The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers signed off o­n the .Asia Registry Agreement o­n Wednesday at its annual meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, meaning that businesses in the Asia-Pacific region will soon have the option of registering an ".asia" domain. The top-level domain will be overseen by the DotAsia Organization. The ".asia" domain will be used as a supplement to country domains like ".jp" for Japan and ".cn" for China.

• Plesk 7 for Windows
• Plesk 7.5 for Windows

One developer's view of the pros and cons of the two most popular means of building web applications

When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that it should do something with it. Much like a CGI, this code is then run o­n the server, and it returns some content, which then assumes part of the shape of the resulting HTML page sent back to the browser. Both the open source scripting language PHP and languages within Microsoft's ASP.NET framework fall into this category; JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Perl/Mason operate this way as well.

On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files o­n infected machines.

Between now and PHP 6, we will see several minor patch releases at first that correct many problems with the original PHP 5 release. With PHP 5.1, whenever it is released, we will see the first big set of new functionality - mostly new functions to use, and new ways of doing things. What is certain is that more and more extensions will be added to the system to allow programmers to take advantage of more and more things in their code.

Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 ("Tiger") is the next major revision to the Java platform and language; it is currently slated to contain 15 component JSRs with nearly 100 other significant updates developed through the Java Community Process (JCP).

NOTE: The external version number of this release is 5.0 and its internal version number is 1.5.0, as described at J2SE Naming and Versioning.

With so many exciting changes in this release, you may be wondering where you should start. As in previous releases, the comprehensive list of all changes is available in the Release notes guide. This article, from the J2SE team, will take you through the major changes so that you have a grasp of what J2SE 5.0 has to offer, before diving into the API docs.

Abstract

Many institutions of higher education (IHE) are grappling with ways to implement and manage o­nline instruction by using local personnel and resources, purchasing some components of management, or outsourcing distance education entirely.  While each institution will make decisions that meets its unique needs, it is important to know about the range of possibilities available to university administrators today.  The major problems confronting  IHE's are twofold: (1) the lack of technical skill among faculty members to convert their courses into o­nline formats, and (2) the need to support and manage distance education.  This article provides an overview of the most popular o­nline educational delivery applications.

This document represents a compilation of fundamental principles for designing user interfaces, which have been drawn from various books o­n interface design, as well as my own experience. Most of these principles can be applied to either command-line or graphical environments. I welcome suggestions for changes and additions -- I would like this to be viewed as an "open-source" evolving document.

PHP uses a blend of interpretation and compilation in order to provide the best mix of performance and flexibility to programmers.

Behind the scenes, PHP compiles your script down to a series of instructions (called opcodes) whenever it is accessed. These instructions are then executed o­ne by o­ne until the script terminates. This is different from conventional compiled languages such as C++ where the code is compiled down to native executable code then that executable is run from then o­n. Instead, PHP re-compiles your script each time it is requested.

As you may have guessed from the title, in this article we will discuss a method for creating a very simple shopping cart using PHP. The o­nly assumption made is that you have at least a basic understanding of PHP programming. We will first look at object-oriented PHP, so if you already feel comfortable with this topic, then you may skip o­n to the section titled "A Shopping Cart".

In short, XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) and XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) are used to transform an XML document into another XML document, such as transforming an XML document into an HTML document.

Servlets are the Java Technologies' answer to CGI programming. They are programs which run o­n the server side and generate dynamic content. Why would o­ne prefer to use Servlets over traditional CGI programming?

HTTP: GET and POST

These are two different methods in which HTTP data is passed to scripts
Forms submit information to scripts.

• GET - Form data is encoded in URL.

• POST - Form data is encoded in message body.

This is fairly basic knowledge but it is important to understand how scripts can be exploited. Often it is important to try as many different input combinations as possible to discover vulnerabilities. ...........