The software development and education spectrums are money making industries in-themselves, so naturally people wish to sell you easier, or more rounded, tools and qualifications -- which often makes it seem better. We all have learning curves and soon we realise we've walked, or are walking, the same road. :laugh:
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How's house?
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Discounting the colour scheme stuff -- wow -- Opera sounds just as crap as IE, VS, etc :wtf: !? I rarely respond to these comments, as they seem to drol and immature, but I am not perfect -- as you obviously are not either! :wtf:
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"The generalist will always be the last one standing, in any fight/competition." ... or so my father used to say. Thus, I do NOT program specifically for PC or Mac hardware, but instead go for the open web standards.
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I dropped PCs back in '02/'03 -- after having worked for MS itself! I have always been a 'NIX fan, OS X is a flavour of the (bought) Next OS -- which is, I believe, BSD derived itself; it is all Open Source and seems to run all my interests many-times better than a PC. Additionally, as a programmer, I now have the worlds best IDE / editor (TextMate -- http://macromates.com/) OS X is not making me rich, but, more importantly, is making my happier! I actually do not much care for the other commercial aspects of Apple -- and I taught myself programming, back in 1981, on a Apple ][. David Green (living in Chile)
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;) Why do you say that?
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Erm, OK; can you recommend another site/forum ? ;)
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I am currently, for fun(?), parsing a Macs Safari bookmark plist file with Perl, using XML::Simple, and spitting out JavaScript for a CSS enabled drop-down menu system. Phew, what a mouthful! Anyway, I am having a (Perl) parsing problem; shall I submit the problem details here? Thanks, David Green
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"consistent, obvious and simple user interfaces with respect for standards and accessibility" Hmmm, have you tried working on a Mac? That is all the above! :laugh:
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Your signature says it ALL! Good grief, what a question. :((
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Good for them :( OK, those e-capitalist b**tards, I will hapily stop using it. Really, what do they think they have -- there are so many other ways to chat/IM/video! I think ebay is entirely too hyped too! :mad:
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I worked for them at the end of '00 and well into '02. I am a programmer, but they got me while recovering from a head-injury (crashed while racing motorcycles) :( I recovered well enough to decide to leave AND THEN went Mac! I still am, even though I 95% work commercially with PCs.:laugh:
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I use VC++ and WTL/ATL now, but have a long hankered (desired) to program under PHP commercially. .NET is encourages one to stay in the MS 'box', RUBY and PYTHON -- although extremely interesting, are not as supported or 'C' like, capared with PHP. Java is another, viable option for .NET -- I think. I think PHP is probably your best opton, which covers your points. :)
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:sigh: I utterly agree with you. I find this exactly correct and so is most of MS stuff, but it is hidden in troughs of needless and useless extraneous text/baggage!