A small program run on the server that automates or controls certain functions or links one program to another. On the Web, a CGI script is an example of a server-side script. Contrast with ...

It's not news to find out that JavaScript has become the new crowd favorite for front-end development, but what is surprising is how quickly it is also catching on in the back end, powering many of ...

A lot of server-side scripting solutions exist. PHP, which we explored a bit in recent columns, is but one of them. Though it’s similar to JavaScript, and you certainly can apply your JavaScript ...

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Most enterprise computing shops are engrained quite heavily in a particular development platform, with the two key players in the enterprise computing world being Oracle's Java EE platform and ...

When you surf the Internet and peruse a Web page with interactive content, chances are that the page was developed using Microsoft Corp.’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology or Sun Microsystems Inc.

Last week we evaluated Netscape’s LiveWire plan for programming a Web site. This week we turn to Netscape’s arch enemy, Microsoft, and its preferred plan. Microsoft is building its Web server strategy ...