Published books of Sabin-Corneliu Buraga

The book presents case-studies on using Linux in different practical contexts (learning and e-learning, office, multimedia, DTP, access to Internet, groupware, system auditing and recovery, etc.). All examples and screen-captures are based on ROSLIMS Live Linux CD distribution, included on an accompanying CD. ROSLIMS is based on Knoppix, but is localized for Romania and includes additional useful applications and programs.

• First contact with ROSLIMS

• Graphical environment: KDE

• How do I?

• Using ROSLIMS Linux scenarios

• Almost everything about files...

• Processes

• Users

• Command interpreter (shell)

• System installation

• Appendices: What is open source?; Personalities of UNIX, Linux and Internet; Linux in business and administration; Main categories of applications provided by ROSLIMS; Types of Windows applications and their equivalences on Linux; Useful commands, utilities, and programs; Glossary and acronyms.

The second edition of the book offers many additions and updated information regarding the architecture of the World-Wide Web space and its main applications and services: search engines, virtual reality, migration to XML, e-business, and semantic Web. A substantial part of the book is dedicated to Web design techniques and methodologies, including new topics such as search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, XHTML and CSS code optimization, accessibility techniques, security of Web sites and many more. The accompanying CD-ROM includes, among others, useful documentations and manuals, examples of Web sites, open-source or freeware Web applications, programs and tools, design templates, etc.

• World-Wide Web space: main notions and historical outline, hypertext, uniform resource identifiers (URIs), HTTP protocol, conceptual architecture

• Using WWW: information retrieval on Web (search engines, meta-search engines, forums, Weblogs, Wiki sites, portals), virtual reality, actual Web evolution, towards semantic Web

• E-business: from business to e-business, presence, business models and types, electronic payment methods, electronic commerce, online branding

• Web page authoring: XHTML language, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – levels 1 and 2, XHTML and CSS code optimization techniques

• Web site design: user-interface design, phases, goals and objectives, general aspects of the Web interface, process of Web site design, individual Web page design, content design, tips and tricks, security aspects, search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, special Web sites

• Glossary and acronyms

The book presents the most important aspects of the developing stages of 9 Web applications, implemented on different platforms, written in diverse programming languages (PHP, ActionScript, C#, Perl, JavaScript) and using XML technologies. Also, the book details the main types of actual Web sites: forums, portals, blogs, encyclopedies, games, semantic Web applications. Each chapter is written by a (group of) young Web programmer(s) – with one exception, the authors are graduates of the Faculty of Computer Science, "A.I.Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.

• Romania in Flash (Andrei Croitoru)

• From Flash to PHP. Developing a Web forum (Cosmin Vârlan)

• Educational portals (Bogdan Manolache)

• Modeling and representing relations between tables (Sorin Bahmătă)

• SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics (Cătălin Bulancea)

• FindMyHome, an e-business solution (Viorel Atofani)

• Weblog management in Perl (Sabin Buraga)

• Hattrick – a football simulator on Web (Daniel Puiu, Marian Bostan)

• From desktop to wireless devices (Adrian Lazariuc)

• Appendices: SWF versus SVG (Andrei Croitoru, Cătălin Bulancea), PHP versus ASP.NET (Bogdan Manolache, Sabin Buraga)

The book represents a journey within the present and future directions of the development of semantic Web, one of the most dynamic and challenging component of WWW space. Among others, the text describes various aspects of metadata and ontology annotations and practical utilizations, giving details about the specification via XML (Extensible Markup Language) of spatial-temporal relationships between resources available on Web. Also, the book presents certain facets regarding the design and deployment of semantic Web components (e.g., software agents, Web services, etc.).

• Architecture of WWW space. Components (hypertext, URIs) and evolution

• Semantic Web. Structure, RDF (Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language), applications

• Web multimedia resource description and search techniques. Modeling relations between resources. Expressing user queries

• Implementation solutions. Web software agents. Semantic Web services. Case study: ITW – an architecture based on distributed Web components for multimedia resource discovery

• Conclusion and further work

The book presents the most interesting concepts and practical aspects of using Linux operating system. The volume is structured on five steps, from installation to configuration and every day deployment.

• Linux installation phases

• Files, processes, users, shell

• Software packages, graphical environments, system configuration

• Text editing and processing, Internet access

• Office suites, graphical content processing, multimedia

• Databases, printing, software development, games

• Network configuration, Linux kernel, hardware devices

The book offers interesting examples and case-studies in order to design synchronized multimedia presentations on Web. The book's topics are useful for all people interested in the development of the pleasant and interactive Web sites, mainly from the perspective of on-line learning or e-commerce.

• XHTML language and CSS style sheets

• Dynamic HTML and JavaScript

• Including multimedia elements into a Web page

• XHTML+TIME in detail: syntax, structure, facilities, examples etc.

• SMIL language: syntax, structure, synchronization, tools, examples etc.

• Using hypermedia technologies for educational Website developing

The book presents several Web applications with implementations mainly based on LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) paradigm. Different interesting details regarding the design, implementation, and deployment phases for developing complex Web sites are provided. Each chapter is written by a (group of) young Web programmer(s) – the authors are actual students or graduates of the Faculty of Computer Science, "A.I.Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.

• A library on Web (Bogdan Manolache)

• TopWeb – the battle for votes (Constantin Puscasu)

• E-Shop IT – the development of an electronic shop (Ciprian Ginghina)

• E-Pizza: from browser to WAP (Cristian Nechita, Marius Ropota, Iavi Rotberg)

• Virtual geometry with VRML, SVG and PHP (Alexandrina Orzan)

• Dynamic Charts – charts in PHP (Cristina Oprea, Sabin Buraga)

• Access to databases thru Web services (Silvana Solomon)

• Proposed applications (Sabin Buraga)

• Appendices: Installation details, A brief presentation of PHP language, XML document processing in PHP, Using XML22 library, Using JpGraph library, Introducing WML

The book covers different aspects of the complex processes in building Web sites. The book presents the actual philosophy of the World-Wide Web space and covers some interesting applications and services: search engines and robots, virtual reality, migration to XML, e-business. A substantial part of the book is dedicated to Web design techniques and methodologies. A CD-ROM is included.

• World-Wide Web space: notions and historical outline, hypertext, uniform resource identifiers, HTTP protocol

• Using WWW: information retrieval on Web, virtual reality, actual Web evolution

• E-business: presence, business models, electronic payment methods, electronic commerce

• Web page authoring: HTML language, from HTML to XML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – levels 1 and 2

• Web site design: phases, goals and objectives, general aspects of the Web interface, process of Web site design, individual Web page design, content design, tips and tricks, next steps

• Glossary and acronyms

The book covers theoretical and practical aspects of actual Web technologies. The focal point of this book is the XML family of languages and applications.

• Information on Web: Hypertext, Addressing, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Server Security

• Annotation Techniques: Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) Meta-languages

• Applications of XML: MathML, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Extensible User-interface Language (XUL)

• HTML Markup Language: Short Presentation, HTML Compact, HTML in XML (XHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – levels 1 and 2

• Document Object Model (DOM) for XML/HTML. DOM Levels 1 and 2. Simple API for XML (SAX)

• Hypermedia Documents on Web: Theoretical Models and Methodologies, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL), XHTML+TIME

• Programming of Web Applications: Common Gateway Interface (CGI), PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, Active Server Pages (ASP), Cookies

• JavaScript in Web Pages. Dynamic HTML

• Java Applets and Servlets. Swing Interface

• Web Engineering: Design and Organization of Web Sites, Web Robots, Search Engines, WebBroker

• Virtual Reality: Introduction to VRML, Distributed Virtual Environments, VRML Applications

The book covers practical aspects of CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programming in two script languages: bash (Bourne Again Shell) and Perl, on Linux (UNIX) platforms. A CD-ROM is included.

• HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

• Markup Languages and Their Applications

• CGI (Common Gateway Interface) Standard

• Cookies

• CGI Programming in bash

• CGI Scripts in bash

• Perl Languages and Perl Modules

• CGI Programming in Perl

• Perl and Relational Databases

• XML Document Processing in Perl

• Case Studies

• Proposed Projects

The book covers practical aspects of network programming under Unix (Linux) by using BSD socket interface implemented in C standard language.

• Unix and Linux

• Files

• Processes

• Signals

• Inter-Process Communication. Pipes

• Descriptor Duplication. I/O Redirecting

• Socket Interface

• TCP Client/Server Model

• UDP Client/Server Model

• I/O Multiplexing

• RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

• Using MySQL Library

• Using ncurses Library

• Glade Programming Environment