it's just frustrating when people come out with all of these "toolkits" for this and that and do the overnight expert thing for tech that's pretty damned old anyway. ahhhh well.
For the love of all that's holy and good can we please stop calling it Ajax? It's one bloody JavaScript object. Great that it's being used more often, good on Google for getting it out there and popular but it just doesn't do the technology any good to overhype it. If we are going to call it something cute it should be Greasemonkey because monkeys and grease are cool.
In any case I've built a greasy little forum app that uses the shit out of XmlHttpRequest and it doesn't really require any special toolkits. It's just a matter of making calls to the server with JavaScript and using the response to populate your page (generally with.innerHTML = whatever). World changing or not it's more fun than a car full of fat people
About six months ago I wrote a little spellchecker plugin for an internal app and used a very similar principal. The completion lists worked like open office though rather than presenting a dropdown menu the remainder of the word would be highlighted and you could up-arrow or down-arrow to cycle through the list. It's fun to see how quickly you can narrow down a given result set.
I called in Well today because I went in to work on Saturday. I never would have considered that at my old job but I'm finally starting to realise that if I restrict myself to 40 hour weeks I get a lot more done and I have more time to take care of important things like household chores and family stuff.
What other than the fact that they're a corporation out to make money? That they're known to be just as if not more ruthless than Microsoft? Nothing new there.
I like Eclipse because it's a good IDE, not because of a political leaning. If I were bound by politics I'd be using Emacs;)
It's so frustrating when you read an article about someone's product and they can't stop talking about what is wrong with their competitor. I'm sure Netbeans is much improved since the last time I tried it. I'm sure it has wonderful virtues as an extensible platform. But nothing about slamming my current IDE of choice makes me want to try it.
I think the reason that a lot of developers get so religious about their platforms has to do with how much value we put on our intelligence. To insult our tools is a roundabout insult to our intellect. At least that's how some take it and I'm sure that it makes it all the much worse when the project/tools are also your baby. Still feelings aside if he wants to do Netbeans a favour he should probably lay off the Other Platform Bashing.
I've been using Ruby a short time and will say that without a doubt it is the nicest language I've used for development of anything. period. Now of course some people work differently and prefer different languages but I have fallen in love with it.
After a long, long time mired in the quagmire of Java configuration files and the like I finally gave it a go with a small project (an app server). It took me roughly a tenth of the time it would have in Java and I'll gladly shoulder the cost of slower execution speeds with a little more processor power:)
I know this will come off as a bit trollish but calling a J2EE app server a great tool sounds a bit like Stockholm Syndrome to me. I imagine it was great compared to stock servlets and corba *shiver*.
I like Tomcat and have developed several apps with it, however simple and robust are not terms I would grace it with.
*feeds a troll
Actually, specific XUL dev stuff and info on Rhino both of which I found after a good bit of digging. There's a ton of great development info on the site but it's really poorly organised.
The page looks great, and the fact that they can make a total style change so quick certainly says something for CSS but they don't seem to have changed the site structure.
That for me has always been the single most frustrating thing about moz.org-- it can be quite a pain to locate information and it always feels a bit disjointed. It sure looks good though
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I guess that's a good a point as any :)
it's just frustrating when people come out with all of these "toolkits" for this and that and do the overnight expert thing for tech that's pretty damned old anyway. ahhhh well.
For the love of all that's holy and good can we please stop calling it Ajax? It's one bloody JavaScript object. Great that it's being used more often, good on Google for getting it out there and popular but it just doesn't do the technology any good to overhype it. If we are going to call it something cute it should be Greasemonkey because monkeys and grease are cool.
.innerHTML = whatever). World changing or not it's more fun than a car full of fat people
In any case I've built a greasy little forum app that uses the shit out of XmlHttpRequest and it doesn't really require any special toolkits. It's just a matter of making calls to the server with JavaScript and using the response to populate your page (generally with
Check it out if you like http://beta.twelvestone.com/forum
Anybody know what they were running? I'd like to see this flamewar get started as soon as possible.
About six months ago I wrote a little spellchecker plugin for an internal app and used a very similar principal. The completion lists worked like open office though rather than presenting a dropdown menu the remainder of the word would be highlighted and you could up-arrow or down-arrow to cycle through the list. It's fun to see how quickly you can narrow down a given result set.
I called in Well today because I went in to work on Saturday. I never would have considered that at my old job but I'm finally starting to realise that if I restrict myself to 40 hour weeks I get a lot more done and I have more time to take care of important things like household chores and family stuff.
What other than the fact that they're a corporation out to make money? That they're known to be just as if not more ruthless than Microsoft? Nothing new there.
;)
I like Eclipse because it's a good IDE, not because of a political leaning. If I were bound by politics I'd be using Emacs
It's so frustrating when you read an article about someone's product and they can't stop talking about what is wrong with their competitor. I'm sure Netbeans is much improved since the last time I tried it. I'm sure it has wonderful virtues as an extensible platform. But nothing about slamming my current IDE of choice makes me want to try it.
I think the reason that a lot of developers get so religious about their platforms has to do with how much value we put on our intelligence. To insult our tools is a roundabout insult to our intellect. At least that's how some take it and I'm sure that it makes it all the much worse when the project/tools are also your baby. Still feelings aside if he wants to do Netbeans a favour he should probably lay off the Other Platform Bashing.
I've been using Ruby a short time and will say that without a doubt it is the nicest language I've used for development of anything. period. Now of course some people work differently and prefer different languages but I have fallen in love with it.
:)
After a long, long time mired in the quagmire of Java configuration files and the like I finally gave it a go with a small project (an app server). It took me roughly a tenth of the time it would have in Java and I'll gladly shoulder the cost of slower execution speeds with a little more processor power
I know this will come off as a bit trollish but calling a J2EE app server a great tool sounds a bit like Stockholm Syndrome to me. I imagine it was great compared to stock servlets and corba *shiver*.
I like Tomcat and have developed several apps with it, however simple and robust are not terms I would grace it with.
*feeds a troll Actually, specific XUL dev stuff and info on Rhino both of which I found after a good bit of digging. There's a ton of great development info on the site but it's really poorly organised.
The page looks great, and the fact that they can make a total style change so quick certainly says something for CSS but they don't seem to have changed the site structure. That for me has always been the single most frustrating thing about moz.org-- it can be quite a pain to locate information and it always feels a bit disjointed. It sure looks good though