Best language to develop with

[clonmelog]

Hello,

Im about to take on a project in college and what im basically wanting to do is to create a program that will run on startup of a users PC and check the current IP of the computer. I then want the program to send this data to an online db so that it can be viewed on a webpage. The basic idea is something similar to that done by dyndns.com so that users with dynamic IP's can find out the IP of their computer and as a result access it remotely without having to write down their IP every time.

Im not sure which technologies would be the best to implement this as all of my previous development has been online websites etc.... ive heard a lot about how great ruby is but dont know if that would do anything like this. Ive also been advised that .NET would be a good choice but at the same time done really know what this is and dont know how to get started with it.

any suggestions are welcomed.

thanks. :)

[Fissure]

Why would you want this program to check on start up? Is it a nessecary feature?

I would reccommend using a simple php site if all the users need is thier IP address.

http://bender.despyz.com/~devin/test.php

[clonmelog]

it needs to run on statup due to the fact that the service is for users with dyniamic IP's and hence its different every time.

[Fissure]

it needs to run on statup due to the fact that the service is for users with dyniamic IP's and hence its different every time.

that site generates your ip whenever you visit it. so if you just gave all the people a link to the site, it would work. They could just visit it each time they log on.

[_Dan]

Personally I would use C++, but only as that is what I have experience with.

[windumi]

c# is also a good choice

[felgall]

There is not a 1 to 1 relationship between computers and ip addresses. Each computer has at least two ip addresses assigned to it and may have more.

[TheShaner]

Also, who would ever want to install a program on their computer that sends their IP to an online DB when they start their computer??? That's right in the area of spyware. If it's a program running on their computer, then who knows what other information it could be gathering (although I'm sure you only have good intentions with this).

If you go to a site like showmyip.com, they're only using a server-side script to display it. What's the difference between this and what you want?

-Shane

[hyperbole]

You should be able to write a perl script that will look up you IP and place it in a known location for you.



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[DoubtlessOne]

anything to do with internet (besides networking)
I would use Java (J++) or J# whichever...
or PHP with SQL
but that's my opinion :p