for beginning developers
Tutorials for OpenACS development
- Learn the pieces gradually and learn to read the docs so you can eventually Become Expert in the basics!
- Paper: OpenACS: robust web development framework (PDF)
- OpenACS Development Tutorial
- Emacs as an OpenACS IDE
- Vim as an OpenACS IDE
- Getting admin-level help
- OpenACS for administrators
- Prerequisites to installing OpenACS
- Coding Standards - Index
- en:ajax-accessibility
- Getting WAI-AA compliance from an unzenned package
- OpenACS "cookbook", how-to tutorials
- XOTcl for OpenACS - An Introduction to XOTcl and the basic infrastructure of xotcl-core
- Learning XoWiki - A Tutorial for the XoWiki Toolkit
- Starting an OpenACS application based on XoWiki
- Webinar - Part 1 - Basics
- Webinar - Part 2 - Site Map
- Webinar - Part 3 - Packages and ad_form
- Webinar - Part 4 - Survey
- Jade Rubick's Article Collection
Other related tutorials
- Tcl for Web Nerds
- A tDOM Tutorial
- SQL for Web Nerds
- Software Engineering for Internet Applications
- Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
- Anti-patterns, patterns to avoid in programming and managing systems
See also: OpenACS Mentorship Program
Other useful resources
Web Sites
Books
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UNIX Power Tools - An excellent introduction to the command line tools and basic programs of UNIX
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UNIX System Administration Handbook (formerly the "red book" - now the "purple" book)
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UNIX System Administrator's Bible - (LePage and Iarerra 1998; IDG)