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List of Pages on this Site:

WebDev

• Apache Configuration Quick Recipes for using Apache (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Essential HTML Core Syntax for Creating HTML Documents (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Web Development Notes on Web Page Development (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Essential XHTML Core Differences in XHTML from HTML (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XHTML Tags Reference of XHTML tags (Modified: 2011-01-16)

WebDev/webservices

• SOAP 1.2 Simple Open Access Protocol (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• REST REST in a Nutshell (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Webservices Using Web Services (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XML RPC Using XML RPC to exchange data (Modified: 2011-01-16)

WebDev/javascript

• XML DOM Processing Processing XML DOM with Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Javascript Syntax Basic Syntax for Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Date Objects Manipulating Date Objects (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Math Object Doing simple Maths (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Arrays Simple Operations on Arrays (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Javascript Objects Notes on Objects in Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• String Objects Manipulating Strings (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Converting Strings Converting between Numbers and Strings (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Javascript Functions Notes on Functions in Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Javascript Variables Javascript Datatypes and Variable Declaration (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Writing Text Avoid annoying alert popups (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Flow Control Flow Control in Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Code Execution Execution order of scripts as document loads (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Hello World Another Hello World javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• DOM Example Example Use of DOM to Analyse Document (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Javascript Notes Basic Notes for Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Error Handling Catching and Handling Errors in Javascript (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Javascript Operators Core Javacript Operators (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Conditional Statements Syntax for simple conditional statements (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• DOM Scripting The Document Object Model (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Document Write Function Using Document Write for debugging (Modified: 2011-01-16)

WebDev/DTD

• W3C Strict HTML 4.0 DTD W3C HTML 4.0 strict DTD (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• ASTM Committee Draft DTDs for Healthcare DTD,ASTM (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Example DTDs DTD,XML (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• W3C Strict XHTML 1.0 DTD W3C XHTML strict DTD (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Open HealthCare Org Pathology Report DTD Pathology Report DTD (Modified: 2011-01-16)

WebDev/CSS

• CSS for Styling Borders Styling Borders with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Styling Lists Styling lists with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Embedding CSS Embedding CSS in html documents (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS Notes Styling Web Pages CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Positioning Elements Positioning Elements with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Padding Styling padding with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Text Styling text with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Styling Margins Styling Margins with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS Font Properties CSS attributes for Fonts (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS Dimensions CSS Attributes for Controlling Element Dimensions (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Outlines Styling outlines with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS for Styling Block Elements Styling Block Elements with CSS (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS Properties for Backgrounds CSS attributes for styling backgrounds (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS Selectors Syntax for CSS selectors (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• CSS Tables CSS Attributes for Styling Tables (Modified: 2011-01-16)

WebDev/XML

• XML Notes All Things XML (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Document Type Definition Validating XML with DTDs (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XML Notes Notes on XML development (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XSLT 1.0 Notes Transforming XML with XSLT 1.0 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XML Tools Useful tools for XML Processing (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XML Schema Definition Validating XML with XML Schemas (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XQuery Processing XML with XQuery (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• XPath Version 1.0 Notes Using XPath 1.0 to Select XML Data (Modified: 2011-01-16)

OpenSource

• Linux Performance Monitoring Notes on Linux Performance Monitoring (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Zypper notes Using zypper for software management on SuSE (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Command Line CD Tools Burning and Ripping CDs at the Command Line (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• LVM2 Logical Volume Manager (Modified: 2010-01-04)
• Linux Commands Notes on various commands for Linux (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Smart Disk Monitoring Checking Disk Health with smartctl (Modified: 2010-06-24)
• Open Source Various notes on Open Source software (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Nmap Notes Basic Usage Notes for Nmap (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Vi Notes Notes for using Vi (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Daemon Installation Install a Daemon on SuSE Linux 10 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Disk Recovery Recovering data from failed Hard Drives (Modified: 2011-01-16)

itmanage

• Job Interviews Performing Your Best at Interview (Modified: 2011-02-09)
• IT Management Pages Things every good IT manager should know (Modified: 2012-01-14)
• Assertiveness Resolving Conflict with Workable Compromises (Modified: 2011-02-09)

itmanage/ITIL

• Service Transition Moving Services from Design to Live Environment (Modified: 2012-01-25)
• Continual Service Improvement Identifying and Implementing Improvement (Modified: 2012-01-28)
• Service Operation Supporting Business as Usual Activities (Modified: 2012-01-25)
• ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library (Modified: 2012-02-08)
• Service Design 0 (Modified: 2012-02-08)
• Service Strategy Planning for Long-Term Success (Modified: 2012-01-28)
• ITIL Definitions ITIL Terms Defined (Modified: 2012-01-28)

itmanage/itlaw

• Contract Law Contract Law in England (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Data Protection Act UK Data Protection Legislation (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• UK IT Law UK laws relevant in IT practice (Modified: 2011-01-16)

harddisk

• LVM2 Logical Volume Manager (Modified: 2011-01-26)
• Smart Disk Monitoring Checking Disk Health with smartctl (Modified: 2011-02-01)
• Data Recovery and Protection Protecting and Recovering Data from Hard Disk Drives (Modified: 2011-01-18)

networking

• Networking Notes Snippets of networking know-how (Modified: 2011-06-21)
• WLAN Configuration Get the most from your WLAN (Modified: 2011-06-22)

Catalyst

• CatalystReporting Project Example catalyst project (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Modules and Moose Building Modules and Testing (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Catalyst Basic Customisation Adding Views and Modifying Controllers (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Catalyst Development Building Web Applications Using Catalyst (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Catalyst First Steps Building Web Applications Using Catalyst (Modified: 2011-01-16)

Java

• Java Syntax Java Syntax Primer (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Java Classes Building Java Applications from Class files (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Java The Java Programming Language (Modified: 2011-01-16)

windows

• Windows Windows Operating Systems (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• More XP Notes Yes, more XP Notes (Modified: 2011-01-16)

windows/2003

• IIS Internet Information Server (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Backups Tools for Backup and Recovery (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Administration Administration Tools (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Key Management Services 0 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows 2003 Installation Server Installation Options (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows 2003 Windows 2003 Versions and Licencing (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Accounts Account Management in Windows 2003 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SUS Server Software Update Services Server (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Printer Configuration Configuring Printers in Windows 2003 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Files and Folders Securing Files and Folders (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Disk Management Disk Configuration and Management (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Active Directory Active Directory Primer (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Hardware Managing Hardware with Device Manager (Modified: 2011-01-16)

windows/windows7

• Shortcut Keys Useful Shortcut Keys in Windows 7 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Profiles Profile folders in Windows 7 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Configuring Software Managing Programs on Windows 7 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Performance Performance Management on Windows 7 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows Explorer Configuring the Windows Shell (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows 7 Windows 7 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Commands The Windows 7 Command Prompt (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Installation Installing or Upgrading to Windows 7 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Boot Configuration Controlling Windows 7 Boot Options (Modified: 2011-01-16)

windows/XP

• Storage Storage Management on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Maintaining Windows XP System Maintenance Tasks on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• IIS Internet Information Services on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Hardware Monitoring and Maintaining Hardware on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Domains Working with Domains in Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Backup Backup Options with Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Security Security on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Crash Recovery Recovering a Crashed XP System (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows XP XP Versions and Interface (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows Explorer Windows Explorer in XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Offline Files Using Offline Files and Folders on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Installing XP Installing and Configuring Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• More XP Notes Yes, more XP Notes (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Power Management Power Management on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Networking Windows XP Networking (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Windows Registry Windows XP Registry (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Performance Managing Performance on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Automating XP Automating Tasks on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Internet Explorer Internet Explorer and Internet Settings on Windows XP (Modified: 2011-01-16)

MSSQL

• System Databases Default Databases on SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Service Broker Asynchronous Message Handling in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Stored Procedures Stored Procedures in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• MSSQL DML DML for SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-02-01)
• Security Best Practice Security for SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SQL Server Indexing Indexing on SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Triggers Triggers in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Views Using Views in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Backups SQL Server 2008 Backup and Recovery (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Snapshots Database Snapshots in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Database Structure Storage of Database Objects (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Data Encryption Encrypting Data on SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SQL Server 2008 Data Types Defining Field Types in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Table Definition Manipulating Tables in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SQL Server 2008 Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Monitoring Data Changes Change Tracking and Capture in SQL Server (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• High Availability High Availability Solutions for SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Partitioning Tables Splitting Tables across Multiple Filegroups (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Transactions Transactions, Locks and Change Tracking (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SQL Server 2008 Tools Core Tools for Administering SQL Server (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Functions Functions in SQL Server 2008 (Modified: 2011-01-16)

MSSQL/SSRS

• Report Designer Building RS Reports in Report Designer (Modified: 2011-02-06)
• Report Models Building Report Models in SQL Server Report Server (Modified: 2011-02-06)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Managing Business Intelligence with Reporting Services (Modified: 2011-02-10)
• Report Builder Buiding RS Reports in Report Builder (Modified: 2011-02-04)

MSSQL/SSIS

• Logging and Errors Handling Errors and Logging in Packages (Modified: 2011-01-17)
• SQL Server Integration Services SSIS for Extraction, Transform, Load Operations (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SSIS Expressions Using Expressions to Set Runtime Properties (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Control Flow Tasks Designing Workflow in SSIS Packages (Modified: 2012-02-03)
• SQL Server Integration Services SSIS for Extraction, Transform, Load Operations (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Data Flow Tasks Transforming Data from Source to Destination (Modified: 2011-01-16)

MySQL

• MYSQL DML Various SQL commands for MySQL in particular (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• MYSQL Functions MySQL Functions (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SQL Various SQL commands for MySQL in particular (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• SQL Notes Miscellaneous SQL commands for MySQL (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• MYSQL Backup Backup and Restore a MySQL database (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• MYSQL Data Types Defining Field Types in MySQL (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• MYSQL DDL Data Definition Language for MySQL (Modified: 2011-01-16)

Perl

• CatalystReporting Project Example catalyst project (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Perl Oneliners Doing things in Perl on one line (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Perl Web Scripts Generating html from Perl (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• OOperl Object Example Example Implementation for an Object in Perl (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Catalyst Tutorial Notes Notes on the Catalyst Tutorial (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Perl XML Processing XML data with Perl (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Perl Syntax Notes Snippets of Perl Syntax to Insert Where Needed (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Object Oriented Perl Using Perl in an Object Oriented Fashion (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Perl Various notes on Perl (Modified: 2011-01-16)
• Perl for Databases Using DBIC in Perl on MySQL databases (Modified: 2011-01-16)