What's the next step?

[SaniSage]

Hello everybody! I need some help concerning where I should go and what I should do next.(I hope this is the correct section. If it isn't, i'm sorry) I'm pretty good with HTML, CSS, and know a great amount of JavaScript. With these, I can accomplish some really neat things! I'm just not sure what I need to learn next. I know that SEO would be a very good investment of my time, but I also think I should learn about how to communicate between sites and DB's. I'm pretty sure this means a serverside language of some sort along with MySQL.... I've read around but can't really grasp exactly what I should do. There are a ton of things that seem important. Should I take the time to learn PHP? RoR? Flash/ActionScript? Can you use Node.js to communicate with Databases? I guess I just need some type of direction to take, lol. Also some simple explaining of what exactly RoR and Node.js are....

Thanks in advance!

[Jack-AH]

Bro I will tell you spend some time here take your work seriusly

[Sabz]

All very good questions indeed, it all depends on you, and what you want to accomplish next. i was at the very same crossroads myself a few months ago..

Due to the nature of my business i opted for PHP/MySQL to strengthen my back-end programming. I hear good things about RoR too, actionscipt is a bit of a question mark as it not really sustainable.

And Yes, Node.js can interact wit mySQl.

Check out node.js module list

node-mysql — A node.js module implementing the MySQL protocol
node-mysql-native — Yet another pure JS async driver. Pipelining, prepared statements.
node-mysql-libmysqlclient — MySQL asynchronous bindings based on libmysqlclient
node-mysql-pool — connection pool for node.js on top of Felix Geisendörfer’s MySQL client node-mysql.


All in all, keep learning what suits you the most.. I chose php/mysql and i'd recommend the same.

[harini]

Bro I will tell you spend some time here take your work seriusly

[SaniSage]

All very good questions indeed, it all depends on you, and what you want to accomplish next. i was at the very same crossroads myself a few months ago..

Due to the nature of my business i opted for PHP/MySQL to strengthen my back-end programming. I hear good things about RoR too, actionscipt is a bit of a question mark as it not really sustainable.

And Yes, Node.js can interact wit mySQl.

Check out node.js module list

node-mysql — A node.js module implementing the MySQL protocol
node-mysql-native — Yet another pure JS async driver. Pipelining, prepared statements.
node-mysql-libmysqlclient — MySQL asynchronous bindings based on libmysqlclient
node-mysql-pool — connection pool for node.js on top of Felix Geisendörfer’s MySQL client node-mysql.


All in all, keep learning what suits you the most.. I chose php/mysql and i'd recommend the same.

Thanks a bunch!!! I'll get into it soon.