Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

In a collaborative development environment on any given project, Laravel standardizes the way in which we build applications. Laravel reuses and assembles existing components to provide you with a cohesive layer upon which you can build your web applications in a more structured and pragmatic way. Drawing inspiration from popular frameworks written not just in PHP but other programming languages too, Laravel offers a robust set of tools and an application architecture that incorporates many of the best features of frameworks like CodeIgniter, Yii, ASP.NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, and others.

Most of these frameworks use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm or design pattern. If you have used one of the aforementioned tools or the MVC pattern, then you will find it quite easy to get started with Laravel 5.

What does it mean for you? It means - better code, easier to manage and pivot from, faster development cycles and more importantly, fewer issues when going live. We have heard that these are all great things - things that we tend to practice every day.

Python is a general-purpose language

Python is a general purpose programming language created in the late 1980s, and named after Monty Python, that’s used by thousands of people to do things everyday for coding applications. It’s small, very closely resembles the English language, and has hundreds of existing third-party libraries. It can be used to build just about anything, which will be made easy with the right tools/libraries.

Professionally, Python is great for backend web development, data analysis, artificial intelligence, and scientific computing. Many developers have also used Python to build productivity tools, games, and desktop apps, so there are plenty of resources to help you learn how to do those as well.

When we need to build a web app, we reach for the Python programming language. When we need to automate some small task on my system, we reach for Python. When we want to find the most common colors in an image, we reach for Python. Basically, when we need to code something and the language doesn’t matter, we use Python. We think you will on board as soon as you seen us in action.

PHP - The Serverside Development Favorite

PHP is one of the most admired and popular server side scripting languages which are widely used for creating websites. With faster turn-around time, enhanced security and affordability, PHP has become preferred choice of the website developers, clients and the novice alike!

PHP results in faster site loading speeds. PHP codes runs much faster because it runs in its own memory space. In working with PHP, most tools associated with the program are open source software, such as WordPress, so you need not pay for them. PHP is flexible for database connectivity. It can connect to several databases the most commonly used is the MySQL. MySQL can be used for free. PHP is used more often creating a larger pool of talent to choose from for modifications and building and lowering the cost per hour for those services. And making it easier to find someone to update your site in the future if you choose to hire a staff member for the task or work with an alternate provider than the one who built your site.

AngularJS - extraordinarily expressive

AngularJS is what HTML would have been, had it been designed for building web-apps. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.

AngularJS, a complete JavaScript-based open-source client and server-side web application framework that allows you to use HTML as your template language. Unlike other frameworks, there is no need to inherit from proprietary types in order to wrap the model in accessors methods. AngularJS models are plain old JavaScript objects. This makes your code easy to test, maintain, reuse, and again free from boilerplate. Promises further simplification of code by handling asynchronous return of data. AngularJS combines the benefits of deep linking with desktop app-like behavior.

AngularJS is out most favorite JS. While every Javascript language has it advantages and disadvantages, we use AngularJS when we can, where we can. We heard Mark Zuckerburg like ReactJS better. Well, each to his own.

MySQL - the de-facto standard database system

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, enabling the cost-effective delivery of reliable, high-performance and scalable Web-based and embedded database applications.

MySQL is a database system used on the web, runs on a server, ideal for both small and large applications, is very fast, reliable, and easy to use, uses standard SQL MySQL compiles on a number of platforms, is free to download and use,developed, distributed, and supported by Oracle Corporation, is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter: Is that a resume that one would be proud of? MySQL stores the world's data, and far and away the most used database in the world.

MySQL is the de-facto standard database system for web sites with HUGE volumes of both data and end-users (like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia). PHP combined with MySQL are cross-platform (you can develop in Windows and serve on a Unix platform)

CSS - gives a website its look and layout

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is the coding language that gives a website its look and layout. Along with HTML, CSS is fundamental to web design. Without it, websites would still be plain text on white backgrounds. A Web page is a series of boxes, each containing a discrete element. Here's where the "cascading" part of cascading style sheets comes into play. The font styles applied to the header cascade down to all the elements contained inside the header. Elements containing text such as navigation, links or calls to action will all be purple, Arial and fifteen points high.

CSS is an integral part of the modern web development process, provides easy control over layout and presentation of website pages by separating content from design.CSS works by creating rules. These rules are simultaneously applied to multiple elements within the site. Eliminating the repetitive coding style of HTML makes development work faster and less monotonous. Errors are also reduced considerably. Improved website loading is an underrated yet important benefit of CSS.

SWIFT - is fast, safe and open source

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux. Swift is designed to work with Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C (ObjC) code written for Apple products. Swift is a fast and efficient language that provides real-time feedback and can be seamlessly incorporated into existing Objective-C code

Apple’s decision to make Swift open source has accelerated adoption and development of the language. Swift became one of the top 10 most popular programming languages in the world. Because Swift is open source, you can also use its code on Linux (Apple provides pre-built Ubuntu binaries) and Android. That’s great for developers creating client/server solutions. And the swift team is quite focused on security. That is why when you work with the language, you shouldn’t come across any unsafe code and will use modern programming conventions to help keep watertight security in your apps.

Ruby on Rails - elegance and terseness

Rails is a web application framework designed to work with the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails is the FULL, legal name for Rails. But when speaking about it most developers drop the “Ruby on” part and just call it Rails.

One of the reasons why Rails is so popular with tech startups is that it’s really great for rapid prototyping. You could think of a Rails app you want to build and have it up online and ready to go within a few hours. The process of programming is much faster than with other frameworks and languages, partly because of the object-oriented nature of Ruby and the vast collection of open source code available within the Rails community.

Ruby code is very readable and mostly self-documenting. This increases productivity, as there is less need to write out separate documentation, making it easier for other developers to pick up existing projects. Rails and most of its libraries are open source, so unlike other commercial development frameworks there are no licensing costs involved.

Java - the enterprise application language

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is what you get when you download Java software. The JRE consists of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Java platform core classes, and supporting Java platform libraries. The JRE is the runtime portion of Java software, which is all you need to run it in your Web browser.

Twenty-year-old Java, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of programming languages, shows that Java has been number one or number two for the past decade and has had a recent uptick in popularity. Portability is also one of the key strengths of Java. Java software runs on everything from laptops to data center servers, from game consoles and IoT devices to scientific supercomputers, which makes it a good choice for business applications that need to run on several platforms. Java's "write once, run anywhere" motto may qualify as hyperbole in some cases, but it's closer to being a true cross-platform programming environment than any of the other languages.