[_] Plone development work
Tim Beadle
tim.beadle at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 15:35:02 BST 2006
On 10/07/06, mac jordan <mac.jordan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've looked at Perl, and it *is* like like noise. I've looked at PHP and it
> seems hideously verbose, and I can't make it do anything very much at all.
>
> ColdFusion is familiar territory, as its tag-based, and I'd been doing HTML
> for years. I'm getting better and better at it, but I have a (irrational)
> mental block about anything else.
>
> sometimes I think life was easier when I was a networking specialist (which
> I was for 15 years or so) :)
Do what I do: get the "real" programmers to write the backend (ie the
hard bits - in Java, in my case) then just do the display layer (in
JSP, in my case). The JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) is great, and
not a million miles removed from CF in syntax. The Java backend means
we get lots of loveliness from Eclipse (our IDE of choice).
Tim
> I've looked at Perl, and it *is* like like noise. I've looked at PHP and it
> seems hideously verbose, and I can't make it do anything very much at all.
>
> ColdFusion is familiar territory, as its tag-based, and I'd been doing HTML
> for years. I'm getting better and better at it, but I have a (irrational)
> mental block about anything else.
>
> sometimes I think life was easier when I was a networking specialist (which
> I was for 15 years or so) :)
Do what I do: get the "real" programmers to write the backend (ie the
hard bits - in Java, in my case) then just do the display layer (in
JSP, in my case). The JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) is great, and
not a million miles removed from CF in syntax. The Java backend means
we get lots of loveliness from Eclipse (our IDE of choice).
Tim