Basic Web Applications

The Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications product is basically a fun a practical guide for Ruby on Rails beginners. This book provides easy-to-follow steps on how to use Ruby on Rails for users who only have very minimal knowledge about the web tool. The book provides essential details on how to install [...]

There are simple steps to follow in creating a basic custom Web Part that can be added to a Web Part page. These steps can help you to create a Web Part that is derived from the ASP .NET 2.0 WebPart class that is used in a SharePoint site. Before implementing these steps, [...]

Security – on the other hand, web applications are more exposed to security risks than desktop applications, where you can control and protect from various vulnerabilities.
Connectivity – web application development relies significantly on speed and internet connectivity. If there is an absence of internet or it has poor connectivity, it can cause performance issues [...]

These two applications can be compared based on:
Maintenance – for web based applications, it only needs to be installed once whereas the desktop applications have to be installed separately on each computer. Also, updating the software can be cumbersome with desktop applications because it needs to be done on every single computer while it [...]

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Web application development soon started replacing desktop applications for reasons of usability in terms of better functions and portability. It is uses a web-browser as client interface and was usually made on client-server architecture. This is one of the reasons why web applications are getting so widely popular now.
Although web applications offer an [...]

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Software application development actually began with desktop applications – used on standalone machines only. Desktop application means any software that can be installed on a single computer (whether a desktop or laptop) and is used to perform specific tasks. Some of these desktop applications can also be used in a networked environment by [...]

The service in available in the US and the web application, AIRnow.gov allows you to view the quality of air on today’s polluted world which constantly changes according to weather patterns and incidents like wildfires which can bring unexpected smoke to your neighborhood. Air quality and many other environmental issues such as global warming are [...]

The electric industry has been slowly but surely replacing older analog electric meters and are replacing them with more efficient and accurate smart-meters that have micro controllers and are capable of sending statistical data to the electric company and now to you, through Google’s PowerMeter which communicates with your electric meter through the power meter [...]

Eco-tourism has been mis-used many times over in the past with many natural wonders hurt badly by too much tourist activity they had to be shut down to allow the environment to heal itself. Conservation is a good idea if you happen to love nature packed vacations in the mountains or in the many state [...]

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Torrent Finder: Torrent Finder Toolbar is a torrent search toolbar for Firefox, which allows users [...]