Internet Systems Design:
Technologies for Modern Information Systems

"There is nothing permanent except change".-Heraclitus
Section 2

This section is concerned with server side programming using ASP, database interfaces and with XML, XSL, DTD.

The slides used in Section 2 are:

Standards - Cell Phones, wireless internet examples. Slides HERE. Some background info on information products: characteristics of information products, network effects, Metcalf's Law, "tipping", dominant standards, alliances is HERE (slides) and HERE (text).
XML. SLIDES
Server-side programming, Active Server Pages and Databases, database interface. SLIDES
Example ASP code for the examples in the slides is HERE. Further information about database connectivity in ASP is HERE and HERE and HERE
Advanced Database Manipulation Slides SLIDES See example code HERE

	Example XML code is HERE
	Example RSS 2.0 code is HERE
	Example Podcast is HERE.
	Podcast software (iPodder) is available HERE

At the end of this section, you will be expected to have the following completed:

	Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition) W3C
	XSL and XSLT Guide
	Information on the specification of RSS 2.0 is HERE
	Podcast specification from Apple for iTunes is HERE

Homework 2 involving the use of Active Server Pages and XML Due Date: July 11, 3 p.m.

See Readings for some further information.

Section 2