Mastering Web 2.0 Technologies

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Duration: 5 Days

Audience

Prerequisites

This course is intended for web developers who already have experience with building web applications and want to learn how to build the next generation of web applications.

Experienced web developers

Attendees must be proficient in web application programming in order to do the labs. In particular, attendess should be proficient with both HTML and JavaScript. Attendees should also be proficient with at least one server-side platform, such as Java, Ruby on Rails, or PHP.

Description

Once the province of client-server applications with very limited GUIs, the web has become a rich platform for application development. Recently the web has spawned a new generation of software that fosters communities of users, empowering them to create, share, and participate in the virtual community. Another trend has been the maturing of the ASP model, where software or services are hosted on a server and delivered via the web. What distinguishes these applications from the earlier generation of web applications is both conceptual and technological.

On the conceptual side is the commitment to the web as a platform, from the business model to the user interaction. Instead of using the web as another broadcast medium or a fancy mail-order catalog, a Web 2.0 application tries to take advantage of the web-as-platform, bringing together users with the site creators and with each other.

On the technological side lie a host of special techniques designed to enhance the user experience and to overcome the technological limitations of previous web applications.

This course will focus on the technological side of Web 2.0, giving you all the information you need to build advanced and compelling Web 2.0 applications, including how to build rich browser-based user interfaces with AJAX and Adobe Flex, how to build hybrid offline/online web applications with Adobe AIR, how to syndicate content with XML and RSS or ATOM, how to use and create web APIs, how to combine (i.e., mashup) data and services from different sources into a single application, how to work with video streams in a browser or other rich internet application (RIA) platform, how to provide forums for your users to interact via wikis or blogs, and how to manage the content of Web 2.0 applications using Content Management Systems. This course also teaches you how to create and use web Gadgets like the Google gadgets and the Lotus gadgets.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

Understand Web 2.0 applications
Identify different Web 2.0 business models and applications
Build rich browser-based user interfaces using AJAX, DOJO and Flex
Understand REST principles
Understand social bookmarking
Develop applications using Del.icio.us
Create Mashup applications using JavaScript and PHP
Create Mashup applications using Lotus Mashups
Use popular Web APIs to connect to other web applications
Use Google Docs APIs to access maps and spreadsheets
Build a wiki and/or blog using QEDWiki
Maintain a web application using a content management system
Integrate rich content, such as video, into a web application using the YouTubetm APIs
Build web applications that can function even when the web is unavailable
Syndicate your web application's content
Process other web syndications
Build applications to deploy on a Cloud Computing platform such as Amazon EC2 and Hadoop