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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents; Preface; What This Book Is About; What You Need to Know; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari Enabled; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What Is a Web Application?; How Do You Build Web Applications?; What Is Architecture?; How Do I Get Started?; Web Application Architecture; Layered Software Architecture; Layered Technologies; Software Interface Design; Getting from A to B; The Software/Hardware Divide; Hardware Platforms; Shared Hardware; Dedicated Hardware; Co-Located Hardware; Self-Hosting; Hardware Platform Growth

Availability and Lead TimesImporting, Shipping, and Staging; Space; Power; NOC Facilities; Connectivity; Hardware Redundancy; Networking; Languages, Technologies, and Databases; Development Environments; The Three Rules; Use Source Control; What Is Source Control?; Versioning; Rollback; Logs; Diffs; Multiuser editing and merging; Annotation (blame); The locking debate; Projects and modules; Tagging; Branching; Merging; Utilities-the "Nice to Haves"; Shell and editor integration; Web interfaces; Commit-log mailing list; Commit-log RSS feed; Commit database; Commit hooks

Source-Control ProductsThe Revision Control System (RCS); The Concurrent Versions System (CVS); Subversion (SVN); Perforce; Visual Source Safe (VSS); And the rest...; Summary; What to Put in Source Control; Documentation; Software configurations; Build tools; What Not to Put in Source Control; One-Step Build; Editing Live; Creating a Work Environment; Development; Staging; Production; The Release Process; Build Tools; Release Management; What Not to Automate; Database schema changes; Software and hardware configuration changes; Issue Tracking; The Minimal Feature Set; Issue-Tracking Software

FogBugzMantis Bug Tracker; Request Tracker ( RT); Bugzilla; Trac; What to Track; Bugs; Features; Operations; Support requests; Issue Management Strategy; High-level categorization; CADT; Scaling the Development Model; Coding Standards; Testing; Regression Testing; Manual Testing; i18n, L10n, and Unicode; Internationalization and Localization; Internationalization in Web Applications; Localization in Web Applications; String substitution; Multiple template sets; Multiple frontends; Unicode in a Nutshell; Unicode Encodings; Code Points and Characters, Glyphs and Graphemes; Byte Order Mark

The UTF-8 EncodingUTF-8 Web Applications; Handling Output; Handling Input; Using UTF-8 with PHP; Using UTF-8 with Other Languages; Using UTF-8 with MySQL; Using UTF-8 with Email; Using UTF-8 with JavaScript; Using UTF-8 with APIs; Data Integrity and Security; Data Integrity Policies; Good, Valid, and Invalid; Filtering UTF-8; Filtering Control Characters; Filtering HTML; Why Use HTML?; HTML Input Filtering; Blacklists and Whitelists; Balancing; Dealing with HTML; Cross-Site Scripting (XSS); The Canonical Hole; User Input Holes; Tag and Bracket Balancing; Protocol Filtering