[Ilugc] re: needed alternative for dreamweaver
- From: venkat83@xxxxxxxxx (Venkatraman S)
- Date: Thu May 15 12:59:08 2008
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
do you mean to say that there are two kinds of application development -
Rapid and ordinary? Like tatkal and ordinary in railway bookings? RAD does
not mean 'how quickly can I produce a page of css/html'. It means how
quickly can I get a bug free application in production and how quickly I can
alter/upgrade the same in production.
Neither. (And your reference to railway booking is just too damn hilarious)
RAD is just a paradigm wherein you get stuff done that can be used earlier
than what would have been delivered otherwise in a SDLC - bugs are accepted,
but not show-stoppers. And if you are/like the business of quoting
wikipedia, then :
<WIKIPEDIA>"RAD approaches may entail compromises in functionality and
performance in exchange for enabling faster development and facilitating
application maintenance."</WIKIPEDIA>
Employing hundreds of code monkeys to use DW to generate html without
knowing what is html is not rapid development - it is an invitation to
disaster. The doze WYSIWYG culture is aimed at trying to convince people
that they can write applications without knowing how to write code.
Developing a portal is much different from developing a middleware or an
embedded system. I know many who develop quick pages in IDEs and always go
through the generated code and clean it up accordingly.
1. mock-up in photoshop (gimp for us)
<dripping sarcasm> Why you are doing this - effectively you should be
writing a C/ASM which generates an array of number corresponding to the
pixel values and then store it as a file. Some of my freinds in the
monkeyland do this. </dripping sarcasm>
cannot comment on this as I have no idea about C/Java
Well, if you are referring to the best of the developers, then most of them
know either of the above languages(+python[scripting]).
a developer is a person who aims at perfection - and there is no distinction
for him between RAD and ordinary.
So what about others? - they do not want perfection? Am not sure , whether i
understood your concerns!
--
Venkat
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