Posted by shimmyshack on 03/31/07 01:58

On Mar 31, 3:35 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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> >> Remove the "x" from my email address
> >> Jerry Stuckle
> >> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> >> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> >> ==================
>
> > 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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> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================

bet you'll get this one -
"da da da daaaa"
and that's only 4, and they're not even notes?!

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