[AccessD] Light Table IDE (Vimeo.com) - Was:Re: HTML5 mobile-friendly web sites vs. native

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 12:02:24 CDT 2012


I was just going to bring up Pluralsight.

I am also learning HTML5, JqueryMobile, Knockout... too.

There's a great SPA tutorial at:
http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/spa


David


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>wrote:

> Yes, Dreamspark Microsoft program  works for students here too:
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> http://www.dreamspark.ru/access.aspx
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> and  it gives also free access to Pluralsight online courses - I have
> recently got paid subscription for that courses and I like them a lot.
>
> And MS Office 2010 for students costs about USD100 here.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Shamil
>
>
> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:27:22 -0700 от Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com>:
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> >Microsoft has a program called Dreamspark which gives free versions of
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> software including Visual Studio, Expression Studio, Windows and Sql Server
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> to anyone with a university email address.  My daughter in law used it last
> >
> year. I just checked and it appears to be current.
> >
> >
> Doug
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> >
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> > Hi Shamil:
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> > Right now, the best IDE for C# is Microsoft's offering.
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> > The prices are pretty high; from 1K for entrance level package and up to
> 5K
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> > for the full-blown enterprise version. The packages may be well worth it
> >
> > but
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> > when getting any of them you are truly committed. If MS decides not to
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> > allow
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> > their package results to be compatible with the rest of the industry
> then a
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> > developer may find themselves on a dead-end street or/and rebuilding the
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> > resultant forms by hand and you are back to square one wondering why you
> >
> > have been buying all these upgrades every year.
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> >
> > An aside from my personal observations: The current problem with the
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> > industry, as far as Microsoft is related, is that for every young student
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> > graduating from university with degrees in computer science maybe only
> one
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> > in thirty (50, more?...) is equiped to work with MS products. Young geeks
> >
> > have no money, so they learn programming and development on cheap and
> free
> >
> > products and that continues right through university as universities have
> >
> > no
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> > money either. The best students come out knowing how to program in C,
> PHP,
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> > Java, Ruby, Python, databases like MySQL, Postgress and Cassandra, on
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> > platforms like Linux and Unix and knowledge of only how to build web
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> > applications...
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> > Microsoft has stopped giving free introduction, training programs and
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> > access
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> > to their beta application at the universities. This is a problem for
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> > Microsoft if they want to be anything more than just sellers of their
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> > office
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> > products and the trainer of integrators, they are going to have to,
> again,
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> > be a lot more pro-active...just look at their competition.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim
> ><<< skipped >>>
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