I jumped on the Rails bandwagon for a bit, but I jumped back off after finding Django.
I think Django has several advantages over Rails. It runs faster, is better organized, and is easier. I also like how Django limits the functionality of templates in order to force your logic into the controller, which is where it belongs.
The only thing that bugs me about Django really is that they call the controller the view, and the view the template; which is mildly confusing at first.
The only games I've ever pirated are games like Age of Empires. The reason I've pirated them is I want to play with family members living in my home and I don't want to spend $50 per family member for a license. I think it's a rip-off.
I figure if Console companies can make a profit by selling single copies of multi-player games where two or more people can play at the same time in the same household, then computer game companies can do the same.
If game companies would move to a model, that is common in Apple software, where they sell a 5 user "Family Pack" license for slightly more than the single user license (say $70 instead of $50), I would buy that.
I have used Zend and PHP and I think Django is easier to program in and the framework strongly encourages good programming practices.
Python is easy to learn and Django apps run significantly faster than PHP-based apps (at least this has been my experience).
As a side note, if you decide to use Django and/or Python, I would recommend getting either the WingIDE editor from WingWare (expensive) or the PyDev Extensions plugin for Eclipse (fairly cheap). Both of these provide code completion and can really help boost your learning by reminding you of what's available and how it works.
You are right! Things are changing in Django; however, I don't think this is a particularly big problem since Django is currently looking mostly as it will when 1.0 is released.
Also, I have the book and isn't one of those Volkswagen sized Wrox cubes. It can easily be digested within a couple of weeks so you can get what you need now and be prepared to migrate to new features in the future.
I highly recommend this book to people wanting to learn Django. It is better than most of the other Django books available today, I think.
If you are going to use Django, I would recommend using memcached, of course, and also using a light-weight webserver like Nginx to serve your static content and only use Apache to serve the dynamic Django content. There is no reason to have Apache serve static content when other servers can do it more efficiently.
I've used Django, Turbogears, and Zope. I hate Zope, so I wouldn't use it for anything. I liked Turbogears OK, but Django has a more unified feel to it. It seems a lot cleaner and more straight forward to me as well, so I would recommend Django over the other two, but that is just my opinion.
His older books look OK, but I don't know, to me two or three stars isn't "pretty good". At least he has written some books though. That's more than I can say.
No!!! We do not give up any individual rights; ever! That is a fallacy and people need to stop believing that.
The U.S. government is now corrupt and not functioning as it is supposed to, and a good many people don't see that because their views are skewed by invalid traditions and a poor education regarding the way our country is supposed to work.
For example, if you ask 100 people in the U.S. what the Second Amendment to the Constitution is, they would say it gave the people the right to bear arms. This is rubbish. The people already have this right. The Second Amendment LIMITS the rights of the government by saying they do NOT have the right to take away your arms (note the word is "arms" and not handguns as well).
It seems that people in the U.S. now believe that the government is some paternal entity to which we should look to solve our problems and get permission to do things like go into business for ourselves, etc. This is completely backwards. The U.S. government's role is supposed to enable us to solve our own problems and pursue whatever we want to do with our lives.
In this case, a 19 year old is being opportunistic and looking to make a few bucks with his vote, or making a very valid point; that our government sells its votes to the highest bidder on a daily basis.
So what? He has that right and any law that says otherwise is unjust because he is free.
I have several old IBM M keyboards. When they get crusty, I pop off the keys, put them in a nylon sock so they don't fly all over the place, and wash them in the dishwasher. I also take the cover off the keyboard and place in it the dishwasher too.
It requires a bit of work, but the result is a like-new keyboard.
I wouldn't put the whole keyboard in because of the electronics inside, but you can try it if you want to.
I worked at Microsoft for a while and then moved to Utah to work at Novell. I have since worked at two or three other companies in Utah, all of which have a strong middle and upper management group that are either from Novell, WordPerfect, or both.
I can say without reservation that Microsoft's management methods are far superior to those employed by managers hailing from WordPerfect and Novell.
For one thing, Microsoft managers actually knew what they were talking about (at least those I worked with did). Managers from Novell rarely do. Trying to talk technology, or even logic for that matter, with a Novell manager was like talking technology with an antelope; pointless.
At Microsoft, managers managed with knowledge and experience. At Novell, managers managed by threatening your job if you didn't have a drop-in replacement for Windows that Novell could sell by the end of the week.
While I don't particularly like what Microsoft has done to the market as a company, I hate WordPerfect and Novell type managers and think that non-technical management is one of the biggest reason Novell and WordPerfect failed to remain on top.
I have three physical copies of the LDS Church's handbooks. One is from the 80s, and two are the most current.
All they contain are instructions for people who are asked to be leaders in their church, so they'll know what to do. Unlike other religions, the LDS Church doesn't have paid clergy, so people don't go to years of school to learn how to be a minister. Instead, they are provided with these manuals and they can reference them when they have questions.
If you're looking for some hidden secret about the LDS Church to make you go all jiggy inside, you're not going to find anything here. If you're up for a dry read though, knock yourself out at WikiLeaks.
Finally, the LDS Church does own the copyrights to these manuals. The law does offer them protection against violators, so I don't see anything wrong with them demanding that protection.
So no, this is not Apple's fault. It's Adobe's and I look forward to seeing any counter-arguments! I agree. I think Adobe has been far too lazy for years with their codebase. It is huge, bloated, slow, and needs desperately to be rewritten. Instead of clinging on to all that legacy code, I think Adobe should have put together a small team of engineers to work on a rewrite of both Photoshop and Illustrator to improve and sync up the UIs, streamline the code, and amongst a lot of other things, use Cocoa like Apple has been saying for years.
If there were another option for me, I would have left the Adobe boat a long time ago.
I completely agree. Microsoft just keeps putting more polish on the turd that is Windows and touting it as superior, when by fundamental design, it can't be.
If Microsoft wants my business again, they would have to completely ditch all their Windows code (yes, every last line of it) and come up with something new and something that works well with all the other operating systems I use. Maybe they could base their new OS on FreeBSD.
I completely agree. PostgreSQL used to be a bit slow, but for the last few years, there just isn't a reason to choose MySQL over PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL's license is certainly better and all the great features and SQL standards compliance makes it a no brainer, I think.
I think if scientists would show some humility and simply present their findings instead of trying to interpret them for everybody, politicize them, and insult everyone at the same time, people would be a lot more accepting of the evidences they have discovered.
For example, instead of saying, "the Earth is getting warmer and it's all our fault", leave off the "it's all our fault" part since there is a lot to suggest that simply isn't true.
When someone points out that temperatures on other moons and planets in our solar system have also increased in temperature, and we don't live there, don't discount it. When someone points out that ocean temperatures have not risen as expected, don't discount it. As a scientist, observe and be willing to change your beliefs as new data comes in rather than warping or discounting that data to fit your pre-conceived agenda.
Science should be a never-ending search for fact and truth and at no point along the way should scientists decide that there is no more evidence to be had and close the door on a subject. That is when truth will elude us.
It depends on the purpose of the web-site, I suppose, but for most run-of-the-mill sites, I would use Django or Ruby on Rails (I like Django better because it is faster).
I don't care much for Java because it is needlessly complicated and I loath its unhealthy fixation on XML. XML is good for some things, but it is not good for most things.
As for PHP, I guess it is good for a one off "something" on a single static page, but I wouldn't personally use it for anything more than an example while teaching somebody the dangers inherent in mixing presentation and logic.
Most of the large planes already have at least four regular sized exit doors. Smaller planes have at least two (one in the front and one in the back). So, there wouldn't need to be any change in cabin configuration. The last time I was in Japan, they actually did board from two or three of the doors instead of just one, like they normally do. It was much faster.
I don't know about anybody else, but personally, I will not vote for McCain. Therefore, if Republicans put McCain out as their guy, I'll have to vote Democrat (unless Clinton wins on that side, then I'm moving to Japan). The thought of either Clinton or McCain in the White House tends to cause me to involuntarily puke a little.
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There is a 64-bit version, it just isn't out yet.
I jumped on the Rails bandwagon for a bit, but I jumped back off after finding Django.
I think Django has several advantages over Rails. It runs faster, is better organized, and is easier. I also like how Django limits the functionality of templates in order to force your logic into the controller, which is where it belongs.
The only thing that bugs me about Django really is that they call the controller the view, and the view the template; which is mildly confusing at first.
How about this one...
The only games I've ever pirated are games like Age of Empires. The reason I've pirated them is I want to play with family members living in my home and I don't want to spend $50 per family member for a license. I think it's a rip-off.
I figure if Console companies can make a profit by selling single copies of multi-player games where two or more people can play at the same time in the same household, then computer game companies can do the same.
If game companies would move to a model, that is common in Apple software, where they sell a 5 user "Family Pack" license for slightly more than the single user license (say $70 instead of $50), I would buy that.
I have used Zend and PHP and I think Django is easier to program in and the framework strongly encourages good programming practices.
Python is easy to learn and Django apps run significantly faster than PHP-based apps (at least this has been my experience).
As a side note, if you decide to use Django and/or Python, I would recommend getting either the WingIDE editor from WingWare (expensive) or the PyDev Extensions plugin for Eclipse (fairly cheap). Both of these provide code completion and can really help boost your learning by reminding you of what's available and how it works.
I'd be happy to telecommute. :)
You are right! Things are changing in Django; however, I don't think this is a particularly big problem since Django is currently looking mostly as it will when 1.0 is released.
Also, I have the book and isn't one of those Volkswagen sized Wrox cubes. It can easily be digested within a couple of weeks so you can get what you need now and be prepared to migrate to new features in the future.
I highly recommend this book to people wanting to learn Django. It is better than most of the other Django books available today, I think.
That was what I was going to say as well. If your model keeps track of who owns what files, who cares where they are?
If you are going to use Django, I would recommend using memcached, of course, and also using a light-weight webserver like Nginx to serve your static content and only use Apache to serve the dynamic Django content. There is no reason to have Apache serve static content when other servers can do it more efficiently.
I've used Django, Turbogears, and Zope. I hate Zope, so I wouldn't use it for anything. I liked Turbogears OK, but Django has a more unified feel to it. It seems a lot cleaner and more straight forward to me as well, so I would recommend Django over the other two, but that is just my opinion.
His older books look OK, but I don't know, to me two or three stars isn't "pretty good". At least he has written some books though. That's more than I can say.
No!!! We do not give up any individual rights; ever! That is a fallacy and people need to stop believing that.
The U.S. government is now corrupt and not functioning as it is supposed to, and a good many people don't see that because their views are skewed by invalid traditions and a poor education regarding the way our country is supposed to work.
For example, if you ask 100 people in the U.S. what the Second Amendment to the Constitution is, they would say it gave the people the right to bear arms. This is rubbish. The people already have this right. The Second Amendment LIMITS the rights of the government by saying they do NOT have the right to take away your arms (note the word is "arms" and not handguns as well).
It seems that people in the U.S. now believe that the government is some paternal entity to which we should look to solve our problems and get permission to do things like go into business for ourselves, etc. This is completely backwards. The U.S. government's role is supposed to enable us to solve our own problems and pursue whatever we want to do with our lives.
In this case, a 19 year old is being opportunistic and looking to make a few bucks with his vote, or making a very valid point; that our government sells its votes to the highest bidder on a daily basis.
So what? He has that right and any law that says otherwise is unjust because he is free.
Or maybe South Korea could pull their collective head out and stop supporting lock-in and using crap technologies.
I have several old IBM M keyboards. When they get crusty, I pop off the keys, put them in a nylon sock so they don't fly all over the place, and wash them in the dishwasher. I also take the cover off the keyboard and place in it the dishwasher too.
It requires a bit of work, but the result is a like-new keyboard.
I wouldn't put the whole keyboard in because of the electronics inside, but you can try it if you want to.
...but it sucks as a career because of all the life-sucking project manager parasites who leech money off the company by exploiting your talents.
I worked at Microsoft for a while and then moved to Utah to work at Novell. I have since worked at two or three other companies in Utah, all of which have a strong middle and upper management group that are either from Novell, WordPerfect, or both.
I can say without reservation that Microsoft's management methods are far superior to those employed by managers hailing from WordPerfect and Novell.
For one thing, Microsoft managers actually knew what they were talking about (at least those I worked with did). Managers from Novell rarely do. Trying to talk technology, or even logic for that matter, with a Novell manager was like talking technology with an antelope; pointless.
At Microsoft, managers managed with knowledge and experience. At Novell, managers managed by threatening your job if you didn't have a drop-in replacement for Windows that Novell could sell by the end of the week.
While I don't particularly like what Microsoft has done to the market as a company, I hate WordPerfect and Novell type managers and think that non-technical management is one of the biggest reason Novell and WordPerfect failed to remain on top.
No, the problem is that a 7 year old OS ONLY supports floppy disks to install drivers when 7 years ago, CD-ROM drives were ubiquitous.
It was a stupid design decision by Microsoft and has nothing to do with Slashdot readers.
I have three physical copies of the LDS Church's handbooks. One is from the 80s, and two are the most current.
All they contain are instructions for people who are asked to be leaders in their church, so they'll know what to do. Unlike other religions, the LDS Church doesn't have paid clergy, so people don't go to years of school to learn how to be a minister. Instead, they are provided with these manuals and they can reference them when they have questions.
If you're looking for some hidden secret about the LDS Church to make you go all jiggy inside, you're not going to find anything here. If you're up for a dry read though, knock yourself out at WikiLeaks.
Finally, the LDS Church does own the copyrights to these manuals. The law does offer them protection against violators, so I don't see anything wrong with them demanding that protection.
I completely agree. Microsoft just keeps putting more polish on the turd that is Windows and touting it as superior, when by fundamental design, it can't be.
If Microsoft wants my business again, they would have to completely ditch all their Windows code (yes, every last line of it) and come up with something new and something that works well with all the other operating systems I use. Maybe they could base their new OS on FreeBSD.
I completely agree. PostgreSQL used to be a bit slow, but for the last few years, there just isn't a reason to choose MySQL over PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL's license is certainly better and all the great features and SQL standards compliance makes it a no brainer, I think.
I think if scientists would show some humility and simply present their findings instead of trying to interpret them for everybody, politicize them, and insult everyone at the same time, people would be a lot more accepting of the evidences they have discovered.
For example, instead of saying, "the Earth is getting warmer and it's all our fault", leave off the "it's all our fault" part since there is a lot to suggest that simply isn't true.
When someone points out that temperatures on other moons and planets in our solar system have also increased in temperature, and we don't live there, don't discount it. When someone points out that ocean temperatures have not risen as expected, don't discount it. As a scientist, observe and be willing to change your beliefs as new data comes in rather than warping or discounting that data to fit your pre-conceived agenda.
Science should be a never-ending search for fact and truth and at no point along the way should scientists decide that there is no more evidence to be had and close the door on a subject. That is when truth will elude us.
It depends on the purpose of the web-site, I suppose, but for most run-of-the-mill sites, I would use Django or Ruby on Rails (I like Django better because it is faster).
I don't care much for Java because it is needlessly complicated and I loath its unhealthy fixation on XML. XML is good for some things, but it is not good for most things.
As for PHP, I guess it is good for a one off "something" on a single static page, but I wouldn't personally use it for anything more than an example while teaching somebody the dangers inherent in mixing presentation and logic.
Most of the large planes already have at least four regular sized exit doors. Smaller planes have at least two (one in the front and one in the back). So, there wouldn't need to be any change in cabin configuration. The last time I was in Japan, they actually did board from two or three of the doors instead of just one, like they normally do. It was much faster.
Why not just add more doors to the plane and have people board from both sides. Why does everybody on the plane have to cram in through the same hole?
I don't know about anybody else, but personally, I will not vote for McCain. Therefore, if Republicans put McCain out as their guy, I'll have to vote Democrat (unless Clinton wins on that side, then I'm moving to Japan). The thought of either Clinton or McCain in the White House tends to cause me to involuntarily puke a little.