====== Resources ======

On this page, you'll find links to useful resources for Web application development.

  * [[http://sixrevisions.com/tools/20_web_development_tools/|20 Useful Tools to Make Development Easier]] - mostly CSS, DOM, JavaScript, and Ajax tools.  We use some of them (e.g., WebDeveloper, Firebug) in this class.

===== Authoring Web Pages =====

==== HTML ====

  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp|W3 schools' XHTML Tutorial]]
  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp|XHTML Reference]]
  * [[http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/|Favicons from Pics]]
  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp|HTML Entities]]
  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp|MIME Types]]
  * [[http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/hex-colors.html|Hex Color Codes]]

==== CSS ====

  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp|CSS Tutorial]]
  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp|CSS Reference]]
  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colors.asp|CSS Colors]]
  * [[http://www.csszengarden.com/|css Zen Garden]]

==== Usability and Accessibility ====
  * [[http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html|Usability 101]]
  * [[http://webstyleguide.com/|Web Style Guide]]
  * [[http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html|Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers]]

==== Search Engines ====

  * [[http://www.robotstxt.org/|Information about robots.txt files]]

===== Java-based Technologies =====

  * [[http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html|J2EE 1.4 Tutorial]]

==== Servlets ====

  * [[http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.3/javadoc/index.html|Servlet API Javadoc]]
  * [[http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/csajsp2.html|Core Servlets materials]]

==== JSPs ====

  * [[http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/10/tags.html|JSP Syntax Reference]]
  * [[http://www.jspin.com/|The JSP Resource Index]]
  * [[http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/Servlet-Tutorial-JSP.html|JSP tutorial]] - older but still useful

==== JSTL ====

  * [[http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/reference/docs/index.html|JSTL Reference]]


===== Software Engineering Tools =====

==== Eclipse ====

  * [[http://www.eclipse.org/|Eclipse]]
  * [[http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/|Web Tools Platform]]
  * [[http://subclipse.tigris.org|Subclipse]]

==== Subversion ====
  * [[http://www.abbeyworkshop.com/howto/misc/svn01/|Subversion Cheat Sheet]]
  * [[http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/|Visual Guide to Version Control]]
==== Testing Tools ====

=== Selenium ===

  * [[http://selenium.openqa.org/|Selenium]]
  * [[http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/|Selenium IDE]]
  * [[http://selenium-core.openqa.org/reference.html|Selenium Commands]]

=== Canoo's WebTest ===
  * [[http://webtest.canoo.com/WebTest]]

=== HttpUnit ===
  * [[http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/|HttpUnit]]
  * [[http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/doc/cookbook.html|HttpUnit Cookbook]]

=== HtmlUnit ===
  * [[http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/|HtmlUnit]]
  * [[http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/gettingStarted.html|Getting Started with HtmlUnit]]

===== JavaScript =====

  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/js/|W3 Schools JavaScript]]
  * [[http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming-language-through-video-lectures/?stolen_from=hacker_news |Video Tutorials]]
  * [[http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp|HTML DOM]]
  * [[http://www.webreference.com/js/column5/|Regular Expressions in JavaScript]]
  * [[http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/classes/432/Examples/JS/|Examples from a Web app Course]]

===== Ajax =====

===== Security =====
  * [[http://www.webappsec.org/projects/statistics/|Web Application Security Statistics]]
  * [[http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=threatreport|Internet Security Threat Report]]
  * [[http://www.owasp.org|Open Web Application Security Project]]
  * [[http://www.sans-ssi.org/resources/securecoding/|Secure Coding]]

==== Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) ====

  * [[http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Cross_site_scripting|Testing for Cross-Site Scripting]]
  * [[http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html|XSS Cheat Sheet]]

===== Linux =====

  * [[http://www.cs.wlu.edu/labs/|Our Labs]]

===== PostgreSQL =====
  * [[labs/postgresql|PostgreSQL Basics]]