Here you can find information about various coding conventions and standards, document formats that specialized computer programs understands, computer programming languages and scripts. The knowledge of these codes necessary for optimal communication of concepts and better use the computer power infrastructure. These conventions are build with some tradeoffs. Experience and intelligence need to handle them. Don’t forget the KISS!

Webpage document formats

When you browse on the Web, you can see complex audio-visual entertainment of webpages consisting structured information that are internally in HTML or XML format. Your browser is responsible to present the page from the codes. This code is not a programming language, rather just a definition format to declarate the elements of a webpage. Modern webpages use CSS stylesheets and liquid tableless layout design.

Webpage programming with JavaScript

Using embedded Web browser extensions - Client

There are lot of plugins for the webbrowsers. The compatible extensions are available as Netscape Plugin and Active X object. The most interesting, compatible and commonly used extensions are:

  • Flash Interactive Animations - Scripting Flash MX and Flash AS3, Flash 3D
  • Flash Videos - How to place a Video to your webpages?
  • Java Applets

Server side Webpage programming

  • Aestiva HTML/OS system (commercial system) 
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  • Perl scripting (cgi) 
  • php web applications using MySQL database engine
  • JSP  Java Servlet Pages
  • Python, Rebol, Ruby

Webmastering linux server

  • Linux server setup procedure
  • Network setup (ethx, pppd, dhcpd, vpnd)
  • Monitoring the network traffic
  • Useful commands from shell
  • Name server config
  • IPTABLES firewall settings
  • Apache server config
  • httpd.conf (Name based virtual hosting, Security settings)
  • mod_rewrite rules
  • .htaccess (Password Authentication, Rewrite Rules, Permissions)
  • bash shell scripts
  • setting up typical cron jobs on server  
  • Troubleshooting

General purpose programming languages  

  • Assemblers (debug, MASM, TASM)
  • Basic (VisualBasic, PowerBasic, DarkBasic, BlitzBasic 3D)
  • C/C++ (gcc, MS Visual C++, Watcom C++, Borland Turbo C, Borland C++ Builder)
  • Modula, Pascal (Object Pascal, Borland Delphi)
  • Java stand alone applications

Other interesting computer languages

  • LISP for list processing and artifical intelligence
  • FORTH (Moore) for use the forth, stack machine language, optimalized byte codes
  • About the PostScript programming language
  • Superscape SCL script to control multiuser interactive 3D virtual worlds
  • Prolog

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