One-day Web Tools Course part of Teaching by Philip Greenspun Register Now!

This is a course for professional programmers and computer science students. A chief technology officer at a Web publisher might also find it useful even if he or she didn't have a strong programming background. Check www.arsdigita.com/events to register for upcoming classes.

10:00 am to 11:00 am -- the pathetic basics

This is the stuff that doesn't matter. It is kind of like learning about the color of the power cord that you use to plug the server in. On the other hand, you need a cord of some sort. These are the ones that we use to serve millions of hits per day.
• Why you need Oracle.
• Given that you've picked Oracle, why you need Solaris. (Linux works but is more painful.)
• Why you only want to have one computer.
• Why you want to use AOLserver. (draw from http://www.photo.net/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.html)
• Setting up and programming AOLserver. (draw from http://www.photo.net/wtr/aolserver/introduction-2.html)
• Keeping it running reliably: http://www.photo.net/wtr/arsdigita-server-architecture.html
• If you've got more than one person on the project: http://www.photo.net/wtr/cvs.html

  11:15 pm to 12:30 pm -- introduction to the ACS

  
• the dilemma of the Web publisher: software engineering purity or keeping his/her job; the way out is a toolkit with good documentation and training
• coarse internal structure of the ACS
• external structure of the ACS (user's view)
• external structure of the ACS (admin's view)

  12:30 pm to 1:30 pm -- lunch

  
  

  1:30 pm to 2:00 pm -- learning to become an ACS developer

  
• the problem sets: http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/psets/
• options for doing them:
  • at home in the privacy of your own Linux (this method may get you $10,000)
  • remotely on one of our computers
  • as a student in one of our boot camps
  • as a student in a full-semester course at one of several universities
  
  

  2:00 -- 2:45 pm -- modules to support traditional online community

  
• users and user admin
• user groups
• bboard
• chat
• classified ads
• neighbor-to-neighbor
• news
• calendar
• adserver
• bannerideas
• member value
• customer relationship management system
• curriculum establishment system
• user profiling enhancements
• portals system
• polls

  2:45 to 3:00 pm soda break

  3:00 to 4:00 pm building an ecommerce system with the ACS

  
• the ecommerce module

  4:00 to 5:00 pm building an intranet

• intranet
• address book
• bookmarks
• file storage

  5:00 to 5:30 pm breeze through the substrate packages

  
• map server: http://mapserver.arsdigita.com/pms/info/index.adp
• templating system for plain/fancy and multi-lingual sites
• help system (example: http://www.photo.net/registry/index.tcl (source and more source))
• contact manager
• data warehouse
• site-wide search

• audit
• calendar
• content tagging
• email handler
• graphing
• new stuff
• permissions
• general comments
• prototype builder
• /tools subdir (spell checker)

• More Details: see the slides

• Background reading:
  • http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/
  • http://www.photo.net/sql/

• Register: at www.arsdigita.com/events (or call (800) 621-6106).