Open Source – For Expert Developers

Open source

Open Source software is gradually gaining more respect and usage. Open Source is a software development method based on peer review and process transparency. Open Source promises better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost as well as freedom from vendor lock-in.

• Open Source Initiative – is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community
• SourceForge.net – Fast, secure and free downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory
• Open Source on WikiPedia – History, definitions, society and criticism
• OpenSourceTutorials.com – Server Side Coding, Client Side Coding

Open Source Server Side Technology

• PHP - PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML
• Perl – Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.
• Java - Java technology’s versatility, efficiency, platform portability, and security make it the ideal technology for network computing. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
• Python - Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days

Open Source Client Side Technology

• HTML - (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant markup language for Web pages.  HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets. The magic happens with the “Hyper” where you can link on page with another
• JavaScript - a scripting language widely used for client-side web development. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to look like Java, but be easier for non-programmers to work with
• CSS - (Cascading Style Sheets) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents
• XML - (Extensible Markup Language) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.
• DHTML - (Dynamic HTML) is a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model
• Flash - Adobe Flash (previously called “Macromedia Flash”‘) is a multimedia platform created by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications

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