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- murmer
This bugs me. I am planning to take a program at UBC for Internet programming both server side and client side. But, the main language the focus on is Cold Fusion for server side.. There reasoning for this is the learning curve, it uses a similar syntax as html, which makes learning for newbies easier. The down way down side is Cold Fusion is a proprietary technology that you have to license to use like ASP. And that bites my ass royally because I still believe in a free Internet and PHP is all that.
Why would a school teach you something that ties you into a company and its proprietary language, which is muy $$..
?????? Talk to me
- brundlefly0
I have no idea, coldfusion isn't all that common anymore.
- murmer0
Yeah, im asking about taking extra PHP and Javascript courses in exchange for some of the simpler courses in the program.
Anyone with opnions on my question/rant?
- brundlefly0
although quite a few UBC grads came through our company, all doing dot net and ASP stuff here in Calgary....
UBC can't be all that bad
- murmer0
I know UBC is good, my girlfriend took multimedia there and she has had incredible success.
I’m just worried about basing a course on a licensed and proprietary technology.
- cosmo0
are there any good grad school in US for internet programming and web stuff. Or in the similar field.
- mirola0
cf is pretty cool in itself but there's all these problems, mostly about the cost of it which i'm guessing you're already aware of. also, there's a much smaller developer base so there's less help out there. if you have to use cf try and do a lot of it as script i.e. inbetween tags. the syntax is similar to php/javascript/actionscript etc just the you have to use GT instead of > or ET instead of ||. cf is pretty cool but php is just the dogs bollocks.
- mirola0
bollox! i mean, cfscript tags
- mirola0
oh fuck it!
- tfs__mag0
mirola... why do you need school to teach you php? it's easy as piss to learn. I came from an ASP background and learned enough to create database driven apps in php in a week. Don't put so much stock in what your school offers and get out there and learn it on your own. You'll do better to learn by trial and error in real-life then to spend 9 weeks learning something you could have done in two. just my opinion.
- mirola0
tfs__mag, i hope you were talking to murmer. i learned this lesson a long time ago.
- tfs__mag0
oops.. my bad, i meant murmur haha
- mirola0
you're absolutely right though. autodidactic is the only way to be.
i have wanted to use that word for years.
- murmer0
I must have made at typo. My class is 9 months long.
autodidactic ? what the deuce is that?
- mirola0
someone who's self taught.
a thank yow
- murmer0
Oh, oh my.