Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

Midnight Commander on Linux is one of the best editors our there. It ranks right up there with the VERY OLD Microsft Editor which I still use regularly! Anybody else remember "me"? Regards, John Thompson "Johan Lundqvist" <johan@noatun.org> wrote in message news:3AF9476C.F50E85DA@noatun.org... > Well, well... > PC-Mag, as most ZD-Net and IDG mag's, are in my opinion too dependant on > Micro$oft advertising to make any "real" reviews on anything. > And, as Joe Brown said, their target readers are windows-users. The > "normal" windows user can't possibly read and/or understand ASCII code > in an editor, it has to bee in a fancy "IDE tool" with lots of blips and > gizmos. > > Well, he's right in one statement; PHP, MySQL and Apache are most stable > on the Un*x (read Linux) platform. They were developed by Un*x people, > for Un*x platforms. Never the less, the windows versions of these > products do a terrific job. > > The problem is what you define as "production environment" and "stable > for production". In the history of Un*x the standards are set very high. > All those 99.9999....% statements require some really goood software. > These conditions can, in my opinion, never be met in any windows > environment. The Micro$oft platforms just isn't that stable themself. > Still PHP, MySQL and Apache work very fine on the windows platform. In > comparission to other (read Micro$oft) products they DO perform well and > are VERY stable. > > Another problem is that people tend to think it's a pice of cake to set > up a webserver. If you take any standard, out of the box solution, yes. > But, to set up a webserver with some functionality, databases and > intelligence needs some knowledge. > > Some really good ideas in how to seperate homepage development from > server management and development can be found in Sterling Hughes "Top > 21 PHP progamming mistakes - Part I: Seven Textbook Mistakes" #16. "Not > separating client side from server side" > (http://www.zend.com/zend/art/mistake.php). Poeple tend to look at > client side and server side development as the same thing, and that's > not true. Though Micro$oft often mislead people to that idea... > > /Johan > > Hmmm, that tended to be quite misspelled and long, sorry bout that... > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >