mrkurt's devblog

Hello all: Here on devBlog, my purpose is to talk about different issues involved with web development in particular and application development in general. My work as a programmer and IT consultant has me involved with a lot of different issues concerning web development and I have started this space to be able to write essays/short comments on the salient issues of the day for me and for the web development community. I come to this as a developer who has worked a lot with Active Server Pages, and a little bit so far with PHP. Along the way, I have discovered that ASP isn't all that-- for a number of reasons. But I find myself more and more having to deal with issues involving plain old HTML and JavaScript, and trying to take my game to the next level. It seems the only way to do that is to move away from ASP and on to another scripting language like PHP, and to solidify my HTML and JavaScript skills. I have about 2 1/2 years of experience in programming altogether. I...