Well back in the big city now, art house again (i quite like it) but lots of meaty PHP. Nice.
Archive for September, 2007
Comet and Ajax
Comet is a programming technique that enables web servers to send data to the client without having any need for the client to request it. This technique will produce more responsive applications than classic AJAX. In classic AJAX applications, web browser (client) cannot be notified in real time that the server data model has changed. The user must create a request (for example by clicking on a link) or a periodic AJAX request must happen in order to get new data from the server.
An introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio users
Well it hadn’t really occurred to me that a professional programmer would have any problems using different IDE’s. Whether it Notepad, or Vi or Emacs etc. surely a pro is going to familiarise themselves with a range and the concepts so they are flexible in their work practices and outlook? In my time i have used the above as well as Homesite, Dreamweaver, Zend Studio, Mac Xcode tools and Interface designer, Eclipse, TECO, BRIEF, MS Visual Studion, Bluefish, Aptana Kdevelop and probably some i have forgotten about.
Ok some of them are editors rather than IDE’s but you can use them in much the same way and for editors like Vi and Emacs there are a wealth of plug-ins thea give them much more functionality.
However of course i forgot the nature of MS programmers and perhaps the MS philosophy in which the IDE does all the work, hides all the complexity and actually does most of the programming (badly) for you. There fore the level of knowledge required is less, the learning curve less and the quality of the end result is also less.
Any way to make the transition here is an article on the IBM developerworks site to help any Microserfs making the transtion
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