So, for a person with a strong C++ background, what webapp development framework/language is likely to be the easiest to learn and use? And then, what are the 3 best books to introduce that framework to someone who doesn't know the language, but does have a strong C++ background?
If your C++ fu is really, really strong, you might wanna check out OKWS (http://www.okws.org/). The performance is sick, as you might expect, but I can tell you from experience that it's not for the faint of heart. The asychronous coding makes for some really tough debugging situations, among other things.