How's this for a night off? ;)
(My cable modem service is working now. Let's hope it stays that way. :))
As I mentioned in my last post, I'm not working on my PM project this week because my wife laid down the law and said, "You're burned out. No after hours work until this project at work is done."
So I decided to do something fun tonight.
I've gone through the first 4 chapters of the RealBasic tutorial. Here are my thoughts so far.
I'm really digging having an IDE that is purpose built for the creation of a GUI, cross platform at that. Check out the menu bar control. It allows you to view your menu on all the target platforms. (Screen shot from my Windows XP computer.)
But, as I mentioned before, I already miss Java's syntax. I don't miss the 4,000 lines of code it takes to do anything, but I do miss the traditional (in my mind anyway) curly brace code syntax.
When I first started being a developer - well I was more like a script kiddie that wrote really bad PHP code - I looked down on tools like Visual Basic and REALBasic. I thought they were for people too dumb to program. After programming for the last 3 or 4 years I've changed my thinking (or I'm too dumb to program). I'm at the point in my life/career where I just want to use good tools to get the job done as quickly, efficiently, and cleanly as possible.
I haven't started a new project for myself (just yet), but I hope I can spend some more time with REALBasic. I'm very interested in being able to build a cross platform desktop app, and I'm sure as hell not doing it in Swing. SWT interests me, but I've read a lot of bad things about it. From what I understand, if you stick to the same kind of functionality Eclipse offers you're ok. Stray outside of that and it could get hairy. (I don't have any experience with SWT, it's just what I've read online.)
Anyway - it was a fun "night off". :)
As I mentioned in my last post, I'm not working on my PM project this week because my wife laid down the law and said, "You're burned out. No after hours work until this project at work is done."
So I decided to do something fun tonight.
I've gone through the first 4 chapters of the RealBasic tutorial. Here are my thoughts so far.
I'm really digging having an IDE that is purpose built for the creation of a GUI, cross platform at that. Check out the menu bar control. It allows you to view your menu on all the target platforms. (Screen shot from my Windows XP computer.)
But, as I mentioned before, I already miss Java's syntax. I don't miss the 4,000 lines of code it takes to do anything, but I do miss the traditional (in my mind anyway) curly brace code syntax.
When I first started being a developer - well I was more like a script kiddie that wrote really bad PHP code - I looked down on tools like Visual Basic and REALBasic. I thought they were for people too dumb to program. After programming for the last 3 or 4 years I've changed my thinking (or I'm too dumb to program). I'm at the point in my life/career where I just want to use good tools to get the job done as quickly, efficiently, and cleanly as possible.
I haven't started a new project for myself (just yet), but I hope I can spend some more time with REALBasic. I'm very interested in being able to build a cross platform desktop app, and I'm sure as hell not doing it in Swing. SWT interests me, but I've read a lot of bad things about it. From what I understand, if you stick to the same kind of functionality Eclipse offers you're ok. Stray outside of that and it could get hairy. (I don't have any experience with SWT, it's just what I've read online.)
Anyway - it was a fun "night off". :)
posted by Michael Sica at
10:30 PM
2 Comments:
No problem Mike. I noted that you were taking a 'night off' and did enough work on Chinchilla for the both of us. :) Went to bed at 4:30 AM.
I hear you loud and clear about wanting good tools to just get the job done.
I was in exactly the same position, had been hand coding professionally using vi (still am in the day job actually) for nigh on a decade, when it came time to write software for myself I was definitely in the market for a proper IDE.
You know the rest already Michael, after a scout around and a kick of a few tires I ended up picking RealBasic. Couldn't do what I'm doing now without it, well, cross-platform anyway.
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