Technology Expertise

Alpine is fluent in the lingua franca of the Internet.

Client Technologies

HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery,  XML, and the Document Object Model (DOM), and AJAX are all part of a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications.

Server Languages

Alpine uses PHP, a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. As a general-purpose programming language, PHP code is processed by an interpreter application in command-line mode performing desired operating system operations and producing program output on its standard output channel. It may also function as a graphical application. PHP is available as a processor for most modern web servers and as a standalone interpreter on most operating systems and computing platforms.

Application Frameworks

Alpine is fluent in CodeIgniter.  CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks

Application Servers

Alpine has been involved in the LAMP platform since it’s very origins.  LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and PHP, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.

Though the original authors of these programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the development philosophy and tool sets are shared and were developed in close conjunction. The software combination has become popular because it is free of cost, open-source, easily adaptable, and because of the ubiquity of its components which are bundled with most current Linux distributions.

When used together, they form a solution stack of technologies that support application servers powering sites every day all around the Internet.

Development Standards

Alpine works in and requires of all partners an expertise in version control software.  Version control is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored on the server. It is critical to coordinate the activities of a team of people that may change the same files.