http://www.tanzarine.com Java and XML Technology, Development and Consultancy en-gb http://www.tanzarine.com/images/TanzarineLogoRGB60x100.gif http://www.tanzarine.com http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/media.htmlTanzarine director Neil Pellinacci provides informed comments for the media on a variety of topics, and has had work published in the IT press and also appeared on a BBC News programme about Open Source software. A summary appears here.http://www.tanzarine.com/Clients/index.htmlEstablished in 1999, Tanzarine Technology provides intranet and Internet technical expertise across a wide range of business sectors, centred on UK government online projects.http://www.tanzarine.com/About Tanzarine/compliance.htmlThis document contains statements made in order to comply with current best practice and United Kingdom legislation where necessary.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/topten.htmlEach month, includes a feature where IT professionals describe their top web sites. Tanzarine director Neil Pellinacci wrote the feature for the edition of the magazine.http://www.tanzarine.com/Site Design/2006.htmlThe Tanzarine web site has again been updated to create new page layouts, retaining the styling based on the company's branding and logo. The changes this year are to the positioning of sidebars and the introduction of "rounded corners" on box borders, which have been extended to surround whole areas, rather than just two sides as previous. Additionally, some lengthy articles have been marked so as to appear within a scrolling region on the screen, ensuring that site navigation is always available.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/cms.htmlIn the early days of the web, web pages were uploaded to servers by support staff with technical knowledge, leaving the business users who actually authored the content in the first place outside the technical life cycle. Content Management puts the business users directly in control of their content on their web sites.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/methods.htmlTanzarine Technology has just completed a major development and consultancy project for Methods Consulting Ltd on its flagship B2G project.http://www.tanzarine.com/Site Design/2005.htmlThe Tanzarine web site has been updated to create new page layouts and functionality, but retaining the previous styling based on the company's branding and logo. As with previous changes, the transition was made smoother thanks to the use of XML and XSLT to separate the layout information from the content information.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/cahill.htmlCity of London recruitment specialists have launched their new web site, which includes a job vacancy listings facility powered by Tanzarine Technology's Content Management Services (CMS).http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/giantbook.htmlIt's now over two decades since the computing world entered the domestic market, with a plethora of machines costing a few hundred pounds or less. Tanzarine director Neil Pellinacci looks back at the production of a typical games book, on the twentieth anniversary of its publication.http://www.tanzarine.com/Site Design/2004.htmlThe Tanzarine web site has been updated to create a new styling within the company's existing branding and logo. The change was made smoother thanks to the use of XML and XSLT to separate the layout information from the content information, and the use of CSS for allocating fonts and text styles.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/cfb.htmlThe official launch of CartoonsForBusiness.com took place on September 3rd 2002. Tanzarine Technology Ltd supplied all the back end processing needed to maintain the extensive collection of cartoons, as well as allowing CFB clients to preview and download them.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/XML/rssindex.htmlIndex files for the Tanzarine web site are now available in RSS format. This article describes briefly how they are created, and where they are stored on the server.http://www.tanzarine.com/Research/portal.htmlThe key screen on a modern corporate intranet is the entry screen. This will be the default screen every time a corporate user accesses the intranet, and is both the beginning of navigation around the intranet and a controlled access point to the Internet.http://www.tanzarine.com/Site Design/new.htmlThe Tanzarine web site has been redesigned to incorporate the company's new branding and logo. The change was made smoother thanks to the use of XML and XSLT to separate the layout information from the content information.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/XML/xmldoc.htmlThis document attempts to give a brief, whistle-stop tour of XML, what it is, what you can do with it, and what tools are built around it. It is loosely based on a document originally produced in response to a client request.http://www.tanzarine.com/Research/xbuild.htmlOne of the biggest difficulties in maintaining and evolving a web site is that HTML stores the information to be displayed and instructions on how to display it in the same place. XML technology can be used to separate the two, and a little Java coding can even take care of linking all the pages together automatically.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/XML/xmlarch.htmlThis article describes a possible generic solution for a distributed Internet application which must acquire data from remote users.http://www.tanzarine.com/Research/jrunsql.htmlThis is a standalone application which acts as an interactive SQL console to a database.http://www.tanzarine.com/Articles/XML/xmlsql.htmlTanzarine Technology is currently working on client/server solutions to data transfer issues on the world wide web.