Web Services, SOA, and WS-BPEL Technologies
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Yuli Vasiliev | October 2007 | BPEL MySQL SOA Web Services Open Source Oracle PHP
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), as an architectural platform, is adopted today by many businesses as an efficient means for integrating enterprise applications built of Web services—loosely coupled pieces of software that encapsulate their logic within a distinct context and can be easily combined into a composite solution. Although building applications that enable remote access to resources and functionality is not new, doing so according to the principles of service orientation, such as loose coupling, represents a relatively new approach to building composite solutions.
Read Web Services, SOA, and WS-BPEL Technologies in fullIdentifying Key Elements for Joomla! Template Design
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Tessa Blakeley Silver | October 2007 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP Web Development
In the world of Joomla! websites where everyone has the same modules to work with, the three main things that will differentiate your site from all the others are the color scheme, graphic element style, and module placement.
In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we will identify the key elements of a Joomla! template and discuss what considerations to make when contemplating your own design. You'll pick up some tips and tricks to help you define your color scheme and graphic style, as well as learn some standard techniques for optimizing and extracting images from your design while preparing to code it up.
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Shu-Wai Chow | October 2007 | AJAX MySQL Open Source PHP Web Development
Creating your own search engine in the past would require a massive amount of hardware resources, and complex search and spidering algorithms. Lucky for us, search engines like Google, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo! have already done this for us. Even luckier for us, these sites have released web services for us to query their data centers and retrieve results. Our main advantage is that all three offer web APIs, so we can leverage the data of all three engines. Instead of just one set of results from one search engine, our application will query each engine and present the results to the user on one page. No longer will users have to visit these sites individually to search each engine.
In this article, we will cover one of the important elements for building a search engine, SOAP, and we will see how PHP 5 interacts with it.
Read SOAP and PHP 5 in fullDeveloping a Simple Workflow within SugarCRM
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Dr Mark Alexander Bain | June 2008 | CRM MySQL Open Source PHP
Workflow is about getting the right work to the right people at the right time, repeatedly—and knowing you have done so. Workflow is human-centric. First and foremost, workflow is a human activity that is made by and for those who use it: workflow is something that can easily be handled and understood by human beings.
UK Enterprise Workflow National e-Government Project—Workflow from a Business Perspective
Well, that sounds good, but the problems start to occur when you ask people to consider workflow in their organization, and there are usually a few main issues to deal with:
- You'll find that people are normally experts in their own fields—there are often very few people who have an overview of the whole process that you're trying to map.
- Sections of a large organization will often have different ways of carrying out the same overall process.
- People don't really like to be told how to do their jobs—they especially don't like to have any extra processes imposed on them for now obvious reason—well, would you?
- Talk of 'improved utilization of resources', 'improved performance monitoring', and such like can soon alienate the staff who are going to be using the system. They'll soon start using terms such as 'Big Brother'.
How you are able to deal with these will depend on your organization and the people that are available to you. At least once you've read this article by Dr. Mark Alexander Bain, you'll know that, once you've overcome those problems, the workflow itself will be easy.
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Martin Brampton | January 2009 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Many websites will want to control who has access to what. Once embarked on this route, it turns out there are many situations where access control is appropriate, and they can easily become very complex. So in this two part article by Martin Brampton, we look at the most highly regarded model–role-based access control (RBAC)–and find ways to implement it. The aim is to achieve a flexible and efficient implementation that can be exploited by increasingly sophisticated software. To show what is going on, the example of a file repository extension is used.
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Martin Brampton | January 2009 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
In Part 1, we had a look at the Discussion and Considerations of highly flexible role-based access control system (RBAC). In this part of the article by Martin Brampton, we will look at the database implementation. Also we will discuss the code for administering RBAC, and consider in outline how questions about access can be answered.
Read Access Control in PHP5 CMS - Part 2 in fullVisual MySQL Database Design in MySQL Workbench
by Djoni Darmawikarta |
June 2008 | MySQL PHP
MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool recently released by MySQL AB. The tool is specifically for designing MySQL database.
MySQL Workbench has many functions and features; this article by Djoni Darmawikarta shows some of them by way of an example. We’ll build a physical data model for an order system where an order can be a sale order or a purchase order, and then, forward-engineer our model into an MySQL database.
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| December 2008 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Before you begin with coding, there are a few files and folders that have to be created, as well as a query that has to be run. This will not only allow you to build Joomla! components, but will also help you try different features without extensive configuration. The component in this article will be called restaurants.
After installing your basic Joomla! component and making the website ready, there are a few additional features that you can include. One of them came up with the idea of allowing visitors to send reviews to their friends through email. Another could be adding audio reviews in addition to text. We can also begin to look into ways of expanding the market for the software. Internationalizing the component now will make it easy to translate the user interface later.
In the following article by Joseph L. LeBlanc, we will be taking a look at including the following additional features :
- Sending emails
- Managing languages
- Creating translations
- Handling file uploads
AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms
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Tessa Blakeley Silver | May 2008 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP WordPress
AJAX—it's the buzzword that hit the Web with a bullet in 2005, thanks to Jesse James Garrett, a user-experience expert who founded AdaptivePath.com. If you're totally new to AJAX, I'll just point out that; at its core, AJAX is nothing that scary or horrendous. AJAX isn't even a new technology or language!
In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we're going to take a look at the most popular methods to get going with AJAX in WordPress using plug-ins and widgets to help you include dynamic self-updating content and create interactive forms in your WordPress site. While we're at it, we'll also look at some cool JavaScript toolkits, libraries, and scripts you can use to appear 'Ajaxy'.
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Richard Carter | June 2009 | MySQL Open Source PHP
In this article by Richard Carter, we will learn social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking allows people to "bookmark", or make a note of, the websites they like or find useful, and share these bookmarks with other social bookmarkers while surfing the Internet.
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