[AustinSchuh]

I generally recommend C++ to people who are experienced with programming, and Java to most everyone else. My experience with Java has been that it's design choices make bugs in Java code easier to find. My biggest complaint about Java and C++ is that it's hard to get data back from them in a visually easy way to use.

We've been using text files to store constants recently. So, it's really easy to change constants and they stick across reboots. Edit it on the local machine, and run a script to FTP it up into place.