LAMP

     Over the past two years, the LAMP stack of open source software components—Linux*; the Apache Web server; MySQL* database; and the coder’s choice of PHP, Python or Perl—has moved beyond its position as a Web developer’s creative toolkit to become a major development platform for the enterprise. Long a cornerstone of the Web’s highest volume sites (including Amazon, Friendster, Google and Yahoo), LAMP has more recently been used to create major online transactional systems for Boeing, Disney, Lufthansa and Sabre, to name only a few organizations.

What these bellwethers of online business have discovered is that open source software now offers the simplest, fastest, most flexible, affordable and scalable platform for building and deploying Web-based, enterprise-class applications. It’s a major shift in the software landscape with implications for anyone concerned with the cost, functionality and performance of enterprise applications.

SUSE Linux Enterprise provides a complete foundation of LAMP components and proven network services, all fully integrated and tested into the distribution. SUSE Linux Enterprise offers unique performance and security advantages and is fully supported by the Novell global service organization.

	Application Architecture	PHP File Management
	Introduction	PHP Cookies & Session Management
	Installation	PHP Exception Handling
	PHP Basics	PHP Email & Secure Email
	PHP Programming Constructs	PHP Filters
	Arrays	Security
	Functions	MySQL Basics
	PHP with MySQL	PHP Handling form data (HTML forms)
	XML and AJAX

.NET Technologies

    Microsoft’s .NET platform has matured into a robust and versatile development environment for both Windows-based and Web-based application development. With its emphasis on XML technology and Web services, .NET allows businesses of all sizes to take advantage of the Internet for distributed computational power.

Objectives

Use Visual Studio 2005 to develop robust software solutions for deployment on both Windows and Web environments.

Use the Microsoft .NET framework to full advantage for a variety of application development needs.

Leverage the ease-of-use afforded by Microsoft’s integrated development environment to create new applications rapidly.

	Basic Concepts	Dynamic Link Library
	.NetFrame Work Overview	C-SHARP/C#
	Windows Application	Ajax
	Web Application	VB.NET
	Web Services	ASP.Net
	Validation Controls	ADO.net
	Server Controls	SOAP Programming
	Namespace

Software Testing

    Learn how to use best practices and tools to keep your testing teams aligned with business priorities.

Objectives

• Reduce your rework costs by finding defects and architectural flaws early.
• Leverage distributed or outsourced testing teams without compromising schedules, processes, or the flow of information.
• Learn how to apply speed testing by automating code, build validation, unit, functional, security and system testing.
• Minimize hardware costs and ensure system scalability through rigorous load and performance testing.
• Integrate development, test, and IT operations for improved IT life cycle management.
• Get the right information fast to make informed "go or no-go" decisions.
  

Description

Shortening the time to market of new software systems without compromising their quality is a challenge that every company faces. Time-to-market pressures, building new Service-Oriented Architectures, complying with regulatory requirements, and working with geographically distributed teams add additional complexities that can derail software testing projects that aren't ready for these challenges.

To meet these challenges, successful IT organizations are taking a strategic approach to quality assurance, applying the practices of business governance to achieve a competitive advantage through better software. Whether you are planning to build expertise in your IT organization, or looking for partners with testing expertise, Rational® software quality solutions and best practices can provide you with the framework and tools needed to use excellence in software testing as a strategic business advantage.

	Software Quality Assurance	Software Testing Tools
	Criteria for the Success of a Software Project	WinRunner
	Process Oriented Software Development	JMeter
	Phases in Software development Life Cycle	HTTP Test
	The Management Process	Test Director
	Phases in Software development Life Cycle	Source Code Testing Utilities in Unix/Linux
	Sofware Testing Process	Quick Test Professional (QTP)
	Types of Testing	Testing Database Application

JAVA/J2EE

    Java was invented by Sun Microsystems developer James Gosling as a better way to create computer programs. Gosling was unhappy with the way that the C++ programming language was working on a project he was doing, so he created a new language that did the job better. It's a matter of contentious debate whether Java is superior to other programming languages, of course, but the amount of attention paid to the language today shows that it has a large number of adherents. Book publishers obviously dig it—more than 1,000 books have been published about the language since its introduction. (This is my tenth, and I will keep writing more of them until prohibited by municipal, state, or federal law.)

Regardless of whether Java is the best language, it definitely is a great language to learn today. There are numerous resources for Java programmers on the Web, Java job openings are offered in many cities, and the language has become a major part of the Internet's past, present, and future. You'll get a chance to try out Java during Hour 2, "Writing Your First Program."

Learning Java or any other programming language makes it much easier to learn subsequent languages. Many languages are similar to each other, so you won't be starting from scratch when you dive into a new one. For instance, many C++ programmers find it fairly easy to learn Java, because Java borrows a lot of its structure and ideas from C++. Many programmers are comfortable using several different languages and will learn new ones as needed.

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	Core Java	Structs
	RMI	Springs
	JDBC and Java Beans	Hibernate
	Servlets and JSP	WebServices
	EJB

Datawarehousing

• A data warehouse is a repository for storing and analyzing numerical information. Core data in the data warehouse are typically numeric values that can be summarized (or aggregated). A great place to visit for learning this is the Data Warehousing Information Center.
• One reason for a different kind of database is that pulling data can prove to be very, very expensive in resources
• Data warehouses allow you to store aggregated data -rather than ad-hoc summing a resource-expensive query.
• An OLAP cube is a borrowed term to describe the integration of the fact table with dimension tables.
• OLAP cubes contain lots of metadata; metadata in its simplest definition is data about data. Multidimensional expressions or MDX is a metadata-based query language that helps you query OLAP cubes.

	Datawarehousing Concepts	DWH Lifecycle
	Characteristics of Data Warehouse	OLAP's
	Benefits of DWH	DOLAP
	Approaches of Datawarehousing
	Normalization and Denormalization