Web Development Glossary

ColdFusion is an application server and a language. ColdFusion as a language can also be used on top of various other application servers including J2EE application servers providing an alternate with simplified scripting syntax.

ColdFusion programming is used to create powerful applications like shopping cart for ecommerce quickly and relatively easily. ColdFusion application development is used by over 10,000 organizations world wide and runs on over 120,000 servers. ColdFusion development is being done by over 75% of the Fortune 100!

ColdFusion is a commercial product as opposed to PHP and ASP. Although, the initial cost of deployment may be relatively higher as compared to other alternatives, however, ColdFusion includes a number of integrated services that are not included with other products. Some of the important features included are business graphing, full text search, file upload handling utilities, ColdFusion template system and more. It has been a language of choice for many intranets around the world.

ColdFusion offers excellent integration with Macromedia Flash and oracle ColdFusion database makes it further a language of choice for the web.

We offer web development services in ColdFusion MX and cfm conversion. We have a strong team of developers who have experience developing and maintaining complex web applications in ColdFusion.

Initially designed for text manipulation, Perl scripting is now used for several purpose and industries. Perl scripting or Perl programming is helpful in system administration, networking, web development and can handle large amounts of data relatively fast.

Perl community on internet better known as CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) is a huge bank of Perl tutorials, contributions in form of plug and play modules made by Perl developers across the world, making it very fast, easy and clean to work with Perl programming. Perl is open source and available under GPL (General Public License), making it free for commercial purpose.

Perl for web site management is one of its popular implementations and Perl network programming support makes it easier for system administrators while programming web services with Perl.

ASP.net 2.0 is a Microsoft technology for web development and is widely accepted world wide by numerous developers and experts. It is better known for good performance in comparison to other web development technologies, primarily because .net development applications can be deployed as pre-compiled DLLs reducing the interpretation over head each time the application is called. ASP.NET is a commercial product but supports web development with several programming languages including C#.NET, VB.NET, JScript.NET. It also supports programming with a few open source alternatives in terms of Perl and Python.

ASP.NET programming has a number of advanced features for better debugging, development and maintenance making it a language of choice for many companies around the world.

Our .net developers are well versed with various .net development technologies including C#.NET, VB.NET and ASP.NET and have experience developing .net web applications using ASP.NET with various databases including MS SQL Server 2000, MySQL, PostGres and Oracle amongst others including embedded databases.

ASP.net 2.0 application development services in India are rapidly increasing by growing Microsoft certified training institutes in India hence giving highly talented ASP.net 2.0 professionals.

RoR (Ruby on Rails) is a free open source web development framework based on Ruby. Ruby is a highly developer friendly, reflective and object oriented language with features inspired from PERL, Python, Smalltalk, Lisp.

RoR is based on MVC (Model View Controller) architecture that divides entire application into layers which makes it highly manageable and easy to maintain. RoR includes advanced application development paradigms like DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and Convention over configuration.

RoR is gaining popularity by the day mainly due to its ability to support rapid application development. Developers around the world are contributing constantly to add value to this magnificent frame work further making it a platform of choice for organizations world wide. Integrated support for most leading database systems like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite enables developer to implement a system in there favorable database system.

"Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work." -Bruce Perens, Open Source Luminary

PHP is an active open source web development language. With its foundation laid in 1945 by Rasmus Lerdorf, it has become one of the most widely practiced technologies for web development. With the latest release in the form of PHP 5, it now supports object oriented programming and embraces XML which has become the protocol of choice for data exchange between various providers.

Unlike .NET, PHP is entirely platform independent. It is open source and is available under GPL (General Public License). It is free of cost for commercial use that helps in cutting costs significantly.

PHP scripts are highly scalable and can operative over multiple web servers. PHP database support includes MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Oracle which makes it a language of choice for web development projects.

General implementations of PHP development consists of shopping carts, business directories, intranets, extranets, CRM solutions.

Python is one of the most powerful open source programming languages with its foundation laid in 1990 by Guido van Rossum and used by world pioneers like NASA and Google it is not that hard to imagine the immense power held within. Python is well known for its simple and easy learning semantics. Python is cross platform supported like Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2. Python is highly scalable and can be integrated with several other popular technologies like with Apache by using mod_python.

There are several existing frame works that support python and helps in efficient web development that is easy to understand, easy to manage and good on performance supported by the fact one statement or one line of python code is equal to six statements or six lines of C code (Source: Wikipedia).

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and soon DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.

OpenLaszlo is write once run everywhere. An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems.