December 7, 2011

Technology

Chris Franklin

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If you’ve ever had any exposure to web development, or have ever been a bit curious about how web pages work, you’ve most likely heard of ASP or PHP or some of the other server-side programming languages that make websites work. Next time you’re looking around on the Internet, take a look at the URL for the webpage you’re looking at. It will probably end with something like .php or .aspx or .html. These are the file extensions that the web server uses to interpret how it should handle the webpage. For example, a .php page will tell the web server that the webpage contains PHP code, so it will have to process any PHP code on the page.

Butter-side Up vs. Butter-side Down

Most web developers will strongly support one programming language over all the others, but in reality it isn’t a question of ‘better.’ I’ve heard people refer to .NET as a ‘monstrosity’ and .NET developers refer to PHP as ‘hacked code.’ Ideally, websites should be built with whichever language:

a. the developers are most comfortable with

b. supports all the required features, and any that may be required in the future

c. where the time-to-market is the fastest

d. has the best cost/value ratio for the current project

With so many choices for so many languages, there really isn’t one language that is far better than the others.

Chris Franklin

Senior Developer

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