1. WEB TECHNOLOGIES
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2. Why am I learning web from a guy
named r00ster?
 Real name Nick Hepner (Rooster’s fine)
 Web development since 1998
 More than 150 professional site launches
 All scales of website.

3. Scope of Course
 *AMP stack
 Fundamentals, HTML, PHP
 Components of Web
 Relational Databases
 Code Versioning and Environments
 Web dev workflows and best practices
 Web site builds

4. Open Source
 Defined by the Open Source Initiative as software that
contains these properties:
 Free Redistribution
 Include Source Code or means to obtain source code
 Allow modifications and “derived works”
 Cannot discriminate against group or persons
 Cannot discriminate against specific endeavor
 Redistributable license (no new agreements are issued)
 License cannot be product specific
 License cannot restrict other software
 License must be technology-neutral
http://opensource.org/docs/osd

5. Open Source vs. Proprietary
Software
 Classic argument
 Nobody’s gonna win it and I’m tired of arguing it.
 You will be too
Proprietary (closed source) Open Source
• Better funding leads to higher quality • Crowd sourced development
• Better support • Modifiable
• Tightly Focused • Designed for Integration
• Better suited to specific business • Fast bug fixes
needs • Low level of entry
• FREE

6. What is a browser?
 Application that translates web code into
rendered web pages.
 Firefox
 Chrome
 Internet Explorer
 Safari
 Opera
 Lynx
 Thousands of others (http://www.user-agents.org)

7. What is a server?
 Term is “overloaded” – can mean many things
 Physical hardware (will refer to as “machine”)
 Virtual instance (will refer to as “Virtual Machine” or “VM”)
 Software package (will refer to as “server”)
 A server will…
 Accept requests
 Process (compile, parse, etc.) request
 Prepare response
 Deliver response
 Web Servers
 IIS
 Nginx
 Apache

8. What is the Web?

9. …no, really?
 Global system of
interconnected
computer networks
that utilize TCP/IP
to serve data and
documents such as
inter-linked
hypertext (HTML)
documents, VoIP, a
nd IPTV
 Simply: Lots of
computers that can
talk to each other.
 http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Internet

10. How it seems to work…
User requests website
User receives website
User

11. How it actually works…
User ISP
1. User Requests
website
2. ISP routes
request
3. Routing servers
pass request to
other routing
servers closer to
end point server.
4. F*$%#@ Russia
5. Web Server
processes
request
6. Web Server
returns Request.

12. What is a database?
 System that stores and makes available
structured digital data.
 Data, in this context, will refer to any unique
digital information must be stored for future
reference.

13. A quick word about Operating
Systems…
 “Most” web sites are hosted on Linux.
 Larger enterprise sites tend to be hosted on
windows, but not exclusively.
 Can develop on one system and deploy to
another using cross-platform techniques.
Some limitations.

14. Standard Technology Stacks
 “Technology Stack” in web terms refers to the platform a
website lives on and the software packages that support it.
 One word answer to the question “What kind of web
development do you do?”
 Some contextual meanings
Stack Name Technology
LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
WAMP Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
MAMP Macintosh (Apple), Apache, MySQL,
PHP
WIMP Windows, IIS, MS SQL (sometimes
MySQL), PHP
XAMPP Multiple systems (Cross compatible -
X), Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl
LAOJ Linux, Apache (Tomcat), Oracle, Java

15. Compiled Languages, Scripted
Languages and Markup
 Compiled Languages generate machine code
from source code. (.NET, C#, Java, Python)
 Scripted (interpreted) languages. “Step-by-step”
execution of source code.
(PHP, Ruby, Coldfusion)
 Compiled languages are much faster, but more
complex. Modern caching strategies make this
irrelevant for web. I’m not getting into this
argument.
 Markup (HTML, XML, YAML, Wikitext, BB Code)
is a document description that uses syntax to
differentiate text from display or meta information.
Templating language, no logic

16. HyperText Markup Language
 Fundamental to web development.
 It says it in the title – this is a Markup
Language
 Browsers read HTML documents and render
based on the document description.
 Most web languages generate HTML. CSS
and Javascript are used to enhance HTML.
 XHTML, HTML 5, DHTML

17. Cascading Style Sheets
 “Presentation Layer” for HTML pages. Allows
customized instruction for browser to read and
display HTML tags.
 Makes websites pretty.
 Interpreted slightly differently by major
browsers (I’m lookin at you IE )
 Unexpectedly difficult to master.

18. JavaScript
 Allows manipulation of the Document Object
Model
 Client side language
 Event driven
 Not even remotely related to Java
 Foundation of Asynchronous JavaScript And
XML

19. eXtensible Markup Language
(XML)
 Used to encode documents that are both
machine readable and human readable.
 Used to transfer data between systems and
publish content (RSS, Atom, etc.)
 Used in most “modern” word processors.

20. Resources
 Google. Seriously.
 WorldWideWeb Consortium (http://w3.org)
 W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com)
 PHP (www.php.net)
 XAMPP (http://apachefriends.org)