"In other news, the number of IT professionals getting laid has increased,..."
Great I missed out on the "getting laid" boom too along with the dot-com boom?
Well if I'm lucky there will be a "getting old and sexy" boom soon and I'll be part of that one, at least the "old" part.
I learned more about the current state of laser surgery and a hell of a lot about eyesight in general from this thread. For example, I thought my problem with blue neon signs at night was a rare phenomenon.
Somebody with a high page rank health related site needs to "sticky" this thread.
Thanks to all!
SilentMajority,
I have not looked at some of the IDE's you mentioned, but my experience with the others I have seen is that they are more along the lines of an EMACS editor with code following and a few other bells and whistles.
If you ever used one of Borland's IDE's you would know the pleasure of advanced Intellisense (auto-completion of class methods, functions, etc.), a truly integrated debugger with conditional watchpoints and other perks, a full-fledged class and module browser, and a WYSIWIG form (GUI) builder.
The IDE's I have seen for Ruby haven't been up to that level. In Python WingIDE performs at that level (the new beta 2.0) minus the WYSIWIG form builder.
If anyone has knowledge of a Ruby IDE at that level of sophistication then I will check it out immediately.
Thanks.
I think Ruby's biggest drawback is the lack of a full-fledged IDE, but that's because I came up through the Borland C++ Builder and Object Pascal ranks.
I know a lot of Perl guys are in the "real men don't need IDE" camp, but if I don't have one I really miss it. That's why I spend more time with PHP (gasp!) because of the Zend Professional IDE, even though I know Perl's function libraries and internal processing capabilities are superb.
In Python you have WingIDE and their 2.0 version is looking very sweet (just a customer).
As soon as Ruby has a solid IDE I'll spend more time with it (really would like to do something soon with DRB).
Slashdot Mirror
"In other news, the number of IT professionals getting laid has increased,..."
Great I missed out on the "getting laid" boom too along with the dot-com boom?
Well if I'm lucky there will be a "getting old and sexy" boom soon and I'll be part of that one, at least the "old" part.
-nr
I learned more about the current state of laser surgery and a hell of a lot about eyesight in general from this thread. For example, I thought my problem with blue neon signs at night was a rare phenomenon. Somebody with a high page rank health related site needs to "sticky" this thread. Thanks to all!
SilentMajority, I have not looked at some of the IDE's you mentioned, but my experience with the others I have seen is that they are more along the lines of an EMACS editor with code following and a few other bells and whistles. If you ever used one of Borland's IDE's you would know the pleasure of advanced Intellisense (auto-completion of class methods, functions, etc.), a truly integrated debugger with conditional watchpoints and other perks, a full-fledged class and module browser, and a WYSIWIG form (GUI) builder. The IDE's I have seen for Ruby haven't been up to that level. In Python WingIDE performs at that level (the new beta 2.0) minus the WYSIWIG form builder. If anyone has knowledge of a Ruby IDE at that level of sophistication then I will check it out immediately. Thanks.
I think Ruby's biggest drawback is the lack of a full-fledged IDE, but that's because I came up through the Borland C++ Builder and Object Pascal ranks.
I know a lot of Perl guys are in the "real men don't need IDE" camp, but if I don't have one I really miss it. That's why I spend more time with PHP (gasp!) because of the Zend Professional IDE, even though I know Perl's function libraries and internal processing capabilities are superb.
In Python you have WingIDE and their 2.0 version is looking very sweet (just a customer).
As soon as Ruby has a solid IDE I'll spend more time with it (really would like to do something soon with DRB).
Thanks.
But if you block people from the US from downloading your executable, you'll be stepping on Liquid Audio's patent. :)
Hey is this the first instance of a computer-driven mouse instead of a mouse-driven computer? Ugh, can't wait to see the patents on this.