Re: [tlug] I'm done with MySQL

[Orlando Echevarria <cycloneous@example.com>]

I'm in agreement with the prior comment about PHP, I hate the
language, very poorly designed and reminds me of someone who through
JavaScript and PERL together and came up with PHP. Don't get me wrong,
PHP does have its use, but NOT for prime time. To me, JSP is where its
at but again, thats me based on my experience with dealing with PHP.
Now with MySQL, we, I guess you can call me a fan boy, I love it; its
definitely not Oracle or Sybase but for free, similar to PostGres, its
a good db, but it does need native visual design tools.

However, it does come with third party tools courtesy of the folks
from MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

Its not THE tool for the answer you're looking for, but its a start
and hopefully this will quell any frustration you may have about it.

O-Man

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:
> Janos,
>
>>> Not that I
>>> want to fuel your fire but I wonder what pissed you off so much. It
>>> might be good for many of us to know.
>
> I doubt it.
>
> I could go on about how MySQL has no systematic syntax and is just a
> phone book of differently structured queries.
>
> But really the issue is me. I'm a visual designer, and I want to be
> doing visual design work, not pure coding projects.
>
> Somehow I've ended up here on this one project doing something that has
> no visual elements whatsoever. It's all about solving problems like
> sorting Japanese characters, and connecting to email servers, and all
> sorts of stuff that both bores me to tears and I'm not that good at anyway.
>
> I think to be really good at something, you have to have a passion for
> it. I have a passion for design, and I'm good at that.
>
> I have no passion for MySQL. Or PHP. I only got into them so that I
> could make more robust web sites, but I never intended to deviate so far
> from design as to be doing pure coding. A little bit here and there,
> fine. But as the entirety of the project? Blah.
>
> This particular project I'm working on now is really grinding me down.
> It's driest coding project I've ever dealt with. When it's done, if I
> never had to write another MySQL query again, I would be a happy man.
>
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