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In regards to web design and programming, is there really a best language? Is there really only one language? This among others is questions I’ve been pondering questioning what I want to do with the rest of my life. I’ve thus far dabbled with many things computer/internet/web and I’m pretty sure I love web design and not the graphics side but the programming and layout side. I’ve been researching what I want to learn first. I really think I’m leaning towards ROR (or Ruby On Rails).

Ruby On Rails is supposed to be hte “FUN” way to program and while taht very well may be true, you still have to know logic with programming and that is always hard to do and not always anyways FUN. I like the idea of an open source language but that opens up multiple versions and add-ons all over hte place and can lead to confusion for the beginner.

You also must consider jobs available and Who is using these languages as well. There are certainly many jobs out there for Microsoft’s line of programming but that is just expensive to keep up with the tools and books etc..

I don’t know I guess I’m just babbling now but I think the answer to this question simply is NO. It is really a personal choice and there is major pros and cons to whichever language you use.

till next time,

Jonathan

What I (and many others) hope will be the biggest story of the year, the Microsoft takeover bid of Yahoo thus far is a big snoozefest. I really wished they would just kiss and make up and get on with acquisition details.  I’m not a big user of Live, MSN, or Yahoo so I guess that is what excites me the most about the deal personally is to see what comes out of it an see if they can persuade me to leave Google Gmail and several other Google services I currently use every day.

Word on the digital street is Yahoo is looking for a deal (Microsoft or otherwise) but believes the current deal on the table undervalues their company but I’m unsure if it’s th eYahoo of today or tomorrow. Yahoo has given a projection of a major financial increases by 2010 mostly from a new online AD platform that isn’t even out currently and other promised technologies. It sounds to me like Yahoo is just buying time and playing games and stockholders need to step up to the plate if they expect to get their piece and lets get this thing rolling. If nobody else is stepping up to buy, it’s sounds like Microsoft has found  the target or better market value to me.

Am I missing something here? What do you think about the deal?