A new but unofficial performance benchmark test by a senior Microsoft developer is spurring debate in the ASP.NET and PHP communities, even as it reveals some surprising findings.

ASP enforces a more structured coding environment than LAMP, although the coder/programmer is ultimately responsible for any web development design, regardless of the tools used to build the site.

Australian tech commentator Daniel Winter looks beyond the hype to show you where and when to use PHP, ASP and ASP.NET for your Web applications.

A good portion of learning to "program" is the theory behind it, so learning how to do Web programming in ASP won't hurt you. You will be able to apply many of the methodologies and principles to PHP.

I want to make a table sortable by column, but my school's server doesn't support PHP or ASP. Therefore I am reduced to using java, cgi (limited), or some other method. I thought about exporting ...