With all the different technology available, it can be a little challenging to decide what CMS to build your website with. So here is my quick guide to help you evaluate what system is best for you. First – do you really need a content management system?
U-Prove, a powerful framework that couples strong privacy with high security for online authentication, has been released as an open source preview by Microsoft. Unfortunately, even open source is unlikely to ensure widespread adoption of this clever—and highly desirable—technology Further Reading
Zend Server 5.0 Reduces Problem Resolution Time by up to 50 Percent; Adds Job Queue for Improved End-user Experience; Includes Support for PHP 5.3 Cupertino, CA — February 24, 2010 — Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the general availability of Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the company’s PHP Web application server. New Code Tracing technology in Zend Server 5.0 enables PHP developers and administrators to slash problem resolution time by up to 50%. For the first time, users have visibility into the behavior of their code in production environments, with the ability to pinpoint the root cause of application issues quickly and eliminate the time-consuming and sometimes near impossible task of recreating problems in order to resolve them. “Zend Server 5.0 is a huge step forward for businesses running business-critical PHP Web applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder at Zend. “With this new version we are delivering application monitoring and diagnostics as part of the base application server at no additional cost. The new Code Tracing technology revolutionizes how businesses can reduce time spent on problem resolution. This and other enhancements will help businesses deliver reliable high-performance applications and maximize end-user satisfaction while reducing development and management time and costs.”
Websense Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has detected that search terms related to the Bloom Energy and its Bloombox Fuel Cell have become the latest target for Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks. Bloom Box is a breakthrough technology in the energy sector that could revolutionize the way electricity is generated today. As people become interested in finding more information on this technology, related search terms are currently gaining momentum, and as they do so Blackhat SEO attacks are starting to climb up the search result listings.
Every day, companies announce new products and call them revolutionary, breakthrough, innovative, and game changing. It’s not often that a new product actually lives up to that kind of billing. Today is one of those days, with the official launch of Alpha Five Version 10, from Alpha Software. Featuring the company’s patent-pending “Codeless Ajax” technology, Alpha Five V10 is the first programming tool that allows developers to visually build rich Internet database applications powered by Ajax – without having to write one line of code. That said, developers who like to get their hands dirty can work swiftly using Alpha’s Codeless Ajax, then optionally craft custom code using popular SQL dialects, JavaScript, REST Services, and Xbasic. Developers can also plug in open source or their own JavaScript code, components, and frameworks to extend the development platform in any way they need. Best of all, the resulting applications support every major SQL database, including the newest: Microsoft SQL Azure databases residing in the Microsoft cloud. “Alpha Five Version 10 with Codeless Ajax is like having an entire development team at your fingertips,” says Richard Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software. “Just one developer can produce the output of five to 10 coders with Codeless Ajax.
Vaadin is a Web application framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). In contrast to Javascript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions it features a server-side architecture, which means that the majority of the logic runs on the servers. AJAX technology is used on the browser side to ensure a rich and interactive user experience. Vaadin is a big collection of UI components. There are server-side components like Button, Table, and Tree that you use to compose the application user interface
iPFaces framework is a new mobile solution designed to simplify the creation of native, form-oriented network applications for mobile devices. Its usage allows the programmer to focus on design and functionality and save hours of programming a mobile platform itself. Why?
That’s right. Facebook is a technology company, serving billions and billions of pages each week (actually, over 100 billion per week, but I couldn’t resist a nod to Carl Sagan and McDonald’s). And doing so efficiently. So it should come as no surprise that the company has developed some unique software. On Feb. 2, the company released HipHop for PHP . What is HipHop for PHP? Facebook describes it as: …a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it
I have been around the technology field for 30+ years as a Network Engineer. I retired in 1996 and started a hobby on the web. Since that time I had several different web host. Recently I was hosted on a server running a unmanaged VPS. One day out of the blue all of the websites I manage were down. I was told that the servers drive was corrupt and that the data was lost permanently
If you are looking to turn your IIS, ASP.NET server into a highly scalable HTTP Comet/Reverse Ajax server, your solution could be called Websync , by Frozen Mountain Software. Websync is cool, because unlike every other comet server currently available, it doesn’t require a separate server, instead it runs directly with IIS. It takes about 2 lines in your web.config to get it going, and we’ve tested 30,000 users simultaneously on a single $400 Acer desktop with 3gig of RAM. More features include : – an embedded JavaScript client (only 9 KB!) and .NET client. – server-side publishers for .NET and PHP – uses open protocols and proven technology (HTML5, Ajax, JSONP, Bayeux).