[thelist] Hand Coding (was Dreamweaver Codewriting)

[Jay Blanchard]

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...lots of very interesting stuff...
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What if?
What if you get hired to work on a project that was originally hand-coded
and well documented. You load up a copy of the project into DW (and/or UD,
one in the same now) and look around. DW decides some things, like databse
connection strings are wrong, and it mucks around with them. You save it and
now the project is "broken", all by the good intentions of DW.

What if someone asks you to modify some stuff in their web site...a tiny bit
here and a tiny bit there?

I am not anti-DW, far from it. I find it handy for rapid prototyping,
especially when doing ASP. But I then will open those files in PFE or
Notepad and "slim" down the code. For PHP I hand code in PHPEdit or PICO or
VI or Notepad. Also, in order to do advanced procedures you have to do some
hand coding as there aren't server behaviors for everything in DW.

Learn to hand code, the arguments have been made tons of times in this
thread.

Jay