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 venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. W3Techs ...

The key themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return ...

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 ...

Nearly every software developer, architect and development manager is facing, yet again, the service-driven revolution in software. The service-oriented, component architectures are evolving to ...

JavaScript, while perhaps the language with the most buzz these days, nonetheless continues to score relatively low in the Tiobe index of popular programming languages. But the popular Web development ...

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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 ...