Web Development

Lately i have been doing a bunch of web development. Not the flat text files all in html stuff but dynamic web pages in a portal with Java, JSP, html, javascript in the front end with php asp, vb, .net, fortran and c as the backend (and sql, ....)
Quite different then the regular write in C stuff that i have been used to. Juggling 10 languages at the same time for the same proiject is a bit of a headache. (now was that strip or split or toArray that i wanted to use in this function, Oh ya this one is the while not eof ...)

I was showing a fellow worker what i was doing and I think it made his head hurt, he had to sit down. It's cool though, jetspeed and apache and tomcat4 as fronet end then a php apache server as middleware and linux backend with IIS and asp with vb, vbscript and fortran with a smattering of C on the Windows side.
Both sides have databases off on other machines, postgresql, mysql, MS SQL ... and old fortran code compiled to a dll with vb. net wrapping it to make it web visible.

I am also writing some of the pages as WAP interfaces to applications on the mainframe, it's going to all just click over like it was made to fit.
Starting tommorow I am in another office with all of my main systems back in my regular office. I put xandros on the laptop to test it and see how that works. i will be using tight vnc over a vpn to access the desktops back at the office and away we go.

Just have to love this stuff it lets you do what you want from where you want.

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