Employee Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Ok well I have a new project that I came up with. The project isn't really anything special but I just need a pointer in the right direction. Let me explain the project, if it doesn't make sense its cause I just came down from a trip. Project: 'Knowledge' I want to learn how the internet works, and the many languages (not learn them all hahaha). So I really need some books, topics and ideas to go research on. I also want to learn how the whole web page works by this I mean the server which holds the website info to how the website gets its name. I don't need to learn how to do graphics I have friends that can do that. So what I'm really asking is, what is some good reading material on HTML, JAVA and How the servers work. Note I have been researching on the internet(Wikipedia Howstuffworks) all of which has given me valuable info but I need more. Thank you EDIT: I do have money, lots of money, so post anything that i can buy to help me learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 You’re going to have one hell of a reading list if you want to know how everything works. Check out Oreilly's site for: Professional Java Server Programming .NET & XML ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook Active Directory, Third Edition Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition Ajax and Web Services Apache: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition ASP.NET 2.0 Black Book The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition Book of Postfix Book of Webmin C# Black Book CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition Cisco Network Security Little Black Book CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition Developing ASP Components, Second Edition DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition Sendmail TCP/IP Network Administration LDAP System Administration DNS on Windows Server 2003, Third Edition Exchange Server Cookbook HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition Java 2 Black Book, Second Edition java script: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition Learning Oracle PL/SQL Learning PHP and MySQL Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, Fourth Edition Learning SQL Learning the Unix Operating System, Fifth Edition Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition Learning Windows Server 2003, Second Edition Mono: A Developer's Notebook Perl Black Book, Second Edition PHP Black Book Ruby on Rails: Up and Running Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C -------------------------------------------------------- A must have for everyone is "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie (If you don’t already own it, you should be ashamed) There are a ton of other books that will help you understand how “How the servers work†and “how the internet works†I pretty much just looked through Oreilly’s book list and picked out the most useful, so you may want to check out other books, although Oreilly have some of the best books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted December 25, 2006 Author Share Posted December 25, 2006 Thank you very much 8) I'm accuatly going to go buy my self a christmas present hooray for a giant book case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianuser Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Ok well I have a new project that I came up with. The project isn't really anything special but I just need a pointer in the right direction. Let me explain the project, if it doesn't make sense its cause I just came down from a trip.Project: 'Knowledge' I want to learn how the internet works, and the many languages (not learn them all hahaha). So I really need some books, topics and ideas to go research on. I also want to learn how the whole web page works by this I mean the server which holds the website info to how the website gets its name. I don't need to learn how to do graphics I have friends that can do that. So what I'm really asking is, what is some good reading material on HTML, JAVA and How the servers work. Note I have been researching on the internet(Wikipedia Howstuffworks) all of which has given me valuable info but I need more. Thank you EDIT: I do have money, lots of money, so post anything that i can buy to help me learn. HTML isn't hard to learn... you also got plenty of GUI to edit web pages! not as perfect that writing the code by hand... but something to start with. How Server works?! Well... which kind of server's services? Web, FTP etc...; then which kind of platform? Solaris, Linux, Mac, Windows?! If i am you, I will subscribe to one of those online certificate training! they've got plenty of option... it will be more interesting and easier to be disciplined, than having tons of books... and use Google, it's your friend good luck man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickisgod1 Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 to really understand how it works i would say try experimenting. get a linux box. watch your trafic with ethereal or wireshark or whatever their calling it theses days. use traceroute play with your hosts files set up a FTP server, apache and a dns server. read up on TCP layers. As for the languages there just different ways of getting the same things done. more important for knowledge is to learn the differences between server and client side, and what would be more useful for certain situations. then pick the language that best suits the situation. Another useful exersize would be to setup apache php mysql, and learn how php interacts with the database. and how sql works. The information you want is so vast, so just keep experimenting until you dont understand something, then use google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Try and grasp the concepts rather than the technicality's first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 and one of the first concepts you must grasp is: Megapixles != picture quality ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 The most important thing is the size and quality of the CCD. If the CCD is small and has a high mega-pixel count the density of the electronics can give you noise issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 The most important thing is the size and quality of the CCD. If the CCD is small and has a high mega-pixel count the density of the electronics can give you noise issues. It's an in joke VaKo, it's a carry on from a conversation Nick and I had yesterday lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Nah, its cool. I get like this after work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianuser Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Nah, its cool. I get like this after work. what u working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I do tech support for a web hosting company. Only basic but it pays the bills and I'm learning a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Don't worry VaKo, I'm much worse then you lol. When some one thinks some thing like "More Megapixles = better picture quality" I have to correct them and explain what Megapixles actually are and why the term "Megapixles is used" :P Speaking of which, my desktop is 1.9 Megapixles ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari6502 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Not jumping on your spelling, just curious. Is that how you guys spell megapixels? (megapixles) Is that like theatre, and colour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 That's me not realising I spelt pixels wrong and firefox not recognising the word megapixels because it isn't a word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyna Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 /me points to Borders.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyna Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 /me also points to google :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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