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Posted by J.O. Aho on 05/05/06 22:01
Frankly wrote:
> no matter what way i go i feel that PHP is in my future. I am also
> wondering about ColdFusion and even ASP.net
I'm quite much against VisualBasic (ASP), as it limits you to more or less to
microsoft servers, would make it more difficult to switch webhotel. ColdFusion
is limited in quite the same manner. No matter what you choose, you still need
to "code" to be able to do something.
> however at this point I wonder if these are things I can actually learn in
> order to do what I want.
> in the end it has to be user friendly enough so that even my wife can use it
> on her own.
In this case you need to ask your wife how she would like the application to
work, how she wants to work, no real point in making something and modify it
afterwards to please your wife. She don't have to know anything at all about
programming, all she has to know is what she want to enter and how the design
should look like (in which order the input boxes should be and so on).
> my biggest worry is - is this actually something I can do in a timely
> manner. I respect it enough to know this is going to be the hardest thing
> I have ever learned.
Much depends what you think is timely, of course a first project, no matter
what you do will take longer than what your second project will. IMHO it's
planing that is the most important thing to do, the more you have planed
before you sit down and try to write the code, the less time you will need to
spend in front of the computer and code and usually the end result is a lot
better too.
> thank you again.. I may stay away from it again today but I am also very
> curious about how the little I learned will help me in MySQL.
Maybe a SQL tutorial could be of use, found this (not sure if it's a good one
or not): http://www.sqlcourse.com/
The basics in SQL is quite the same, regardless if it's MySQL, Oracle, Sybase
or any other sql server you are working with, just keep in mind that all of
them have something that is different from other sql products.
//Aho
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