web apps

The rise of cloud computing over the past few years has been incredible. Unfortunately, many still do not see the interest or do not comprehend its importance.

This is not a post about cloud computing and its benefits, but rather a refresher about understanding some basic rules of scalability and how to get started with building scalable apps while keeping in mind that most people and companies have limited budgets.

Recently a site called The Twelve Factor App surfaced as a guideline for web applications to be at their best.

Bradley Holt has taken these suggestions and has applied them to PHP applications in a few quick comments to each point.

One of the great things about the HTTP protocol, besides status code 418, is that it's stateless.

A web server therefore is not required to store any information on the user or allocate resources for a user after the individual request is done.

By that a single web server can handle many many many different users easily, and well if it can't anymore one can add a new server, put a simple load balancer in front and scale out.

'New Tab' page showcases Web apps in the way that mobile phones showcase native apps.

Google, realizing that HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 are getting awfully close to the power and flexibility of compiled, native apps, created an entire operating system around its Chrome browser.

Chrome OS, and its Chromebook offspring, is an entirely web-based platform — it only runs web apps — which provides a fantastic focus on Google’s arsenal of productivity, communication, and content-consumption apps.

On PHPBuilder.com today there's a new tutorial helping you integrate weather data into your site with the help of the Services_Weather PEAR package.

HTML5 will radically change the way we make websites and web apps. So here are 10 great tools that are amazing for simplifying and enhancing HTML5 coding.

Mozilla’s user experience (UX) team has unveiled a new and very different look for Firefox. For now we only have some very pretty mockups to feast our eyes upon, but in a couple of weeks Firefox 8 will migrate from the Nightly channel to Aurora — and after that, the new interface will begin to emerge in Firefox 9, 10, and 11.

So far, Google+ has garnered favorable reviews — though that has plenty to do with the fact that early adopters and invite-seekers are already fans of the Big G’s services.

But the positive response is also the result of Google’s design decisions and its attention to how people want to share information online and with whom they want to share it.