Many people, programmer or no programmer, understand that a website is the online face of your organization. Everyone understands that how well or bad your website looks reflects how your company actually operates. Surprisingly, you would find that there are thousands of websites on the internet that take hours to load, look unattractive and function poorly.

• Avoid Shoddy Development Companies

If you have any intention of creating a positive mental impression any time a potential customer visits your website, make sure that you choose your web developers wisely. Some companies, as it is, charge a lot of money for very ugly work. Apart from creating a poor impression, a bad website tends to turn away potential clients and thus ironically leads to loss of… Continue reading

Nowadays, you could spare those extra dollars by having your project outsourced to virtual workers on different corners of the globe. We are going to highlight the major advantages that you derive from having your Java software developed elsewhere through offshore project outsourcing.

While programmers have been developing applications in Java for a long, long time, outsourcing software building tasks to nations like India is a reasonably recent trend. India, through institutes such as Tata Group’s CMC Ltd, offers a useful course referred to as CJET. This is a job enabling course where one is also assured of getting a well paying job in the IT sector.

The rapid and effective advancement of the Java programming platform, coupled together with the consistent introduction of new capabilities in the… Continue reading

When it comes to categories of software, programming language translators are one of the best examples of system software. A translator acts as the intermediary between the computer and the programmer. Computer programming languages are developed with the sole aim of simplifying the process of issuing instructions to a computer and thus enable most people to be able to do this. This includes the process of abstracting (hiding) the underlying details of how the computer works from the programmer.

Each language is developed in such a way that it can achieve specific objectives and solve particular problems. Below we look at some of the most known programming languages.

a) FORTRAN

FORmula TRANslator (FORTRAN) is one of the oldest, high level programming languages. Its first version was referred… Continue reading

PHP has emerged an all time favorite for most designers and web developers in recent times. The big reason for this preference of PHP is the mere fact that PHP is open source and offers effective support for several databases including Oracle and MySQL. This popularity has made it a necessity for web developers to perfect PHP so as to enhance productivity in their daily work. For any one who is not yet a master of PHP but would like to be so in a relatively short time, the learning resources listed here will go al long way in teaching you PHP programming:

1) PHP Cookbook

This is a great resource that was composed by David Tratchenberg and David Sklar. In fair language, this is one… Continue reading

Nowadays, there has been a lot of debate concerning agile and non-agile software development. Pushed to the edge by ever increasing competition, global corporations are tending to lean towards the agile methodology in an attempt to optimize features, maximize throughput and reduce time-to-market for their applications.

There has been a misconception by some people that agility refers to not gathering requirements before starting the code writing phase. In fact, some have misunderstood agility as being the action of writing code very fast. The point here is that majority of people really don’t understand what agility means, and some so to the extent that they just would not want to get involved in any process where ‘agility’ in involved.

In stable meaning, agility refers to the adoption of a… Continue reading