Building Tools for Collaboration.
Intermediate Level Users.
This revolutionary book tells users, programmers, IS managers, and system administrators how to build Internet groupware applications that organise the casual and chaotic transmission of online information into useful, disciplined, and documented data. The key to success lies in using simple tools, often Open Source, that effectively blend in established Internet technologies that have always had a collaborative aspect (SMTP, NNTP) with new technologies that enhance our ability to manage collaborative documents (HTTP, XML).
The result is an approach that codifies the idea that many Web content providers have long suspected: yesterday's online content is fast becoming tomorrow's network-based applications. If you've ever been disappointed watching a commercial groupware system used as little more than an expensive email client, or if you've ever wondered how to transform simple email, news, or Web clients from document viewers into collaboration tools, then this book is for you.
