Manipulating images | We've now added a JavaScript class to the core Whitebeam engine that provides image manipulation
functions. These have many uses including automatically scaling images uploaded by users (eg to create
thumbnails) or to create graphs and otehr report information. |
Postgress Replication | Whitebeam version 0.9.35 has removed the reliance on Postgres Large Objects for file storage,
which opens Whitebeam up for various open source database replication schemes. Unfortunately when we looked into the various schemes available we found most of them somewhat
inadequate (either incredibly slow or refusing to work with the Whitebeam schema. This
tutorial looks at how we resolved these issues and describes the replication scheme
YellowHawk now have in place for their clients. |
Postgress API | Whitebeam has been using the powerful Postgres
database engine for backend storage for a number of years now. The Postgres implementations
of our templates allow application developers to rapidly construct sophisticated applications
such as YellowHawks SurveyBox application with no
need to learn SQL. To make Whitebeam an even more compelling development environment version 0.9.30 now
includes raw access to Postgres. This
interface from JavaScript provides a simple and powerful mechanism for creating and
maintaining Postgres database through SQL. |
Processing XML | XML is gaining widespread acceptance as a
common interface specification language between heterogenerous environments. Whitebeam
is designed around the XML core definition and as such provides
a rich set of facilities for manipulating XML encoded data. The facilities
allow data sets to be built into a JavaScript tree from whence they
may be reformatted and transformed. XPath
provides a mechanism for querying the XML tree for specified sections and is
fully accessible from JavaScript within
the Whitebeam environment. |
XML/SOAP/XML RPC | This tutorial shows how to use the
HttpRequest
JavaScript class to access remote applications over HTTP. The tutorial goes on to
show a very simple example of access to a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) application
to read stock quotes. |
XPath Support in Whitebeam | The XML support in Whitebeam makes use of a W3C definition for querying XML trees and sub-trees. This
tutorial provides a very brief overview - with examples - of how this technology can be used in Whitebeam
applications. |
SmtpRequest | Introduced with release 0.9.21 of the Whitebeam Presentation Engine, this class provides full access to SMTP
allowing web-applications to create arbitrary e-mail messages including multi-part, HTML with attachments. |
Tracking Sessions | Information on how to track user sessions using the tools provided
by the Whitebeam system. Tells you how the system identifies session and
how an application can store information against the session. |
Meta Data | Describes the concept of 'Meta Data', which in turn provides the
web author with a simple means of extending the basic data set provided by
Whitebeam Templates to satisfy the needs of there clients. |
Binary Objects | Binary objects allow Whitebeam application pages to manipulate large data
objects - generally associated with 'files'. This note tells the author
more about binary objects and how to use them in applications. |
Iterators | This note provides detailed information on the concept of Whitebeam Iterators.
These iterators allow applications to quickly and efficiently access large
tables of information, such as the results of a search operation. |
Managing HTML Forms | Managing sequences of HTML forms can be complicated. This tutorial
describes a Whitebeam library that greatly simplifies this task.
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Web Page Look and Feel | This tutorial takes you through the use of Whitebeam macro tags that
help embody the look and feel of a web site. |
Membership Services | This tutorial takes you through the use of the JavaScript objects
which support membership services. Currently this tutorial covers the Member and
Interest (which extends Member) objects. |
Extended Authentication | The Whitebeam system comes with an authentication system
bundled. This bundled system is entirely secure, but depends on the
behaviour of individual browsers; this makes customising the login
and authentication processes and their behaviour difficult. The
extended authentication module is intended to allow the designer
to extend this behaviour simply. |
Questionnaires | A common use of web-base forms is for presenting users
with questionnaires. This tutorial covers the facilities provided by the
Whitebeam system for design, execution and analysis of questionnaires.
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