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Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 10:05 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 757
Posted By davetrebas
Re: Beginner app and website programmer?

Join or start a computer club at your high school. There is nothing like peer pressure to motivate you.

Join some programming forums and read the posts and ask lotsa questions.

Learn the...
Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 09:53 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,463
Posted By davetrebas
Re: Programming rant

Did this client write the script? If not, why not just level with him and explain that it is way beyond the scope of what you anticipated.

Any sort of contract, verbal or otherwise?

Of...
Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 09:32 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,547
Posted By davetrebas
Re: How Programmers calculate hours of Work?

I learned over the years if it is fixed fee then make my best estimate and double it. Also, never deliver anything without a firm contract in place with progress payments.

Also, if they did not...
Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 09:11 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 485
Posted By davetrebas
Re: FTP access

Same answer.

There are two typed of ftp. The one you use for access to the whole site to revise your website and limited ftp accounts that limit access to a single folder/directory. That's the...
Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 09:08 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 719
Posted By davetrebas
Re: Help with password protected download page.

That .htaccess page would need some password statements in it.

I like firstsocialapps solution better. Takes a little more code and logic but is more bullet proof.

You could also redirect...
Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 08:56 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 3,032
Posted By davetrebas
Re: Server side language which is best PHP or ASP.NET?

I used to teach asp.net before I retired. Now everything I do is php. They run on different platforms - ms vs linux. Much steeper learning curve on asp.net, but there are more tools for...
Forum: Programming 3rd December 2012, 08:40 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,113
Posted By davetrebas
Re: What should i learn first ?

Learn WordPress, put up some sites and make some money. Then, if you have any spare time, learn the nuts and bolts like html, java script, php etc.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2012, 06:55 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,366
Posted By davetrebas
Re: Easy $5 a day as seed money...

Just tried it. They wanted a short article on fly fishing over 150 words. Used Dragon to quickly do it. Now I am just waiting for approval.

I don't need this as a source of income, but thought...
Forum: Programming 30th November 2012, 09:46 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 683
Posted By davetrebas
Re: Need help to write PHP script

I have not tried this yet in my php code - just found it on another forum.

php is normally hard to debug. No breakpoints etc.

If you use FireFox there is an addon called firebug that is...
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