Really great tips.
Although if you want to learn PHP wouldn't it be better to try to do your own Blogging system instead of using a premade one (WordPress)?

Also, you spelt Newgrounds wrong (you wrote New Grounds). ;P

You and your table-less css fan boys. :-P

Thanks!! This is a lot of help, I guess I'm off to the library to start studying up on PHP and Ruby. I figure I'll start learning both and develop then develop my skills on the one I like more.

wow this is really helpful thanks rob

I thought I knew PHP already, even built a few basic CMS scripts, yet I have no clue what a framework is, haha. Thanks for the advice! Lots of useful links there, it's time for research . . .

Heh, thanks. It's really helpful, since I'm hired to create a web site for a guy called Pikachu.

Newgrounds dose not use wordpress right?

Do you really look that old?

can you elaborate on #9 please

Developers Developers Developers Developers ...

That's a lot of words.

Thats all really very helpful rob, thanks! as to if its New Grounds or Newgrounds, both mean the same thing that Tom meant when he named the site 500 years ago.

>7. Developer time is more valuable than computer time. The bulk of a comp. sci. education is thus irrelevant for web applications. Even here at New Grounds, our biggest resource bottleneck is database IO, not code performance or memory consumption.

Aren't you just saying that us Computer Science majors should drop out of school and teach ourselves if we want to have your job someday?

Also an important question that is poking my mind; how do the salaries in web development compare to the salaries of software development?

Eeh, you're wrong. I did not misspell "spelt", I actually meant to say spelt.

It's delicious.

How much do you know about ASP.Net with 2.0 or 3.5?

I'm in information systems major for a senior project, had to make a website using visual web developer 2005 (don't laugh, I know, I know) with mysql has a database.

I swear, most websites I see only use php, and only government and school sites are the only ones I've ever seen to use asp.

I've been meaning to learn webness for a while now. I tried to learn HTML a while back, but I never seemed to be any good at it.

Oh well... thanks for the info, I may act upon it sometime.

Great informatin. Thanks.

A question...I want to be a computer programmer somday. Im currently a junior in highschool, 17 years old. My dream job would be to work for the video game industry. I know that is a broad field, just as saying a computer programmer is a broad field.
My question is, what is the best type of school to go to? University or trade school? Know any good ones of the top of your head? Better yet where'd you go, or are going?
Sorry if this question isn't too specific...thanks in advance.

Thanks for the tips Rob, I'm really interested in internet programming so I'll take your advice. So why don't you have an admin picture like the rest of the crew, even Psycho Goldfish has his, oh well. So you were studying Physics and not any kind of programming at all, I started college in Physics major too, but later changed to programming, :D

yeah. flash also looks hard whan you start to learn it. 5 years ago I heard the word "tween" and I alsmost take a pee on mah panties.

I bet that when people see you working they say shit like "OMG dude that looks so hard" and your all like "uh...its easy, a few html a few rollovahs...."

Am I right or am I right?

Good article, but I personally prefer PHP because it's open-source. It's easier to work with than Ruby (in my opinion). Also, what's with "the average PHP developer is incompetent?" Is Newgrounds not built on PHP? What really bugs me is that all the companies use .ASP, so it's hard to find a job with a large company knowing only PHP.
PS: Your avatar creeps me out.

This sounds like an interesting project. Thanks for the advice!

Also, I heard drupal is a good, Do you have an opinion on this?

How important are frameworks? And, uh, what are they? I downloaded cakePHP, but I don't know what to do with it. I always hand code everything in a text editor. I'm more of a web designer than a developer, so would it really benefit me to take your advice?

I used to be a lot in programming as well (used to be a loyal Programming forum regular - now trying to mod it mostly). But I must say this is seriously worthy content that might be extremely helpful in the Programming forum, when users are asking for help about learning developing web applications.

Must been a challenge for you digging in NG's PHP framework on how things work. In the past I've had some talk about NG's framework with the original programmer Ross on how things worked. Somewhat fascinating.

Anyway, good luck with your new job - hope to see you in the Programming forum every now and then!

Cheers!

Rob you rock!

Is it my computer, or do the comment go out of place on certain userpages?
(It does it on this page too)

Good evening , Rob. You totally read my mind. I was coming to your page to ask you a question about Web Development and voila...like magic you written a tiny FAQ on it.

I'm thinking about learning how to construct web pages as I see it as a great skill to have. I'm willing to put in the hard hours and learning how to do it but I've followed your Rule#10 and Googled everything I could and asked people from various sources but I haven't had much luck on getting the answer to my question for a few months now I've been trying on-and-off. I'm wondering if you can really quickly Help me now.

I'm looking to make some great websites for myself, my father and anytime I undertake some new way to make money...I think knowing how to build compelling websites is a great skill although I'm not sure what program I should invest my time in. Whenever I ask Google it always takes me to a 1st Party website where people are trying to peddle their product proclaiming it is the "Very best in the World" . . . that phrase in Legaleze means nothing and anyone can spout it whenever they want but not all are true.

I'm thinking of using Dreamweaver CS3 to build websites...excuse my ignorance if the product is something laughable to use but I'm clueless what product to invest my time with. Any thoughts would be great!

and finally add a decent bling-bling flash frontend ? =)

I will go ahead and pretend I know what all that means, and smile and nod so I look cool.

*frowns*

#8 - yes, indeed. I heard a story about a presumably "super coder" that wrote everything so superb and cool, running fast and ultra optimized. Too bad his code was not at all commented and unreadable (and I had opinions from a few veteran programmers who worked with the man). I'm not even saying how class names and variable names looked like...

Of course, everyone who had to touch that code after him cursed the guy (he left his company at some point of time). And suddenly it wasn't so super anymore...

Dude..i work with ASP.NET and i want to learn more about PHP...i just can't seem to configure properly the symfony.... =( ... omg..i wanna suck your brain !! >(( !

To: GuyWithHisComp (Below)
It IS New Grounds, which was then shortened to NewGrounds, then users got lazy and didn't do a capital G.

Moving on I think that you should get a caricature pretty soon, as you really kinda stand out from the rest of NG, in a bad way. You should at least make the background transparent so that you can see the NG beams behind the face.

FG

In my previous comment I meant (above).

FG

Cool. Have you ever used Microsoft Visual Basic 6? That's what I'm using to learn basic coding. It is from the 90s though, so it's kind outdated. See ya.