Me LAMP, other people? maybe other stuff. Picking a stack is a combination of the tools which will effectively solve whatever issues you have that work for how

Me LAMP, other people? maybe other stuff. Picking a stack is a combination of the tools which will effectively solve whatever issues you have that work for how you develop as well as work with your computing platform(s) of choice. a) start with whats readily available and what you can understand and learn/build from there. b) find what widely popular for your market (solutions will vary) and start with that. A better question is "I am wanting to do [this] (and maybe [that]), what stacks work best for it? and why?" I do data based web APPS, PHP/MySQL are well suited, they are pretty unrestrictive and very flexible - in that you need to be aware to code for security: watch your inputs and how code can be called and learn some good programming practices to avoid spaghetti code. They also scale pretty easily. They aren't bleeding edge exciting but get the job done quite easily. Besides just asking find web apps you like and research what they are created with.