Here's my tuppence worth......... I come from an engineering background where you're taught that rigour is the most important feature of any development. I find that all the interpreted environments tend not to be that great in this regard. Also, I don't have an axe to grind when it comes to the "anything but Microsoft" prejudice that a lot of non-MS programmers seem to have. So, I would say that you need to decide what it is you're actually developing and then select a tool that is going to achieve that result - here's some questions to ask yourself;
a) Am I developing a web application or just providing some dynmic content b) Can I fix the deployment platform (Windows/Linux/Solaris) c) How much time have I got to develop this d) What level/quality of service do I need to provide There are lots of other questions but these are good ones to try and resolve straight off. Most of the applications I am involved in writing are multi-developer, corporate wide systems and as such, it's not practical to choose a toolset that isn't supported by a good vendor and a large user base. This tends to narrow the choices down to commercial products like .NET/Java/Delphi/C/C++/VB - by commerical I'm talking about the Development Environments (IDE). Over the years I've come to realise that programming is much the same in any modern environment - same symantics, different syntax. what really makes the difference for me is the development environment, I'm at the age where I can no longer bear the thought of using notepad/emacs/vi/vim as my development editor for the sake of spending a few quid on a proper tool for the job that has Intellisense, aut-formatting, syntax checking etc. With that in mind, your choice is further narrowed and my current absolute favourite is Java Servlets with JDBC using JetBrains IntelliJ. Low cost, professional, high performance, good CV fodder, beautiful IDE. If your pockets are deeper and you're sticking with Windows then .NET and ADO is quite frankly the best possible way to go. Hey, you wanted an opinion............ p.s. anyone using assembler in a web environment should be kept away from sharp objects for their own safety!! -----Original Message----- From: Eli Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2005 21:23 To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: [sqlite] thoughts on a web-based front end to sqlite3 db? I've been working on a project using sqlite3 since last fall. At the time, I knew that it would need a web-based front-end eventually. I have a very small bit of experience with PHP, and I assumed that PHP would support sqlite3 sooner or later. Well, it's later, and as far as I know, PHP is still using the 2.x branch. So, I was wondering if any of the more opinionated among you would care to suggest an interface language. It'll be on a Linux box, presumably running apache although I'm open to alternatives. The app itself uses sqlite3 for scheduling jobs and storing job data, so the web interface only needs to be able to insert some data and do visualization (pretty standard stuff I think). Ease of learning is a plus as I need to get something basic up and running fairly fast. I've heard good things about Python in that respect. Does anyone have alternative suggestions, or if you agree that Python Is Good, would you suggest using APSW, pysqlite, or something else? Thanks, Eli
