I looked at ASP as an alternate second developement environment as well. There are a lot of resuorces available and the Visual Studio development environment is solid. If you chose ASP I would certainly reccomend C# as the language you chose as I have seen numerous referencecs to a C dedveloper making more money ( 26% more according to one report) over VB.net dedvelopers creating the same applications.
With all of that said, I am a Mac guy...Visual Studio is a Windows app and even with an intel mac - I hate working in winndows unless I HAVE to and have only been workng with MySQL in my limited CF time. Creating ASP.Net apps, you can expect to have to become confortable working with the MS SQL DBs. Where if you chose to work with PHP instead, its most comonly used in conjunction with MySQL in the LAMP or similar environments. As is open source, it too has tons of resources for learning and has a huge market. If its still a toss up, I would look at your prospective client base. If its companies heavy in Microsoft servers and applications, go with ASP, otherwise I think you will progress faster with PHP over learning C and then ASP and having to work in an all new development invironment ( Visual Studio). And finally - when going with ASP..I saw numerous suggestions that you really learn BOTH C and VB to be truly flexible in ASP. David ---------------------------------------- From: "Ali Majdzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:38 AM To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: PHP or .Net? Hi: For about 5 years I am using CF as my main devloping laguage but many experienced programmers suggested I learn another programming language too because CF is great but not as popular as PHP or .Net Which one do you suggest as the second language I learn? The only thing I ever used is Coldfusion. I have no experience in C or C++ or VB so I really don't know which one (which many says PHP is simillar to C and .Net needs C++ or C# or VB)is easier to learn and have a good market too. Please help me choose. Thanks Ali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
