No longer are you forced to wait five seconds a web page to reload every time you click on something. Ajax applications change in real-time. They let you drag boxes around instead of clicking on arrows and typing in numbers. They keep page content fresh instead of forcing you to keep hitting Refresh. They show meaningful animations instead of verbose messages. Read more: Ajax Design Patterns

By far, most problems a developer encounters involve the manipulation of strings. Especially when used in a web environment, nearly all input and output to a PHP script are simply strings. Read more: PHP 5 in Practice

Microsoft reportedly devoted 80% of its research and development budget to .NET and its associated technologies. The results of this commitment were very impressive. In 2005, Microsoft rolled out Version 2 of the language, the platform, and the tools. Read more: Learning C# 2005

Talk about Java technology seems to be everywhere, but what exactly is it? The following sections explain how Java technology is both a programming language and a platform, and provide an overview of what this technology can do for you. Read more: The Java Tutorial

There are many different Linux distributions, each with a different set of features, aimed at a different type of user. Before you invest time and effort in Linux, you need to decide if Fedora is the right distribution for you. Read more: Fedora Linux

Now, with the release of version 2.0, we"ve seen another giant step towards increased developer productivity. The feature set of ASP.NET has increased, with more server controls and APIs wrapping functionality, reducing the amount of code you need to write... Read more: ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

This book is about using Python, an easy-to-use, flexible, object-oriented, mature, popular, and open source programming language designed to optimize development speed. Python is often called a scripting language, partly because of its sheer ease of use... Read more: Programming Python

Welcome to the next step in your understanding of Perl. You"re probably here either because you want to learn to write programs that are more than 100 lines long or because your boss has told you to do so. Reed mode: Intermediate Perl