Posted by ft310 on 11/13/05 17:02

I recently finished a project which involved HTML, Javascript and PHP along
with MySQL.

The only development tool was FrontPage. Now I actually like FrontPage and
this is not a diatribe against this development tool or Microsoft. I've been
around to long to waste my time on that sort of thing.

The choice of HTML, Javascript and PHP along with MySQL was only partially
mine. I did not realize how difficult it was to work with all of these in
combination until I was in the middle of it.

Now that this is done (for now), it strikes me a different development
environment was needed. The whole thing came down to write some code, hurl
it up on the web site, let it fail, isolate the failure, and then move on. I
am more use to debugging in increasing larger chunks (lines of code,
routines, modules, etc). I also dearly miss being able to single step
through code verifing all of the varibles as we go along. This may not be
the latest greatest way to do it but I;ve been doing it this way since 1962.
Teaching old dogs new tricks is a pain in the wazz.

To the point, I will appreciate suggestions on development software and
development methodology using this language combination or any others.

Pease

Frank

tooheys@fullchannel.net

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