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Post by James :) (aka Madcow) on Aug 20, 2008 15:45:41 GMT -5
any web peeps here?
i would say i'm more of an web oriented platform guy than a desktop based platform.
if you are what do you do?
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Post by Pizzasgood on Aug 23, 2008 11:39:33 GMT -5
I did a an internship over the summer where they mostly had me working on their website (one they use internally to manage servers, nothing the public would ever see). It mostly used CakePHP, which turned out to be pretty cool. I guess it's supposed to be similar to RubyOnRails, but I've never used ROR so I don't know if it's better or worse.
Also did a little Perl, but I don't like Perl very much. If I had to do a lot of string parsing on a regular basis, I suppose Perl would be a pretty useful tool, but I generally don't.
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Post by Supermonkey on Aug 23, 2008 11:52:45 GMT -5
I've used RoR quite extensively but never used cakePHP . From what I understand one major stumbling block for RoR is the fact that the ruby interpreter isn't too kind on memory usage which can make hosting a ruby powered site a bit of a pain in the gonads.
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Post by James :) (aka Madcow) on Aug 23, 2008 13:07:55 GMT -5
i've tried cake php and it hasn't made much sense yet.
but i sure like jquery an javascript libary.
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Post by Supermonkey on Aug 23, 2008 16:52:21 GMT -5
If its anything like RoR you'll get that, however when it does click you'll be glad you persevered. I personally wouldn't have bothered with RoR if I hadn't been forced to for a uni project. I spent a good while getting to grips with RoR before even considering the mammoth project the lecturers (stupidly) gave us.
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Post by James :) (aka Madcow) on Aug 23, 2008 17:26:41 GMT -5
will do
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Post by Pizzasgood on Aug 26, 2008 0:08:07 GMT -5
Cake is much prettier than using raw SQL queries or writing a bunch of your own wrapper functions. It just takes a bit to get your head around their mentality.
I went through a love, then hate, then love again relationship, because halfway through the summer I had to upgrade us to a newer version. Had to go through and find all the deprecated functions and replace them (Thank goodness for grep and sed!) and then the Cake people went and made the newer security component black-hole just about any form that wasn't set up exactly the way it wants it (mixing and matching cake form code with plain html had to be done just right - certain things using one and certain things using another). And of course, since it was black-holing stuff I didn't get any kind of feedback to know what part to fix.
Got it all running again in the end though. Then could get back into the fun stuff, like using scriptaculous to make things more ergonomic.
And of course, almost all the above was done over the network through Putty using commandline tools. Mainly Vim, which I also had to learn on the job. It was worth it though - Vim is useful.
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Post by Darkjester on Sept 7, 2008 14:13:51 GMT -5
I know nothing about this
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