clipka wrote:
> I might soon be faced with the task of writing a web-based application
> accessing an SQL database (MySQL probably) - unfortunately that's not
> really my special area of knowledge. I can hack together a HTML page
> with forms, even with CSS, and am somewhat familiar with JavaScript, but
> that's about it (yet).
> 
> Any sophisticated suggestions what technology to use? CGI? PHP? JSP (I
> can do some Java coding)? How about those fancy new frameworks like Ruby
> on Rails and some such?
> 
> Robustness is probably paramount. Database is likely to be MySQL; web
> server will probably be that ugly Microsoft thing (running on Windows of
> course), but easy portability to Apache on Linux would be a great
> benefit. (Then again, the guys might be more than willing to start on
> Linux right away.)

Take your pick, everything you mentioned and more are usable. Since you
are looking at MS stuff, you have all of .NET; ASP, C#, and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_application_frameworks is a
good place to start. JQuery is close to JavaScript, though I read about
it because someone asked 'how do I do addition of integers that are
class elements, in javascript' (or something similar to that) and the
answer was "Use JQuery" instead of something rational. A friend who uses
it says "It is the answer to everything. It will make a link so you
don't need to write HTML, it will shut down a computer, it will bake a
sweet potato pie."

There isn't really a limit to what languages work now. I like my
applications to be applications, so Adobe AIR, SQLite built in for what
ever you can cache, and talking through what ever middle-ware you want
(PHP in my case) or directly to the server via sockets.

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