Still need to know html,css and javascript? I can believe it but I'm amazed.
There's been so much progress made in programming languages in the last ten years (since I dropped out and OOPs and GUI's came in) but to knock up a simple web page you still need three different languages!!
I'm sitting there with Visual Studio in front of me, dragging and dropping powerful tools like the fileuploader and feeling like god and then suddenly find I can't control where anything appears on the page! and suddenly feel like the most powerless of all god's creatures
My apps will be simple little tools, that's all. I've started on two of them. One's in javascript on greenpepper.org and the other - the visual studio, asp.net and c# thing, is at brassrazoo.com/Default.aspx and that one is barely begun - just at what we might call 'proof of concept' stage if that phrase isn't too lofty for my high-school level type project.
That's the one where I thought I'd be right into really slick good stuff and came a cropper quick time with server incompatibilities and to my amazement found myself staring at a gui ide that wouldn't allow me to rigidly control object locations....
That's when I began to think jeez, what's all this complication for? I might just as well be writing in dreamweaver and php which seems to be a kinda downmarket, more casual, colloquial toolset. Somehow not up-to-the-mark quite as much as MS's big time Visual Studio and the mighty totally nerdy and arcane C#. But what did that mighty, nerdy, arcane, powerful stuff do for me? Just left me stuck with a page with apparently randomly floating labels on it....
Might as well go 'downmarket and casual' I thought to myself...
So I thought I'd ask you guys.
I did google around a bit and I found quite a number of forum threads discussing this very question: PHP or ASP.NET and I got a fair sort of basic understanding of the differences and the merits of each.
But the most recent of the threads, the discussions, that I saw was 2008 and that's two years ago now, much could have changed. the whole computing world can change in two years, we've seen that.
So it seemed that Asp.net was the way to go if you looked like writing large or 'extensive' (i.e. extending through a large range of computing, programming, techniques, so to speak) progs, or trying to sell yourself to a large corporate employer.
But otherwise php was quicker/slicker and virtually open source (which I am devoted to).
So if that's true I guess I'm just kinda wondering what the situation is like these days, still the same?