Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Calendar Opening Ceremony

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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Calendar

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, China, from Friday, August 8, 2008 to Sunday, August 24, 2008 A total of 302 sets of medals will be awarded in 31 sports. Number of participating athletes is about 10,500. The opening ceremony will start at 08-08-08 08:08:08 pm local time at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing.

Tutorial Books on Software Programming Technologies

A collection of 28 free tutorial books by Herong Yang on latest programming technologies. Tutorials in all books are based on Herong's personal experience and ideal for developers to learn new programming technologies.

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Best Chinese Movies - Films

This is a collection of best Chinese movies selected by the author. Most of them are award winners of film competitions and film festivals.

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

This free VBScript tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning VBScript himself, an ideal tutorial guide for beginners. Topics include VBScript, Visual Basic, Script, Variant, Array, Function, Error Handling, Regular Expression, Dictionary, File System, Class, Object, IE Browser, IIS Server, WSH, Windows Script Host.

Creating Your Own Classes

IE Web Browser Supporting VBScript

IIS ASP Server Supporting VBScript

WSH (Windows Script Host)

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JavaScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

This free book is a collection of tutorial examples and notes written by the author while he was learning JavaScript. Topics include data type, variable, expression, statement, loop, user function. Some new or updated tutorial examples are:

ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects

Web Browser Supporting JavaScript

'jrunscript' - JavaScript Shell Command from JDK

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Java Tool Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

Format of the book is improved with better links. This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Java tools himself. Topics include java, javac, jar, jdb, jar, javap, keytool. Some new tutorial notes are:

Windows Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

Format of the book is improved with better links. This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of tutorial notes written by the author while he was learning and using MS Windows. Topics include Analog, Anonymous FTP, Crossover Cable, FTP, Graphics, GIF, HijackThis, IE Addon, IIS, JPEG, Puper, RAR, Spyware, SurfBuddy, Toolbar, Trojan, Vundo, VSAdd-in, Web, WebBar, winfixer, WinRAR, WinZip, ZIP.

New Forum for Your Programming Questions

This new forum is created to allow you to share your programming questions and answers. Other discussions are also welcome. Please register and post your questions or answers.

XML Schema Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

This free book is a collection of tutorial examples and notes written by the author while he was learning XML Schema and writing XSD (XML Schema Definition) documents. Topics include XML Schema specifications, XML data types, XSD document samples, XML document validation tools like XML Spy, XML document validation programming interfaces like Xerces-J.

Herong's Tutorial Notes on Web Service and SOAP

This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP himself. Topics include ActivePerl, Axis, Binding, Data Model, Encoding, HTTP, Java, Message, Message Exchange Patterns, NuSOAP, online, PEAR, PHP, Properties, RPC, SOA, SOAP 1.2, SOAP Extension, SOAP::Lite, UDDI, Web Method, Web service, WSDL.

Herong's Tutorial Notes on CD/DVD

This free book is a collection of tutorial notes on CD related technologies and software. Topics include CD types, physical parameters and logical formats; reading or playing, recording or burning CD, files formats used related to CD data.

JDBC Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

Notes related Microsoft JDBC Driver 1.0 added. New topics include installation of free packages of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Sample Databae and JDBC Driver; connection to SQL Server 2005 through the JDBC driver; execution of query and update statements.

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Herong's Tutorial Notes on JSP and JSTL

14.32% Web requests went to this book. This free JSP and JSTL tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning JSP and JSTL himself. Topics include attachment, content-disposition, content_type, cookie, custom tag, debugging, file upload, header lines, localization, JavaBeen, JSP, JSTL, MIME, Servlet, session, Taglib, Tomcat, Unicode, etc.

PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

10.49% Web requests went to this book. This free PHP tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP himself. Topics include CGI, cookie, directory, download, header lines, IIS, localization, mail, MySQL, output buffer, redirect, request, session, SMTP, SOAP, Unicode, etc.

JDK Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

10.48% Web requests went to this book. This free JDK tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Java and JDK packages himself. Topics include Calendar, character set, cipher, client authentication, collections, datagram, Date, DES, digital signature, encryption, DOM, DSA, DTD, HTTPS, JCA, keytool, Locale, message digests, MD5, public key, RSA, SAX, SHA, socket, SSL, TLS, Unicode, UTF-8, X.509, XML, XSD, XSL, etc.

ASP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

6.20% Web requests went to this book. This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning ASP himself. Topics include ActiveX, ASP, attachment, collection, cookies, database, HTTP response header, IIS, MS Access, redirect, scripting, script debugger, script runtime DLL, session, VBScript, etc.

Herong's Tutorial Notes on Perl - Part A

4.70% Web requests went to this book. This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Perl himself. Topics include binary file, CGI, client server, DBM file, debug, file handle, references, IIS, MySQL, objects, open file, package, regular expression, XML, SOAP, socket communication, etc.