Dallas/Ft. Worth Unix Users Group

Web SIG
Mission: Discussions about Web/netsite operations and development

Collaboration Software

Wiki features, development, interest

Collaboration Servers

What Web Framework requires them and where do they fit?
Can, or should, they be?
- *NAMP, LAMP or WAMP [(*NIX or Linux or Windows)+Apache+MySQL+(Perl or PHP or Python)]
  - *NIX is BSD Unix or OpenSolaris kernel based distros for Open Source

Web Hosting

Web2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Great starting point
The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006 - from Dion Hinchcliffe's great Blog

Web Strategy

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang - The definitive Web Strategy Blog

What can the Web do for you?
How can you use the Web for your business and personal needs?
Web 2.0 enabled all these business and personal avenues for using the Web.

Prosuming

Jeff Tash's ITscout Blog Prosuming post

In 1979, futurist Alvin Toffler coined the term "prosumer" to describe the open source-like phenomenon of people producing what they consume. The term applies to individuals who prefer to be involved in designing the things they purchase. In other words, new products and/or services are created by combining together the roles of producer and consumer.
The hottest new way to prosume comes from a Web 2.0 development called mashups
The granddaddy of prosuming is open source software

Desktop & Web Development Merge?

The Web is rapidly replacing the PC Desktop in becoming the predominant software platform for applications development and operation.
- For example, in ~~Longhorn~~^Vista Windows, Microsoft is eliminating the distinction between local and remote (web) apps, unifying the model around new abstractions like XAML and Sparkle, clones of Mozilla XUL (XML User Interface Language) and W3C's SVG (scalable vector graphics).

Technology

LAMP platform
- Linux or BSD Unix, or change to WAMP for Windows
- *NAMP, LAMP or WAMP [(*NIX or Linux or Windows)+Apache+MySQL+(Perl or PHP or Python)]
  - *NIX is BSD Unix or OpenSolaris kernel based distros for Open Source
- Apache 1.3.x or Apache 2.0.x
- MySQL (or PostgreSQL)
- Python or PHP or Perl

SSL certificates and Root Certificate Authorities

If you want visitors to your website to be able to send and receive information securely (encrypted), you will need to get your key signed by a CA, otherwise web visitors get that nasty dialog about how your cert is untrusted and may cause lung damage and kidney failure (slight over exaggeration). There are a certain few CA's which the big browsers trust by default...

http://www.whichssl.com/browser_recognition_table.html

Middleware^Glueware and Web Frameworks

http://Jakarta.Apache.org is an extremely active Java community
Apache Cocoon is an XML/XSLT pipeline processor
(Python, CMF, and) Zope is a cool CMS to hack on, beautiful code
PHP is the most practical but least poetic web language, massive momentum
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - thousands of free Perl modules and programs
JoshKit @ http://www.bizbrokerkit.com is proprietary but cool
C# and Mono (.NET for Linux)
Ruby on Rails
AJAX