Technologies

The Symfony framework overviewThe Symfony PHP framework is easy to use thanks to its Ruby-On-Rails-like programming method, clean design and code readability. Symfony offers Ajax helpers, plugins and an admin generator interface, which renders the programming of complete applications truly easy. The developers can focus on applicative logic without wasting time to write infinite [...]

Zend Framework is a collection of professional PHP packages with more than 314 million installations. It can be used to develop web applications and services using PHP 5.6+, and provides 100% object-oriented code using a broad spectrum of language features.Zend Framework uses Composer as a package dependency manager; PHPUnit to test all packages; and Travis CI as a Continuous Integration service. Zend Framework [...]

It seems the blockchain revolution is in full swing. Over the course of a one-year period, Google search requests for the keyword “blockchain” have increased by 250%. The U.S. Senate recently had a public discussion about the blockchain’s most prominent application, cryptocurrency. And several public entities have added “blockchain” to their company name. So what’s all the hype about? What [...]

As an asynchronous event driven JavaScript runtime, Node is designed to build scalable network applications. In the following "hello world" example, many connections can be handled concurrently. Upon each connection the callback is fired, but if there is no work to be done, Node will sleep. This is in contrast to today's more [...]

What is React? Today, we’re starting out at the beginning. Let’s look at what React is and what makes it tick. We’ll discuss why we want to use it. Over the next 30 days, you’ll get a good feel for the various parts of the React web framework and its ecosystem. Each day in our [...]

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell back in 2011 and intended for the development of web applications following the MVC model. Some of the features of Laravel are: modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency [...]

AngularJS is a full-featured JavaScript framework, with the core goal of simplification. It excels at building dynamic, single page web apps (SPAs) and supports the Model View Controller (MVC) programming structure. It powers sites include Google, Virgin America, and HBO’s mobile site for iPad. Other highlights: Open-source, front-end JavaScript framework developed by Google A library [...]

Scrum (n): A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. Scrum is: Lightweight Simple to understand Difficult to master Scrum has been used to manage work on complex products since the early 1990s. Scrum falls within “Agile,” which [...]