[Kadoghan]

I've been using Cog for a while for the things that I write, because I've been afraid to dabble in the programming that many of you guys do.

Now that I'm ready to do proramming for things online, I've decided that I should find out how you guys are doing it. Are you guys using programs that take script and convert them into programs of your own, like Cog? How do YOU take your script, and make it a creation?

Sorry if this sounds kind of like a n00bish question, I'm just assuming that using things like Cog is different from what you guys do. After all, RuBbEr DuCkY wrote that awesome malware killer program. It was simple, and because it focused on one thing, it got the job done. I've not done anything like that, so can you explain what you guys are doing? Tsunam and Cristobal03 helped me on another board, and I'm speaking on both boards to gather all the info I need.

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Basically, what I mean is, what programming tools do you use?

[php guy]

Hi,

I've never used Cog, so I can't help with the differences. One thing you gotta know about web programming is that it's not the same as computer programming. Web programming is used to take user input, be it form data, browser/system data etc., process it, then do something with that info, like write to a database, email it, create a new/dynamic page and so on. This is done with web languages like php, perl, asp(vb and jscript), asp.net, jsp, ext. Javascript/Actionscript sort of fit in this, but their client side.

Web programing doesn't take any special kind of editor to write, I use dreamweaver(you can even use notepad), and MS has visual studios for their stuff(I never touch anything MS made for web though). To actually run it, you need a SSI to use it.

so can you explain what you guys are doing?

What do you mean?

Literally, were hitting a bunch of keys making allot of letters, numbers, and other characters, then uploading all the 1's and 0's to some remote(or local) server, then waiting for it to mess up, then writing a bunch more characters to try and fix it.

If you mean programming wise, It really depends on what kind of job you need done. One day, one could be writing a script for clients to access a pop3 account so they can check their mail. The next day, they could be writing a script to log users info for 10,000 pages, then some other day, something as simple as adding a "1" to a visible counter of the main page.

I probably didn't help much, but if you have a specific question, feel free to ask, the more you ask, the more of a chance I have to make sense.