Regular expressions help users and developers to find and manipulate text more effectively and efficiently. In addition, regular expressions are supported by many scripting languages, programming languages, and databases. This example-rich tutorial helps debunk the traditional reputation of regular expressions as being cryptic. It explains the various parts of a regular expression pattern, what those parts mean, how to use them, and common pitfalls to avoid when writing regular expressions. With chapters on using regular expressions with popular Windows platform software including databases, cross platform scripting languages, and programming languages, you’ll learn to make effective use of the power provided by regular expressions once you fully comprehend their strengths and potential. What you will learn from this book -Fundamental concepts of regular expressions and how to write them -How to break down a text manipulation problem into component parts so you can then logically construct a regular expression pattern -How to use regular expressions in several scripting and programming languages and software packages -The variations that exist among regular expression dialects -Reusable, real-world working code that can be used to solve everyday regular expression problems Who this book is for: This book is for developers who need to manipulate text but are new to regular expressions. Some basic programming or scripting experience is useful but not required

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

Get advanced programming techniques and guidelines to exploit the flexibility of the common language runtime (CLR), the managed code programming model used with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft developer Steven Pratschner shows you how to customize the CLR for use in a wide variety of applications, from database servers to cell phones.

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed is your tool to unleash the power of Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2004. Learn how to use the server as an enterprise application integration tool and how to exploit its key strengths to orchestrate e-commerce business processes in B2B and B2C environments. Providing complete coverage of system architecture, application integration, messaging and migration, Unleashed also illustrates practical application of the server through an entire section dedicated to real-world case studies of businesses using BizTalk Server 2004 on a daily basis. As seen in these examples, there can be obstacles along the way to success, but Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed will help you overcome each one.

Using ASP.NET, you can build Web applications that deliver unprecedented power and performance. But to make the most of ASP.NET, Web developers need to think and work very differently from the ways they’ve programmed in the past. In Maximizing ASP.NET Jeffrey Putz helps you make the transition—and reap the rewards.

If you’re a long-time scripter who’s migrated from ASP, PHP, or other traditional platforms, Putz shows you how to use ASP.NET’s object-oriented model to write code that’s easier to deploy, manage, extend, and reuse. If you’re already comfortable with the fundamentals of ASP.NET using C# or VB.NET, this book’s platform-specific details and development best practices will make you dramatically more effective.

Struts is the most popular MVC framework used for J2EE web application development. This book covers the Struts architecture and basics such as data validation, tags and I18N.

In addition, it covers a lot of tips, strategies and best practices for Struts based application design and development, many of them not found elsewhere. It tells you how to fill the gaps in Struts and what features are important in J2EE projects.

The book provides a robust exception handling strategy that is production-ready. You will learn how to edit List based forms in Struts. You will also see how to use Paging framework with Struts and neat tricks. You will see when does customizing Struts really make sense in real projects.

What’s inside
Struts basics - architecture, validation, tags, I18N
Best Practices for designing Action classes
Action chaining
Robust exception handling with Struts
Using Image buttons in Forms
List Forms
Paging libraries for Struts
Handling Duplicate Form submission in generic way
Customizing Struts

Ajax is taking us into the next generation of web applications. Ajax has broken the client-server barrier by decoupling the client from the server, but an Ajax application still needs a server to extract content from. The most effective use of Ajax and the server requires an understanding of REST, an architectural style used to define Web services.

Ajax Patterns and Best Practices explores dynamic web applications that combine Ajax and REST as a single solution. A major advantage of REST is that like Ajax, it can be used with today’s existing technologies.

This is an ideal book whether or not you have already created an Ajax application. Because the book outlines various patterns and best practices, you can quickly check and verify that you’re building an efficient Ajax application.