Web development is often a scrambled task, requiring abrupt switches between different Web sites, different programming languages, and different frameworks. An integrated development tool like ...

.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table. One of the more interesting things about .NET is its extensibility. It’s not just a ...

Start-up plans to release Zend Framework 1.0--or at least a release candidate--at a company conference. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

We stack up four development environments for creating Web-based applications. Find out which one best suits your needs. Over the past few years, there has been a tremendous shift from "fat client" ...

(Editor's Note: For the second part in this series, please click here.) It takes the right tools to do the job right. When it comes to writing code, it's important to consider both the needs of the ...

A new extension in the Visual Studio Tools Marketplace provides PHP support for coders working in Visual Studio 2017. Offered up by Prague-based Devsense, the new "PHP Tools for Visual Studio" ...

Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones. Called PHP for Android (PFA), the project supports Google’s Scripting ...

Microsoft is planning to launch its WebMatrix Web-development tool bundle this week at the CodeMash event, according to multiple tweets. Microsoft's ISV Developer Community site confirmed the January ...

Today Microsoft released WebMatrix, a free Web development tool designed to give students and beginners an easy introduction to Web development. It has been in beta since July. WebMatrix is designed ...

PHP, short for Personal Home Page when initially released in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf, now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Version 8.5 is a major release that brings with it a handful of useful ...