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20.40 Westciv reference for selectors.

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12-Jan-04

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/selectors/index.html

This is an example page for analyzing and understanding style sheets. Following this entry you will see the entries for

  • The style sheet that is used to style this page
  • The source code for the page

20.28 Here are Amit's words about using CSS on his site

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10-Jan-04

http://www.kernelthread.com/about/

20.26 HTML source code where the above css files are used

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10-Jan-04

This page is included here to show you how the above quoted css files are included in the html page. As you have noticed I have replaced all less than signs with two (( and all the greated than signs with two )). This is lot more easier than managing html inside html.

20.24 ui/old.css

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10-Jan-04

old.css

As I analyze this page. I will write more

20.22 ui/basic.css

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10-Jan-04

basic.css

As I analyze this page. I will write more

20.20 An effort to emulates Amit Singh's website

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10-Jan-04

http://www.kernelthread.com/miscellaneous/devnagri.html

This is a sample URL that you can click on to see how the end of result of his styling is. This is by no means the best of his pages. Perhaps one of his simplest.

My goal for this page is to emulate the bottom part and the nice purplish color

In the process, I will post here below copies of his style sheets from his web site verbatim. This should work as example style sheets.

I think it is best to learn style sheets by looking at working examples. This usually true in any language be it Java, or c++ or CSS once you have a basic understanding of the concepts. It might be a stretch to take it to the natural languages perhaps.

Amit Singh's Kernel thread.com

More documents like this are at:  00.15-Research

8-Jan-04

http://www.kernelthread.com/

Very interesting in terms of CSS and content management.

Year end review of OnJava articles by Chris Adamson

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8-Jan-04

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/30/2003-yearender.html

A great idea.

Jedit, wordml, xaml, jxpath, InfoPath, XForms are some of the things I want to look at in 2004

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7-Jan-04

Jedit, wordml, xaml, jxpath, InfoPath, XForms are some of the names that I have jotted down in 2003 to take a look at in the future. Hopefully I will get to some of these in 2004. The following knowledge folder named "Research" explores these ideas a bit further and provide additional references.

Research Knowledge Folder

On a personal front I want to consider the following:

  1. Provide a discoverable and typed interface to Aspire's declarative middle tier. This idea is explored somewhat in the O'Reilly paper titled "Qualities of a good middle tier architecture".
  2. I have been meaning to write a command interpreter in Java for command line utilities where the shell can interpret the input java objects and prompt the user for the input and automatically transfer the input to java objects and call the command eventually.
  3. I have been planning on writing a universal editor for any XML properties file. The underlying idea is very similar to number 2.
  4. Look into drag and drop file system over the web using either Applets or Flash components for AKC. This will allow for folders in folders and a natural interface for the authors AKC to manage their content.
  5. Work more on CSS to polish the AKC and some of the master pages it hosts
  6. Have friends sign up on AKC and potentially look into porting the AKC to MySQL from MicrosoftAccess that it is sitting on

Mystic's musings

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5-Jan-04

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/8186685596/qid=1073329423/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6817402-0090357?v=glance&s=books

Come recommended by Jayaram

WordML

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3-Jan-04

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/XMLFiles/default.aspx

A possible solution to documentation quandry. Word is extreemly good as an outline editor. But has been very bad at spitting out the content as XML. Hopefully this will solve the problem.

XAML: Longhorn markup language

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3-Jan-04

http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/core/overviews/about%20xaml.aspx

Aspire is optimized for developing 3 tier GUIs that include the current web paradigm. The declarative GUI elements of XAML should allow me to extend Aspire to the .net world quite effectively.

JXPath: xpath for Java objects

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3-Jan-04

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jxpath/

Goes to show that XML and Java are just two representations of hierarchical data structures of which XPAth is the query language. Hoping to integrate into Aspire at some point.

Interfaces and checked exceptions are like butter and sand: they don't mix well

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2-Jan-04

Exceptions is one area where opinions differ considerably. Not only about the usage of exceptions but also about the need and utility of checked exceptions. I hear arguments from various sides. They all seem valid in their own right. I use interfaces heavily in my coding practice. Particularly in my J2EE tool Aspire. Over time I paid dearly for not declaring exceptions on these interfaces. Primarily because I would start out thinking that this interface is too simple and not declare an exception. Subsequent implementation of these interfaces will necessitate apis calls that throw checked exceptions. With out changing the interface either I need to throw a converted chained runtime exception or change the interface to include a politically correct middle of the road exceptions suitable for that interface

My labor of love during this Christmas and New Year

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1-Jan-04

Like many other I-will-do-it-myself programmers I have ended up with my own blogging software at about the same time as the OSCON 2003. I had been planning on adding seemingly simple enhancements since then. While I have rejected (temporarily) the "feedback" and "shortcuts", I did implement the "masterpages" during these holidays. The result can be seen at the following URL

Knowledge Folders of Satya Komatineni

If you are curious about the story click on the weblog to read in full

bcbsfl: Group life plans

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1-Jan-04

http://www.bcbsfl.com/ocyh_group/group_life.cfm

Describes various group life plans at BCBSFL.

echoupal.com

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1-Jan-04

http://www.echoupal.com/default.asp

e-Choupal, the unique web based initiative of ITC's International Business Division, offers the Farmers of India all the information, products and services they need to enhance farm productivity, improve farm-gate price realisation and cut transaction costs. Farmers can access latest local and global information on weather, scientific farming practices as well as market prices at the village itself through this web portal - all in Hindi. Choupal also facilitates supply of high quality farm inputs as well as purchase of commodities at their doorstep.

Given the literacy and infrastructure constraints at village level, this model is designed to provide physical service support through a Choupal Sanchalak - himself a lead farmer - who acts as the interface between computer terminal and the farmers. Full contents of this site are therefore made available to the registered sanchalaks only

Political commentary

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1-Jan-04

http://www.capsteps.com/

the only group in America that attempts to be funnier than the Congress

Nintendo Gameboy: How complex a gaming experience can be!

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29-Dec-03

I am not much of a game player. Never too late to start. So I have ventured out and bought a gameboy advanced sp for my 5 year old daughter. It is quite well made as far as craftsmanship goes. It is a completely different matter when it comes to playing. I found it so hard to play the game. There are only a couple of keys which work in ten different ways depending on the context. It require a whole 30 page manual with multi colored drawings to explain the game.

At the same time I can not believe there are millions of copies sold. My brain must work differently. I just don't find it enjoyable figuring out the complexity of these games.

Perhaps I will change my mind as I get more familiarized with it.

20.15 The complete CSS guide

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12-Dec-03

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/ 

1. Guide
2. Reference
3. Recommended by ZenGarden

20.14 Eric Meyers edge

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12-Dec-03

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ 

A fairly invovled treatment on CSS

20.13 ZenGarden referenced by KillerSites

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12-Dec-03

http://www.csszengarden.com/

20.12 CSS Tutorial 3

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12-Dec-03

http://www.killersites.com/Tutorials/CSS_tutorial/cssTutorialPage3.htm 

Explanation of the styles that were used.

20.11 CSS Tutorial 2 : CSS explained

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12-Dec-03

http://www.killersites.com/Tutorials/CSS_tutorial/cssTutorialPage2.htm 

1. ID selectors explained
2. Navigation pane and Content pane styled
3. border-right and position explained

20.10 CSS Tutorial 1

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12-Dec-03

http://www.killersites.com/Tutorials/CSS_tutorial/cssTutorialPage1.htm 

1. Borrowed from KillerSites.com
2. Dicusses typical html tags used in a CSS based web site
3. h1 through h6
4. p
5. ul, ol
6. div
7. href
8. img

A list of prominent Telugu writers since 1000AD

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9-Dec-03

http://www.vepachedu.org/manasanskriti/Telugus.html

An impressive array of short bios on telugu writers since 1000AD.

Collections: The Collections trail introduces Java Collections Framework - Joshua Block

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9-Dec-03

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/index.html 

source:Joshua Bloch
coverage:very high
level:expert

Use Aspire and Tomcat to retrieve XML declaratively from any relational databases

More documents like this are at:  CS-xml

8-Dec-03

http://216.187.231.34/akc/servlet/DisplayServlet?url=DisplayNoteURL&reportId=225&statementId=178&reportId=225

Aspire in combination with Tomcat presents a very viable and cost-effective option for generating XML directly and declaratively from relational databases. Developers will start by choosing a set of SQL statements or stored procedures. Developers will then arrange these assets into a calling hierarchy in a configuration file. Aspire will execute this hierarchical data definition and returns a java based hierarchical data set. Aspire has pre-defined transformations that can convert this hierarchical data set into varieties of XML formats. Aspire also allows you to transform the resulting XML using XSLT via JAXP. The final XML or HTML can then be sent to the browser or consumed programmatically.

In addition to SQL and Stored-Procedures, you can also use File readers, java classes, and potentially others in their place. These assets are called relational adapters producing relational data sets. New relational adapters can be written quite easily for other enterprise data sources when needed.

The main focus of this article to allow programmers to quickly download Aspire and start generating XML from data bases. This is a cook-book/tutorial like approach that tells you everything you need to get started and be on your way to generate XML with very little coding. This article also encourages see-before-you-paint approach to web page development, meaning you can see your data on the web page as XML or text first before actually writing code for that page. This is very useful for debugging and discovering available fields in the data.

A three step process to creatign schema documents (XSDs)

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8-Dec-03

http://216.187.231.34/akc/servlet/DisplayServlet?url=DisplayNoteURL&reportId=428&statementId=381&reportId=428 

Create a dummy xml
use xsd.exe to create the .xsd file
use Visual studio to tweak the XSD for a) cardinality and b) data types

00.52 JavaTM Media Framework API Guide

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4-Dec-03

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/guide/

This seems to be written in 99. The documentation says it is still valid for 2.1.1. You be the judge.