JQuery, JSON & AJAX

The traditional web model requires each user interaction to trigger an HTTP client-server interaction that creates a new browser page. AJAX and other techniques allow the Web developer to interact with the server without the expense of recreating a new DOM.

Library Guide: Searching Databases - Hints & Tips

Detailed guide to searching bibliographic databases for journal articles. This is a generic guide, useful for any subject.

Data - From Bits to Databases

Slides based on Brookshear, augmented with a lot of simple material to encourage the students to understand binary numbers!

Subject Specialist Databases

Powerpoint presentation of the talk given by Fiona Nichols, ECS Academic Liaison Librarian on Thursday 25th November for Info 2009.

Lecture Notes in Databases Part 1

Revised 7th November 2012 and 12th November Insert, update and delete slides added.

A Focus on Distributed Denial of Service

An Arbor Networks paper describing DDoS attacks and related attacks. The first 9-10 pages or so are good background reading for INFO6003. Students may also find the rest of the paper interesting.

NX Client

An older version of NX Client for connecting to ECS CAD servers. Unzip and run install.bat in the NXClient directory.

Caches and Content Delivery

Getting content from server to client can be more complicated than we have discussed so far. This lecture discusses how caching and content delivery networks help to make the Web work.