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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/31/07 02:35
shimmyshack wrote:
> On Mar 30, 11:11 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Ben wrote:
>>> "shimmyshack" <matt.fa...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1175275132.374121.229580@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>> This is exactly the type of response I was looking for. My *current*
>>> ignorance prevents a rebuttal based on experience so I just listen. He
>>> actually said, "Well in ten years no one knows if PHP and Java will still be
>>> around but we know M$ will be there." and. "Look at the added development
>>> cost of PHP/Java, I could knock this grid out in two hours with M$ and spent
>>> a day with this and have nothing." Problem is he's got influence and I
>>> totally disagree with the direction....so...plan is to build a working
>>> proto-type in PHP/Java/MySQL. So I need to get busy, lack of experience
>>> doesn't scare me and I can always fall back on groups.
>> I can knock this grid out in 1.5 hours!
>>
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>> Jerry Stuckle
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> I know Jerry, this is what I think too: what is the difference between
> using an IDE like VS that "helps me get stuff done super fast" and
> reusing an abstracted component you write yourself from scratch and
> understand, which you store somewhere easy to find later, and can copy
> and paste in place, pulling the data from a db and styling with css,
> it's why the activegrid guys have done so well!
> I appreciate that it might be harder to ajaxify a fully fledged app,
> whereas in VS it comes down to highlighting and clicking but I don't
> trust the result of those highlights and clicks.
>
Actually, that was a play on a game show here back in the '80's called
"Name That Tune". Players would bid on how few notes they would need to
recognize the tune - similar to a reverse auction (lowest bid gets the
chance), i.e. "I can name that tune in five notes...".
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