New Technologies and What They Mean To You: Part 3 (Page 1 of 4 )
In part 2 of this series Jeremy talked about PHP, ASP and ColdFusion. In this article he explains what JSP and CGI are, providing advantages, disadvantages and examples for each.There is something to be said for the sharing of knowledge. While this isn’t a massive world-wide project like the first dictionary or encyclopedia, I’d like to think it will have a use, in spite of me. This article series is about the sharing of knowledge, and has been called “The Encyclopedia of Web Technologies”.
I only wish I could be quite that exhaustive, however since I’ve already written more than 100 pages of text I figure why stop now! This time around we will continue look at Server-Side Scripting languages, which, without sounding glib, allow you to add some form of basic intelligence to your website.
We will continue to look at technologies which enable you to make HTML, CSS and JS dynamically and in an automated manner.
There are many sites like Ebay, and your local Search Engine, which use Server-Side Programming to automatically create the pages you asked for, the way you asked for them. Each of the technologies in our last article, and again in this one, can really do "anything" and it is really up to the programmer to measure the advantages and disadvantages in relation to the current project.
Let’s move on then, shall we?
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