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Calling Programming Experts - Which is the Right Code for Project?

crimsonblack

1:39 am on Mar 10, 2011 (gmt 0)

I need to know which programming language is the most secure and yet the best match for a project that I am about to develop.

The project will be a web collaboration app similar to basecamp but for a very specific market so it will have many different features. I only mention basecamp as it is an online web app where people would log in

I am still trying to decide if i will sell what I am going to have developed as either

1. One place people access like basecampe
2. A solution that users can download, install on their server and use.

Key is it has to be secure as the type of information that would be inputted by clients would be extremely sensitive and private and I dont want to hire a programmer and select the wrong programming language that can be easily hacked into

Tommybs

8:06 am on Mar 10, 2011 (gmt 0)

With any programming language there are pros and cons, it's down to who ever is developing it to follow best practice and make it secure for the language they use by properly validating data and users input. More over, you'll also most likely need to look at how secure the infrastructure is. For instance what about using SSL certificates for all pages? If users download the solution they could install it behind a firewall and only access it internally which would be more secure then having it on the open web. If it needs to be that secure it will boil down to more than just the language .

rocknbil

5:23 pm on Mar 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

The language is really irrelevant, you will probably wind up with PHP because that's what most coders are doing these days.

the type of information that would be inputted by clients would be extremely sensitive and private

You're going to want to look a little more into back end hardware and the security of your systems. You will likely need a dedicated hosting solution that offers secure, PCI compliant servers. I don't know if it's a medical site, but if you build it along the guidelines for HIPPA, it will lead you in the right direction.

lammert

12:06 am on Mar 14, 2011 (gmt 0)

If you want to sell your code without people being able to peek into it, use something which can be one-way compiled like Java or C#. It won't be easy to find cheap quality developers for these languages though.