I have been asked to learn how to do some basic GUI programming. Can anyone suggest a good place to start that will teach me the basics? I just need to be able to modify an existing GUI to add new ...

After years of making it clear that I'm not a developer in just about every article I've written here at Linux Journal, I do have a confession to make. I can write the "Hello World" equivalent in ...

There is little doubt that PHP is one of the easiest languages to use to start generating dynamic Web content. PHP, in combination with Linux, Apache and MySQL is so popular, it has spawned the ...

When I decided to give PHP a closer look, I wondered if PHP was a browser-only technology or if it could be used for command line scripting. It turns out that one can write operating system level ...

Greenland native Rasmus Lerdorf was tired of writing the same code over and over while creating his personal home page back in 1995. So, he says, he wrote “a very simple parser” to replace tags in an ...

No, you don’t need an IDE to code in PHP language, you can code in Notepad and be all good. But trust me, you wouldn’t want to go that route as you have to put in a lot of extra and unnecessary work ...