Retrieving Data from Relational Databases

Database engines are not black box technologies with infiinte capapcity. This starts becoming very clear when one reads about the struggles FaceBook and WikiPedia went through in the ~2008 era to keep up with the demand for their software. Network applications can take little for granted if they foresee massive growth in their horizons. So […]

NoSQL vs SQL [ Part II ]

In our last post we shed some light on how SQL is a language used to communicate with relational databases. Relational databases, we said, are storage servers that carry collections of linked tables like: EMPLOYEE TABLE ————————————– | id | name  | email  | ————————————– | 1 | Joe D. | info@domain.com | ————————————– ADDRESS […]

NoSQL vs SQL – A Mediocre Walkthrough

For IT experts things are getting heated up as they must embrace the possibility of adopting NoSQL. All that I knew of it until last summer was that Google and Facebook back it. But what is NoSQL? How does it work? Is it stable? Its real-life applications, please? Last year while investigating data storage formats […]

Understanding Information Security in Web Applications

Checkout our own PHP framework designed for secure web application: Dotz Framework. As a manager of a technical project it’s good to know fundamentals of information security and good security practices even if you’re not one of the developers. Even good developers often find themselves unaware of basic security protocols to follow when developing web […]

WordPress: Friend or Foe to Web Applications Development?

If one name has risen to the top and needs little introduction in the web development field it is WordPress. What started out as an easy to use blogging platform, slowly grew into a popular open source CMS, and today runs all sorts of enterprise and non-enterprise projects all over the world. It seems today, […]