Web Development Tips for PL/SQL Programmers - Part 1 of 12

Watch all 12 modules in this tutorial at http://skillbuilders.com/web-development-tips-for-plsql-programmers

How Does an Oracle PL/SQL Programmer Get Started with Web Development? Learn FireFox's Firebug or Chrome's developer tool, HTML, CSS, DOM, AJAX, and JavaScript ...

In these 12 lessons we will learn to :
-Inspect and "play" with HTML
-Inspect and "play" with "CSS"
-Debug JavaScript
-Inspect AJAX Network Traffic
-Review a relevant Oracle APEX Example

Are you an expert server side software developer who needs to migrate to a browser based environment like Oracle Application Express (APEX)? Then this free tutorial is for you; it will help you to "break the back" on the somewhat steep learning curve that is required when you start learning how to effectively use client side browser tools like FireFox's Firebug and Chrome's developer tool. APEX expert and author Patrick Cimolini leads you, step by step, from a simple "hello world" web page to some real-world APEX pages; showing you along the way how to use the browser tools to inspect, test, and debug your HTML, CSS, DOM, AJAX, and JavaScript code.

The agenda today we're going to cover five major things. We're going to show you how inspect and play with HTML using the tools, inspect and play with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) stuff, we're going to show you where the debugger is for JavaScript in these tools. Then we're going to show you how to inspect AJAX network traffic that goes back and forth between the browser and the backend server. We'll do a quick little example here of how you could actually use this tool in the APEX context.