WordPress has long been top of the list for bloggers, but it does have drawbacks. David Turnbull explains why static blog generator Jekyll might be better.
Cloud
There's no shortage of new things to learn in the web development world. Shaumik Daityari presents some of the best skills you can learn in a weekend
A look at Redditlater, and a guide to efficiently hosting a Clojure web app on a single Heroku dyno.
Google BigQuery now hosts GDELT - the world's largest dataset on human history - and it's free to use.
We hear about "the cloud" every day. Why is it such a popular marketing term? And why is using it such a terrible idea?
Mover.io is an online service that allows you to do easy website file and database backups to multiple cloud services.
A review of the features of 6 online text, document, and markdown editors.
An overview of how Git became so dominant in the version control industry along with some concepts showing how it can be used effectively in open-source.
Read about the most recent PHP updates in GoogleAppEngine's SDK
Bruno Skvorc explains and demonstrates how custom PHP extensions can be installed on the Nitrous.io cloud development platform
Learn to deploy your first Laravel application on Nitrous.io - the cloud development environment
Go through the steps needed to install WordPress in the cloud, and how to set it up in a shared hosting environment.
A screencast to show you how to set up WordPress hosting for a WordPress.com based site, and install WordPress on a VPS.
Learn how to deploy a custom cutting edge PHP environment on OpenShift
Install the Phalcon framework on Windows Azure, configure URL rewriting and get a sample app up and running
Read Taking Windows Azure to the Next Level and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Learn how to implement translation and speech synthesis with Microsoft Translator
Getting started with Google App Engine and deploying your app via Git
Read WordPress on Windows Azure in 2 Minutes or Less and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read The Future of Cloud Computing and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
In this article, Jacco Blankenspoor will compare the features and pricing of BigCommerce and Volusion.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to setup a shop using three leading providers of hosted shopping cart solutions: Shopify, Yahoo Small Business and Magento Go.
Jacco Blankenspoor tests three hosted shopping carts: Shopify, Yahoo Small Business and Magento.
This article doesn’t aim to discuss the pros and cons of cloud based and desktop IDEs. There are more than enough of such discussions online.
Migrating business to the cloud, especially the public, can necessitate complicated, careful planning. This article will help you know where to start.
In this article, Boney Pandya will talk about using the cloud for media hosting.
In this article, Jacco Blankenspoor wanted to give you an impression of what is available in Database-as-a-Service.
This article is about the Benefits of Managed Hosting for Small Business.
Jacco Blankenspoor tests aiCache to see if it delivers on its cloud-based promise of optimizing sites and lowering load times.
Nikolas Goebel takes a look at Cassandra, an increasingly popular NoSQL database used by giants like NetFlix, eBay, Twitter and Reddit.