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Originally Posted by Qfwfq
There's the old joke about the Big Boys, the ones that write the books for web dev topics like JavaScript-JSP and onward, being interviewed by the PC-mag journalists. When asked which tool they use, they often smile and reply: "Visual Notepad!"  |
Ha! Around here we pretty much use HomeSite out of habit, since the syntax support is acceptable (code Edit-mode only, no "visual" Design-mode stuff for us...), including SQL scripting, although even that is a pain for configuration/change management: we've got about 400 sprocs in our app (uh oh, here comes alexander to scold us for using SQLServer....). We've started to play with some tools like Embarcadero Technologies to speed up the maintenance of our scripts though. Also, there are a few of us around here who can still write hairy data analysis selects from scratch, but the younger kids all start with generated selects built with SQLServer EntManager or similar tools.
I'll put in a plug here for my friends at
Perforce: if you don't use a decent code management system, you're a total amateur...
I personally think that its stupid not to use a visual tool unless it doesn't do what you want--which is actually my big complaint about Dreamweaver: its constantly trying to "outthink" you--macho, show-offy "I code in *assembler*" stuff is not good for the bottom line!
Thanks for the tip Q, I'll check it out...
Cheers,
Buffy
