The noob in PowerBuilder
July 22, 2007
A month into my first ever official ‘real’ job, and some comments and thoughts Rob does have.
Firstly… Office Work. Loving it. No more hot / steamy / gross / sweaty kitchens populated primarily with coke heads and alcoholics, taking out there aggression on co workers as a coping mechanism for the perpetual dead end they realize their lifes are.
Yup… Now I get to deal with a whole different ball of behaviors or environmental variables related to office work. I’m sure the veterans of the office work spaces will laugh at my naivety, but it is a QUANTUM LEAP for THIS ex-service industry lacky turned tech-savy developer and novice software engineer.
PowerBuilder (9.0 and 10.5) are definitely growing on me as a development environment and framework. I don’t understand why there seems to be a residual bitter taste (based on my web readings related to powerbuilder) regarding the use of this amazing client-server development platform. One word: datawindow.
Yes, as a noob, I am fully aware that my naivety is again causing more senior developers to cringe as they read… but frankly… get off a noob’s blog if you don’t want to cringe, ok?
Gone yet?
Good.
There seems to be this push to use J2EE reporting tools, or just develop in J2EE because it’s java, and well… it’s java. Oh one more thing… java.
Java is great and all, it’s damn sexy, and it’s elegant. However, I don’t see how it’s more practical to code, from the ground up, a complex and large scale system. Of course this is all relative to how simple I am finding doing bug fixes, code maintenance, and development of extension of exisiting functionality in Powerbuilder 9.0, of which I have only been exposed to since June 25th.
On the webside of things *snicker*, I am FINALLY on the verge of picking and getting setting up with an ISP. I am going to go with bluehost.com. So, when I have my personal site(s) relaunched off my private home server to a proper ISP, I will be letting everybody know. I also plan to play around with WordPress (and Joomla) on my ISP’s server, both which come installed.
This wordpress based fb-app is GOLDEN though, thanks developers!
