Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Jan 19 16:18:59 CST 2012
Hey, I was about that age when I started to get into those technologies. You can still stay with Windows. I do all such development on WAMP running on a Windows machine. I do all my DB maintenance throug phpMyAdmin in Firefox. Then I use FireFTP in FireFox to upload files to the real web server and manage files/directories on the server. I never actually work in a Linux environement for any of it. -- Stuart On 19 Jan 2012 at 9:02, Steve Erbach wrote: > Stuart, > > [??] Hey! I'm 59 years old! You know, old dog, and all that? > > I've toyed with Linux over the years, beginning with installing Red Hat in > a dual boot situation on an old Windows 95 laptop (2 GB hard disk)...but I > never got comfortable with the environment. For good or ill, I'm a > Microsoft weiner now. > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote: > > > Why lock yourself into it being hosted on expensive IIE/SQL Server hosts. > > > > Have you had a look at developing it under LAMP / XAMP / WAMP with MySQL > > and PHP? > > > > MySQL is trivial to learn if you are familiar with SQL Server and it > > doesn't take much for a > > competent programmer to get up to speed with PHP. > > > > -- > > Stuart > > > > > > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > > > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve > > Erbach > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:56 PM > > > > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > > > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VPN on a virtual Windows 2008 server...and > > > > RemoteDesktop > > > > > > > > Jim, > > > > > > > > We haven't painted ourselves into a corner. My client -- the owner of > > the > > > > app I wrote -- was hoping to offer the application via the Internet > > without > > > > first having to convert it to an ASP.NET/SQL Server web app. I've > > quoted > > > > him on that, but it was a bit high for his blood. It's been a while > > since I > > > > made that quote (3 years or so) and I know more about .NET and SQL > > Server > > > > so I'm going to re-visit it. > > > > > > > > One option is to continue marketing the application as a stand-alone or > > > > LAN-based Access app as it has been for years. Of course, keeping > > everyone > > > > at the same revision level is a challenge. > > > > > > > > He recently left the company he was working for after 24 years due to > > > > re-org. Now he wants to devote his energies to this side business that > > he's > > > > had all these years. My app is a very large part of that. That's why > > he'd > > > > hoped (me too!) that we could do an interim "Internet" solution with > > Remote > > > > Desktop. > > > > > > > > I got confirmation from GoDaddy that the plan my client purchased (at > > my > > > > recommendation for about $41 a month) isn't sufficient enough to allow > > a > > > > VPN to be set up nor can Windows Remote Access Server be set up on it. > > > > Have to upgrade to a full dedicated server at about triple the price. > > I > > > > think he should also hire a network guru to assist in setting up VPN > > and > > > > Remote Access...if we go that way. What you said about the resource > > > > requirement is important. > > > > > > > > Thanks, Jim. > > > > > > > > Steve Erbach > > > > Neenah, WI > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Stuart McLachlan Ph: +675 340 4392 Mob: +675 7100 2028 Web: http://www.lexacorp.com.pg