Web applications
I found a great to-do list/task manager application yesterday, calledâappropriately enoughâtasks. It’s a PHP-driven web application, rather than a standard application. This has the advantage (or disadvantage, depending on your stress levels) of making your to-do list available from any computer. You can even get it to email you a list of upcoming and overdue tasks every day with a well-placed cron job.
It’s very smooth indeed, and being written in PHP you can customise it to your needs and tastes. This makes me want to learn PHP, but I think I’d better wait until I’ve got at least a tenuous grip on Perl before I tackle that. Alex King also has a very smart looking gallery application to sort out your image collection from a similar PHP interface. The whole thing makes me want to get my own server so that I could have my calendars, tasks, music and photos available from any other computer. I don’t suppose that anyone has got a G4 going spare that they would care to donate to me? No, I thought not.
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I have excellent news for you... I think you will be very pleasantly surprised to see how easy it is to learn PHP once you have learned Perl. They are not terribly different.----- That's certainly good news. I suppose that to some extent, learning any programming language helps you to learn others, because there are general principles which apply.
by bsag @ 31/05/2003 2:06 pm • Permalink •
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PHP is so much easier to learn than Perl. I still haven't mastered or gained any sort of accomplishment in Perl as of yet, even though I've been doing web and database work for years, but it took me a week to get up to speed with the basics of PHP. More than enough to build content management, basic contact management, and other systems.
Perl is definitely a programmers language, but if your more of a scripter like myself--html, css, sql, applescript, and various database languages, it becomes a wee bit complicated. PHP, while very full featured can be approached like a scripting language, and then as your knowledge of it grows, you can then start thinking of classes, functions, etc.
There's a lot of depth to add to my PHP breadth, so I'm constantly learning new stuff, But depth is about elegance, which I'm a fan of, making your code clean, fast, portable, and easy for others to comprehend. That aside, I find what I learned the first week, gets me through most mock-ups, its fleshing out the elegance that keeps me hitting the books.
by allgood2 @ 02/06/2003 5:06 am • Permalink •
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