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Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Greenspun, Philip; Greenspun, Philip. Database backed Web sites is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing about?

From the author's This book is a catalog of the mistakes that I've made while building more than 100 Web sites in the last five years. I wrote it in the hopes that others won't have to repeat those mistakes. For the manager in charge of a Web publication or service, this book gives you the big picture. It is designed to help you to affirmatively make the high-level decisions that determine whether a site will be manageable or unmanageable, profitable or unprofitable, popular or unpopular, reliable or unreliable. I don't expect you to be down in the trenches typing Oracle SQL queries. But you'll learn enough from this book to decide whether in fact you need a database, whom to hire as the high database priest, and whom to allow anywhere near the database. For the literate computer scientist, I hope to expose the beautiful possibilities in Web service design. I want to inspire you to believe that this is the most interesting and exciting area in which we can work. For the working Web designer or programmer, I want to arm you with a new vocabulary and mental framework for building sites. There can be more to life than making a client's bad ideas flesh with PhotoShop and Perl/CGI. For

Author

Greenspun, Philip; Greenspun, Philip. Database backed Web sites

Publisher

San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558605343

Subjects

Engineering, Computer Science, Stem

Rating

4.2 / 5 (113 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14