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Why didn't she just go straight home?
I'd kissed my best friend and enjoyed it. It was wrong and we both know it. Amber probably felt pressured into kissing me back. Not taking about it will be best. We've both got people we care for. I can't be in love with Amber.
"So are you taking devil to the carnival down by the river?" Amber questions breaking the silence; I wish she wouldn't have asked that.
"Yeah I am, we can meet up with you and Garry if you'd like. I know he takes you every year," I answer before taking both our bowls to the sink.
"Um…yeah, I think that'll be alright. I'll have to talk to Garry. The carnival is kinda an 'us' thing," Amber explains as she gets up from the stool to head back upstairs.
Shutting my eyes, I let out a long sigh. Thing between Amber and I cannot get awkward. She's been my best friend since we were young. I can't let one stupid kiss ruin everything. I have to fix this.
Hurrying up the stairs after her I reach and grab right under her elbow. Amber stops, turning around, her eyes showing sighs of pain. I'd grabbed on of her bruises. Shit…way to go Frank.
Letting go I just look at my best friend, "Sorry about that. Hey, this morning…."
"Was something that happened in the heat of the moment…it won't happen again. I'm going to get my jacket then head home. Thanks for letting me spend the night Frank; I'll call over on the walkie later."
With that she leaves me standing on the steps just a little bit hurt. I knew Amber didn't feel anything when we kissed but somewhere I had been hoping that maybe, just maybe she would. What a ridiculous thought. Even though Garry hits Amber she loves him…she'll never love me.
I'm still standing halfway up the stair case when Amber comes back. She doesn't even say anything as she passes me, just smiles and waves. Way to screw things up. I'll give Amber time, she'll work whatever is going on in her head out and things will get back to normal.
So having nothing better to do I head back to my room. My eyes instantly go the mattress but I don't sit on it. Instead I grab my guitar and play for a while, these actions not requiring me to use any brain power whatsoever. I do a lot of thinking over the next couple of hours.
By the time I hear the walkie crackle I know that I like Amber a lot more than a friend should like another friend. I also know I enjoyed our kiss very much. Another thing I've come to realize is that Devlin and I are not really meant to be. She's got no head in her skull and besides her good looks nothing is really tying me to her. Amber is everything, then again she has Garry. I want Amber though…I want her to say she loves me and to be able to kiss those soft lips whenever I please.
"Hey man this is Gerard," a male's voice sounds over my walkie.
Confused I get up, grabbing the green walkie talkie off the window seal, shooing a stink bug back down the brick wall, "Hey man what's up?"
"Is Amber still at your house…she never came home?" Gerard says his tone just a little frantic. I will admit I don't much like this fact either. Where could have Amber gone?
"No, she left a while ago. Maybe she went to Jonny's or Garry's," I reply trying to think logically. She was still her pajamas with no cell phone.
"Alright cool, she just walked in. Thanks Frank," Gerard says before the line goes.
Where the hell could have she gone after leaving my house?
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Construction has begun along the riverfront near downtown Nashville, where there will soon be more greenways and family zones near the Cumberland River.
Crews are now using machinery to grade the land, break down steep slopes and prepare for foundations and drainage work on the $65 million revitalization project.
"I think the closest city I could compare it to is Chattanooga, and I think we are going to exceed what has been done there on the riverfront," said Metro Parks Director Tommy Lynch.
The design for the riverfront project came out of ideas meshed together from riverfronts in cities like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and San Antonio.
"Since the flood in 2010, it's sort of brought out an active aspect of the river - that Nashville is a riverfront town," Lynch said.
The next order of business will be the layout of the Metro Water Services' plan for flood walls and drainage next month.
Plans call for improvements on both sides of the river. On the east bank near LP Field, a great lawn will surround the greenway while added docks will create a spot to drop a canoe in the water.
And everyone will be able to enjoy the Cumberland from the west bank, too.
"Eventually, we will have water cannons on the west bank. And we'll have an adult playground and fitness equipment that people can access as they are running along the greenway," Lynch said.
The area between the Shelby Avenue Pedestrian Bridge and the Korean Veterans Memorial Bridge will also have a three-acre greenspace anchored with an amphitheater.
The east and the west banks will not open until everything is completed on both sides of the river, likely the summer of 2015.
"We plan by July Fourth of next year that we will have a concert in the amphitheater and the park on the west bank," Lynch said.
Plans don't stop there. It's years away, but eventually, the improvements will stretch all the way from the west bank to Fort Nashborough.
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I am not the only one guilty of not visiting.
{'You old woman,' she almost wants to add, but she does not. In any case, she is only annoyed of all the blame being shifted on her. She is not blameless, but she will not take all of the responsibility.}
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It would be impossible for me to have forgotten something when we have not seen each other in so long. Certainly you would have known this.
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Uriah Hall capped off the third episode of the Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen with one of the most devastating knockouts in the show's 17 season history on Tuesday night.
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Esack Hairdresser Murder: Husband Gets Life
A "controlling" former policeman who stabbed his estranged wife to death at her hair salon has been jailed for life - with a minimum 28-year term.
Ivan Esack planned the killing "to the minute" before he knifed Natalie Esack up to 11 times because he could not cope with her being with someone else, said the judge at Maidstone Crown Court.
Friends and relatives of Mrs Esack broke into applause after Judge Charles Byers handed down the sentence.
In the period before the killing, Esack told his estranged wife, 33, she was a "dead woman walking" and added: "Tick tock, tick tock."
The 20cm (8in) blade bent and the tip broke off under the ferocity of the attack at Esack Hair and Beauty in High Street, Ashford, Kent, on April 30 last year.
After the stabbing, Esack, 38, turned to her colleague Chelsea Ford, then 17, and said: "She deserved it, the b****."
The judge said Esack had "cut down and killed" his victim while she was in the prime of her life, and had shown no remorse for his actions.
Judge Byers told him: "Not only did you take her precious life but in doing so you devastated the lives of so many around her.
"You had previously made her life a misery, subjecting her to repeated physical and verbal abuse. And yet she never offered you any malice, not of any sort."
The judge said Mrs Esack decided to leave her husband after considerable threats.
He said: "You are a controlling man and the only way that you could continue to control her life was to take it from her. You had no other intention that day other than to kill her. This was a calculated, premeditated killing planned to the minute."
On Friday, the ex-Kent Police detective constable turned aspiring football agent, of Ashford, was found guilty of murder following a three-week trial.
After his conviction, questions were asked about whether police missed opportunities to protect Mrs Esack from him.
It emerged she had spoken to police four times about the abusive former policeman, from 2009 to just a month before she was murdered.
According to police, Mrs Esack was unwilling to support a prosecution and failed to return phone calls and attend meetings because she did not want to harm his prospects.
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July 27, 2008 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Media Bias, News, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
Looks like the DNC is passing off a tiny, little fib as a "green" measure to save the planet. The so-called "offsets" they are offering the participants to the Democratic National Convention are… well… meaningless.
DNC Boondoggle: Carbon Credits Fund Broken Turbine
The eastern Colorado wind turbine tapped for the Democratic National Convention's carbon-offset program has one problem: It doesn't generate any electricity. Convention organizers are now being questioned for their eagerness to market those credits to delegates.
The DNC has contracted with Vermont-based NativeEnergy to offer delegates "Green challenge" carbon offsets to soften the environmental impact of convention travel. That money is then invested in carbon-free "green" energy sources around the country, including a wind turbine installed this year by the Wray School District RD-2. But a Face The State investigation reveals the district's turbine has never produced marketable energy due to massive equipment malfunctions.
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I've been doing LAMP web development for about ten years. I'd like to learn a new language to diversify my skills. What language should I choose?
Here's why I want to learn a new language:
1. I've heard it said that you can never really be a great programmer if you're
a "good PHP programmer", or a "good C++ programmer". That is: to really excel in any given language, it helps to be fluent in
several other
languages. This makes intuitive sense to me.
(PHP isn't the
language I've ever programmed in, but it's definitely the language I know the best.)
2. Curiosity. I enjoy learning new things.
3. I've often seen PHP criticized as an amateurish and poorly designed language, which encourages sloppy habits. I think some of this is just the partisan snobbery that always arises between rival technologies, but I can also see some of the points. PHP seems to be more a product of incremental evolution than intentional design.
I keep hearing that various other languages are cleaner, more elegant, more expressive, more scalable, more flexible, etc. I'd like to try them out for myself, and see what the hype is about.
4. Future employability. I'm more-or-less happily employed right now, but having a broader skill set will broaden my options in future job hunts. And I don't want to lock myself into one language, and find myself SOL when it falls out of fashion in ten or fifteen years and I'm too old to learn new tricks.
5. As a bonus, it would be cool to learn a language that will enable me to write
apps, not just web apps and scripts.
So, what language should I be learning? At least to begin, I'll be using it mainly for web stuff.
I've been dabbling (very lightly) with Python, and it seems pretty easy to learn. I'm also looking into Ruby. And I'm open to any other suggestions. (
that I have zero interest in anything Microsofty.)
I'm intrigued by Lisp, but I'm not sure how much practical use there is for it (especially for the web), or whether it's just going to turn my brain into a pretzel. It seems best-loved by mathy / formal-comp-sci folks, and while I admire that world, I have no such background.
I prefer stronger typing, but that's not a requirement, and the trend these days (at least in the web-scripting world) seems to be toward loose typing.
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I might suggest buying
this book
and treating it like a college class that you need to pass. Will get you familiar with not only a bunch of languages, but also a range of languages with very fundamentally different approaches.
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For your "Future employability" I
think this
list is pretty good. Java has been #1 for quite a while.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
Python or Ruby. I kinda would suggest Java but Oracle has managed to fuck it up.
Oh, you will also need javascript as a complement. No, I am completely serious.
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I'd learn Python. While not inherently OO, you can work that way much more easily than with PHP. It's powerful, and you can use it for a lot more than web apps. All of Google's API's support it. And one of it's underlying principles is that its code should be highly readable (something PHP forgot early on).
How's your Javascript? Are you fluent with JQuery?
I'm no fan of Microsoft but C# is all kinds of awesome. Linq is the shit.
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on January 7, 2011
Yeah, I've been doing a ton of JavaScript over the last few years, and have really come to love it. The fact that Python has lambdas and functional features (like JavaScript) is one thing that attracted me to it.
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I'm pretty good with jQuery.
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For web, not so much for desktop... RUBY ON RAILS.
I was a PHP-only girl until I took a course in web development with ruby on rails. Oh my goodness it changed my amateurish web developing life! It was a struggle to get over the initial learning curve but now it's the only thing I ever use for building web applications for both personal and work uses (but this is probably bad. I have probably forgotten everything PHP-related I once knew).
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Since learning Ruby on Rails I was lucky enough to get a job where myself and one other guy were basically told "build us a web application from scratch." He wasn't a web programmer when he started, and I suggested using Rails - now we're both on our way to Ruby and Rails ninjadom and the project (A frontend for a complex database with lots of snazzy features) would be unfathomable to me in our other option, PHP (but then again, I haven't worked with any PHP frameworks, and learning one of those might have changed my tune considerably).
On preview, if you do RoR learn javascript as well!
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Python is a great choice. It's nearly unlimited in its versatility. It's powerful for the web - check out the Django framework, basically Rails for Python (but better). If you've never used an MVC web framework you're in for a treat. Python has GUI libraries for desktop development. You can use C extensions to get higher performance when you need it. It has functional programming tools. The syntax makes Python code easier to read 6 months after you've written it than any other language I've seen. Python may not be the best tool for every job, but it's a good tool for most jobs.
I've heard good things about the book mcstayinsckool recommended.
Scheme/LISP will turn your brain into a pretzel in a very good way. The syntax can be picked up in a few minutes. There's not a lot of commercial application of LISP anymore, but working through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (or even Simply Scheme if the math in SICP is too much for you) will make you a better programmer in other languages. Guaranteed.
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For web dev, I'd suggest Ruby on Rails. The MVC model will (if you aren't doing it already with code igniter or cake) really help you scale up your skills and abilities, and move you along in your career path. All of the modern languages support MVC models, but Ruby definitely popularized the current implementations in the webdev world, and most are derivative.
Python is also great.
As is perl, java, scala, erlang, groovy, c#, and even c++ .
All of them have different strengths and weaknesses; growing your abilities in more of them will dramatically improve your understanding of coding as a discipline rather than coding as an isolingual limit.
Personally, I'd go with ruby first, and then go into one of the functional languages next year or the year after. If you're doing this professionally, you should be able to find time to build a mini application in a new language every year or two.
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on January 7, 2011
i suggest this family of 3 highly related languages: scheme (via
), javascript +
(start with
lord crockford
), and
scheme (a simple dialect of lisp) is one of the all time great languages, and racket has an epic win of a code editor with superb
. it is the best way to learn some functional programming ideas.
coffeescript is a modern dialect of javascript which compiles to pure javascript. it can be learned in an hour and rounds off most of the sharp corners yielding a real joy for practical web work.
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If you're intrigued by LISP, but like strong typing, it seems that
is a good choice, and a very good, very pragmatic introduction to Haskell is out there as an
Oreilly book
and a
free Website/wiki
I realize we're in the minority, but the company I work for, Galois, primarily uses Haskell.
If you want to stick more into the mainstream, I've heard multiple people say that Ruby is a gateway-language to functional programming.
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on January 7, 2011
I will nth the recommendation of Python. What I like about it is that it's multi-paradigm, i.e., it supports multiple styles of programming, from simple structured imperative to object-oriented to (some aspects of) functional. (I recently started playing with Haskell and was surprised by how many concepts were already familiar from Python.) Also, Python code tends to do what I intended the first time more often than any other language I've ever used.
JavaScript (some client-side to go with your server-side) and Ruby are also good next choices, I think. Java and C# are also not bad choices (I would lean toward C#, personally, as it's a better Java, but either one is widely used, particularly in the enterprise).
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I was/am in a similar position: ten years of LAMP development (plus a lot of HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and I wanted to learn something else for very similar reasons to those you list. I only wanted to learn a new web development language, an alternative to PHP so that narrowed my choice perhaps more than you are.
For me it boiled down to choosing between Django and Ruby On Rails. I wanted to learn both a new, possibly "better" language -- Python or Ruby -- and a decent framework (I'd just done a bit of development using the CodeIgniter PHP framework and could see how a decent framework like Django or Rails would change how I thought about web development).
The best way for me to choose between Django and RonR would have been to try them both -- learn a bit, build a little thing in each, see what I preferred. But I knew that only intermittent periods of free time, plus a bad memory, meant it would take me ages to evaluate both.
So I spent a while reading about each of them online to try and work out which was more me. This is tricky because almost every comparison of the two is written by someone who is much more familiar with one or the other and so is biased. But I eventually decided that Django felt more up my street. Just a hunch.
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I'm really enjoying it. I occasionally hit a brick wall that takes a while to figure out but other times it's a joy. I like Django a lot, the docs are good, there's a lot of friendly help out there, and it feels right. I may have felt the same about RonR too of course.
If you're anything like me you'll kick yourself for not learning something other than PHP sooner.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I'd go with Python. Python is well suited for web apps (Django is an excellent framework, and you can get a working website up really quickly with it). Python is a more mature language with an amazing set of libraries, and you'll find that it's more expressive than PHP — you can do things in many fewer lines, which makes programming more pleasurable. It is a strongly/dynamically typed.
I've heard good things about Ruby but have less experience with it — the advantage of Ruby / RoR is that it's very strongly geared towards web applications, and with Heroku you have a really good infrastructure for deploying applications.
As a long shot, if you wanted to learn a Lisp but also do web development, you could learn Clojure; the Compojure web framework is not bad, and Clojure is an enormously fun language to use.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
Oh, just to add a bit more about why Django (and RonR) are better than PHP...
You don't say if you use any kind of PHP framework... If you don't then using either Django or RonR will be a huge change. It really feels like so much of the really dull work is done for you. There are conventions for doing many, many common things, which are the same across all Django sites. There are lots of great little things which require just a tiny tweak to make something useful happen. I will never again have to write another set of dull admin forms for adding/editing database objects because Django can do that automatically (this is worth the price of admission alone).
If you have used a PHP framework, you get the idea. But language-wise Python just feels somehow "tighter" and more efficient than PHP. I'm a self-taught programmer, so can't describe the differences technically, but PHP feels a bit loose and baggy by comparison. PHP's easy -- which is why so many people have picked it up, but also why there's a lot of bad PHP code out there. Python feels more elegant and, while I still have a lot to learn, and my Python is often clunky and PHP-like in structure, I get real pleasure when I do something that feels elegant and Pythonic.
One downside -- getting a Django site up and running is harder than a PHP one. I guess this is similar for RonR too, I'm not sure. With PHP you can generally upload/checkout the files and view them in a browser. Django seems much more complex, with more ways to serve a Django site, and it's less well supported by a lot of hosting companies (a situation which is gradually improving).
posted by
on January 7, 2011
As an alternative to Ruby on Rails or Django, I would recommend
. It's built on a solid stack of Java, Hibernate, and Spring; It has a lot of the awesomeness of auto-generating frameworks like RoR; It avoids 99% of the ugliness of writing raw java web applications by adopting
as its primary development language.
Also, javascript and node.js. If you're already competent with jQuery, I would avoid diving too deeply into it. The library abstracts so many of the core language constructs from you that it does you a disservice when you actually need to build a real application. My framework of choice is
for its outstanding
and expressive object relationships. Best part is, there's a great node.js module for using YUI3 as your backend framework.
The main downside with node is that it's still a very beta piece of software. The level of buzz in the web development community is huge, though.
Really, though, it's not the language that's really important. It's the concepts you apply to it. Knowing what a design pattern is (for example), when and how to use it (and when not to), is way more important than any hacking you might have done in a secondary language.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
Lots of helpful advice so far.
Guess I should have mentioned that I'm already pretty experienced with JavaScript. Will definitely check out node.js, though.
I've tried to get into the swing of PHP frameworks, without much luck. The main one I've encountered is Zend Framework (usually because I need to tweak or extend some enormous web app based on ZF). It looks like massive overkill for most of my purposes, and I found it to be completely impenetrable when I sat down and tried to learn it. (It doesn't help that the official tutorials are riddled with factual, technical, and typographical errors.)
Also, it seems to rely on lots of auto-generated code, which just doesn't sit right with me for some reason. (Is this how
of the big web frameworks operate? It looks like Django is the same way, for instance.)
want to learn how to develop with a framework—but ZF, at least, has not gotten me off to a great start.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I'm not sure what you mean by "auto-generated code". Does Zend Framework generate custom code for your particular project, maybe based on your database structure or something?
Django doesn't, AFAIK, have any "auto-generated code". There is a lot of code there already of course, but that
the framework. It provides a common structure for all the things you're going to need, eg, files for your models, views, urls, etc.
Auto-generated pages, like the admin site, don't involve any "auto-generated code". The code for the admin application looks at the structure of your project's models and creates the necessary forms for adding/editing data -- it doesn't generate any new code.
Frameworks are very useful. They provide a sensible structure and patterns, stop you reinventing the wheel, make it easier for other people to figure out how your code works, and can stop you making silly mistakes (eg, by providing standard ways to safeguard user input).
Everyone who's used a PHP framework has their own favorite. I liked
as it was a good balance of being very useful but not overly complicated, and had good documentation.
sounds interesting, and was originally an offshoot of CodeIgniter. Others are probably also good in different ways.
So it may be worth looking at something like that for new PHP projects, until you're up-to-speed with whatever you decide to learn that's new. But learning Django, RoR or something else would be a great way to learn about frameworks
a new language.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I've used Django a bit and there is a little optional auto-generation of model classes for legacy/preexisting databases... but you can hand code those if necessary. Not needed for new projects, really. For new projects, Django can auto generate database tables and relationships based on model
all written as Python classes.
Of course, you don't have to use Django's models, or even its template language. I'm currently using
to access an Oracle database, and
templates to render html (faster than Django's built in templates). Super nice!
As for Python specifically: I prefer it simply for the intuitive manipulation of sequence datatypes (tuples/lists/dicts). I find array functions in PHP to be painful to use.
posted by
Mister Cheese
on January 7, 2011
Blah, that first paragraph is ugly. Let me restate:
-Django can
database tables from model code.
-Django can
model code from prexisting database tables.
The former is how new projects are started, and how new apps are installed.
The latter is the only instance of code generation that Django is capable of that I can think of.
posted by
Mister Cheese
on January 7, 2011
If you've been doing LAMP development for the better part of 10 years, how much Linux/Unix systems programming ability have you managed to pick up?
I know it's not the 'cool' thing these days, but I'd take a look at trying to get a solid understanding of C rather than something like C# or Java. In fact I would stay away from C# completely, as the Linux development philosophy/style is in many ways completely orthogonal to that of the Windows .Net stuff, and you'll have to re-learn a lot of the operating system basics that you take for granted on Linux. I'm in the middle of forced transition from unmanaged C/C++ in Linux to managed C#/.Net in Windows, and I'm not enjoying it in the
Anyway, Linux, for the most part, is C all the way down, so you'll never be at a loss for code to explore or applications to play around with. PHP code is similar in syntax to C code in a lot of ways (at least circa PHP3 before all the object-oriented stuff was grafted on) so it won't be as much of a syntax shock as going to Ruby or Java would be. I won't lie - it's a very steep learning curve to get some of the fundamentals down (manual memory management, pointers, data structures, etc), but it's something that looks really good on a Linux-specific resume if you're trying to branch out to something beyond PHP web development.
If C seems like too much of a hill to climb, I'd go with Python over Ruby or Java.
Also, it seems to rely on lots of auto-generated code, which just doesn't sit right with me for some reason. (Is this how all of the big web frameworks operate? It looks like Django is the same way, for instance.)
Auto generated code is mostly* a good thing. It can be used for good as well as evil, but it shouldn't raise any suspicions on its own. If you're going to be using Django or Ruby or Rails or almost any other 'modern' MVC framework, there is probably going to be some utility script that generates boilerplate plumbing code so you don't have to write it on your own. Remember - Laziness is one of the
three virtues of a programmer
It can also be used for pure evil - See
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I've also been doing LAMP development for years, but was finally introduced to the power of frameworks by my new employer... I can't belive what I was missing. Now I refuse to start anything without a framework. For those simple php web projects, look into
(or similar, smaller lightweight frameworks). Compared to the big boys (Zend, Symfony, etc) it's almost laughably simple and incomplete, but it'll get you into the MVC headspace and isn't overkill at all. It's definitely something to get familiar with, if you anticipate looking for new PHP jobs in the future. It's a skill we now require new hires to have, and I'm noticing more and more companies are doing the same.
That being said, I'll also pile on the 'learn python' wagon (with or without Django). It's what I'm doing, anyway...
posted by
on January 7, 2011
Take ten minutes to learn Python's syntax and take it from there.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I'll curmudgeon.
Python sucks. It's easy to read (almost pseudocode), rigorous formatting (you do indent your code correctly don't you?), designed so that there's one way to do something and that is the one way you're supposed to do something. It has lambdas as in ("No, you can't have lambdas. Did you hear me? I said I'll not give you lambdas. Ok, fine... I'll give you lambdas but they can only be a single expression. Now go away!"). It's easy peasy so you get to compete with all the other infinite monkeys who can code Python.
Ruby is troublesome. It has a niche of Rails. That's all it's really good for. One of the Debian packagers just threw up his hands and quit out of frustration dealing with the Ruby community. They have a handful of active branches so you pretty much have to bundle up everything in your own distribution to deploy it anywhere. 1.8 isn't going to work with 1.9, 1.9 isn't going to work with 2.0. I watched a talk by what's his name (Matz?) the creator. He gives off the impression that he's happy you like it and want to use it, but he's quite annoyed to think anything about backwards or forwards compatibility. He wan't to keep on changing it to suit his own needs. Good for him. It is pretty sweet, but your programs are unlikely to work except in your environment.
You of course want Perl. It's what Python users would use if they could wrap their heads around it. Just start out with the Modern Perl movement. Quite a lot has changed in the past few years that most of the Perl haters have missed. See, Perl likes to steal things. If there's something cool in Ruby, Perl steals it. We have instant web apps like Rails and Racks. We have about the best DB stuff around. I've been doing Perl for about 15 years and every time I take a long look at Python or Ruby my skin ends up crawling. Perl is elegant, it can be a Bugatti, a Mustang, a Civic, a Dragster, or an F1. Procedural or functional. Object bondage or data driven. And TIMTOWTDI.
As you say, Javascript is nice. It has a few warts but it's nice. Reminds me of Self. (I have a soft spot for prototype systems).
Really if you want to branch out you should. Haskell and Erlang are languages you should look into. Haskell for its types and maths, Erlang for its actor based message passing and matching. Both will make your programming better no matter which language you end up using.
Avoid Java. Oracle is going to screw it up, and it's not even a programming language anymore. More of an intermediate format between and IDE and a virtual machine. Go ahead, try and have fun writing Java without some IDE and a bunch of XML files to generate all of your boilerplate code.
Good things to know... some Scheme or other LISP derivative, simple syntax and power go a long way. Oddly, Lua and TCL because you'll run into them somewhere as an embedded scripting engine for applications written in C or some other non-dynamic language.
For kicks... FORTH. It's about as close as interactive assembly language as you'll ever find. A good FORTH can bootstrap itself and if you read the code from the beginning you'll go from stack push and pop and memory store and fetch up to operating systems and on to applications all from the same REPL.
posted by
on January 7, 2011 [
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Python really is (currently) the ultimate pragmatic language. It's nearly ubiquitous, has a vibrant community, and is exceptionally well designed and documented. At heart, it's a procedural language, but it also has strong support for object oriented and functional programming styles. It has an enormous standard library, so you can start building real, useful programs without needing to know about third party packages. It's also exceptionally capable for scripting, developing both desktop and web applications, and it has a strong following in scientific computing.
In short, there are few places that Python can't take you.
But given your background, I think the design bit is especially important: JavaScript has horrible warts (as documented by Crockford), and PHP grew more organically and chaotically than deliberately and carefully. As such, I think you would be particularly well served by working with something borne of the latter philosophy. The craftsmanship and design evident in the language make it easier and more natural to write better code. Plus, when it comes time to build a webapp with Python, you have the option of using AppEngine as Guido intended it.
Other alternatives:
If your focus is almost exclusively on the web, then Ruby is an equally capable, albeit less throughly designed and documented, alternative. In many ways, Ruby is "Perl, for the modern web, done right."
If you're primarily looking to expand your mind and become a better developer, then Scheme and Haskell are exceptional choices.
If you want to work at a different but still practical level of abstraction, then C is definitely the way to go. Plus, C and Python are an extremely potent combination.
If you really want to focus on building nice desktop applications, it's hard to beat Objective-C and Cocoa on OS X.
But before diving into any of this, make sure you've read (or re-read?) Crockford's
JavaScript: The Good Parts
. Much as C is the lingua franca of desktop computing, JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, and it's only going to increase in importance, as evidenced by the arms race between JavaScript engines (JägerMonkey, V8 Crankshaft, Carakan, Chakra, SquirrelFish Extreme, etc.)
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I came here to recommend PERL, but zengargoyle elegantly beat me to it.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
If you search for the string "table data gateway" on
this page
of the official Zend Framework tutorial, you'll see some of the code-generation stuff I'm talking about.
I think I just found it disconcerting because the tutorial didn't bother to explain what any of that code actually
. The tutorial walks you through the creation of this huge, complicated directory tree full of classes and .ini files, and just
that you understand how they fit together to make the application work. Which I totally didn't.
Then again, I was trying to learn MVC at the same time I was learning Zend Framework, so maybe I was just biting off too much at one time.
I guess I was mistaken about code auto-generation in Django. I saw some of the model-generation-based-on-database-tables stuff while skimming
this tutorial
, and assumed it was similar to Zend Framework.
C and Python are an extremely potent combination.
Could you explain what you mean by this? I like the sound of that.
The overwhelming consensus here seems to be Python, which is what I was leaning toward anyway. And my VPS is already set up to support Python. So Python it is.
I'm also going to check out CodeIgniter. Perhaps that will get me over the framework / MVC hump.
I'll certainly keep some of the more exotic recommendations in mind—Erlang, Haskell, Scheme. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but there don't seem to be thriving communities or bustling job markets around these languages—they seem to be the domain of scientists and universities. I'm interested in checking them out (especially if they'll improve my coding skills in general), but at the moment my goal is to learn something more immediately practical.
Thanks, everyone, for the advice! Gotta run now; I'll mark favorites later.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
Another cool thing you can do with Python is play around with Google App Engine, which is very cool.
I'd suggest Groovy and Grails (and Java). Knowing Java will definitely broaden your employment opportunities as it is supposedly the most widely used language, and companies that primarily use java are usually much different than those that use mostly PHP. The Grails framework has really picking up steam lately.
The "exotic" languages are going to be good for curiosity and improving yourself as a programmer, but have a lesser change of directly landing you a job. In a way, the two are mutually exclusive; the more interesting the language, the fewer companies tend to use it.
BTW, as you learn a new language, you want to appreciate it for it's own merits. If you constantly compare the new language to a language you already know, you might miss the point.
posted by
on January 7, 2011
I used to be a fulltime PHP programmer for a number of years, and while I never had many gripes with PHP at the time, I've come to mostly despise the language by now. I'll refrain from going into a lengthy rant against PHP, mostly because it's not relevant to do so but also because PHP, for all its flaws, is still easy to pick up and get started with.
My recommendation is, like many have said above, that you explore Python more deeply. Django is a perfect way to do so, IMO; it's what I did and I made my new site (farukat.es) based on Django in a matter of 2 days after sitting down and reading the Django Book. I don't mean to say that as a boasting kind of thing, I mean it as a "this stuff is so ridiculously straightforward and intuitive, you will be productive with it and making real-world things in just a couple of days."
If you're interested in desktop (or mobile) applications, I also highly recommend Objective-C and Cocoa on OS X. The iOS platform is based on the same core, which is a really well-polished, deeply refined application programming framework. It's also a great language to invest in with future employability in mind: OS X and iOS are here to stay, and getting more popular each year. Good Obj-C / iOS developers who freelance make bucketloads of money right now, because there is such a huge shortage of them.
And lastly, you've already indicated your familiarity with JavaScript and jQuery. I suggest keeping that alive and seeing if you can do more with it, node.js being a good starting point but far from the only possible direction you can go into. For instance, Cappuccino is interesting for you if you want to explore Objective-C, as it is essentially Cocoa in JavaScript. Learn two languages at once!
Of all the languages I know or have experience with, going forward I see only two of them having long-term staying power, viability and appeal: Web tech (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript), and Objective-C. Python will remain, but probably never expand beyond being a server-side thing; useful, but limited in purpose.
posted by
on January 8, 2011
nthing Python and Django (which has some of the best documentation you will find with any project) and also Flask for a less do-it-all framework (and also documentation). For someone who already knows how to program, you'll be up and running in less than 2 weeks.
posted by
on January 8, 2011
Python...oh Python, what a wonderful hammer you make. Let me count the ways you make such a lovely hammer:
Python and C
. You expressed interest in how this works. There are many ways to interact Python with C, but the quickest bang-for-buck was is to use
. It allows you to write modules in pseudo-Python code and have them compiled into C for you. This sounds vaguely cool, right? But how cool? I recently played around with doing massive amounts of financial calculations on stock market data and having written the basic mock design in Python I re-wrote the key number-crunching portions in Cython. Conclusion? Two orders of magnitude faster, ten minutes of effort. Score. Try doing that in another language as expressive as Python.
Python and Java
. I once had a frightening problem at work. I wanted to use
Apache Lucene
to do some indexing of massive amounts of C code (read: tens of thousands of files, millions of lines of code) and I knew Lucene was the ticket. However, I abhor Java. Solution? Do the bare minimum in Java and use
to use beautiful, clean, concise Python to do the rest. Score.
Python and .NET
. I know you dislike Microsofty things, and I hear where you come from, but realise that some programming shops interpret a hypothetical programmer's anti-Microsoft stance as a sign of immaturity, but YMMV. Regardless,
has been around for a long time and could be an alternate way for you to
use LINQ
. Oh, and did you know that you can
run IronPython in a browser
using Microsoft Silverlight? Score.
Python and Erlang?
Python and
databases? Check.
Python and interactive shell commands?
Python and CUDA high performance GPU calculations?
Python directly interacting with assembly instructions?
Python to automate Windows GUI operations?
Python to perform real-time computer vision?
Apparently, Python comes
with batteries included
. It changed my life, and it can change yours too.
posted by
on January 8, 2011 [
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Python's a pretty good choice. Whereas Ruby is used for either Rails or Puppet, Python's everywhere. We teach undergrads python now. In some sense it's the new Java.
But let's examine the criteria:
1. Not PHP.
2. Curiosity.
3. Clean language design
4. Future employability
5. Desktop Apps
Python meets most of the criteria. If you want more mathy/compsci suggestions, perhaps try OCaml or Haskell. They're similar to Lisp but less maddening. There is a slight possibility though, that you'd end up professionally working with Microsoft F# as a result. Them's the risks you take for being ahead of the curve.
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on January 10, 2011
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