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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML

the php homepage

DEVSHED Open Source Web Development Tutorials
PHP tutorials

Security

PHP Security Consortium - useful articles about securing PHP forms, etc.

Servlets are Java's contribution to server-side web development.

Before embarking on development in this area you should familiarise yourself with Model-View-Controller pattern which is one of the mainstays of modern servlet development.

Before launching into the world of Struts plan everything out on paper and ask yourself one simple question, "do I really need MVC?". MVC/Struts like frameworks can be a hinderance as much as a help on small scale projects.

Of course you could use your "favourite text editor" with Ant, but if you are interested in using an IDE, the following are free and run on most platforms…

Eclipse (IBM sponsored)
NetBeans (Sun Microsystems Sponsored)

Since they are free, download them both and use whichever suits.

Downloads

j2se

1.4.2 Sun's JRE + J2SE available
5.0 Sun's JRE + J2SE available

Having struggled for an age to work out how to get syntax highlighting for code blocks and the Pear wiki filter to work in harmony I thought it best to record the configuration here.

I've created an input format that allows for media wiki syntax to get headings, lists and some basic formatting using the following filters (listed in order).

• GeSHi filter
• PEAR Wiki Filter
• Inline images
• freelinking filter
• HTML corrector
• HTML Purifier

(I'm still tinkering with the Purifier to remove empty P elements)

The reason they are in that order is so that any code blocks are picked

GNU's Not Unix

The GNU in The Gimp and in GNU Linux a project to create a free (as in beer and freedom) operating system that is nearing completion as HURD but is far better known for creating the tools that made Linux possible.

GNU applications has grown into a huge diversity ranging from techies' OS kernels and libs to end users' Accounting software. To keep up with what the GNU community is doing, you may find this large unofficial GNU Forum useful.

Using FOR from the command line

Making mammoth tasks easy

Scenario: You have 1500 TIFF image files. Your boss has decided to backup and archive all these files. Instead of zipping up the whole lot to one archive, he wants you to make a zip file for each individual TIFF file.

Task: you need to create 1500 individual zip files, each containing one image. You have two choices:

• One: Do it by hand
• Two: Do it using FOR

To do this you need the free Info-Zip from: http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html#Win32.

ColdFusion

The Macromedia forums are very helpful when you need advice and their archive is full of useful info and code examples: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=1

Website belonging to Ben Forta, Macromedia's technology evangelist and one of the top authorities on ColdFusion topics: http://www.forta.com/cf/

You can find a list of hosting companies offering ColdFusion hosting on the hosting page here: http://wiki.workalone.co.uk/index.php?page=hosting

C# is the "home language" of Microsoft's .net platform. Designed to combine the most useful aspects of Java's memory managed virtual machine architecture ( where Java has the approach of one language, many platforms, .Net offers many languages on one platform ) and some of the more powerful elements of C++ it is the logical choice for .net development.

C a compiled programming language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_language