Boring......a long boring weekend....But I did manage to get some things done. ColdFusion is reinstalled and mostly functional on the server. I have the HDTV hooked up just right, now I can hear the full DD5.1 audio experience that I've been told so much about. I guess the next problem is finding something interesting to watch. I feel like I'm on house arrest, but there is no place that I really need to be. Not yet, at least. I have the urge to buy some gadget or new toy that I can take apart this weekend. For now I'll wait.
I had a discussion with da boss the other day on the benefits and cons of open source development, specifically the IDEs that are available. MS has Visual Studio, Apple has XCode, Linux has Eclipse, and Codewarrior does all three. Really, the list goes on and on with how you want to setup your environment. Me, I'm a PHP, Perl, and sh. Running in .NET clothing. I think .NET is great to work with, as long as you stick to MS and only MS. I try to keep a more open ended approach to my development, but thats not what people want to buy or hear. It's amazing that you can't move between others easily, or you can except the most powerful, business-wise, doesn't like to sit well with others. I find the tools to access DBs in ColdFusion and PHP to be exceptional. The same can't be said about microsoft. you are either Access, SQL server, or Jet. there are plugins and COMS that open it up, but they lack the support and elegance of the MS Solution.
I can see why VS is so popular. MS is practically giving the thing away. Every Xp installation has the necessary tools to become a full fledged Web App/Database/Dynamic server. At home I'm having a harder time of that. ColdFusion runs great from the command line, and if you are a dyed in the wool HTML junkie it can be pretty easy, but I'm having a go at it in Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is a BEAR! hated it when I used it years ago, its gotten slightly better but runs like Molasses on my 2.5 year old computer. VS is not nearly as troublesome on my underpowered laptop that has 1/5 the ram and a slower hard drive. But I'll keep chugging along. Everyone doing Web Dev want four types, .NET, CFMX, PHP, or J2EE (CFMX is a customized implementation of). I can't wait to get this thing working the right way.
Watched Zatoichi lastnight. What an incredibly good but gory movie. The ending is good, thats for sure. Back to more Samurai Champloo, and whatever else comes on a boring Sunday.
Posted by yardie at September 19, 2004 11:17 AMsecurity security security... what about security? i dont see how anyone who wants a secure backend would prefer Microsoftie softwares. that's like putting up a dog fence to keep out dogs from your yard with a doggie door built into it. not safe at all.
Posted by: braulio at September 20, 2004 2:35 PMI know. But it's not like I have a choice in the software that the clien chooses. We do try to keep security in mind when developing the webcode (I hate sites that run ActiveX). But it's up to who has the dollars and Microsoft has been very good about marketing their software.
Posted by: yardie at September 22, 2004 7:01 PM