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<font size="-1">Perl + Catalyst or PHP + Symfony, couple with any DB
back-end you want.</font><br>
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On 04/04/2011 22:42, Stuart Burns wrote:
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type="cite">I knew someone would come up with some "odd" ones :)<br>
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TBH to my mind, it is just an exercise in seeing what I can do. My
day job is all VMware and Linux infrastructure so I don't get to
do any programming (well powershell for vmware automation but
thats about it) I can hack perl together if I need to.<br>
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I can give you an example. I have what I think is a good idea for
a website, but I don't currently have the skills to implement it
:)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2011 21:35, Sebastian Arcus <span
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On 04/04/2011 08:53 PM, Richard Smedley wrote:<br>
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On 04/04/11 18:44, Stuart Burns wrote:<br>
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I just thought I would drop an email to ask for some
advice re: programming<br>
languages to learn. Now that I have time on my hands (at
last) I am looking<br>
to learn a language that can be used for both web
development as well as<br>
locally on the PC.<br>
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1. JavaScript.<br>
No, seriously, it is a proper language.<br>
Take a look at:<br>
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href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/" target="_blank">http://eloquentjavascript.net/</a><br>
(& you can move on to node.js afterwards :)<br>
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In that case, I suppose an option for programming local apps
would be the XULrunner platform from Mozilla. It is what
Firefox and Thunderbird is built on. You program the interface
in XUL (which is a mark-up language, quite easy to
understand), and the logic in Javascript. I found it all quite
interesting, and the multiplatform aspect helps. However, few
months ago when I tried it, the printing feature was a bit of
a major PITA - so I started looking elsewhere. I liked most
everything else though. It only has access to SQLite databases
at the moment, but there was talk of implementing an ODBC
driver which would allow connections to a lot of other RDBMS's
though.<br>
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Sebastian</font>
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