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Re: Help me choose: A new development language/platform.

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Post by cdeutmey » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 5:35 PM UTC

SQL Server -> ASP.Net web service -> Adobe Flex front end. This setup has been working quite nicely for me.

Re: Help me choose: A new development language/platform.

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Post by michaelawill » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 5:50 PM UTC

cdeutmey wrote: post #11

SQL Server -> ASP.Net web service -> Adobe Flex front end. This setup has been working quite nicely for me.

One of my friends uses this at his work to pretty good affect. The price of the software kind of scares me off though.

Re: Help me choose: A new development language/platform.

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Post by ScottWhigham » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 8:03 PM UTC

I like VB but I love C# - it's so clean, so easy, and so nice. I think that the Visual Studio/ASP.NET setup is just great for Windows development particularly if you'll be using an MSSQL backend. I'd encourage you to learn C# and really master ASP.NET.

Aside from that, I'd suggest augmenting your ASP.NET skills with:

* ASP.NET MVC

* jQuery

Re: Help me choose: A new development language/platform.

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Post by CyberFonic » Fri, Jun 05, 2009, 10:03 AM UTC

I vote for Python. It comes with SQLite and can handle all other databases out there. If you pay just a little attention, then your code will run equally well on Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux. The site-packages contains almost everything that you could possibly need and there are many other excellent packages available. Increasingly Python is being used as the first language taught as part of computer science courses at most well regarded universities and there are many excellent books available.

If you are totally Windows focused, then IronPython will allow you to enjoy most of the Python advantages as well as giving you full access to .Net Framework. There also is Jython if you are more JVM inclined.

There are several web frameworks to choose from as well, Zope, Django, Plone, etc. And of course, you might want to check out Google AppEngine.

I prefer to use wxPython (wxWidgets) for GUI programming to maintain portability. But you could choose to use WinForms or WPF with IronPython.

With companies like Disney, NASA, Google, ILM using Python, you have to put it at the top of your list.

For more info: http://python.org/