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Star Architects
are not typical- they sell brand names and deliver high profile results
- most architects are more modest and less visible
- Architects must understand how things work
- a reasonable understanding of the disciplines involved
- an excellent understanding of disciplines have to interact
- negotiating between specialists for a good overall design
- Architects are guides
- they provide guidance for going in the right direction
- they can tell why this direction is the right direction
- they can tell why a wrong direction is wrong
- Understand Web technologies and their dependencies
- no need to become an expert in all of the areas
- the important part is understanding the dependencies
- Understand how to compare application architectures
- there is no
best solution
for any given problem - every solution must be evaluated in terms of various constraints
- Next steps for your career in Web architecture
- understand how the back-end plumbing (a.k.a. XML) works in detail
- take a closer look at back-end architectures
- take a closer look at delivery architectures
- get involved in real-world projects in the ISD Clinic
- Broad overview of core Web technologies
- this is not a Web design or Web programming course
- Assignments working with various Web technologies
- how to setup and configure a Web server
- how to deliver client-specific content
- how to design client-specific styles
- using Ajax for creating more dynamic Web pages
- repurposing existing content for syndication
- Final project looking at a real-world case study
- apply a Web architecture view o a Web application architecture
- come up with an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- People, and thus content creators, typically are lazy
- developing content and code for diverse users and clients is hard
- by making assumptions, this job can become considerably easier
- Tools often hide complexity and/or take away freedom
- they are good if tool users know what they are doing
- tool users should know alternatives and when to switch tools
- Tool makers provide support for lazy people
- built-in simplifications of the tool's target technology
- pre-packaged excuses why it is appropriate to use the tool
- How to apply for NSF grants
- Over $400 billion in grants each year
- PureEdge is required as the technology to fill out grant forms
- acquired by IBM and now called IBM Workplace Forms
- All of this probably looked nice for the final demo …
- Web forms do not provide all the features required by the specification
- offline editing of applications is not possible, Web forms work online only
- there is no built-in signing of form contents, but there are technologies for it
- Well, but not if you are using Vista …
- PureEdge is an IE plug-in for filling out forms online and offline
- plug-ins are specific for the browser for which they are developed
- plug-ins are specific for the OS on which they run
- Government authorities are (usually) concerned about accessibility
- restricting $400 billion of grant money to IE users only seems a bit restrictive
- is there a reasonable argument to be made for this restriction
- Grants.gov recommended to get a virtual PC to access the portal
- users have to buy virtual PC software
- users have to buy Windows to run on the virtual PC
- Grants.gov set up a Citrix server for grant applicants
- Citrix server licenses are not cheap to buy
- applicants still have to install the Citrix client (which is free)
- running a Citrix server farm is pretty expensive
- After some time, PureEdge for Mac was released, features include:
occasional crashes and subsequent loss of any unsaved data
inability to run on Mac OS version prior to 10.4.6
- Companies usually sell products, not just solutions
- Lock-in happens quickly and is very hard to escape from later
- Lock-in usually carries a pretty high price tag
- Lock-in solutions can be good, but it is a very important decision
- Standards-based solutions may lack some sophistication
- but very often they may still be good enough to solve a problem
- being able to change the platform easily is a very valuable asset
- The I.R.S. perspective
- electronic filing saves money and should be encouraged
- processing a paper version: $2.65
- processing an electronic submission: $0.29
- The company perspective
- have a
monopoly
for 2005-2009 - taxpayers paid $1.01 billion for submission fees
- the servers could not handle the load
- The taxpayer perspective
- IRS saves money, but taxpayers are charged
- electronic filing must go through a company
- Computer Science at Technical University of Berlin (TUB) (88-91)
- Ph.D. at ETH Zürich (92-97)
- Post-Doc at ICSI, Berkeley (97/98)
- Various activities back in Switzerland (98-06)
- teaching at ETH Zürich and FHNW
- working as independent consultant (training, courses, consulting)
- research in various XML-related areas
- Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information (since fall 2006)
- technical director of the Information and Service Design (ISD) program
- Course Web page:
http://dret.net/lectures/web-fall07/ - Course mailing list: subscribe at
majordomo@ischool.berkeley.edu - no subject (leave blank)
- body of message:
subscribe i290-3 - Letter grade based on assignments, mid-term exam, and final project
- Generated from XSLidy XML
- Designed for online presentation and use (lots of links!)
- for printing, use
a
(all slides), and thens
(smaller font) a couple of times - A good real-world example for Web-based publishing
- Slidy is useful, but there is no support for structures and hyperlinking
- XSLidy adds these features by adding an XSLT transformation
- XSLidy is useful, but there is no interface (XML editing only)
- My Online Glossary at
http://dret.net/glossary/ - suggestions, updates, corrections are very welcome (really!)
- another exercise in how to use XML and XSLT for information management
- My bibliography at
http://dret.net/biblio/ - suggestions, updates, corrections are very welcome (really!)
- produced by an XML-centric system for managing bibliography data
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- headed by Tim-Berners Lee, inventor of the Web (with Robert Cailliau)
- The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- mainly Internet standards, but also responsible for URIs and HTTP
, but the important point is that they are on the same level as the text nodes of the mixed content.
