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.)

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