM WebSphere MQ commands and MQ Listener, Channel and Queue Management, we illustrated the working and setup of WebSphere MQ and we also took a look at how we manage the WebSphere MQ Listeners, channels and queues respectively.

In this article by Pav Kumar-Chatterjee, author of IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and Data Event Publisher, we will take a look at the following:

• MQ sample programs
  • Server
  • Client
• Dead Letter Queue handler
• WebSphere MQ message format
• MQ error messages

What is OpenLayers?

In this article by Alessio Di Lorenzo and Giovanni Allegri, the authors of the book Instant OpenLayers Starter, we will discuss some basic points about OpenLayers

OpenLayers is an open source map viewing library, originally developed and released by MetaCarta under a BSD license. It is written in pure JavaScript and makes it easy to incorporate interactive maps from a variety of sources into your web pages and applications.

What's New In Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala"

At the time of this writing, Ubuntu's 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be due out in just ten days. Users around the world are hard at work testing and submitting fixes, eagerly trying to patch every hole in time for the final relesae. While there maybe a few quirks here and there, they have so far done an amazing job of integrating new technologies and upgrading underlying technologies. This article by Christer Edwards outlines some of the exciting new technologies and features that will be showcased in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala".