What is DevOps?

On the theme of buzz words. Here’s another one that’s been around for a little while. No one seems to be able to explain what the hell this is. This is becoming...

Simple explanation of NodeJS

NodeJS is a framework (run time environment) that allows you to run programs written in JavaScript. NodeJS is used for creating applications that sit on servers, for example a web server.

Why Learn Java?

A quick look at some of the advantages of learning Java for someone looking to get into programming: Syntactically (the way Java is written) it’s is similar to a lot of programming...

What is a server platform?

In previous posts such as Linux vs Unix and Types of computer architecture (part 1) we’ve looked at operating systems and types of computer architecture. If you haven’t read these previous posts you may want to....

What is a Relational Database?

In the Types of Database post we looked at different types of databases. This post looks at the most common type of database, the relational database. The concept of the relational database was created...