When to use what

I thought I would blog this, because as I learn new technologies it is becoming something that I find increasingly frustrating. Everybody has a favourite language, granted. Mine is PHP, closely followed by JavaScript, the jQuery library in particular. I am, of course, better at some languages than others - that's a given for anybody that does anything, you'll always be better at some things than others.

The frustrating thing I find are people who have a favourite language, who have even gone so far as to specialise in that language, but don't understand the limitations of it. Every technology has it's place, a truly good developer knows when to use what technologies and where.

Don't use a server side language if HTML will do, there's no need to write <?php echo "<p>This is my hello world</p>"; ?> when <p>Hello world</p> will do.

That's it for tonight's rant, I'll be back soon with some tutorials I'm thinking.

Yours,
Matt of Nuclear Dove