[AccessD] OT - Best Web Language

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.
>> 
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