PHP is obviously an enormously popular language for web development. Several major open-source applications are written in PHP - including Wordpress which runs this website, things like Joomla, PHPMyAdmin, and many others. PHP has a lot of positives going for it:
it is a fairly simple language to learn
an intuitive programming model so that non-programmers can […]
Paul Stamatiou has a very nice summary of Amazon’s Flexible Payment Services. This is a platform for developers for creating customized payment systems. These systems could be as complex as a PayPal clone, or for specific requirements such as recurring billing, charging commissions, expediting payments between two customers, etc. Micropayments are supported. And Amazon […]
Amazon goes database crazy, by announcing SimpleDB. This is the newest component for offloading higher-level server functions (like S3 for storage, a queuing service, computation service) so developers can concentrate on the good stuff and not worry about scaling.
The service is not a relational database in the traditional sense - it is more of a […]
