You want to build a website or web app. So, what are the best web programming languages available, and why are they the best? It's a weighty question, and I'd like to emphasize -- strongly and upfront ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

The history of civil aviation in India began in December 1912. This was with the opening of the first domestic Air route between Karachi and Delhi by the Indian state air services in collaboration ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

A small program run on the server that automates or controls certain functions or links one program to another. On the Web, a CGI script is an example of a server-side script. Contrast with ...

PHP is pretty dumb sometimes, but at least it stays in its lane instead of getting shoehorned into every fucking thing (cough JS cough).

A lot of server-side scripting solutions exist. PHP, which we explored a bit in recent columns, is but one of them. Though it’s similar to JavaScript, and you certainly can apply your JavaScript ...

One of the things I always harp on about to people is "use the damn database". By that I mean "ask it the question you want answered" as it's really common to ask it for the data you need to answer ...