=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Developer Shed Weekly Newsletter for March 16, 2004 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Table of Contents =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -> The Soap Box ---------------------- -> Dev Shed - Introduction to JavaServer Faces Part 2 - Cross Fading Navigation with DHTML - Using Predefined Variables in PHP ---------------------- -> ASP Free - Smart Cards in .NET - ASP.NET and Web Services, Part 2 - Timer Objects in Windows Services with C#.NET ---------------------- -> Dev Articles - Lord Of The Strings, Part 1 - Java and XML Basics, Part 2 - FTC Campaigns to Secure Servers, But Will it Help? ---------------------- ->Dev Hardware - Evercool PCAC - Let the Seller Beware: Promotions Will be Hacked - The Future is in the Palm of Our Hands ---------------------- -> SEO Chat - Matching Strings and Algorithms - Get Top SEO Rankings - Avoiding the Competition ---------------------- -> Plug In ---------------------- -> Stump the Crew ---------------------- -> Tips & Tricks: Itty Bitty, Teeny Weeny, Shiny Happy Little Systems ---------------------- -> March's Giveaway ---------------------- -> DevText & DevAlert ---------------------- -> Some Final Thoughts =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-A D V E R T I S E M E N T-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PROFESSIONALS WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE EARN 19% MORE ...than those with just a Bachelor's degree. Earn your Master's of Science in Information Systems from Aspen University for $9,900. http://www.traininghott.com/Master-Science-Information-Systems.htm?source=dvshdt =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Soap Box =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= We’re back again with an information-packed issue this week. Last week’s Stump the Crew brought about many responses from fellow readers. I’d like to start off this week’s issue by saying how proud I am to say that our readers are, without a doubt, the friendliest and most helpful out there! I was amazed at how many people offered to lend a hand. This truly is a great community. It has come to our attention that anyone trying to download the Plug In with a version of Adobe Reader less than 6.x will encounter an error relating to “decrypting” the file. Those with 5.x on their systems will have to download the latest version of Adobe Reader. If you’re one of the many who have both versions on their system, there are two options available: - You can either uninstall version 5.x, so that there are no conflicts between the two versions. - You can disable the “web features” of version 5.x, so that any documents opened through Internet Explorer will either be opened with version 6.x), or a download prompt will display allowing you to save the file onto your system, which you can then open with v6.x. If you continue to have problems, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’ll be happy to help resolve the problems you may be encountering. Also, while you’re at it, feel free to send me any feedback/suggestions about the magazine. We’d love to hear your thoughts on it! Frank Manno Lead Editor Developer Shed, Inc. frank@developershed.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-A D V E R T I S E M E N T-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A new approach to J2EE development is here. Oracle JDeveloper 10g gives you productivity with choice. Build EJBs, Struts applications, JSPs, Web services, etc using models, diagrams, drag-and-drop actions, and a J2EE application development framework. Access the code at any time. Deploy to any J2EE application server. Download the preview of Oracle JDeveloper 10g FREE. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;7356094;8883650;x?http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=1651310&Act=861 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dev Shed =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------- This Week's Features -------------------- Introduction to JavaServer Faces Part 2 --------------------------------------- by McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2004-03-15 We continue with part two of Chapter 2 of "Introduction JavaServer Faces Programming," by Budi Kurniawan (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, ISBN 0-07-222983-7, 2004). This section deals with the ActionListener and Component Tree, as well as validation and navigation for your JSP pages. This chapter prepares you for the next chapters by introducing the JSF Application Programming Interface (API) and the Application Configuration file. Read the full article here: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Java/Introduction-to-JavaServer-Faces-Part-2/ Cross Fading Navigation with DHTML ---------------------------------- by Justin Cook 2004-03-10 Need to build smooth and attractive fading techniques into your web site using nothing more than script? This article will explain a proven cross-browser method, with ready-to-use code. If you think you don’t need this, you will conclude otherwise after reading the article! Read the full article here: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/DHTML/Cross-Fading-Navigation-with-DHTML/ Using Predefined Variables in PHP --------------------------------- from March's Issue of Plug In. by Matt Hew One of the most useful aspects of PHP is its ability to work with a group of data categorized in its predefined variables. What do these variables do? This article will answer this question and more. Read the full article here: http://www.developershed.com/download.php?page=9&file=plugin/PlugIn_magazine_mar2004.pdf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ASP Free =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------- This Week's Feature ------------------- Smart Cards in .NET ------------------- by Digvijay Chauhan 2004-03-15 I’ll begin with an introduction to the smart card standards and especially the PC/SC specification, which I believe is the most widely accepted platform for developing and deploying Smart Card Applications and will move on to the problems encountered while accessing smart cards from the .NET environment. Concluding the article I’ll present the solution, which I adopted to resolve the problem and I hope that will help you with writing Smart Card Enabled applications in .NET. Read the fullarticle here: http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/.NET/Smart-Cards-in-.NET/ ASP.NET and Web Services, Part 2 -------------------------------- by McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2004-03-10 Today, Dwight takes us on a tour of the web services made available to us via ASP.NET. We learn about implementing interfaces, dynamic binding, class and interface inheritance. This piece comes from chapter seven of ".NET & J2EE Interoperability," by Dwight Peltzer (McGraw-Hill/ Osborne, ISBN 0-07-223-054-1, 2004). Read the full article here: http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP.NET/ASP.NET-and-Web-Services-Part-2/ Timer Objects in Windows Services with C#.NET --------------------------------------------- from March's issue of Plug In by Rogier Doekes Timer events can be very useful when you need to run a routine on a regular basis. In .NET, creating Windows services with the timer objects is very easy to do. In this article, we are going to create a timer which writes text to a file in regular intervals. Read the full article here: http://www.developershed.com/download.php?page=4&file=plugin/PlugIn_magazine_mar2004.pdf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dev Articles =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------- This Week's Features -------------------- Lord Of The Strings, Part 1 --------------------------- by Liviu Tudor 2004-03-08 I recently enjoyed the latest in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies at the cinema. I was intrigued by Tolkien’s invented languages (such as Elvish and Dwarvish) and was curious to know where the languages came from, or more precisely, which real language was the biggest influence on Tolkien for his inventions. As I have been thinking about issues of string similarity recently, I wondered whether I could extend my ideas of string similarity to language similarity. In other words, could I discover to which real language Tolkien’s artificial language is most similar? Read the full article here: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/Lord-Of-The-Strings-Part-1/ Java and XML Basics, Part 2 --------------------------- by Liviu Tudor 2004-03-10 Last time, we learned about JAXP, Xerces, DOM and the javax.xml.parsers Java Package. How about getting a little taste of the SAX interfaces? We look at available classes and interfaces, and learn how to use SAX for XML Processing. Given SAX's power, perhaps we can look forward to the day when we'll be translating not just XML, but maybe even Klingon! (Maybe not.) Read the full article here: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/XML/Java-and-XML-Basics-2/ FTC Campaigns to Secure Servers, But Will it Help? -------------------------------------------------- From March's issue of Plug In by Terri Wells During the very same week that MyDoom multiplied its way across the Internet, the FTC started up "Operation Secure Your Server." To all appearances, this is not intended to be a fly-by-night operation. The goal of the operation is to help stem the spread of unsolicited bulk email. Read the full article here: http://www.developershed.com/download.php?page=19&file=plugin/PlugIn_magazine_mar2004.pdf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dev Hardware =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------- This Weeks' Features -------------------- Evercool PCAC ------------- by Tekime 2004-03-15 This week Dev Hardware had the opportunity to review a unique new cooling product from Evercool, the Personal Computer's Air Conditioner (PCAC). The PCAC is variable turbine fan assembly, moving up to 100 cubic feet of air per minute. The PCAC is actually an exhaust fan, intended to push air out of your case, through a 5.25" bay where the device is mounted. There has been very little coverage of this product since its January release, so I am excited to see if this unique design has what it takes to find a niche in the enthusiast cooling market. Read the full article here. http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Cooling/Evercool-PCAC/ Let the Seller Beware: Promotions Will be Hacked ------------------------------------------------ by Terri Wells 2004-03-10 It's nothing new: we see promotions all the time which plead with us to "look under the winning bottle cap." Unfortunately, the soda companies' unwillingness to add that extra half ounce of over- priced carbonated liquid often throws the promotion statistics out the window. In the age of the Internet, this means that if a promotion can be hacked, it will. Find out how Pepsi and Apple managed to keep a few promo-hackers' hard drives filled with free MP3s--and what CueCat has to do with all of this. Read the full article here: http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Software/Athlon-64-and-Windows-XP-64-Bit-Edition/ The Future is in the Palm of Our Hands -------------------------------------- From March's issue of Plug In by Katharine Miller Call it technological evolution. As the desktop slowly goes the way of the typewriter and the abacus, the laptop becomes the new desktop, PDAs the new laptop, smartphones the new PDAs, and so forth. Thanks to affordable WiFi and incredible shrinking devices, we'll soon be immersed in a functional cyborg (fyborg) culture. Read the full article here: http://www.developershed.com/download.php?page=12&file=plugin/PlugIn_magazine_mar2004.pdf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEO Chat =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------- This Week's Features -------------------- Matching Strings and Algorithms ------------------------------- by Simon White 2004-03-15 When you go to a search engine and type in a keyword, how does the engine know what to look for? Even when a word is misspelled, still the results come back, sometimes not how we like, but often pretty close. How do these search engines compare the input to the database items and return with a result? Learn about this key part of driving traffic to your site in this article by Dr. Simon White. Read the full article here: http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Choosing-Keywords/Matching-Strings-and-Algorithms/ Get Top SEO Rankings -------------------- by Andrew Williams 2004-03-10 The purpose of a web page is to provide visitors with information. If the web page doesn't get visitors, you as the webmaster, have failed. If you want to get visitors, you can pay for them, or get them for free at search engines like Google. Besides providing other smaller search engines with results, I am increasingly seeing other search engine algorithms becoming closer to that of Google. In short, optimize for Google and eventually you will rank well on other engines too. Read the full article here: http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Choosing-Keywords/Get-Top-SEO-Rankings/ Avoiding the Competition ------------------------ From March's Issue of Plug In by Bralynn Bell When choosing your keywords, knowing how to limit your competition is essential. After all, what use is it to you to be a little fish in an ocean of sharks? Find out how to become a big fish in a little pont with the use of the proper keywords. Do it right, and you easily make yourself as obvious as a whale in a bathtub. Read the full article here: http://www.developershed.com/download.php?page=17&file=plugin/PlugIn_magazine_mar2004.pdf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Plug In Magazine, March 2004 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= /04. MS Tech/ * Timer Objects in Windows Services with C#.NET* Timer events can be very useful when you need to run a routine on a regular basis. In this article, we are going to create a timer which writes text to a file in regular intervals. /09. Open Source/ * Using Predefined Variables in PHP* One of the most useful aspects of PHP is its ability to work with a group of data categorized in its predefined variables. What do these vari-ables do? We'll answer that in this article. /12. Hardware/ * The Future is in the Palm of Our Hands* Call it technological evolution. As the desktop slowly goes the way of the typewriter, other devices move forward a notch. We'll soon be immersed in a functional cyborg (fyborg) culture. /17. Website Promotion/ * Avoiding the Competition* When choosing your keywords, knowing how to limit your competition is essential. Afterall, what use is it to you to be a little fish in an ocean of sharks? Find out how to become a big fish in a little pond with the use of the proper keywords. /19. Web Services/ * FTC Campaigns to Secure Servers. Will it Help?* The Irony is rich: during the same week that MyDoom multiplied its way across the Internet, the FTC started up "Operation Secure Your Server." The goal of this operation is to help stem the spread of unsolicited bulk e-mail. /03. Interview/ * Jon Caputo* For this issue of Plug In, we thought it would be fitting to interview Developer Shed owner, Jon Caputo as he shares views on where things are going in the world of online publication. /Extra Features/ 07.The Source Code Escaped. Now What? 08..NET Apps in *nix Systems 11.On Predefined Variables 15.Electronic Entertainment Acronyms 101 21.FWD This to 10,000 People To Read this and more great content, download Plug In, the Internet's first free developer mag today! http://www.developershed.com/download.php?file=plugin/PlugIn_magazine_mar2004.pdf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-A D V E R T I S E M E N T-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EARN A POSTSECONDARY IT CERTIFICATE FOR $3,900 Or an accredited Master's degree in as little as six months for $9,900 from Aspen University in cooperation with Hands On Technology Transfer, Inc. 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Finally, set the HTTP headers to tell the browser to handle the file with Excel, using the sample code below. - Wes DeMoney, RealAssistant.com // Set Headers header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=FILE.XLS"); -------------------- I have had success opening a php document inside excel, by changing the header info. As described in this article. As for manipulating information inside an Excel file, creating worksheets, using formulas, etc., there's a great package available through PEAR. - Nishan Karassik, Medical Specialty Solutions -------------------- You could use a MySQL backend for the database part of the app, then use PHP and SQL to write the data dynamically to MySQL. Then provide a link to a CSV file that the user can download and use in Excel OR change the file format to .xls and the link (on a Microsoft platform, at least) will open MS Excel in the browser (Internet Explorer) giving an online Excel Spreadsheet file. - Trevor Stolber -------------------- I found the best way to organize my data was in a simple html table and looped my data into it on the fly. Any extraneous formatting was thrown out the window but the important aspects were kept like bold face types and background colors. * To avoid errors, do not include HTML or XML tags on the page other than table tags. Doing calculated fields is also easy. Rather than placing a value in the table cell, put in an equation like the following: =(C4 - B4). Here is a not so dynamic example that will open in the same browser window. *Works on Win PC with MS Excel on board. For non-Excel use save the target as xxxx.xls and use Open Office etc. Uncomment line 5 to automatically download file. 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- Andrew Wasson, Luna Design & Communications Thanks to everyone who sent in a suggestion. Your help is greatly appreciated! -------------------- That's it for this week's edition of Stump the Crew. If you have any questions relating to design, development, or marketing that you would like answered, then email frank@developershed.com. Tips & Tricks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Itty Bitty, Teeny Weeny, Shiny Happy Little Systems --------------------------------------------------- It used to be that the only way to get a desktop system that actually fit in your desk's top was to buy a laptop. For those of you looking to build a space saving, clutter-free system on the cheap, there are many more options now than ever. For a small, silent case, make sure to look at the newest Small Form Factor, or SFF, systems. These tend to be about a third of the size of a regular tower, and have motherboards that include integrated components, such as LAN, audio, and video. Be assured that these can be packed with enough RAM for even the hardiest of compilers. If purchasing one of these units, spend the extra little bit and get a system with an Intel 865i chipset, ATI 9100, or something equivalent. Units using the 845i chipset, for example, lag in performance when performing actions like DVD playback. If you plan to get a video card for one of these, remember that they're not able to fit the physically larger video cards, like the ATI 9800 Pro, or the nVidia 5950. In addition to the case, you can save space by switching from your boxy, old CRT to a sexier LCD, or flat-screens. LCDs take less energy to run, are easier on the eyes, and have just about the same footprint regardless of whether you get a 15-inch or 23-inch. Best of all, the prices of these units are quickly dropping, so you no longer need deep pockets to afford one of these beauties. Finally, remember that there are a great number of options for those seeking affordable wireless mice and keyboards. Although your precision may lessen a bit (much to the disarray of gamers and Photoshop enthusiasts), these keyboards allow users to keep their work areas uncluttered by unsightly wires. Keep in mind that these units require batteries and--if left for long periods of time without recharging--have a tendency to die at inappropriate times. If you have a tip you'd like to share, feel free to email us. 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