PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor development – began in 1994 when the developer Rasmus Lerdorf, with regard to PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), wrote a series of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Perl scripts, which he used to maintain his personal homepage. The tools performed tasks such as displaying his résumé and recording his web traffic. He rewrote these…
The first scripting languages date back to the 1960’s and to the visitor’s eye, they are invisible — their availability within the code of a website defines how the website behaves in response to certain click requests sent by the user. Apart from the World Wide Web, scripts are also used for the automation of…
Your heartbeat as a password. Nearly all of computer security boils down to one question: How can a device know that you are you? Passwords – are the most basic tactic for confirming your identity. If you can come up with your secret string of numbers and letters, you must be you. But everyone knows…
Computer graphics – are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware. The development of computer graphics has made computers easier to interact with, and better for understanding and interpreting many types of data. Developments in computer graphics have…
Since the commercialization of the web, web development has been a growing industry. The growth of the web development industry is being pushed especially by businesses wishing to sell products and services to online customers. For tools and platforms – the public can use many open source systems to aid in web development. A popular…
Interested in learning about Linux or running your own Linux web server? Installing Linux on a spare old computer is a pretty easy thing to do these days with many consumer friendly distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint Linux. After getting up and running you will have a platform for hosting your website in-house either…
Here’s a bit of a look at internet web hosting – then and now. Web servers All of the content on the Internet is stored on servers. A server is a machine much like a personal computer. When you save a file on your computer, that file is written to your hard drive. You can…
How Cell-phone viruses work. The first known cell-phone virus appeared in 2004 and didn’t get very far. Cabir.A infected only a small number of Bluetooth-enabled phones and carried out no malicious action — a group of malware developers created Cabir to prove it could be done. Their next step was to send it to anti-virus…
The spawning of the Adblocker — We can lead a browser around by the nose all day long – We can script and code and script again until the cows come home – We can also drive as much traffic away from client sites as we would would hope to drive traffic into client sites,…