Category Web development

Html

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it’s the primary workhorse of the web, involved as it is in helping a web browser to view website pages. In fact, browsers were built to read HTML files and turn their code into the…

ImageMagick

Image editing functionality became incredibly important when PHP 5 brought quality Object Oriented programming support to PHP. There was a real need for fast, dynamic handling of images. And that meant the online community required dependable server-side software capable of…

ionCube

Copyright is a crucial issue online — especially in website development. Your code will be available to any user when you build a site: all they need to do is click on the “view source” option to view the code…

JavaScript

JavaScript is the name of a dynamic language which is based on classless object-oriented (prototype-based) programming. Netscape created JavaScript in 1994, although at first, they called it LiveScript. The script was used in Netscape’s browser, because they needed a language…

jQuery

Designed to make client side scripting easy, jQuery is a JavaScript library that is open source – it works on every important web browser. In doing so, it is an important component in the ability to make sure that client-side…

JSON

JSON query language (also known as JAQL) is a software suite utilized in conjunction with databases, for parsing, querying, or creating documents in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). As JSON is a standard data interchange format for producing documents like XML,…

JSP

JSP is a standard developed by enterprise IT giant Sun Microsystems, and is an alternative for Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP). JSP, of course, is an acronym for “Java Server Pages”. There is a similarity between JSP and ASP –…

Markup Language

Markup language refers to a computer language that defines elements inside a document with tags. As markup language is readable by human users, files written in this form feature standard words instead of the programming syntax seen elsewhere. Of the…

MVC

MVC ( Model-View-Controller ) is an architectural pattern which has existed for a long time in software engineering and is in use by majority of programming languages. Model here is about the data and actual business logic. It takes care…

ODBC

Some applications rely heavily on databases. When the developer starts on their application they need to consider which database they will use – a product from a commercial vendor such as Oracle or Microsoft, or something free like PostgreSQL or…