[H-GEN] Web development systems

Sid Young syoung at powerup.com.au
Tue Mar 21 13:27:16 EST 2000


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Mike,

My $0.02 worth after 6 years of doing web development.

If your using an MS NT platform then seriously look at ColdFusion if your
using a UNIX/BSD/Linux/HP platform then look at PHP/MySQL - these of course
only relate to server side scripting. 

The other critical item is database integration - if your on a UNIXish
platform you may have troubles if your DB is on NT. Usually the other way
round is not a problem as there are plenty of NT to UNIX ODBC drivers for
Database integration.

Sid Young
Data Base Administrator
QML Pathology


At 10:23 21/03/00 +1000, you wrote:
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>I may very shortly be in a position where I have to choose a system to do
>web application development so I need to investigate my options.  This
>system will need to have good database integration.
>
>Current candidates that I know of and a few random thoughts on them are as
>follows..
>
>*	PHP/PHPLIB	I like this one, but a RAD tool would be nice.
>Someone using this really needs to know what they are doing (not necessarily
>a bad thing!)
>*	PERL		No....
>*	ColdFusion		I know nothing about this yet
>*	Enhydra		Have had a play with it, seems nice, need to look at
>the RAD tool from Plugged In (need to know java?)
>*	Zope		Seems nice enough, need to know Python to be able to
>do anything useful
>*	MS Visual Studio	*puke*  Nice development environment when
>it's not crashing every 15 minutes.  Only runs on MS platforms.
>
>That's all I know of for now.  I would appreciate it if those who have done
>this sort of work could maybe give me a few comments on the systems they
>used, problems they encountered etc.  Any other development environments
>that I don't know of yet... please let me know.
>
>Will probably hit the search engines tonight and see what I can find but a
>prelim search just gave far too many crap matches
>
>Thanks & Regards
>Michael Anthon
>
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