Ask HN: I'm an experienced developer but I don't understand the internet

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16 years ago

I'm a seasoned developer (mainly VFX & desktop apps), but I'd like to learn how to make web apps and would like to learn by making a simple flickr clone. What advice/resources/technologies would you guys recommend for starting out?

Dunning-Kruger effect aside (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect), I'm hoping it will be easy to ramp up since I'm not new to development. (Altho I hate database work so i'm sure this will get interesting really fast)

Here's what I gleaned from fellow programmers: Python, Google Apps, NoSQL: plus. MS ACS/Azure: expensive.

Thanks in advance

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