What is a software developer? A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software ...

Almost 300 years ago, in 1722, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a book (actually, two volumes) of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

Where’s Jack of All Trades? “Each of the mentioned jobs can be outsourced. However, don’t fall into the trap of hiring someone who says he can do some or all of the tasks you throw at them. If you ...

Hi, there!<BR><BR>I am an ex-Win sysadmin with a shiny purple belt in *NIX fu, decent Java skillz, and enough upstairs to be able to put together a decent LAMP stack. Here's my problem: I and my ...

Gartner Inc.'s Yefim Natis does not offer much encouragement for young players in the application server market: "I think it's too late; the market is spoken for at this point. I think even for Oracle ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

The programming language PHP powers more than 40% of websites, but a new survey suggests that it's an undervalued tech skill. A recent poll of more than 80,000 developers by Stack Overflow found that ...