Wednesday, August 1, 2012

XML is all well and good, but what use can it really be when it looks that ugly?!?!  Well, there's good news!  Just as we can style HTML with CSS, we can style XML with XSLT.  It can seem confusing at first, but fortunately, there's a handy XSLT reference. This is a video that explains the transform template.  Chapter 17 explains it in more detail.

Okay, so *that* was a ton of fun.  Let's look at databases in a different way.  Nowadays, the world is all about SQL.  SQL lets you do things like insert, delete, join and drop cells and tables. Here's a quick crash course...