Hello

Just wondering if anyone of you know any software (free one ;p cos I cant afford to buy ;p) that work similar to microsoft visual basic. I intend to create a program to help me monitor my financial status ;p kekeke .... getting older and yet cant figure out where the #$#R%# my $$$ went to. So thinking of creating a simple database that will help me monitor my $$$ as well as fellow family members, if they wish to monitor too! ;p

I m pretty comfortable with MS Excel VBA, however, it seem that i cant operate the program in OpenOffice - spreadsheets.

btw, any one has any idea where to read some very basic essence in PERL & PHP programming? Heard that these two are great programs to learn! I thought the trend now is on JAVA ... ;p

well, a zillion thank you in advance for any help rendered.

Hi,

What do you mean with "similar"? I'm not aware of a "Visual Basic" for Linux (in the sense of the language), but there are many IDEs that allow you to develop applications "visually", but using other languages. For instance:

- KDevelop, for almost any language, but particularly strong with C, C++.
- Eclipse, netbeans, for Java (well, Eclipse can work with many other languages... netBeans I don't know)
- Quanta/Bluefish for HTML and PHP scripting (good choice if you want to use MySQL, a free database manager)
- Boa, for Python (BOA=IDA, Python=Language )
- Lazarous, for Pascal (it's like Borland Delphi)

If you feel comfortable working with VBA, you can giv also OpenOffice a try. It has also its own macro-language (that you can learn) and it should work cross-platform (so you develop in Linux, but your family can use it in Windows).

HTH!

EDIT: Forgot Mono, because I don't know too much about it. I think it is something like .NET (which also I don't know), but cross-platform. The language is C#.

Gambas is very similar to Visual Basic.

Hello

thx alot for the replies! really appreciate your helpz guys

to enemorales - what I mean is that any software that work in similar manner as the M$ Visual Basic / VB.Net, and it's free and i can do the programming in linux environment

think i will give Gambas a try. hope i like it ;p hehehe

btw, any html editor that's similar to M$ Frontpage? i mean those editor that let you "What you see is what you get" stuff me lazy to create html using html or xml codes, prefer the M$ Frontpage method - tho' not nice but easy n fast to create ;p kekekeke sorry ..

once again, a zillion thank you for any advises

To learn Perl get the Llama book described here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/
highly recommended

For web-pages "without" html you can try the editor that comes with mozilla or Quanta.

nvu is a pretty nice wysiwyg web page editor.

Hello

thx for all the suggestions. will give those softwares a try

once again, a zillion thank you

haf a great week ahead!

If you want a good program to manage your finances (Quicken-style) GnuCash is good.

Also check out some of the things going on with the Mono project, an open-source Linux implementation of .NET