XML tutorial in 100 minutes

Time for another tutorial: XML in 100 minutes.

XML today is a vital technology in contemporary organizations, it is widely used to transfer data between applications and other uses.

Knowing XML for today’s IT Gurus is as important as Unix and SQL skills. Many Applications requires XML know-how.

This short guide to XML is only an fast introduction to XML, later tutorials will follow about the individual subjects in XML, like XSLT, SOAP …etc.

The tutorial is available here in PDF, HTML and Adobe-Flash Formats

One of the slides has an overview of XML technologies:

XML at a glance

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How to publish your Power Point PPT presentation to the web?

I have been trying to publish some of my Power Points to the web for a while now, and I was looking for an easy and straight forward way to Export *.PPT files in to a web-friendly format.

In this short article I will explain the steps taken to publish my work to the Internet.

License:

Why do I want to publish my work? and to which purpose.

I used the Creative Commons License website to help me choose the License I wish to brand my work .

Web-Friendly Formats:

After looking at what others do to publish Slides, it comes down to some of those options:

• HTML static pages.
• HTML static pages with frames.
• PDF format .
• Flash SWF.
• *.PPT downloadable and locked file viewable with the free Power-Point viewer.

Tools:

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