When I say I spent three years on the back end I'll tell you what it largely consisted of. Me pouring over every kind of book I could get my hands on that taug

When I say I spent three years on the back end I'll tell you what it largely consisted of. Me pouring over every kind of book I could get my hands on that taught about relational database design and theory and then went through with the help of management studio for SQL Server 2005 and let the GUI do most of the coding. So all I really know is rudimentary TSQL and what I've been able to learn about vb.net in my spare time in the past year (not much). That's why I say I'm a noob. I know I either can't or shouldn't do a front end wit TSQL. VB seems okay for an intermediate client side solution but I want something that will work well and scale well for a more public ready face. I'm thinking seriously about Scala.