Computer Careers Book
Friday, March 04, 2005
XML
This updates the article at:
XML for Not Yet Techies
Since I wrote this original article, XML has gone from
being a little known and little used esoteric concept
to a little known but widely used, esoteric technology.
Microsoft uses it fully in its .NET Framework. VRML
has been switched to an XML format. HTML has officially
given way to XHTML, although most people still just
say HTML.
Just one XML-related offshoot is creating a huge stir --
that's RSS, because of its potential to overcome the
problems now associated with sending email: spam,
spam filters catching legitimate email, etc. RSS has
opened up a whole new world of information providers
sending news to people who want it and people getting
the news they want.
An RSS reader will be included with Microsoft Windows
eventually, and then everybody will learn about it.
Meanwhile, web marketers are using it to build entire
sites.
And that's just a small piece of it. Just about every
new computer language must be object oriented so it's
also compatible with the XML format. It also fits in
perfectly with database technologies. XML is in effect
its own miniature database.
Behind the scenes, XML is being used and implemented
in a wide array of different ways by many different
industries.
The "technology" or the concept has itself not much
changed (though current version is XML 1.1) -- it's
infinitely adaptable. What's changed
is the degree of implementation.
For more information, go to:
XML
Web Certifications
This updates the article at:
Web Certifications for Not Yet Techies
Learning Tree now offers the following courses in web
development:
Developing a Web Site #470
Building Web Pages #487
Multimedia Web Development #587
Dreamweaver MX #548
FrontPage Web Site Development #207
ColdFusion Web Application Development #547
Developing Java Web Applications #570
PHP for Web Development #519
MySQL Development & Administration #520
It now offers the following in JavaScript:
JavaScript for Web Development #489
Advanced JavaScript Web Development #543
It now offers the following in XML:
XML Introduction #542
Building Cross-Platform XML Applications #544
Java and XML Application Development #575
XSL: Transforming and Styling XML #549
It now offers the following in Web Services:
Building XML Web Services with .NET #508
Building XML Web Services with Java #577
It now offers the following web development programming
courses:
Struts for Enterprise Java Web Development #521
Developing Java Web Applications #570
ASP.NET Introduction #505
Enterprise ASP.NET Web Development #506
Enterprise Web Development with ASP #409
Building XML Web Services with .NET #508
Building XML Web Services with Java #577
Perl Programming Introduction #431
It now offers the following web server course:
IIS 6 for Windows Server 2003 #566
All courses do last for several days and cost
a fair chunk of change.
For more information, go to:
Web certifications
