Really? So you can dynamically add methods to Java or C++ classes? How about Object Pascal? C#? Visual Basic? Maybe I should have said that it's like Ruby, Smalltalk and Python, but I figured Ruby, being the most popular right now, would be enough to get my point across.
So, it's got some of the features of Ruby now, plus a whole lot of crap dragged in from PHP 3 and 4 inluding that crazy mishmash of a function library? Boy, sign me up.
So, we're all going to be using gasoline just for some bits that could have been sent accross a wire? Next thing you know people will start driving to the supermarket to buy water that could have been brought to them by a pipe...
All this low-level stuff was nice to know a year ago, but I don't really think it's apropriate anymore to start from the bottom up like this. You should really be using one of the great AJAX frameworks out there for stuff like this. Dojo is great for any application, and if you're using.NET, you can't beat Atlas. Actually, I'm not sure that anything can beat Atlas.:D
For example: I'd heard good things about ASP.NET 2.0. I've been a Java guy for a couple years, but decided to try it out on a new project. I got the VWD package for free, and got going. After a couple weeks I realized that this was the direction I wanted to take with future development and got my boss to order up some Visual Studio Pro licenses for myself and coworkers.
I started in Java because it was free, and would still be there had it not been for VWD. I think this is an excellent strategy by IBM.
I know exactly what you mean! My girlfriend asked me the other day "how do computers work"? She was genuinely interested, and that launched me into full geek mode. I started at the top, but she just kept asking "How?". Pretty soon I was drawing a circuit diagram to add two small numbers. Then, after I had gotten as far down as possible (for me at least), she asked how that circuit diagram makes the pixels on her screen light up.
I think most people don't know how much abstraction is involved in computing, and how much hand waiving you really need to do to understand anything.
"anything that's actually worth watching will be out on DVD sooner or later anyway."
Yea, but after you're done staring at the box and looking at your reflection in the disk, you may break down and buy some kind of monitor to watch it on.
I give almost all of my charitable monies to Planned Parenthood. They are the closest thing to public health care that the US has, and I believe that reproductive health care is the most important form. Give a woman the resources to delay pregnancy until she has the resources to support that child and you've got two less people in line at the soup kitchen.
Although, food banks are a VERY close second on my list of charitable priororities.
Every time some article comes out against games, we get a thousand posts running to the game's defense. The fact is that some dude was so addicted to a game that all other life sustaining activities took a back seat. It's very much like an addiction to alcholhol or crack. Just stop for one second, guys, and consider that maybe games can be addictive.
Does Rails have any kind of a component model yet? Last I checked they abstracted me completly away from the database with ActiveRecord, but I was still left to manually parse fields out of the request. That just doesn't do it for me when there are tools like.NET and Tapestry/Wicket out there.
"The installation offers to install SQL Server 2005 Express, but neither the installation nor the book tells you that this will leave SQL Server running all the time."
So you're saying that normally when you install a database, it doesn't also install a service?
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Really? So you can dynamically add methods to Java or C++ classes? How about Object Pascal? C#? Visual Basic? Maybe I should have said that it's like Ruby, Smalltalk and Python, but I figured Ruby, being the most popular right now, would be enough to get my point across.
So, it's got some of the features of Ruby now, plus a whole lot of crap dragged in from PHP 3 and 4 inluding that crazy mishmash of a function library? Boy, sign me up.
So, we're all going to be using gasoline just for some bits that could have been sent accross a wire? Next thing you know people will start driving to the supermarket to buy water that could have been brought to them by a pipe...
All this low-level stuff was nice to know a year ago, but I don't really think it's apropriate anymore to start from the bottom up like this. You should really be using one of the great AJAX frameworks out there for stuff like this. Dojo is great for any application, and if you're using .NET, you can't beat Atlas. Actually, I'm not sure that anything can beat Atlas. :D
For example: I'd heard good things about ASP.NET 2.0. I've been a Java guy for a couple years, but decided to try it out on a new project. I got the VWD package for free, and got going. After a couple weeks I realized that this was the direction I wanted to take with future development and got my boss to order up some Visual Studio Pro licenses for myself and coworkers.
I started in Java because it was free, and would still be there had it not been for VWD. I think this is an excellent strategy by IBM.
I know exactly what you mean! My girlfriend asked me the other day "how do computers work"? She was genuinely interested, and that launched me into full geek mode. I started at the top, but she just kept asking "How?". Pretty soon I was drawing a circuit diagram to add two small numbers. Then, after I had gotten as far down as possible (for me at least), she asked how that circuit diagram makes the pixels on her screen light up.
I think most people don't know how much abstraction is involved in computing, and how much hand waiving you really need to do to understand anything.
"anything that's actually worth watching will be out on DVD sooner or later anyway."
Yea, but after you're done staring at the box and looking at your reflection in the disk, you may break down and buy some kind of monitor to watch it on.
I give almost all of my charitable monies to Planned Parenthood. They are the closest thing to public health care that the US has, and I believe that reproductive health care is the most important form. Give a woman the resources to delay pregnancy until she has the resources to support that child and you've got two less people in line at the soup kitchen. Although, food banks are a VERY close second on my list of charitable priororities.
Every time some article comes out against games, we get a thousand posts running to the game's defense. The fact is that some dude was so addicted to a game that all other life sustaining activities took a back seat. It's very much like an addiction to alcholhol or crack. Just stop for one second, guys, and consider that maybe games can be addictive.
Does Rails have any kind of a component model yet? Last I checked they abstracted me completly away from the database with ActiveRecord, but I was still left to manually parse fields out of the request. That just doesn't do it for me when there are tools like .NET and Tapestry/Wicket out there.
Dude, I wish I had some mod points for that post. I totally agree. Land of the free guns and brutally restricted everything else.
"The installation offers to install SQL Server 2005 Express, but neither the installation nor the book tells you that this will leave SQL Server running all the time."
So you're saying that normally when you install a database, it doesn't also install a service?
If we give the Brits time, can we keep the internet?