Comments on: How I Got Into Web Design https://paulrandall.com/2009/01/11/how-i-got-into-web-design/ Experimenting for a living. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:48:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Paul https://paulrandall.com/2009/01/11/how-i-got-into-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:31:35 +0000 http://prandall.com/?p=5#comment-25 I have personally found PHP to be able to do the same thing ASP does, but in much less lines. That said, I was using MS products when I first got into web development, but colleagues have noticed similar things.

The difference with MS SQL and MySQL, I couldn’t really say. I have worked on databases a lot more in mySQL, and now use a lot more functions built in to mySQL.

I haven’t found any reliability problems with the MS products, and have found the open-source communities to be fantastic. There are lots of people with good tips and tricks to share.

]]> By: Ollie https://paulrandall.com/2009/01/11/how-i-got-into-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:45:05 +0000 http://prandall.com/?p=5#comment-24 Very interesting!
I’d like to take a similar kind-of path than you – IT Admin and what not.
I’m personally more confident programming back-end and leaving the design to somebody else, however I have been told I have a good eye for design.

Just a quick question – putting bias aside, what do you personally prefer?
Microsoft products (ASP and MS SQL Server) or Open-Source (PHP and MySQL)?
I haven’t had a chance to work with Microsoft products, I’m a more open-source guy – simply because it’s free and supposedly more reliable. ;-)

Ollie

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