Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

You don't have to be a professional database administrator to manage and manipulate information efficiently -- anyone can create a spreadsheet in Excel or on Google Drive and use it to organize data.

During the last few months, we have looked at Ruby on Rails, an open-source Web application framework written in the Ruby language meant to make Web/database development particularly easy. We already ...

Last month, I described a growing trend in the world of Web/database development. No longer are developers content to create interesting new applications for people to consume. Rather, more and more ...