[Chester LUG] Looking to learn a language

[Michael Crilly]

Perl + Catalyst or PHP + Symfony, couple with any DB back-end you want.

On 04/04/2011 22:42, Stuart Burns wrote:
> I knew someone would come up with some "odd" ones :)
>
> 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.
>
> 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 :)
>
>
>
> On 4 April 2011 21:35, Sebastian Arcus <shop at open-t.co.uk 
> <mailto:shop at open-t.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 04/04/2011 08:53 PM, Richard Smedley wrote:
>
>         On 04/04/11 18:44, Stuart Burns wrote:
>
>             I just thought I would drop an email to ask for some
>             advice re: programming
>             languages to learn. Now that I have time on my hands (at
>             last) I am looking
>             to learn  a language that can be used for both web
>             development as well as
>             locally on the PC.
>
>
>         1. JavaScript.
>            No, seriously, it is a proper language.
>            Take a look at:
>         http://eloquentjavascript.net/
>            (&  you can move on to node.js afterwards :)
>
>
>
>     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.
>
>     Sebastian
>
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