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<title>ICCA Community Website Vision<br/><small>Independent Computer Consultants Association</small></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Its time to revisit what the ICCA web site wll do for its members, that means you!
Last year, I did a complete overhaul of the web site's application engine keeping the same content and general look and feel.
This year, its time to change everything.
<br/><br/>During my discussions with Joyce Burkard, ICCA's Executive Director, I see that two things are needed immediately.
What is the ICCA logo, motto or theme that greets me?
Why would I use the ICCA web site today?]]></description>
<author>ggates@sladesys.com (Gregory Gates)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>PHP Security</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The PHP language is very widely used today and there are many sources of information about how to create secure PHP code.
The new ICCA web site uses PHP and has employed all the various security requirements wherever possible.
The new web site also uses MySQL database which requires another level of protection at the PHP level avoiding security holes.
The new web site is also an electronic commerce web site which requires an overarching understanding of security protecting client credit card information.
This article will only briefly outline how these security techniques have been addressed without going into details or setting expectations creating a hacker paradise for those so inspired.]]></description>
<author>ggates@sladesys.com (Gregory Gates)</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>How to use XML data in a Web Application</title>
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<description><![CDATA[XML is by far one of the most robust way of representing data in a textual format invented in the computer industry.  XML can see its roots in HTML, but its various implementations has helped move HTML forward making more robust web applications and dynamic pages using AJAX.  This article reviews how XML has been used for the creation of a more robust ICCA web site by being used in as a standalone data source and how XML has been integrated into the database schema.  Along with the all the wonders of XML comes a few speed bumps with its integration into the PHP language, nothing serious, but it is important to include.]]></description>
<author>ggates@sladesys.com (Gregory Gates)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>HTML Validator</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This article in a the series discusses the history of HTML, how it spawned XML and then how XML has merged back into HTML creating XHTML.  The meat of this article will describe how each HTML page can be validated creating a better web site that is more cross browser capable.]]></description>
<author>ggates@sladesys.com (Gregory Gates)</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>A Basic PHP Template or how I learned to love the require() command</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This article reviews the basics of a template web site.  Anyone that knows the history of the modern web server may remember Server Side Includes (SSI).  Templates are the intelligent inclusion of smaller HTML components while rendering an HTML page.  It is really basic, anyone that has done any programming knows the importance of including other libraries or components instead of writing everything from scratch.  But there is flaw that server side include files introduced that is still present today.]]></description>
<author>ggates@sladesys.com (Gregory Gates)</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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