I have a confession to make: I am an undisciplined programmer at heart. Unless someone or something provides external motivation to do otherwise, I tend to jump in and start coding a project without ...

the entrenchment of commercial Web application languages — most notably Microsoft’s ASP (now ASP.Net), Sun’s JSP, and Macromedia’s ColdFusion — seems to leave little room for open source alternatives.

IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Don’t fret if you’re a developer with an Apache web server and the goal is to code an HTML5 and ...

.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table. One of the more interesting things about .NET is its extensibility. It’s not just a ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

There is little doubt that PHP is one of the easiest languages to use to start generating dynamic Web content. PHP, in combination with Linux, Apache and MySQL is so popular, it has spawned the ...