[AccessD] OT - Best Web Language

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon Feb 18 19:06:47 CST 2013


Hi Paul,

If I was to recommend a scripting language / framework that allows you to
rapidly develop from end code, I think I would have to recommend Ruby on
Rails as hands down the fastest way of building out a website. However, if
you are not familiar with Ruby on Rails, it might take you some time to
adjust (but CodeSchool <http://www.codeschool.com/> has some great hands-on
tutorials to get you started quickly - ie. Rails for
Zombies<http://railsforzombies.org/>
).

Otherwise, I've heard some good things about ASP.NET MVC and this may be
more familiar to you, but if you are also familiar with PHP, I would
probably go in the PHP direction instead of ASP. It is more popular than
ASP, the frameworks are more solid and you can get far more reusable code
from places like PHPClasses and such.

If you are happy to go the PHP way, go with either
Symfony<http://symfony.com/>or
CakePHP <http://cakephp.org/> as frameworks. They are the best of the
breed, in my opinion.


*

Hans-Christian Andersen
**Web Application Developer, Vancouver, Canada*




On 18 February 2013 15:04, Paul Hartland <paul.hartland at googlemail.com>wrote:

> To all,
>
> The other day I posted an OT about starting to learn VB.net whilst I am out
> of work, I am using the Microsoft Visual Studio Express as I can't afford
> to purchase the full Visual Studio suite, and I got some very useful
> answers and pointers etc.  Today I have been contacted by a recruitment
> agency that has an off the shelf product linked into SQL Server, and want
> to employ someone on a contract basis to develop a more bespoke front end,
> but will also want a web front end which will enable their staff to logon
> and fill in their timesheet etc, and I was wondering what would be the best
> or mixture of languages to use ASP, PHP, Java, HTML etc and if I write
> something how could I test it on my machine at home ? as I have a meeting
> with them this Friday 22nd February, it sounds like they would be willing
> to spend a little on a training course for me, but not holding them to it.
>
> Thank you for any help in advance.
>
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