Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon Feb 18 21:10:14 CST 2013
Doesn't freedom of speech in America only protect your right to say (almost) anything without fear of censorship from the government? - Hans On 2013-02-18, at 5:23 PM, "Mark Simms" <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > I agree with Jim and might add: you are really taking on a lot in a short > period of time. > Be prepared for little sleep. > Webdev has always been a sausage-making-like endeavor. > I've been waiting for that to change...but alas, despite PHP, ASP.NET, > JQuery, HTML5, Silverlight, etc. all becoming compelling solutions, no one > solution has surfaced as "king" of webdev. > > Interestingly, what I got involved with recently is the LEGAL aspects of > websites. > If you attempt (As I am about to do) to post true, but derogatory material > on the web....it will be taken down even if it's 100% totally true and > accurate. > Free speech is no longer in the USA. Period. Lawyers run the country. > A blogsite on the ever so popular Wordpress website can be taken down with > ONE PHONE CALL FROM A LAWYER...no questions asked. If he complains, it comes > down. If his allegations are BOGUS, it still comes down. > You want to challenge that ? Be prepared to spend at least $20k in legal > expenses....depositions and even a jury trial. > > I've found a solution with webhosting services in Belize and Singapore who > only honor THEIR legal system's rules and laws. > Essentially, to "take down" sites hosted there would require a US State > department initiated Seal Team attack akin to the one on Osama Bin Laden. > > Wait ! There's more. Having sites at these remote locations still does not > prevent your enemies (the ones you are writing about) to hit you with DDOS > attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) to prevent publicity of their > wrong-doings. > So you have to purchase special services like this: > http://www.cloudflare.com/features-security This effectively adds another > layer of sentinel security albeit at the cost of an extra "hop" or two. > > This all came about after I was rejected by a newspaper...who feared they > would be sued if the material was published. So I thought the web would be > an easy alternative. How wrong I was. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd- >> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence >> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 7:28 PM >> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - Best Web Language >> >> Hi Paul: >> >> It looks like it is going to take a bit of effort to get up to speed >> quickly. >> >> Just a quick couple of comments. It appears that they are a Microsoft >> shop >> as they have a MS SQL BE DB so ASP.Net as the server BE language may be >> your >> best approach. The FE webpages will be a combination of HTML, CSS and >> JavaScript...ASP.Net later. You can test these web pages by just saving >> the >> page with the extension of HTML and just double clicking on the result >> and >> it will run on the default browser. >> >> Look for sample code (there is thousnds of code samples out there) and >> dig >> through an appropriate example until you understand the syntax and what >> it >> is doing. >> >> Connecting and testing the result with page with a language like >> ASP.Net in >> them assumes a few things. An IIS server; it is free and I think it >> runs on >> any Windows machine and comes default with the ASP.Net interpeter on >> it. >> Connection start page to web server is a point of further discussing >> and if >> you can just get a simple web page running on your default browser we >> can go >> the next step. >> >> http://www.w3schools.com is a good place to start. >> >> Jim >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Paul >> Hartland >> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:05 PM >> To: Access List >> Subject: [AccessD] OT - Best Web Language >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Paul Hartland >> paul.hartland at googlemail.com >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com