Diary of a Web Developer: Fork in the Road Michigan

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My editor told me I might receive some e-mails in response to my previous column, but I don't think either of us expected that I would receive over a hundred (and still counting)! While I enjoy each and every e-mail, I hope that I didn't mislead anyone with my invitation to send me questions that I would be able to address each and every one individually - I'm afraid there just isn't enough time in the day for that! I don't want to discourage anyone, so let me reset the expectations that I didn't set in the previous column: I cannot respond to your e-mail, but I will read all of them and pick one (or more, depending on available space) to address in my next column. So please keep those e-mails coming!

Jason Purdy

I've received a lot of really great comments and questions - my pick for this month comes from Hossam Khodary, who asks:

It has a Sybase database and has a full perl implementation
(You can build custom functions using perl). The system is
running on Sun/Solaris 2.7 and using apache for a web server.

What I need to do is build a web interface that will launch an...

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