Book recommendations on developing commercial Websites?
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I just looked at my naive daughter's Website and she knows absolutely nothing about programming yet has a shopping cart up there that makes payments into PayPal. I find this extremely encouraging. I sort of heard that there are turnkey shopping carts that you can just drop into a Website, and I'll be that's exactly what she's done. If she can figure it out, I'll bet you a dollar that I can figure out how to do that. But I thought you needed an Internet Merchant Account in order to do that. Maybe only if you want to use things like Master Card and Visa. Anyhow, in the last couple of months I've taught myself SQL Server and ADO.NET and they're probably like rocket science compared to dropping a shopping cart control into my Website. So in spite of Mark Nischalke's judgment that I'm too feeble-minded to do it, I'll just bet he's dead wrong in his opinion that I won't be able to successfully build an "eCommerce application," as he puts it. To demonstrate even more of my ignorance, I'm not even sure what he means by an "eCommerce application." Does he merely mean a Website that can collect money? That's all I need! I've got the application itself that I want to sell. Sounds as if the shopping cart is actually one of the smaller pieces of the puzzle and that I already have everything else. It's amazing how much you can learn by asking "dumb" questions on the Internet. All you have to do is be willing to take completely unwarranted insults.
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I have certainly failed to find the books that you reference, so maybe, as you conjecture, I am just totally doomed to failure through utter incompetence. I certainly did not think of Googling for eCommerce, but I just did and found out it means shopping cart software. That's what I need, all right. But I'm not sure my ignorance of the right word to Google for means I'm a total dunce. I admit that for the past 20 years, I've been in a kind of programming rut. But in the last 15 months, I have managed to scratch build a highly polished (and I think commercially viable) WPF application consisting of 90,000 lines of C#, so my brain isn't in total shambles quite yet. It's just that my entire PC programming career (which stretches back to 1989) has been devoted to desktop applications and my employers never gave me an opportunity to learn Web programming, so I just don't know the vocabulary. I never even thought of Googling for "eCommerce." But thanks for the suggestions, in spite of your -- oh, so unkind sarcasm. At least I hope it made you feel good to think how superior you are to someone you don't even know.
fjparisIII wrote:
my employers never gave me an opportunity to learn
Don't blame your employer. Unless you live at your work 24x7, you have the ability to learn anything you want. I find it very unlikely that anyone with 20 years experience has not heard the term eCommerce, at least once, even with the months of self-taught SQL and ADO.NET it should have popped up somewhere. Also, having worked so much with WPF and C#, obvious Microsoft technologies, it is not conceivable to me that you did not accidentally stumble on something ASP.NET or web related. Don't blame others for your failings.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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fjparisIII wrote:
my employers never gave me an opportunity to learn
Don't blame your employer. Unless you live at your work 24x7, you have the ability to learn anything you want. I find it very unlikely that anyone with 20 years experience has not heard the term eCommerce, at least once, even with the months of self-taught SQL and ADO.NET it should have popped up somewhere. Also, having worked so much with WPF and C#, obvious Microsoft technologies, it is not conceivable to me that you did not accidentally stumble on something ASP.NET or web related. Don't blame others for your failings.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
I will correct that one vote!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Why don't you wander over to ... (1) Microsoft and download their demo applications, and perhaps even their video tutorials. (2) Paypal and look at their guidance pages for processing Paypal transactions. They really are helpful and you can learn an awfully lot from them. You can't expect the CP members to "hold your hand" every step of the way.
Richard A. Abbott wrote:
You can't expect the CP members to "hold your hand" every step of the way.
I didn't ask for that! All I asked for was book recommendations! I swear you guys are a bunch of babies looking to humiliate.
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fjparisIII wrote:
my employers never gave me an opportunity to learn
Don't blame your employer. Unless you live at your work 24x7, you have the ability to learn anything you want. I find it very unlikely that anyone with 20 years experience has not heard the term eCommerce, at least once, even with the months of self-taught SQL and ADO.NET it should have popped up somewhere. Also, having worked so much with WPF and C#, obvious Microsoft technologies, it is not conceivable to me that you did not accidentally stumble on something ASP.NET or web related. Don't blame others for your failings.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
You're being very abusive. Please get off my case.
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I will correct that one vote!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
What an attitude from this guy.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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You're being very abusive. Please get off my case.
Then report it! I'm sure everyone will enjoy the laugh
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
You can't expect the CP members to "hold your hand" every step of the way.
I didn't ask for that! All I asked for was book recommendations! I swear you guys are a bunch of babies looking to humiliate.
fjparisIII wrote:
you guys are a bunch of babies looking to humiliate.
No, you've done that pretty well yourself. ;P
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
You can't expect the CP members to "hold your hand" every step of the way.
I didn't ask for that! All I asked for was book recommendations! I swear you guys are a bunch of babies looking to humiliate.
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Paypal is pretty straight forward. Just read their web pages. No humiliation was directed, directly or indirectly, at you.
I don't know why it isn't apparent that my problem was SOLVED long ago on this thread. Can't people read my titles? I don't understand why additional replies keep coming and coming. I wish everyone would just get over it.