Always-On Networks Created with a Wireless Router
If you’re using a wireless network with Windows’ built-in Internet Connection Sharing, you’re probably quite happy with it — but there’s a problem. The problem is this: the computer the modem is...
View ArticleColdFusion: Quicker Scripting, at a Price
ColdFusion is a rapid application development language for the web, developed by Macromedia. It’s not free, but many people say that it’s more important to them to have the development speed that...
View ArticleJSP: Java on Your Server
JSP stands for Java Server Pages. The idea of JSP is to allow Java code to be embedded in HTML – this is done uising XML tags. JSP allows you to dynamically add content to your pages, and also offers...
View ArticleIIS and ASP: Microsoft’s Server
Despite Microsoft’s dominance of everything to do with computers, their web server software sits on a relatively low 20% market share, thanks to the popularity of Apache. However, 20% of millions of...
View ArticleVBScript: Javascript Made Easy
VBScript is a web language for inserting into HTML documents. It’s a lot like Java, but is easier to write thanks to its Visual Basic-like code. Is It Really Easier? Well, it’s largely a matter of...
View ArticlePerl: Cryptic Power
Perl is, let’s face it, a programming language for people who know programming. It’s extremely different from PHP: you can’t really just pick it up and use it. Perl bears a lot of resemblance to C and...
View ArticleTaking HTML Further with Javascript
Once you’ve built your HTML pages, you might need them to do something a little more interactive on the client-side (that is, in the visitor’s web browser). How can you do that? Javascript is the...
View ArticlePython and Ruby: the Newer Alternatives
Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a programming language and get a significant number of people to use it: and plenty of people have. Two of the newest and fastest-growing...
View ArticlePHP: Easy Dynamic Websites
PHP is the most popular scripting language on the web, and the reason for that is how easy it makes it to create dynamic websites quickly. If you’re already a programmer, you’ll be able to learn the...
View ArticleHow to Install and Configure a Forum
Once you’ve built your website, you might like to offer your visitors an opportunity to interact with it, and to talk to you and each other without having to use email. Forums are absolutely ideal for...
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