Re: [Sheflug] Re: Hypercard

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Matt Fairtlough wrote:

> Fair enough.   Need to think again about the ISP for my pages then.   But of
> course I don't have Oracle or any other serious db engine on my machine at
> home

I would recommend PostgreSQL or MySQL if you want to use databases for all
but the most demanding stuff. (There are some extremely large sites run
Postgres)

> I'll have a look then.  But I think Perl is more my thing.  I'm at novice
> level
> I think.

I feel the need to Python evangelise. :)
Really, try it, you might like it.

> Thanks a million for your advice, guys.  I see that it would be possible for
> me to
> develop a decent authoring environment, but I guess I won't find the time
> to do it for quite a long time.  Not when I can't even work out how to get

There is a lack of good software for publishing websites on Linux IMO.
There's big server side setups like Zope and Midgard, and the standard
"beefed up text editor with new toolbar not really any better than using
emacs" type design packages.

Oh well. Never mind. Keeps web designers in a job. :)


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