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freelancr · 31-10-2006, 16:49

Coldfusion has as far as I can tell come to the end of its development, not to say it isnt being used - as it is what is behind MySpace. Adobe/Macromedia Flex as far as I can tell is some Ajaxy thing, not a replacement for CF? (though I havent read up about it)

If you are looking to jump into something thats quite easy to grasp the basics of, then consider looking at PHP. Plenty of opensource code to help you in your understanding - and plenty of books and tutorials.

I have grasped the basics of PHP, but have now moved onto learning ASP.NET - it is proving harder to learn than php because it is quite new, there are different languages to learn within it (vb.net\c#\j#) and there are big differences between the versions so most 1.0 or 1.1 stuff doesnt apply for 2.0.

Also, I am using MySQL for the database which doesnt help when everyone else uses MS SQL.

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freelancr Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,171	Coldfusion has as far as I can tell come to the end of its development, not to say it isnt being used - as it is what is behind MySpace. Adobe/Macromedia Flex as far as I can tell is some Ajaxy thing, not a replacement for CF? (though I havent read up about it) If you are looking to jump into something thats quite easy to grasp the basics of, then consider looking at PHP. Plenty of opensource code to help you in your understanding - and plenty of books and tutorials. I have grasped the basics of PHP, but have now moved onto learning ASP.NET - it is proving harder to learn than php because it is quite new, there are different languages to learn within it (vb.net\c#\j#) and there are big differences between the versions so most 1.0 or 1.1 stuff doesnt apply for 2.0. Also, I am using MySQL for the database which doesnt help when everyone else uses MS SQL.