[AccessD]OT: C# was no-ip.com

Jim Lawrence (AccessD) accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jul 29 22:27:10 CDT 2003


Andrew:

You are partly right but the current version is Object-Oriented. See the
article: http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/10007 written by the actual
developers of PHP.

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Haslett,
Andrew
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PHP is not object orientated..

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 1:42 AM
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I'm pretty sure that is an accurate percentage. Why? Because far and away
the most popular web server on the market is Apache. No one else is even
close. Add to that the Linux factor (almost all large sites use Linux not
IIS), the ease of combining php and Linux (and MySQL, for data-driven
sites), and the cost factor, and it all adds up to a formidable combination.
Notice that Dreamweaver MX added support for php+mySQL in the latest rev.
Php is easy to learn and is object oriented. There are free on-line courses
and stuff available, too.

Not that I have any current clients who use this combination. Most are small
businesses and are afraid to go Linux, or even to combine Oses. But at home
I have one Linux-dedicated box and another Win2K Advanced Server that houses
an instance of both MySQL and SQL 2K, so I can run .NET from one workstation
and Apache/php/mySQL from another.

A.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
(AccessD)
Sent: July 29, 2003 1:18 AM
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Subject: RE: [AccessD]OT: C# was no-ip.com


Hi All:

I have seen a recent claim, have no way to validate it but the assertion
goes as follows: PHP as a server based web language now has almost forty
percent of the general market...

This claim seems outrageous but that would leave PHP holding the largest
single market share of that genre of products.

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Marcus, Scott
(GEAE, Contractor)
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:00 AM
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John,

Thanks for your optimism on .Net. All I ever here are negative things about
MS products (which I make my living with). It is a good point you make about
being on the leading edge. I think the same way. I just get discouraged
cause very few tend to agree with that statement. It seems that most think
that software development will eventually be all off shore. I say that
moving off shore totally won't happen (small business needs physical
presence). JM2C

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: jcolby at colbyconsulting.com [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:49 PM
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Scott,

>My only doubts about .Net is that I'm not seeing very many job postings
>for
.Net developers (but allot more than Access development).

I am seeing more and more .net openings, at least more and more "ya need the
kitchen sink and oh, by the way, ya need .net too" ads.  I get the feeling
that not many companies really understand it yet - momentum.  However my
feelings are that MS has spent a TON of money on developing the concept, and
are pushing .net big time.  If they put their muscle behind it, it won't be
long till it's a "requirement" to get a job and I want to be on the leading
edge of this one.  PLUS, the .net framework is truly impressive in the
capability it gives me "out of the box".

>You must have read the same article as me (actually editors comments).
>I'm
leaning VB.Net first and then adding C# to my skills. Seems silly to me that
C# pulls in more money.

Yea, it is silly considering the reality of the new .net environment.  I'm
betting that it won't be long before managers start to listen to M$ saying
that any language is equally capable and stop paying more for C#.  There are
still a very small handful of indirection capabilities that C# has that VB
doesn't, and if you need them then fine, go there.  Otherwise VB is probably
faster to get something up and running in.

And finally, no, my framework has no equivalents in .net for the simple
reason that my framework is about making form development in Access easier
(even more RAD).  Since .net is so very different from Access, much of what
I do simply doesn't even make sense in .net.  For example, I have a function
in my framework that keeps a record selector combo synced to the form
(bound) and the form synced to the combo.  It turns out that in .net if you
set the form (or a data grid) and a combo to the same dataset, selecting a
record in the combo will just cause the two things to stay in sync (be on
the same record).  AFAICT, that is because the combo actually sets a
"current record" property in the dataset object.

Another example, in my framework I want to prevent the user from moving into
a subform if the main form goes to the new record.  .Net doesn't even HAVE
subforms.

Things like that.

I am in the process of rewriting something that would "make sense" to port -
my Sysvars.  Assuming that I leave my error handlers in place, that port is
really fairly straightforward.  However I don't really have much hope of
"just porting" my framework.  In the end though, there is enough work to be
done making .net as "database friendly" as Access that I am sure I will have
plenty of similar projects.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

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(GEAE, Contractor)
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:03 PM
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John,

You must have read the same article as me (actually editors comments). I'm
leaning VB.Net first and then adding C# to my skills. Seems silly to me that
C# pulls in more money. Like you, that is why I'm going to learn it also.
Have you seen any silly job postings like "C# developer with 5 years
experience..."?

Have you found that your Access framework already has equivalents in .Net
framework?

I'm not far enough into .Net to have an opinion yet. I can say that if it is
similar to how Java works, I won't like it. I hear that C# is very close to
Java.

What I've learned in VB.Net so far seems pretty straight forward.

My only doubts about .Net is that I'm not seeing very many job postings for
.Net developers (but allot more than Access development).

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: jcolby at colbyconsulting.com [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:47 AM
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Scott,

Not yet, though I think I will end up there.  I'm thinking that learning
VB.Net and more importantly the .net framework FIRST will be most useful to
me.  The framework is massive and being comfortable with that is a
requirement regardless of the language you then use for your programming.

Once that is done I will probably move to C# for the simple reason that the
polls indicate C# programmers get better money.  I did a controller project
down in Mexico in a custom 'C' language so it isn't totally foreign.

Again though, the whole point of the .Net concept is that the framework
really provides about 90% of the functionality and it is used EXACTLY the
same regardless of the language you use.  The language itself is really a
thin veneer over the top of the framework.  Even things like variables are
framework objects so that any .net language can literally pass their
variables back and forth without the silly problems like you see with VB and
C not treating strings the same way.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

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