It is IE 9, not IE 6 or the crappy dumb phone nefront on the PS 3

Maybe Applesoft will transition aqua to Metro on all the macs. Can you just imagine the look on the anal Mac users faces? Mass suicide

The problem is the laws define a pedo with just having the material.

For example, if I uploaded kiddie porn to your computer you are a criminal for having it. Sure the penalty is much less than being a kiddie porn manufacturer which is someone who sends it but you are not guilty.

Worse, try to get a job again? Your future is ruined forever, because of an asshat and many will pay to make the problem go away! This is truly evil in the nth degree whether you feel this current laws are silly are not.

No respectable employer will hire anyone and yes if someone plants porn your life is gone whether you had anything to do with it or not. I can see people willing to pay believe or not sadly for these reasons.

I second that.

I was given a task to develop a website for a Network Users Group and thought it would be a simple project with Kompozer and some HTML like I did in the Netscape 4.x days. Boy was I in for a surprise.

CSS is the new thing now in this century. Worse, the code I used from the internet that I modified worked in all browsers but Internet Explorer. IE 6 from what I researched was on crack when it came to CSS!

I am developing a site .... errr plan to start one. I had to go to a Barnes & Noble and get a few books on CSS and HTML 4 + Css 2.1 with IE hacks and tips. I have been using the books and let me tell you that it is increasingly complex task that web designers do not get fully appreciated for their efforts. Most of the PHBs such as myself figured any teenager could make a website so it wasn't worth to pay anything etc.

Php I plan to tackle a little more next night because it is superior, but because I do not have to fuss with it to get shit done like I would in Java. When I earn money then I can hire someone to remove the bad code and fix that later etc.

Because it takes 3x the effort and 4x the amount of code with its silly patterns to get anything done. Php is like the VB. Its great to get things done quick if you do not need Enterprise Application Support with its own framework not to mention not all ISPs even support it all.

Oracle has done so much damage to Java.

What do you recommend then?

A 100% interpreted language like python or ruby? Php with Apache DSO runs inside the web server engine that is written in C++. The other languages run in CGI interpreted. THough, Zend is coming out but I do not know if web hosting companies support it yet through CPanel?

Php's strength is you can get something done with 1/8th the code size and in 1/4th the time than in Java. It is a rich not overly engineered langauged.

I second that.

Java is really nice to have a 1 million line code complex business intelligence CRM and enterrpise app that takes a year to develop and is scalable with real engineering and architecture. But for a simple website? Come on!

Php has got a really bad wrap like its the Visual Basic of web development. But basic has its purpose for simple client server apps that need to be made quickly with up to medium complexity. Php with the right framework is great in that a good week you can have something ready that would take a month in Java.

Also what about liability? Will your ISP carrier it forever? How do you know Oracle wont sue for copyright violation for not buying an ORacle RDMS license? Their lawyers have proven to take this extreme view of copyright as a symbol with the same name in the same structure sequence identical to actual copyright infringement. I do not agree with that view and neither did the judge but I do not trust Oracle and this guy can not afford to defend himself.

Php is run inside the natively compiled web server software engine so it is faster than interpreted languages, though not as fast as .NET and Java.

It is a shame because I learned real object oriented programing with Java. It is amazing what mismanagement of an asset can do to a language.

Wasn't GWT discontinued?

The probem is always management. It is taught in business school. They tell the other guys what to do and set the budget.

In a large office with 3,000 users a few IT support guys are rushing around constantly and do not have the time to update and do testing. The budget is never set high enough to do it as they are viewed as cost sink or cost center by the finance department. The bean counters are much to blame as do the management for not selling themselves better about the hidden costs not shown in Excel by the CPAs in board meetings on why you need IT.

My specialty is not .NET.

I can tell you that when I rewipe my computer with a fresh Win 7 image there are over 120 security updates and half are .NET. Hours later there are more security updates with the .NET platform. I do not think it is secure as you think.