Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jan 22 05:48:11 CST 2013
Hi Gustav: Been up to my head with Node.js, since yesterday and should have a fair working knowledge by the weekend? (sometime in the future?) ;-) I have heard of it before; TypeScript, but just thought that it was under a standard Microsoft type license so ignored it. Checked and it appears to be under a Apache V2 license so it does appear to be safe. It also sounds like an interesting programming language/adaption. Thanks for the heads up. Something more to master by the weekend. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 11:12 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Coding JavaScript Hi Jim If you are serious about JavaScript, look for TypeScript: http://www.typescriptlang.org/ It even acts as a plugin to Visual Studio with IntelliSense. For anyone as lazy as I am (=always lacking time), programming without IntelliSense is plain waste of time. /gustav -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence Sendt: 22. januar 2013 01:41 Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Emne: [dba-Tech] Coding JavaScript Much of my programming is in JavaScript and there is bound to be much more needed in the future especially if I start working Node.js. My favourite editor or IDE is nothing fancy just Programmer's Notepad. (http://www.pnotepad.org/download/) It is simple, fast and can easily switch from one language to another like HTML or JavaScript, provide easy data manipulation, colourizes the keyword text and auto closes tags. Now there is the Alpha version of Light Table, a full intellisense, JavaScript editor and at first blush it looks really nice. http://www.lighttable.com/ And it has iOS, Windows and Linux32/64 versions. Just a note: how it installs on both Windows and Linux is strange to say the least. For example; on Windows it actually runs from where it is upzipped, no registry setting, dependencies, all are in one unzip folder or any installation in the Programs directories. It does also dump process folders all over the place...fortunately mostly within the installer's user directory. In Linux it does exactly the same process; where it is unachived is where in runs, no dependencies, no make and no compiling....but after all it is an Alpha version. As much as I love Programmer's Notepad on Windows there is not an obvious direct comparison product, with Linux but there is a simple product that can be easily enhanced to fill that gap. It is "Gedit", a super simple Windows Note like editor but it has one feature that changes everything. It has extensible plug-in capabilities. What that does is allow third party developers to build plug-ins for their favour programming language like R on R, JavaScript, HTML, Python, PHP, C and so on. These plug-ins are all over the place and thanks to Google they can be easily found, downloaded and used. Below is a link to various language plug-ins and instruction on how to install those plug-ins...some even go so far as to provide rudimentary intellisense capabilities. http://grigio.org/pimp_my_gedit_was_textmate_linux If you are feeling particularly adventuresome, seeing Gedit is written in Python, you can write or enhance your own plug-ins. :-) https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/PythonPluginHowTo Hope this helps somebody. Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com