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Advantages Of Server-side Scripting

What is server side scripting and what are its various advantages? It all will be explained to you in this article. "Server-side Scripting" is basically about programming the server as per your requirements. Its done to make your website, hosted on that server become artificially intelligent It seems odd for a moment but its a fact that most of the folks who proudly call themselves 'web freaks' don't even know basics about web architecture.I actually came across some awful misconceptions about "Server-side Scripting" over a forum (by tens of folks out there) and thought of writing a post to elucidate the actual meaning of "Server-side scripting". I will take care that the post doesn't turn 'too geeky to be digestible'.

What is Server-side Scripting ?

"Server-side Scripting" is basically about programming the server as per your requirements.Its done to make your website,hosted on that server become artificially intelligent(pre-programmed for a set of inputs from the user).It is basically used to facilitate interactive websites

ByPrashant SharmaDecember 3, 20080Comments

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November Flashback : Best of TechPluto !

Hi there ! As we say goodbye to November,here are the best of techpluto november(most read by all you guys) write-ups on TechPluto this month. …………………………………………………… 7 habits of an “Actual” Web 2.0 Service "One can rather imagine it as a set of features,which are fully or partially followed by any web service today and hence that…

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 30, 20080Comments

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Characteristics of Web 2.0 Technology

Web 2.0 is among the popular buzzwords in the Blogosphere and Social Media. This article will tell you about some characteristics of Web 2.0 Technology. We have described below, the most significant characteristics that a core 'Web 2.0 service' does follow : User-centered Design A web design which is created in a way that it fulfills every possible…

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 28, 20080Comments

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A search engine for travelling freaks : iXiGO

The Indian travel search engine ixigo basically lets you find the best deals in flights,hotels and buses with no spoofs. Either you are a frequent traveller or an occasional one,you got to give this service a try ! It's iXiGO. iXiGO is an indian travel search engine which basically lets you find the best(probably the cheapest) deals in flights,hotels and buses.It's one of the leading travel meta search engine focused on giving unbiased and comprehensive fare search to the users. In their own words

iXiGO is a search of the traveler, by the traveler and for the traveler. When you use iXiGO, you retain complete control on your travel choices and preferences. You choose which provider you want to book with, and can complete the booking directly on the provider's site. This ensures that you retain a direct relationship with travel vendors and complete a transaction more efficiently

iXiGO aggregates fares across airlines, buses and hotels to give the

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 17, 20080Comments

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Will Online video sites ever turn into a profitable business ?

Popular online video sites are not making BIG money. YouTube, for instance has not yet turned a profitable business due to poor online video monetization. We all know how big YouTube is(ranks 3rd after Google and Yahoo) and how fast online video industry is growing as we are all contributing in it(by creating videos and putting them online) But let's face it...No matter how popular online video sites are,they are not making BIG money for the owners. To cope up with the growing expectations of users and high competition,online video sites such as Veoh,Metacafe,Revision3 and our pet YouTube were putting best of their efforts. Counting from 'simultaneous video streaming'(which takes a big toll on server expenses) to

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 15, 20080Comments

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Weekly Flashback !

As the first week of november wraps up,here's what you guys read the 'most' on TechPluto last week(that's what stats say..) …………………………………………………… Here’s what made PDC2008 event happening !!! The event(October 27-30) disclosed some of the most talked about projects of Microsoft(including Windows 7) and overall,the event has somewhat indicated Microsoft’s intentions of dominating online business landscapes from...more …………………………………………………… It’s probable that you’ve misunderstood “Cloud Computing” till now… Your entire data and all the services are hosted on high capacity servers and you get to access the data & services whenever you want through Internet(or Cloud).That’s why cloud computing is also referred to as “On demand computing”...more

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 9, 20080Comments

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Promote your blog and help a noble cause with Bloggersmosaic

Bloggersmosaic is a website that lets you put your photo over their homepage,with your photo linking to your blog Are you an avid blogger and keep looking for easy ways to promote your blog....! If 'Yes' then give BloggersMosaic a try.It's a website that lets you put your photo over their homepage,with your photo linking to your blog. Being on a homepage gives you more exposure to an unexplored audience. You are just required to buy a spot for yourself on the homepage and you pay according to the size of your photo.It will cost you $0.25 per pixel(if personal blog) and $0.5 per pixel(if corporate blog).And you need to pay once FOREVER. The noble part is that a tree is planted whenever a blogger joins the system.Hence when you pay to buy a spot,you are also paying a small chunk to get a tree planted.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 8, 20080Comments

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Jason Calacanis’s recent email : “The Future of Startups”

Jason Calacanis email titled 'the future of startups'. Subscribe to Jasin's email list and read a lot of interesting mail. If you haven't subscribed to Jason's email list till now then better subscribe it now itself.Must say,it's worth subscribing.I truly appreciate,not just his insight into web technology but also his ability to write such long(really long) emails to his subscribers with hardly any uninteresting stuff. And after going through his recent mail titled "The Future of Startups",you can certainly visualise the technology trends/changes that have happened so far and the changes that may happen in the time to come. So,here is a very short summary of his long mail titled "The Future of Startups"(specially helpful to those who have less time but still want themselves to be updated with jason's knowledge bank). And it's not republishing at all.Have a look !

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 8, 20080Comments

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Google-Yahoo! deal reshaped for US Govt acceptance

The article enlists the Yahoo Google deal effects. Google-Yahoo! deal has just been revised to tunnel through government's issues with the deal. This simply means that Yahoo! has much less financial interests left in the deal and therefore they will have to keep putting their efforts into their own search advertising system. Specially the two year tenure will actually give opportunity to Yahoo! to improve their services and discontinue the deal whenever they feel like.A deal for a decade could be a long-term pain for Yahoo!. Although Google-Yahoo! deal is suspected to be affected by the US election results but such chances are slim by our judgement.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 4, 20080Comments

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Monthly Flashback : The Best of October !

Month of October is about to end and here are the happening write-ups published in october which our readers liked the most.If you skipped any of them,you gotta grab them now...They are stacked as per their date of publish. A web browser that turns you ‘Ultra-social’ ! "Flock is equipped with lots of social networking tools…

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 31, 20080Comments

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