Web 2.0, not the Semantic Web, has become the face of “the next generation Web” among the tech-literate set, and even among many in the various research communities involved in the Web. Perceptions in these communities of what the Semantic Web is (and who is involved in it) are often misinformed if not misguided. In this paper we identify opportunities for Semantic Web activities to connect with the Web 2.0 community; we explore why this connection is of significant benefit to both groups, and identify how these connections open valuable research opportunities “in the real” for the Semantic Web effort.
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The mercurial rise of social networking sites and user-generated content has rekindled users’ interest in accessing Web-based services on the move. That the mobile phone is an inherently personal device which is not only with us most of the time, but also contains a huge amount of personal data (contact lists of names and phone numbers, stored messages and emails etc.) makes it a logical extension for the social network and the host of other collaborative Web 2.0 applications gaining traction.
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Bugzilla is a bug? or issue?tracking system. Bug?tracking systems allow individual or groups of developers effectively to keep track of outstanding problems with their product. Bugzilla was originally written by Terry Weissman in a programming language called TCL, to replace a rudimentary bug?tracking database used internally by Netscape Communications. Terry later ported Bugzilla to Perl from TCL, and in Perl it remains to this day. Most commercial defect?tracking software vendors at the time charged enormous licensing fees, and Bugzilla quickly became a favorite of the open?source crowd (with its genesis in the open?source browser project, Mozilla). It is now the de?facto standard defect?tracking system against which all others are measured.
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This manual was compiled by Project A Web Development as a project supported by Jim Teece. It was written by Ethan Townsend as a documented means of migrating our ADO ASP application, SIB (Site­in­a­box), from Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 to an open source database. SIB is a large database­ driven application that includes many views, stored procedures, and complex SQL executed from the ASP pages.
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OpenOffice.org (OOo) is able to read and write from a wide variety of databases, as long as they support one of the standard interface specifications such as ODBC or JDBC. Fortunately, Microsoft Access (MS-Access) supports ODBC. This HOW-TO takes you step by step through the process of linking OOo to MS-Access using ODBC.
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The health of databases is of critical importance to business managers, application owners and enterprise IT teams. The life of an organization is literally represented inside its database servers. Take away the ability to reliably run enterprise applications or complete customer transactions and you will watch the business come to a standstill. One quantifiable indicator of risk to the enterprise of business disruption, or leakage of confidential data, is the number of vulnerabilities that exist in the technical infrastructure. There is a correlation between the number of vulnerabilities and the number of undiscovered vulnerabilities as well as the risk to the enterprise of an exploit successfully launched against the vulnerable database. It is very clear that the more vulnerabilities that exist, the more likely it is that an attack will be successful.
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Perhaps you have heard of web2py, the new kid on the block of Web Frameworks. web2py is written in Python so it is more solid and much faster than Ruby on Rails. web2py is also a web application itself so you can do all development, deployment and maintenance of your applications through your web browser and that makes it easier to use than any other framework. Moreover web2py ships in one complete package (for Windows, Mac or Unix/ Linux) including everything you need to start development (including Python, SQLite3, and multi-threaded web server).
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The Maypole web application framework can be used on two levels: first, as a simple way to add an interface to a database (and not much else besides), and second, as a toolkit for building more sophisticated web applications. In principle, there is a continuum of possible usages between these two levels, but it seems best for the purposes of teaching to entirely separate them.
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