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A URL, short for Uniform Resource Locator, is like a telephone number in that it gives a unique way of locating any web page in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL URL official specification http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.htmlFor Web Develop...

I’m not really sure what Identity 2.0 is but here are some very interesting slide show talks about it, and it looks to be solving some very interesting web security problems. OSCON 2005 Keynote – Identity 2.0 – Dick Hardt – Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity Who...

The first place to start for free web programming tutorials and sample code is http://www.w3schools.com/.

AJAX – (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) is Javascript that sends XML to a web server which then sends back updates for specific sections of the web page, instead of the old way of updating the whole page. You can get more sophisticated applications this way. ...

This collection of programming articles to read is highly subjective, so feel free to add your own additions and comments. General How Microsoft Lost the API War by Joel Spolsky Sunday, June 13, 2004 Pattern Book for Open Source in the Enterprise by Flashli...

Code generation tools seem more relevant as software demands increase. A nice vision might be to combine a standard architecture or framework with code generation tools to speed the development. There doesn’t have to be anything proprietary about this if the ...

ColdFusion is the original and most common implementation of a tag and ECMAScript-based programming language — ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) and CFSCRIPT, respectively — which is typically used in web application development for the generation of dynamic w...

Interested in doing .NET development? The resources below are good places to start: http://msdn.microsoft.com — This is THE reference site if you are doing .NET development. http://www.gotdotnet.com — Very useful .NET resource. I believe many members of the Mi...

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the basis for all web pages. Written in a text editor on one system it can be interpreted by web browsers on other systems. Some people learn it by saving a sample web page to their machine, using FILE / SAVE AS, then the...

Java is an object-oriented programming language that is intended to be runnable from many different operating systems without recompiling. Essential Links Home Page: http://java.sun.com Downloads: http://java.sun.com/downloads/ Forums: http://forum.java.su...

Javascript, also known as ECMAscript, is used to make web browsers perform certain actions before returning to the web server. It depends on web browsers behaving the same. This was problematic for a long time, but is getting much better. Here are a few Javas...

MySQL is a free, open-source relational database that has been used in thousands of websites, large and small. This is a contributed collection of resource links on MySQL. Feel free to add your favorites. Mike Franks – SSC Collection of Mysql links and arti...

Perl is an extremely powerful, free and popular programming language that runs on many different platforms. It’s most notable features are regular expresions (used for pattern matching) and hashes (arrays indexed by text instead of just numbers). Learning Perl...

Article on Validating Input from IBM’s Best Practices series Top Ten Web Security Flaws – OWASP Know your Enemy: Web Application Threats – Using Honeypots to learn about HTTP-based attacks

Python is an object-oriented programming language where indenting is important. It is used in web programming, among other things, and the very popular Plone Content Management System is built on Zope, which is built with Python. Research Buzz Article on Sear...

REBOL is a messaging language for distributed Internet applications that run across all devices. (I’m interested if it can be used as a quick, lightweight way to do web services. – Mike Franks – 8 July 2004)REBOL is not a traditional computer language like C,...

Ruby is a Japanese object-oriented scripting language that is meant to make programming fun. Ruby on Rails is a web programming framework built on Ruby, but strongly influenced by the rapid development of PHP and the organization and rigor (and testing) of J2E...

While Unix is an extremely flexible, powerful, and stable operating system, mastering it can require apprenticing yourself to an expert and monitoring every keystroke. This article will hopefully grow as others add their favorite Unix tricks.The best trick is...