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Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Although there’s not yet any clear winner, the software industry seems to be following a similar path. Although the open-source movement began back in the 1970s due to Richard Stallman’s printer-borne frustrations in an…
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In ancient China (approximately 500 B.C.), Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. In it, he described the state of the art in warfare. The book took a universal approach, describing wide-ranging topics that related to one another only through how they applied to warfare. In 1961, Julia Child published the classic Mastering the Art…
The Internet is a dangerous place for applications. In fact, it is reasonable to say that you couldn’t create a less secure system if you tried. It is anonymous, uncontrolled, always-on, and instantly accessible from anywhere. This is a world where every bad actor, cracker, script kiddie, and scam artist is your neighbor, and it…
Over the past decade, PHP has transformed itself from a set of simple tools for web site development to a full-fledged object-oriented programming (OOP) language. PHP now rivals mainstream languages like Java and C# for web application development, with more and more enterprises turning to it to power their web sites. The reasons for this…
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Many of today’s web development books and articles cover single aspects of the development life cycle, delving only into specific features rather than looking at the whole picture. In this book, we will develop a complete web application. Although we will be using various third-party libraries and tools to aid in development, we will be…
When PHP 5 was released early in 2004, a mong the most important features it introduced was enhanced support for object-oriented programming. This stimulated much interest in objects and design within the PHP community. In fact, this was an intensification of a process that began when version 4 first made object-oriented programming with PHP a…
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As the Internet continues to evolve, so too does the necessity for a language that addresses the functionality needs of the Internet’s web viewers. Over time, some programming languages have come and gone, and others have continued to evolve. Several languages have moved into the lead in the race for supremacy. Although languages such as…
What Is PHP? PHP is a server-side scripting language designed specifically for the Web.Within an HTML page, you can embed PHP code that will be executed each time the page is visited. Your PHP code is interpreted at the web server and generates HTML or other output that the visitor will see. PHP was conceived…
Online chat solutions have been very popular long before AJAX was born. There are numerous reasons for this popularity, and you’re probably familiar with them if you’ve ever used an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, or an Instant Messenger (IM) program, or a Java chat applet. AJAX has pushed online chat solutions forward by making…
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Java is a widely-used programming language expressly designed for use in the distributed environment of the internet. It is the most popular programming language for Android smartphone applications and is also among the most favored for the development of edge devices and the internet of things. Java was designed to have the look and feel of the C++ programming language, but is simpler to…
