Web Application Development - Presented at CONF@JMILUG 13th March, 2011

1. Web Application Development
CONF@JMILUG
2011
Saleem Ansari

2. Outline
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History of Web
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Approaches to Web Application Development
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An example application – using Django
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Q/A

3. History of Web
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1991 - First HTML page created by Tim
Berners Lee ( using WorldWideWeb the first
web browser, and hosted on CERN httpd the
first web server)
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because physicists wanted to share
information

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Mid 1990s - Start of Web Development
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Evolution of Web Browsers and Web Servers
1991-1995 HTML Only
Late mid-1990s
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Commercialization of the WWW
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1995 Java Applets, JavaScript
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1996 Flash

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1999 – 2001
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dot com boom and bust
1999-2004
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XMLHTTP - Microsoft's ActiveX component
Evolution of AJAX ( wasn't yet coined )
Gmail

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2005 - AJAX
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Google Map uses AJAX
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Ajax term coined on February 18, 2005 by
Jesse James Garrett in an article entitled
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications.
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AJAX: Comprises of HTML, XHTML, CSS,
DOM, XML, XMLHttpRequest, JavaScript

7. HTML5 – buzz word of today
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Currently in development since 2009
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"Thoughts on Flash" – Steve Jobs
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Video, audio, canvas, local storage, web SQL,
etc.

8. Approaches to Web Development
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Scripting
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Templates
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Hybrid
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Frameworks

9. A sample Django application
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Requirements:
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Python, Django
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MySQL ( or a database server )
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django-admin startproject myproject
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./manage.py startapp myapp
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./manage.py runserver

10. Thank you