Since the World Wide Web emerged in the early 1990s, HTML has evolved to become a relatively powerful markup language, which, when backed up by its close partners JavaScript and CSS, can be used to create visually stunning and interactive Web sites and applications. This tutorial serves as a hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3. It provides information about the functionality... 

Modern Web sites and Web applications tend to rely quite heavily on client-side JavaScript to provide rich interactivity, particularly through the advent of asynchronous HTTP requests that do not require page refreshes to return data or responses from a server-side script or database system. In this article, you will discover how JavaScript frameworks make it easier and faster to... 

This tutorial is geared towards developers who want to learn how to store data in XML format in a database, connect to DB2 from a Python application, and learn how to convert data from CSV files into XML documents. No prior knowledge of Python is assumed (you will learn how to install it in this tutorial), but it would be advantageous. This tutorial assumes that you use a Microsoft® Windows® operating system, but the code should work on... 

My book “Beginning CouchDB” is now available in the United States, and should be available internationally in the coming days. The final manuscript comes in at exactly 300 pages, and features everything you need to know to get started with the Apache CouchDB database – from installing it on Mac OS X or Linux to creating applications that work with CouchDB data using JavaScript, Python and Ruby. The following are links to... 

This tutorial is geared towards developers who want to learn how to store data in XML format in a database, connect to DB2 from a .NET application, and learn how to develop applications that leverage mapping APIs. To follow this tutorial, familiarity with the .NET framework and C# is recommended. You should also have some experience of developing with HTML and/or XML, and of communicating with a database management... 

This tutorial is aimed at Web application developers who want to develop database-driven applications that are powered by an IBM DB2 pureXML database. The reader should be familiar with basic PHP code and be able to work with the Windows command prompt in order to follow the tutorial. Some experience with database management systems and the SQL language is also required. By the end of this tutorial, you will learn how to create object-oriented... 

One of the most useful and versatile technologies available in IBM DB2 is its native support for XML data through the pureXML feature. PureXML allows you to store, retrieve, and manipulate XML data alongside and in the same manner as relational data. This enables you to develop applications that harness the advantages of both relational databases and XML data. Such applications can be particularly useful when you have a large amount... 

In the third and final part of this series on creating applications that interact with an IBM DB2 pureXML database, you will use the popular PHP language to create scripts for publishing and syndicating the status updates in your database across the Web. First you will allow users to create a Profile Badge in HTML, which permits them to generate a piece of HTML code to paste into their blog or Web site. This will pull the ... 

In Part 2 of my developerWorks article series on creating a microblogging service, I show you how to connect to the Web services created in Part 1 from a Flex application. This application allows you to post new updates to your microblog database and see a list of previous updates. The pureXML® capabilities of IBM DB2® allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe® Flex® applications can read XML directly... 

In the first part of this three-part series on IBM DB2 pureXML, I show you how to get started with pureXML on a DB2 Express-C 9.5 database. You learn how to create and insert XML data into a relational table, and how to query that data using SQL, SQL/XML and XQuery. Next, you learn how to expose this data to applications using Web Services in IBM Data Studio. You create a database procedure that will insert data into the database, and this...