Didn't know about reshaper. Will look into that.

Agree with the problem solving about programming.

Thanks.

I'm not sure of all the details but it's a learn and grow with a boot if you can't cut it type of deal.

I'd probably fail their tests, yet can do my job.

Totally agree with this article.

Interesting read.

Do most Windows technology need a windows server?

1. Your connection is slow
2. Those sites use temares that were never reduced down from the heavily laden demo version of the template. Which means crap loads of unused js is still in them.

Sometimes, it's almost impossible to get to the raw form of the template without redoing them on your own ... Ugh!

That is true.

Even jquery has been working hard to go on a diet.

It is. JS just adds more weight to a page in some cases.

Seen most of these ...

Check out codedrops

Card based? I haven't seen Mocrosoft based designs in a while. The rest are all '14 and '15 continuances ...

I'm glad that you like Yii!

Laravel isn't tied to any js framework. Bring your own. The framework does support what you need for Ajax, serialization and what not.

Performance is a relative ..

I haven't used Yii2 yet so my comment was sort of snarky :-)

Yii does have a lot of packages out of the box that are really nice that we don't have.

Laravel finally decided to have a LTS which helps the almost 6 month release syndrome.

I'm gonna say that laravel's greatest advantages are constant development (I didn't want to wait for yii2) and its ability to work for you instead of you having to work in a laravel fashion. You can bring almost any design pattern to it and will work. Another thing to consider is that it's really symphony inspired and has taken advantage of what symfony has done of the years.

Both communities are great!

Both frameworks are really good.

I'd say though, that a framework has to match you and your style so it might not be the best for you.

I like laravel because I keep becoming a better programmer as a whole. My coding style, my organization, the way I keep my functionality separated. Also, because it seems to be at the moment the Rails hipster go to framework, I'm introduced to lots of new concepts and design patterns.

But, once again, a framework is to help you and you should be able to work faster because of it.

Switch to laravel ;-)

Lots of opinions on what's best. I just follow what tool works best for me.

Many will say Language A is the best but many people forget that it may not be the best for the person using it.

I'd say try the ones that are interest groups to you. There's actually very little different between spoken languages and programming languages.

I found Japanese a pita to start but it clicked and clicked hard.

I look at Java and that shit is like wtf for me. Php was oh ok ... I do it that way.

Try writing a program to control a servo in each. One language will click and another might not. Another thing to consider is the community for that language, some will click and others won't.

When you turn to a community for help, having code to show you've done and your efforts go a long way compared to just asking for somebody to do it for you.

.net is lol not entirely sure ... You're gonna pick up C# and Microsoft's MVC framework and possibly be looking at using MS visual studio.

A major company in town (which is based across the U.S.) is hiring 3 .net programmers. Entry level crap is starting at 57k year. 6 digit salaries are normal.

.net is used by many major corporations.

A few people recommend some very hardcore methods on how to proceed and they are right but they don't mention the time you'll need to invest.

If I were to start now: Web based stuff: node.js Apps: apple's object C or swift Enterprise: C# Science/research: C, Java, GO, Erlang and Python

I do php programming daily so Ruby and Python are always used to show we php is shit. Lol, the shit thing is that lots of people still use php. Facebook started on PHP (lol, probably not the wisest choice but it didn't stop that company) and Twitter smartly with Ruby.

It's all about picking the right tool for the right job.

How fucking true!

:-(

Granted my sentence was brief and open ended, still I didn't say "everything". OSX is a BSD variant.

However, your own examples prove to some extent it does. You are just combining about compile times and compile dependency issues.

Why bring up Kvpm when it appears to be a volume manager? On a notebook or desktop, how many times do you really need to resize a drive?

Bash, csh, tcsh are others.

But but Linux has a community. Thank goodness it does because without Linus probably won't have finished what he started.

I run OSX on Asus and Gigabyte hard ware because Apple is either a mini or a huge expense to buy the pro garbage can. I homebrew packages as you would apt-get.

The biggest problem with Linux is the community! Programmers like to roll their own shit. They don't want to band together very often to decide on standards and even then they ignore them because camelCase or snake_case is better. Don't get me on 2,4 spaces for tabs.

Ubuntu keeps trying but the community takes the piss out of Unity while pushing their favorite Gnome or KDE.

All the while an asshole, a complete asshole shit on his employees, told them to fuck off or make something decent and a few years later took his crappy MachKernel and got Adobe and Microsoft to program for a *nix variant. While RedHat pushed out CDs to magazines and Ubuntu barely got Firefox onboard.

Linux is not bad, I actually like it as a server OS. I also keep trying a distro every 3 years but keep rolling back to OSX since it just works even with a majority of printers and graphic cards.

So yes, I agree. Linux is more than bash on the command line.

Update, not all the latest OSX suck ;-)

1. Pick up GIT
2. Sublime/phpStorm are sweet text editors ... Unless you wanna go hard core vim
3. Vagrant/virtual box if you feel a need to try a different OS
4. Max your ram, just max it
5. Python, Ruby, C are always good
6. I'd suggest node.js cuz it's the up and growing hipster language
7. Php is awesome since it runs every where, if you do pick up laravel
8. Your machine is good enough, get a monitor if you what a little something extra besides ram

Programming language depends on what you want to make. If you want to make cash go to the dark side and learn .net

C and Java will teach you a lot of fundamentals at a high learning curve but the pay off can be worth it if you can hang in for the long ride.

OSX is already a server and runs what Linux does ...

Why leave Python? I'm a php guy and still consider Python as solid.

Have you considered node.js?

Anyway, to answer your question. Just go at it! If you have an idea all the better! Keep plugging away and plugging away. Isn't that what you've done so far?

Awesome joke article!

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:-)

I keep hearing that. Would you say it's better than what Apple puts out? Swift / apple's objective C?

I'm a MS hater but C# is pretty decent from what I hear.

Yes it's sad } } } }

COBOL is used in business, banking and transport. Apparently it was really good for what it is supposed to do.

I don't know what could replace it even though it is being done, but look at all those leaks.

Java brought a lot of cutting edge design patterns and such but Oracle owns it now so ... Burn!

Thanks! Gonna try to read some this later.

Ugh! Fuck perl 6 ... I left perl for php because of that shit.

Not to defend php6 but some of php6 need to catch items did start to show up in 5.5 and 5.6.

Do agree that the early adopters should have waited.

We have definitely moved forward but also at same time still rely on the same principals of programming that pascal (lol! Forgot about those hard tabs!), fortran and lisp.

But at the same time, I'm seeing a lot of convergence, especially in web languages. PHP has gotten so much better in the last 2 years that ruby and Python are becoming a lifestyle choice compared to a better choice.

Design patterns are also becoming a thing that more people understand besides hard core Java people.

Still miss books though :-)

Education as from what I've seen at the low levels start you on Microsoft products (win mobile apps) but even worse most students know more than the teachers!

Sites and communities come and go, just need to keep an eye out for what's up-and-coming.

Code academys .... Meh

Just getting something out there and having people use it is about the best. Build, build and build.

I do miss reading books on the subjects though. At one time, you could stay up to date but today an average developed needs to know several layers and languages just to be productive. Example: php, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and tools like git. Along with various team based technologies like team programming, story boarding and what not. Just coming in with a language no longer cuts it.

Lol! Nope just in how many revisions of Space Invaders have come out since I discovered what quarters were first useful for :-) later on, I learned they could be fun in more deadly ways!

By the time books are published the new flavor of the day is already 2 years stale!

In the php world Laravel was just exiting 3.x and today is already on 5.1.x. The PDF book writers just can't keep up. PHP itself is going from 5.3/5.4 2 years ago to the latest 7 (6 got skipped).

StackOverflow and communities are way more helpful.

Note: I saved my first program that I copied out of a magazine on casset tape :-D