Fantastic Sandy, thanks so much, I may take you up on it in the future.

John


On Dec 30, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Sandy Price wrote:

> John --
> 
> I'm a self-taught PHP programmer and mostly use mySQL for database. It's not 
> too difficult to learn if you get a good book (I would recommend one of the 
> OReilly books, but there are lots available). There are some books that teach 
> PHP/mySQL jointly. Set aside a couple of hours 2 or 3 times a week to work 
> thru the book. 
> 
> Start with the basic, 'Hello World' script and build from there. I'm happy to 
> try to answer PHP/mySQL questions. 
> 
> As for the Cocoa and Objective C, I've not worked in those languages, so 
> can't help you there.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Sandy Price
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:29 PM, John Robinson <prof...@insightbb.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wrote to the programmer tonight, here is what he uses:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> As far as the program, you are right, there are lot's of pieces and each one 
>> is coded in a different language. It seems silly to do it that way, but it's 
>> like anything, you use the best tool for the job. Here is the list:
>> 
>> 
>> Silent Partner Monitor: written in Objective C using the Cocoa application 
>> library
>> the file conversion tools, cbotdtl2sql, cmeprice2sql, cmesettlement2sql: all 
>> written in C
>> misc. procedures, functions, & triggers written in MySQL
>> user interface written in PHP
>> emailing triggers written in AppleScript
>> 
>> 
>> So, I am toast!!!  I still want to begin, I will call some of the schools 
>> but who in the world will teach something in Cocoa for the Mac?  
>> 
>> 
>> John
>> 
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