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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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...
>
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