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Ask HN: What languages?

Hi

I've had a project up on the net for a while, and because I'm not a coder, progress has been out of my hands. For many reasons, I want to change this and either assist my partner or just plain take over due to current progress rate.

The project is an online press release aggregator and I'd like to find out what languages/databases I'd need to learn to carry on myself, and where I can find good tuts as well as compilers (for mac) for this?

Thanks

( 4 comments | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: What languages? by DanielStraight on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @08:59AM (#1860220)
If some code has already been written, shouldn't you learn that language? If there's already a database in use, shouldn't you learn that database?
Re:Ask HN: What languages? by grobolom on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:19AM (#1860279)
Talk to your partner and ask him what he coded it in, then start learning it. Also have a talk with him about management issues. It sounds like it's your project but it's not going according to an agreed-upon plan. Having a serious chat with him about it is probably a better place to start than just pulling the project from him.
Re:Ask HN: What languages? by eof on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:03AM (#1860232)
Did you mean to post a link to the site to allow us to help you figure out which language it is in?
Re:Ask HN: What languages? by instakill on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @09:33AM (#1860325)
Seeing as most of the community here keep up to date with latest best practices, I figured that maybe it would be wiser to change to something that would offer more.