Zikula Community

• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Helper
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 631

  Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 09:40 AM

  I was coding away on a little XML feed I have been working on for my arcade script, and I just stopped for a moment to count the number of different languages I had used.
  
  http://flamingamin.com/arcade/feeds/light.xml
  http://flamingamin.com/arcade/feeds/main.xml
  
  It is insanity! In these two almost identical scripts, I have used the following.
  
  XHTML - General Output
  XML - To lay out data in preperation for manipulation by XSL and travel to other servers
  XSL - To create the framework and pull data from XML and insert to XHTML.
  XSLT - Using the link function to create a link from a XML tag.
  PHP - To manipulate the information and gather data from the...
  MySQL - Query language which gathers all the data
  Apache - Tells the server to run the PHP Engine through the XML and XSL files to get the dynamic data.
  CSS - To make it all look "pretty"
  
  I mean, yeek! I might as well just throw in a little JavaScript for the hell of it surely?!
  
  Note: You Postnuke users with a flash/shockwave/java/whatever gaming site can feel free to add the light.xml link in a RSS block as I programmed it to use the API :)

  • 
  •  
• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Helper
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 825

  Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 04:15 PM

  XSL has been lost... Microsoft the key supporter of it doesnt even use it as a reference anymore. XSL was not approved by W3C but was added to XSLT.
  
  I have done projects that do all of the above, plus Microsoft .NET webservices attached to a Client built in VB.NET, and another server using ASP (VBScript, connected to the WEB SERVICE using custom SOAP processing). Included in this was the use of MSSQL (and dont forget SQL subroutines and functions), and I used some KSHELL, UDP and IP.
  
  It was a large project!
  
  It is really stupid that all of this needs to be learned to do "distributed computing" but each one offers there unique advantages.
  
  I really need to learn UDP and download a "Trial" version of PowerBuilder. I always wanted to work on a true CASE tool, and phpNut says PowerBuilder is really nice.
  
  There is always more to learn, I can use around 30 different languages... But I really need to learn more about each language, and learn more technologies.

  • 
  •  
• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Helper
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 631

  Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 09:54 PM

  Indeed. I can use the basics of quite a few more, but whoever many you learn there are always more! I'm trying to learn C++ at the moment as it looks incredibly similar to PHP, JavaScript and ActionScript which I already know. JSP and VBScript are fun too :D
  
  I just sometimes think it's a bit crazy needing all this stuff, but its fun anyhow. Especially all the XML based languages like WML and SOAP. They are fun.

  • 
  •  
• markwest
  
  

  • Rank: Team Member
  • Registered: Mar 18, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 6606

  Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 10:41 PM

  TLA heaven ;)....
  
  -Mark
  
  --
  Visit My homepage and Zikula themes.

  • 
  •  
• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Helper
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 825

  Posted: Nov 23, 2004 - 07:20 AM

  Give C its due credit, and say that PHP and Javascript are C based languages:-p
  
  its a small difference, but we must all bow to the Bell Labs Invention.

  • 
  •  
•  
•  

Users on-line

• 0 users

This list is based on users active over the last 60 minutes.