Which server-side language?
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Learn C# and ASP.NET.
I have always bet on Microsoft skills and always found it to be the right choice.
Oh and that there Java stuff ain't exactly a whole lot different.
Learn one programming language and you'll find the rest are much of a muchness. Learn one WebServer-side environment and the others are much the same (with slightly different syntax) and finally: Learn one SQL database and guess what? Yep all the others are mostly the same.
I can't get excited about development skills on different platforms anymore - since they're all so similar really.
What matters more is the experience of the errors the infrastructure of that platform has and how to go about fixing them - that you can only learn with oodles of experience and is absolutely platform specific.
MS has *way* the best support structure for a developer in terms of fixing their crap code. Why - because they have crap code!
The fallacy is in thinking that anyone else's stuff is any better...
I have always bet on Microsoft skills and always found it to be the right choice.
Oh and that there Java stuff ain't exactly a whole lot different.
Learn one programming language and you'll find the rest are much of a muchness. Learn one WebServer-side environment and the others are much the same (with slightly different syntax) and finally: Learn one SQL database and guess what? Yep all the others are mostly the same.
I can't get excited about development skills on different platforms anymore - since they're all so similar really.
What matters more is the experience of the errors the infrastructure of that platform has and how to go about fixing them - that you can only learn with oodles of experience and is absolutely platform specific.
MS has *way* the best support structure for a developer in terms of fixing their crap code. Why - because they have crap code!
The fallacy is in thinking that anyone else's stuff is any better...
IMHO ASP is a great tool for creating dynamic web sites. Binding to access is quite an easy process and I find the syntax quite easy too. I started learning it only a few weeks after asking myself the same question! If you go for asp, use www.redstation.com for your hosting, and look at www.aspin.com for any tutorials etc. Hope this helps!
If you're doing it for a hobby/interest, I'd use PHP and MySQL. Its cheap and there's plenty of forum/bb software out there already. When you start talking .NET you'll need a decent editor (we use visual studio) and that is £££££. However, .Net has proved excellent for our requirements and we can build apps in half the time. People talk a lot about Java based apps but it's future (other than in embedded stuff) is by no means certain.
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