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Web Developer Resource Index: WWW

The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply the Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).
http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#intro

This is a collection of such resources, created for Web developers, designers, programmers, authors and publishers.

If you are interested in learning more about the Web, then you have reached “groundZero” for this Web site. I think it‘s safe to use that phrase now, since NYC is back on track to rebuilding, as is the Web after the economic downturn suffered in the wake of the 911 attacks.

I hope you will find this page a starting point for learning about the three key aspects of what makes the Web work, what I like to call the “holy trinity”: the URI, HTTP and HTML. Tim Berners-Lee believes, and rightly so, that understanding the URI and its fundamental role in what he calls the “global information space”, is the most important of the three. I suggest you take him seriously.

Updated: Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 @ 4:06 PM EST

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• 1.Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One

  The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and media. [143]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
  Author:
  Technical Architecture Group
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 7:45 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One w3cwebwww
   

• 2.Motherhood and Apple Pie

  An excellent essay by an author whose philosophies about software development I happen to agree strongly with. This piece covers "Axioms of Web Architecture" by Tim Berners-Lee. I encourage you to visit, there's lots more at lesscode.org. Keep it simple! [1457]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/motherhood-and-apple-pie/
  Author:
  Ryan Tomayko
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, August 1st, 2005 @ 9:53 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Motherhood and Apple Pie developersoftwarew3cweb
   

• 3.TouchGraph GoogleBrowser

  A Java applet that uses the Google SOAP API to build a visual graph of Web site relationships. Just try it, a wonderful visual tool. [256]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
  Author:
  Martin Spernau
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 9:39 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  TouchGraph GoogleBrowser googlejavasoapwww
   

• 4.LWP: Library for WWW access in Perl

  Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent programming interface API to the WWW. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. [253]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://search.cpan.org/~rse/lcwa-1.0.0/lib/lwp/lib/LWP.pm
  Author:
  Ralf Engelschall
  [4]
  Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 4:56 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  LWP: Library for WWW access in Perl apiclientlwpmoduleoopperlprotocolwww
   

• 5.Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web

  "The Web must be studied as an entity in its own own right to ensure it keeps flourishing and prevent unanticipated social effects." From the July, 2008 issue of the CACM, online (PDF) edition. Use the navigation tools/zoom or download the PDF for print. [1792]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807/?pg=62
  Author:
  James Hendler, el al.
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 @ 4:06 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web protocolw3cwebwww
   

• 6.Bill Joy's Six Webs: A Gold Mine for Developers

  These six Webs all connect, but each represents a unique mode of communication, and a distinct way for users to interact with information, using different software and services. [258]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://java.sun.com/features/2000/08/sixwebs.html
  Author:
  Janice J. Heiss
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 3:49 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Bill Joy's Six Webs: A Gold Mine for Developers developerwebwww
   

• 7.W3C Glossary and Dictionary

  This tool is aimed at gathering as many useful glossaries as possible, proposing a set of terms and their definitions, and their translations when available. [254]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3.org/2003/glossary/
  Author:
  Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
  [5]
  Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 6:18 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  W3C Glossary and Dictionary referencew3cwww
   

• 8.Libwww: The W3C Protocol Library

  Libwww is a highly modular, general-purpose client-side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. It's well suited for both small and large applications. [252]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3.org/Library/
  Author:
  Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
  [2]
  Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 4:58 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Libwww: The W3C Protocol Library apicclientlwpmoduleprotocolw3cwww
   

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