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PHP VS Ruby on Rails. Which one is best for a beginner?

Obviously I will also be needing to implement MySQL in there as well. Well? Which would you suggest for a beginner?I’ve never seen, nor really know anything about ruby, so my vote is PHP

How long would it take someone to learn PHP? How long before I could edit stuff, etc…?

C++ crew?

So I just left my job as a Senior .NET developer to take a job as a C++ developer making cross-platform software I haven’t touched C in about 10 years so I picked up the K&R C Language book to get a good refresher on C and now I’m reading Effective C++ [...]

community college classes

so my mom wants me to take some community college classes during my sr year and i was wondering what i should choose my options are
Computer Literacy
Microsoft Office
Pc Repair
MS Project
Computer Forensics
Web Design & Development
Web Developer Certificate
Web Designer Certificate
CCNA/CCNP
JAVA/J2EE
A+
Oracle OCA & OCP Prep
any ideas if so thanksstay away from all those computer literacy, office, web design [...]

what is the best way to save drivers on a system before a format and reinstall?

i have a winxp computer that i’m going to format and reinstall windows for a friend. i’d like to save him the hassle of getting drivers for his camera, printer etc
i thought all the drivers were in the system32 folder. i remember saving this from a system i worked on in the past [...]

Programming for Beginners

I am looking to get into programming/Dev work.
I have been doing HW/network/tech support for a long time and I am burned out on it. I was talking to one of our developers at work and he suggested reading up on and starting with C# and ASP.net.
Any suggestions/thoughts/book recommendations for a newby? I have absolutely 0 [...]

website contact form not working

my form doesn’t work. can anyone help me?
here’s the code in the html file:
<form method="POST" action="contact2.php">
Fields marked (*) are required
<p>Email From:* <br>
<input type="text" name="EmailFrom">
<p>FirstName:<br>
<input type="text" name="FirstName">
<p>LastName:<br>

Whats the most flexible/Useful application development language?

I decided to expand my programming knowledge beyond the php horizon, and leaning an actual application development language, but there are so many out there. C++ C#, .net, etc…
Which should should I get started with thats most newbie friendly and something I can build on to create complex applications down the road.Whats a better tool [...]

Problems creating a new project in visual studio 2008

I am trying to create a new project in Visual Studio 2008, new project > Visual C# > Windows Form Application
and I get
"Invalid URI: The hostname is could not be parsed"
project creation failed….
does anyone know how can I fix that error?Did you try to reinstall it? Maybe there’s a repair feature?

best hard drive set up?

I am trying to figure out the best configuration for my hard drives. Right now I have a 640 GB drive with one partition, and everything just sits on there. I just bought a 750 GB drive and I am considering my options on how to format it.
I am thinking:
drive one
– partition [...]

What is your experience?

So, based on Deus’s thread I was wondering what everyone’s experience is here when it comes to computers. I think I may have asked this before, but I have a bad memory.
I’ve been in IT about 13 years or so now with about 4 years in PC type support (helpdesk and desktop), around 10 [...]