The controller handles incoming requests and puts any data the client needs into a component called a model. When the controller's work is done, the model is passed to a view component for rendering.

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Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

It has been said that there are only two difficult tasks in modern software development: distributed cache invalidation and how to name stuff. The following variable naming conventions won't assist ...

When the World Wide Web Consortium designed WebAssembly, the primary goal was to address the shortcomings of running client-side JavaScript in a web browser. However, as developers begin to adopt and ...

While numerous web frameworks exist to help simplify the development of responsive web application, Bootstrap is by far the most popular. The 2021 release of Bootstrap 5 brings with it a number of ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...