With all this discussion on porting, I have to say
That the big advantage that witango has is it's IDE.
I would love to continue to use it but be able to
Export the taf XML to other languages.
I think Phil should concentrate on dev of the IDE only
And drop the server.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I just recently converted some of my apps over from Witango to PHP.
Here's what I found:-
1. Apache is a breeze
2. MySQL work great
3. myphpadmin is good
4. You need a PHP debugger ... I used Eclipse (free) but Zend,
Nusphere or whatever may be better
5. There's no Visual DEv Tool that works (not that I could find)
anywhere near as well as Witango
6. I had to re-write all the code ... it was a good exercise anyway.
7. My app was fairly simple
no worries
Norm
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Open Letter to Phil and Sophie
From: WebDude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, October 23, 2008 9:47 pm
To: [email protected]
Janet,
I feel your pain. I have been busy downloading stuff and poking
around. I have read hundreds of pages on just the install stuff for
Apache, MySQL, PHP, ColdFusion, .NET... I even spent a day on
nothing but open source. I have a spare server I have been thinking
of using just to try some stuff out. What is really daunting is the
pages upon pages and gotchyas on just an installation... not to
mention the additional downloads needed to make it work in Windows.
Funny... I have about 60 sites, some getting well more then 100,000
page views per day... well over 1,000,000 visitors per month in all
- all on one MSSQL dedicated server and two dedicated Witango
servers runninng Witango 2000. Never a slowdown and has been rock
solid for over 8 years. 16 e-commerce sites, 2 Data Access
Managements sites, 4 forums, 12 internal employee sites for some
very large corporations, one very large directory site, 2 online
streaming PDF sites and a smattering of... well, just websites. Now
I am losing sleep because I am so worried about what direction to
go. I spent a very large amount on the corporate license thinking
that this was the way to go and have spent much time and resources
in developing all I have going. I never upgraded because of the
20,000 plus I dished out and I remember the days when it was
discussed that the editor would be able to output ASP and possibly
PHP code... but that never happened or was just a pipe dream.
Frankly, I thought it would have been a great idea to port output of
the editor to more popular languages. Anyway... enough crying in my
beer. I went this route and now I am going to have to do something
about it. I just spent most of the day trying to install PHP and
getting the "hello world" to work. Tomorrow, I might try to see if I
can actually connect to a database. This is going to take me a
little while...
-----Original message-----
From: "janet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:55:41 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Open Letter to Phil and Sophie
> I was wondering what to say until I saw this email from Webdude
>
> "Well, I have a problem and maybe some of you could help me. I
have been
> using nothing but Tango and Witango since I started developing
many years
> ago"
>
> Yes this is my story also.
> Pretty good at SQL ( MS SQL) triggers, stored procedure, views,
groupings
> , maxvalues etc just a happy place for me, also HTML and Witango.
I found
> that if I had good array results then the Witango stuff was easy.
> So I have looked at other RAD visual products. With ASP.net you
end up with
> blocks of code either in VB or C+, there is s Borland PHP RAD,
Cold fusion
> and Dreamweaver etc. But it seems that the builder tools all
create either
> PHP, VB, C+ or something.
> How come Witango shielded me from all of these languages?
> I know Witango is an XML code generator so why isn't there any other
> products creating XML? I am asking the wrong question?
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