Entries from February 2007 ↓
February 1st, 2007 — .NET, Code, Work
For anyone who has developed in .NET using Visual Studio, I am sure you probably have heard of CodeRush. Well, I personally think this addin is a PIECE OF CRAP! The thing hogs memory like no other and can leave Visual Studio sitting there for 30 seconds or more doing nothing! I can write a A LOT of code in 30 seconds and I do not like to wait.
Now, I know what you are thinking. You have too many of its features enabled. Duh, it will be slow, it comes with nearly everything in it enabled. But you are wrong. I have disabled nearly everything! I disabled the Smart Copy/Paste, the Smart Return, the Templates, the Hints, EVERYTHING except the Flow indicators and the line counting per method (that is just a nice feature). However, whenever I do a copy paste, it acts like the Smart Copy/Paste is enabled and it takes 2-3 seconds before I can move the cursor again!
So just to warn everyone, CodeRush can cause you to actually be less efficient. You will sit and wait for you to be able to move the cursor again for countless seconds. Take it from me, it isn’t worth it and its definitely not worth $250.00!
February 1st, 2007 — Ajax, Code, JavaScript, PHP, kiosk
kiosk is progressing very well. I have started the programming some of the more significant portions of the project, such as, uploading Image, and creating Categories. Unlike cpCommerce images will not be handled during the Category, Product, Manufacturer, etc. creation. Instead, it is its’ own section. Why? This way you can upload all of your images via FTP, click a nice little link stating “Find Uploaded Images” and it will insert them into your database for you. Then all you have to do is assign them to a Product, Category, Manufacturer, or Both, or All Three!
Images are entirely reusable. So if you want to show a Product’s Image as the Category Image too, YOU CAN! And you can do it without uploading another file! I like to think kiosk is taking what cpCommerce started and taking it to a whole new level learning from its’ mistakes, and hopefully you all agree.
Well that is enough on that for now, I will update everyone once again, when I have these sections entirely done. Then you can pull it from the kiosk subversion repository and give it a try yourself.