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I enjoy the programming site, but am quite comfortable with PHP. Should I bother to learn something like ASP or Rails or AJAX.
 


ASP and Rails are similar to PHP - just different languages. ASP is handy because its usually used on a different platform than PHP. AJAX is more like javascript than an actual scripting languag - use it for enhancing your page, not building it.

It of course never hurts to learn something new, but I wouldnt say any are absolutly needed.
 
I've been asking myself the same question lately. I wouldn't recommend ASP, it's archaic, .NET would be better. I've been thinking of looking into AJAX more. RoR doesn't have enough hosting out there and i doubt mine will offer it anytime soon, they finally upgraded to PHP 5 a few months ago and who knows when they'll go to MySQL 5
 
learn the xmlhttprequest object (ajax)

AJAX is NOT a new technology. It's been around for several years.. and only recently it got very very popular for no apparent reason.
 
The beauty of .net, is that if you become bored with websites, you can jump over to windows forms and begin writing applications! (same language)

Tie these up with .net webservices and you have one very-powerful platform.

You can't do this with php/asp/RoR, so why bother heading down that road?
 
Chris, that is the beauty I saw of .NET but can't remember how to do (not that I get much into using .NET at home). The instructor showed it quickly up on the board and phucked if I could keep up with what he was doing let alone remember what he did. he had the business logic that he dragged and dropped into two files - one being a web site and the other the client side application -- both of which fed off of the same business logic. I never paid attention much in my .NET class but did i see correctly that it was that easy to use the same business logic across two applications?
 
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