Illogical ideas of a logical mind

PHP vs. VB.NET

I’m a little torn at the moment. I really like PHP as I feel more like I know what’s going on in it but at work I’ve been using a lot of VB.NET and have gotten use to working with it.

I think the reason I’m torn is that although I like to develop in PHP, I prefer to develop with PHP under Ubuntu and I don’t currently have my Laptop dual booted so the only place I can develop in PHP nicely is on my PC (which is dual booted) but that means restricting myself to my study. Plus there is a lot more to setup and write with PHP.

Where as with VB.NET its already set-up on my laptop for work. Its easy to use and code but I just feel like its bloated and its doing a lot in the background that may be helping me to develop faster but makes me uneasy as I don’t really know what its doing. I also find it somewhat restrictive because of the way that it forces you to develop. Some tasks are even more complicated to perform because of the way it forces you to develop. I’d also need to get myself a new server to host the application, running windows and MSSQL.

I think I’m struggling because neither of them seem like the good option.

11th Apr 2012

Oad to the Alert Box, making developers lives easier every day.

3rd Apr 2012 | 16 notes

sinnyo:

‘I spent the entirety of my secondary school English/English Lit. education with this in mind.’

I always though a similar thing when my art teach was talking about artists and what they where trying to convey with there paintings.

(Source: imdaydreamingg)

31st Mar 2012

I must make millions (apparently its my job)

Sarah: Will you hurry up and make millions and buy me a big house?
Me: Why don't you make millions and buy me a big house?
Sarah: Cause that's your job.
Me: Why's that
Sarah: Cause your the man :P

29th Mar 2012 | 11 notes

(Source: anastasiagud)

9th Mar 2012

"Kara" by Quantic Dream

via Anthony Mcloughlin

I find this quite disturbing and amazing all at the same time on two levels.

From a console application development point of view the graphics and motions of this character are amazing, still quite a way from being realistic but still quite amazing to the point of actually being really creepy. I found that I didn’t much like here eyes because as real as they looked they somehow looked wrong.

From a developer point of view who has always had a keen interest in artificial intelligence it is amazing to see someone’s view of the future of robotics and artificial intelligence but also disturbing to me to think that if I or anyone else did ever build a truly artificial intelligent being that it would quite probably be used and abused like one might treat a toaster (Sorry for the Battlestar Galactica reference, I couldn’t help it).

To conclude, I hope visual development continues as its becoming amazing and will eventually blur the reality between life and fiction what I hope is that game and film developers realise that might not be a good thing and be careful with what they create and I hope we never create AI because I know in myself it would become a slave race to humans needy selfish attitudes.