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HOW TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ASP.NET VS PHP FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT

  On one side, we have PHP, the world most used and popular language on the Internet with millions of dedicated PHP developers all across the globe. On the other side, we have ASP.NET, a Microsoft platform. Now to the layman, it is not easy to know what’s right and what’s wrong with these languages Here is an elaborative comparison guide that helps you figure out the best technology for your next web app development in India project. I’m sure after reading this article, you’ll have a clear idea about which technology suits you better.

 I have no doubt on the fact that both of these programming languages have become successful ventures, and have developed great websites.

PHP is a free open source platform while ASP.Net is a paid Microsoft platform. PHP is a mix between a programming language and a web framework whereas ASP.NET is a straight application framework.On one side PHP is a free open source platform while ASP.Net is a paid Microsoft platform. PHP is a mix between a programming language and a web framework whereas ASP.NET is a straight application framework.

however, there is very little difference between the performance of PHP websites and ASP.NET websites.

For example, take one of the most common tasks of any web application which is to query a database and output the results on the web server— and ultimately to the end user’s browserBoth PHP and ASP.NET web development are equally equipped to access file systems, find images, and display pages on a web server and the speed of these performances rely much more on the database server, end user’s computer, and bandwidth, etc.

PHP is an open source, and thus, completely free, while ASP.NET is owned by Microsoft and comes with a web hosting fee. However, the costs of those fees shouldn’t be exorbitant enough to deter you from Outsource ASP.NET development company pool if you’re already leaning that way for your project development.

Also worth noting here is that PHP can be used on Mac, Windows, or Linux machines while ASP.NET development services are only meant to be run on Windows machines. That being said if you use a Mac or Linux you can use the Mono project to use ASP.NET.

PHP Development- Pros

– It is an open source that means it’s free to use and is constantly being improved by a large number of people rather than a single company

– PHP has large support community of programmer

– PHP is great for large projects like Facebook, White House websites.

– PHP is highly effective at accessing and communicating with various database types. This makes it perfect for web-based scripts, such as website content management systems.

– It’s is highly scalable and you can easily customize according to your need

– There are thousands of Expert PHP developers available in the market.

– Low cost easy to learn, code and pick up.

– There are a number of online support groups to help speed up the learning process.

PHP- Cons

– One of the main disadvantages of PHP is that it is generally not suitable for making desktop applications.

– Compared to other languages, PHP applications tend to run slower.

– It allows customization that causes bugs and poor coding than ASP.NET.

– PHP error handling is traditionally considered poor when compared to other programming languages which mean it can take more time to discover why a particular piece of code isn’t working at expected.

 ASP.NET– Pros

– ASP.NET is highly scalable; its scalability index even posing a stiff competition to its rival PHP.

– Microsoft owns it.

– Support all programming languages and works well with either app or C#

– It informs developer if they made any mistake in coding before compile.

– It comes with lots of tools and features to support programmers.

– Works extremely well with Windows

– Excellent platform for Enterprise applications.

– Fast development with a lot of pre-coded options

– An excellent UI for developers

 ASP.NET– Cons

– Not easy to learn and harder to understand

– Smaller support community

– It operates only on a Microsoft server

– It is slightly expensive because of its Microsoft license

– Not as good as PHP for website development

– Based on closed source technology.

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Fake Google Play apps 

Fake Google Play apps duped Android users, says researcher

Fake apps have been downloaded over 50 million times from the Play Store

Earlier this month, Google removed 85 malicious apps from its Play Store. A nefarious adware app was disguised in the form of gaming and remote control simulator apps and had been downloaded over 9 million times from Google’s app store. And now, less than a month later, a new set of apps has been spotted violating the company’s Play Store guidelines.

ESET malware researcher, Lukas Stefanko, has spotted 15 GPS-based apps operating in the Google Play store that are using the company’s mobile platform for duping Android users and earning money from them.

These apps, which include the likes of GPS Route Finder, GPS Live Street Maps and Maps GPS Navigation among others, as Stefanko pointed out in a series of tweets, don’t provide any additional service of their own to the users. Instead, they use Google Maps or its API for displaying ads to their users. What’s more, some of these apps also seek permissions to access users’ contacts, messages, and call details.

The security researcher wrote in a tweet that these apps pretend to be full-feature navigation apps, but all they do is to create a ‘useless’ layer between the user and Google Maps app.

To put it simply, once users download these apps and tap on the drive or navigate or any other option, these apps open Google Maps to help out the users. However, apart from displaying the navigational information, they also bombard users’ smartphone screens with ads. Some of them, then ask users to shell small amount to get rid of the ads.

The purpose, as you must have guessed by now, is to earn some easy money by duping users into downloading the fake apps and then forcing them to pay up to remove the ads served by this apps.

What’s astonishing is that despite the fact that some of these apps don’t even have a proper app icon, they have been downloaded over 50 million times from the Play Store, the researcher noted.