Port Forwarding with WinXP & Westell 2200 router

[tain]

Here is the link to be an MSFN sponsor:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=66382

[tain]

Forgot to mention that LAMP is all the rage these days.

[thedelraynian]

What's up TAiN?

Thanks for the tip on LAMP. It sounds pretty impressive.

Ya know...I'm beginning to think that I should dump my Windows-based server related softare. Yeah, they've all got great GUIs, lots of documentation, a large online community with vast resources, intergrate with my Office software (Word, Outlook & Excel) and a seemingly abundant supply of free tools. The problems I worry about are not only that once I get involved in building web sites with them that I'll discover that the other shoe will start falling via the need to pay for additional tools or services, but that I'll cut myself off from the growing open source community; LAMP is simply another example of the dynamic upward trend in that direction. The people at Microsoft aren't dummies; they see the writting on the wall, thus the push on their free stuff.

I still haven't created anything close to a comprehensive plan for the tools, applications and services that I want to use to build my web sites on so I feel that the leap has got to be made in one direction or the other--soon. In order to go the open source route, I assume that I'd have to get rid of:

Visual Web Developer and go with Apache built on LAMP?

SQL Express and go with MySQL?

Visual Basic and VBscript-no need for them except locally?

By the way, have you had any exposure to or have an opinion on Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/platform/) or DBDesigner4 (http://www.fabforce.net/)?

Thanks for trying to keep me hip,

Dan

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Dagnabit! I had a response almost all typed up and lost it in a browser/user error.

I'll redo it later :/

Edited June 21, 2006 by TAiN

[tain]

OK, gonna try this again...

Ya know...I'm beginning to think that I should dump my Windows-based server related softare.

Before you do all of that maybe you should load up a LAMP environment and try it out? Check out XAMPP or a Live CD version in a virtual machine. I use XAMPP lite all the time when I am testing new stuff for one of my websites. Never tried the livecd, but it looks interesting and I'm a big fan of live cds in general.

By the way, have you had any exposure to or have an opinion on Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/platform/) or DBDesigner4 (http://www.fabforce.net/)?

I seem to remember trying the Eclipse IDE a while back. It didn't do anything for me that smaller apps like HTMLKit didn't already do faster. YMMV. Never tried any fabforce tools, but I'm not much for DBs. They are too much like programming...which I can do, but try not to

Side note: if you anticipate lots of LAMP discussion you should probably start a new thread for it. We have wandered around quite a bit in this one!

Edited June 21, 2006 by TAiN