On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > do you mean to say that there are two kinds of application development - > Rapid and ordinary? Like tatkal and ordinary in railway bookings? RAD does > not mean 'how quickly can I produce a page of css/html'. It means how > quickly can I get a bug free application in production and how quickly I can > alter/upgrade the same in production. Neither. (And your reference to railway booking is just too damn hilarious) RAD is just a paradigm wherein you get stuff done that can be used earlier than what would have been delivered otherwise in a SDLC - bugs are accepted, but not show-stoppers. And if you are/like the business of quoting wikipedia, then : <WIKIPEDIA>"RAD approaches may entail compromises in functionality and performance in exchange for enabling faster development and facilitating application maintenance."</WIKIPEDIA> > Employing hundreds of code monkeys to use DW to generate html without > knowing what is html is not rapid development - it is an invitation to > disaster. The doze WYSIWYG culture is aimed at trying to convince people > that they can write applications without knowing how to write code. Developing a portal is much different from developing a middleware or an embedded system. I know many who develop quick pages in IDEs and always go through the generated code and clean it up accordingly. > 1. mock-up in photoshop (gimp for us) <dripping sarcasm> Why you are doing this - effectively you should be writing a C/ASM which generates an array of number corresponding to the pixel values and then store it as a file. Some of my freinds in the monkeyland do this. </dripping sarcasm> > cannot comment on this as I have no idea about C/Java Well, if you are referring to the best of the developers, then most of them know either of the above languages(+python[scripting]). a developer is a person who aims at perfection - and there is no distinction > for him between RAD and ordinary. So what about others? - they do not want perfection? Am not sure , whether i understood your concerns! -- Venkat _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
