Ruby On Rails

Ruby on Rails (often shortend to RoR) is a novel web technology which focuses on increasing the speed and ease of the development of database backed web applications. Being a free and open source techonology and the promised productivity in the development life cycle, today It is getting a rapid popularity amoung the web commiunity.

The architecture for organising application programming in RoR is based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern which brings the clarity to the design of the application. It also supports the maintanance in the long run.

The popularity of Rails is also increased by its extensive use of the JavaScript libraries Prototype and Script.aculo.us for Ajax and its graphical interface. The simplicity it brings to development of web services using RESTful web services minimizes the burden to the developer.

Most importantly RoR support for Test Driven Development (TDD), where the developer first test the requrements and then go for developments, which ensures the correct functioning of the web application while caturing new requirements.

PHP

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.PHP can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge.

The key benifits of using PHP includes :

• Reduce the time to create large websites.
• Create a customized user experience for visitors based on information that you have gathered from them.
• Open up thousands of possibilities for online tools.
• Allow creation of shopping carts for e-commerce websites.

Joomla

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system that freely available to everybody for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, and website searching and language internationalization. more..

Wordpress

Wordpress is a state-of-the-art solution for your blogging application needs. It focuses on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database, Wordpress is a widely adopted personal publishing platform. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. more..

osCommerce

Oscommerce is a powerful solution to your e-commerce or shipping cart needs. It simplyfies the process of managing an online store and provids a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License. more..