Vivtek -- Topics

Vivtek's informational topics

an eclectic mix of historical inanity and valuable technical insight

This is a list of information we offer free of charge here on the Vivtek site. The outline is in the form of a hierarchy, and eventually we hope to make this a more richly linked structure. As topics come online, they will get links. We seem to be thinking of good topics more quickly than we're writing them, so bear with us.

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Mail us at topic_suggestions@vivtek.com!

Top-level topics:

Internet technology
Graphics technology
Programming philosophy and technology
Document management
Workflow
Databases
GUI stuff and Windows internals

Internet technology
- Server-side programming (active server pages, ASP, server-parsed HTML, SHTML, CGI, PHP)
  
  Tcl under AOLserver
  ASP under IIS
  Apache modules
  Java servlets
  CGI under anything
  PHP
  WebMacro
  Zope
- Client-side programming
  - DHTML (dynamic object model)
  - Javascript
  - Java
  - ActiveX
- XML
  - expat XML parser
- HTTP servers (web servers)
  - AOLserver
  - Apache
  - Microsoft IIS
- Miscellaneous topics by RFC (list of significant RFCs)
  - Writing POP3 clients (RFC1725)
  - SMTP and sendmail
  - RFC1867: form-based HTTP file upload
- Electronic commerce (ecomm, online commerce, ebusiness, online transaction processing)
  - Catalog sales
  - Online auctions
  - CyberCash
- Content management
- Staying on top of things
  - Analog web log analyzer
Graphics technology
- ImageMagick graphics library
- SVG (graphics description XML)
- TrueType fonts
Programming philosophies
- Literate programming
- Open source software (free software)
- Object-Oriented Design (OOD, Object-Oriented Programming, OOP, or just OO)
- Code analysis (software metrics, software measurement)
Document management (version control, software configuration management)
- Saros Mezzanine
- FileNET's Panagon
Workflow
Databases, data warehousing
- Relational and object-relational database engines (RDBMS, ORDBMS, DBMS)
  
  PostgreSQL
  Illustra
  SQL Server
  Oracle
  A little article on using the Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
  MySQL
  mSQL
  Access
- General data management (there's more out there than relational databases!)
  - gdbm (dbm, ndbm)
GUI stuff and Windows Internals
- wxPython, wxWindows
- COM/OLE/ActiveX