-----Original Message----- From: Mike A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fw-general] Unit testing ZF objects
On 02/12/2010 20:24, Ron Dyck wrote: >> >> *I prefer Windows XP for development. ZS seems slow and clunky on it. >> phpDesigner works faster than ZS, NetNeans et al on XP in my experience. >> Caveat: last time I compared was about a year ago. Also, I work in my own >> studio, responsible for my own costs. ZS seems unnecessarily pricey without >> having enough superior facilities to warrant the price (circa $99 would grab >> me and lots of other developers I know). >> > I can relate to the costs of being independent. Although some of the > features of ZS are great time savers watching Jon Lebensold on NetBeans has > me wondering if that isn't a good cost saving alternative on a Mac. > BTW, the latest version of ZS does utilize the latest version of Eclipse > which is much faster. But then a good IDE is somewhat of a tradeoff, between > speed and features. > > I have NetBeans but disregard it as slow/clunky, especially when other > applications are running. > Being both selfish and business minded as regards IDE, I wonder at the > marketing intention of the ZS price tag,[1] especially in relation to > increasing the ZF developer base. Logically,* wider usage at <$100 beats > limited usage at $299. Many devoted developers move on to organisations > too, thus expanding the Zend product user base. With ZF 2.0 soon to > arrive and with vastly more development control than the likes of Drupal > it seems like a good way to meet marketing principles of attraction to > and retention within the ZF development world. Meantime, the only real > feature difference between phpDesigner and ZS seems to be the automatic > object lookup - the former IDE does it but with two extra mouse clicks. > > Could be that I'm behind on latest ZS specs of course! I shall take > another look at ZS during the festive break. > *My wife has a marketing masters and I have taught marketing at postgrad > level for several years: hence the marketing "logic". As the self-appointed Zend marketing shill allow me to discuss some of the Zend Studio questions. I started writing an email response, but it got too long and I didn't want to spam y'all since it's a little of topic. So I wrote a blog post. http://bit.ly/hfQiaO Kevin Schroeder Technology Evangelist Zend Technologies, Ltd. www.zend.com www.twitter.com/kpschrade www.eschrade.com
