Posts Tagged ‘php’

PHP vs Ruby vs Python – Who Wins [Infographic]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Udemy blog has released an infographic that compares the most popular web development languages - PHP, Ruby and Python. It gives useful hints to the young developers and those who are thinking of learning a web development language and have not decided yet which one is better to choose. We decided to share this information with you: (more…)

TOP 20 programming languages for April, 2011

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Software development market is always on the move. New platforms, new devices and new media require new approcaches and new programming languages. Today we decided to share with you information about programming languages that are of greatest demand on the market nowadays - TIOBE Programming Community index.

Position
Apr 2011
Position
Apr 2010
Delta in Position Programming Language Ratings
Apr 2011
Delta
Apr 2010
Status
1 2 Java 19.043% +0.99% A
2 1 C 16.162% -1.90% A
3 3 C++ 9.225% -0.48% A
4 6 C# 7.185% +2.75% A
5 4 PHP 6.584% -3.08% A
6 7 Python 4.931% +0.73% A
7 5 (Visual) Basic 4.682% -1.71% A
8 11 Objective-C 4.386% +2.10% A
9 8 Perl 1.991% -1.56% A
10 10 JavaScript 1.513% -0.96% A
11 12 Ruby 1.482% -0.74% A
12 20 Lua 1.035% +0.51% A
13 9 Delphi 1.034% -1.68% A
14 - Assembly 0.967% 0.00% A
15 23 Lisp 0.934% +0.45% A
16 32 Ada 0.768% +0.41% A
17 16 Pascal 0.713% +0.06% A
18 21 Transact-SQL 0.583% +0.08% B
19 - Scheme 0.581% 0.00% B
20 15 Go 0.557% -0.15% A–

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Softheme Summarizes 2009 Results and Achievements

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

2009 was a tough year for all businesses worldwide due to complex economic conditions. Software outsourcing has also experienced the influence of recession, being one of the most globally integrated business domains. It was the year of cutting costs and seeking new opportunities; and when it has passed, it’s a good time to summarize the outcomes.

“Today it’s evident that the past year not only slowed down some outsourcing trends but also streamlined the evolvement of others,” states Softheme Chief Executive Vadim Sharko.

Softheme Summarizes 2009 Results and Achievements

iPhone development was one of those new trends for us which gained in popularity during 2009. Development of small and single-purpose applications for mobile devices is financially beneficial – they require relatively modest investments and are sold well. Each day Apple’s AppStore is refilled with a variety of new hot applications and tools.”

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Outsourcing Market Results for Q3, 2009

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

As the 3rd quarter of 2009 comes to an end, it is a good time to sum up the quarterly results of the outsourcing market of such a difficult year for all segments of business.

The global economy is gradually recovering from a downturn and the first good signs of it have appeared. The banks have started seeing profits again and international companies stopped reporting losses. However, on the other side more and more SME’s have been marked by unstable performance and reduced customer base.

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A World of Widgets

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

In this post we would like to talk about widgets as the latest and one of the most popular phenomena in desktop and web application development. We are going to clear up what a widget is and what it is needed for.

From day to day, widgets become more and more widespread in the modern world of the Internet. First rich media and interactive entertainment widgets appeared yet in 2001. Now widgets are commonplace and are actively used on personal blogs, wikis, social network and auction sites, etc. One can meet them on web resources such as Facebook, iGoogle, LiveJournal, MySpace, Netvibes, WordPress, and many others.

What is a Widget?

First of all, let’s make clear what a widget is. A widget is a chunk of code that can be embedded in a web page or installed on a computer desktop. Widgets are usually understood to be interactive single-purpose applications for displaying and/or updating local data or data on the Web. They are packaged in a way to allow downloading and embedding into a web page or installation on a user’s machine. These interactive virtual tools are meant for providing services of single purpose such as photo viewing, displaying latest news, current weather, time, a calendar, a map program, a dictionary or a language translator, a calculator, desktop notes, among other things. Besides providing useful information, widgets represent some commercial interest as a powerful marketing channel, mainly due to their interactivity and viral distribution through social networks. Thus, widgets are often used as advertisements, links to websites, etc. Widgets are divided into three categories such as web, desktop, and mobile widgets. Let’s review all these categories separately.

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