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Ok All,
I am new here so go easy on me. I am a VB/ASP/Access programmer and have been in love with the macs for years. My wife has an Imac G5 and I desperately want a PB 17". Well Mac and VB/ASP/Access don't play well together. Is there any way I can have my cake and eat it too? Virtual PC is just way to slow to develop on. I am not real fond (probably not real educated) of filemaker and not many people that I know (clients) have it on there computers. So my goal is to write it on the mac and compile it for the pc. I have read about Realbasic but I have not seen where it has been used in business apps. Please help.
Thanks in Advance
Future Mac Owner
Thom
KC Mo.
I am new here so go easy on me. I am a VB/ASP/Access programmer and have been in love with the macs for years. My wife has an Imac G5 and I desperately want a PB 17". Well Mac and VB/ASP/Access don't play well together. Is there any way I can have my cake and eat it too? Virtual PC is just way to slow to develop on. I am not real fond (probably not real educated) of filemaker and not many people that I know (clients) have it on there computers. So my goal is to write it on the mac and compile it for the pc. I have read about Realbasic but I have not seen where it has been used in business apps. Please help.
Thanks in Advance
Future Mac Owner
Thom
KC Mo.
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Originally posted by no1biscuit
Ok All,
I am new here so go easy on me. I am a VB/ASP/Access programmer and have been in love with the macs for years. My wife has an Imac G5 and I desperately want a PB 17". Well Mac and VB/ASP/Access don't play well together. Is there any way I can have my cake and eat it too? Virtual PC is just way to slow to develop on. I am not real fond (probably not real educated) of filemaker and not many people that I know (clients) have it on there computers. So my goal is to write it on the mac and compile it for the pc. I have read about Realbasic but I have not seen where it has been used in business apps. Please help.
Thanks in Advance
Future Mac Owner
Thom
KC Mo.
If you insist on using Access, you will have to stick with Windows. Acccess is Windows-only. However, you can use REALBasic to develop VB-compatible and Java apps on the Mac. Suffice it to say you can deploy your VB apps on Windows and your Java apps anywhere.
O.T.
So What do Mac Programmers use to do all of there programming in?
As far as editors go, BBEdit and SubEthaEdit are both popular choices. (And of course if you want to kick it old school, there's Xemacs in the X11 environment, also included.)
I don't know what your normal userbase size is, but I do know that the Mac has a weak spot in databases for small businesses. Filemaker is literally about the only choice... which is really odd, considering that every Mac ships with MySQL *AND* SQLite now. You may find that taking your DB skills and applying them to the Mac might be a good move for you, as you'd be a forerunner in a new market that is looking for soultions. :] Just a thought.
RealBasic has several different DB plugins so you may choose whichever DB you want for a backend. If you don't have to worry about multiple users using the DB at once (each install of the app has its own DB on the local machine), then RealBasic also has its own built in DB. Once again, other developers elsewhere could tell you more. This is just something I've been looking into; not actually done yet.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Generally, Xcode from Apple. Free, too.
As far as editors go, BBEdit and SubEthaEdit are both popular choices. (And of course if you want to kick it old school, there's Xemacs in the X11 environment, also included.)
Why not an Aqua version of Emacs?
Originally posted by Kickaha
I don't know what your normal userbase size is, but I do know that the Mac has a weak spot in databases for small businesses. Filemaker is literally about the only choice... which is really odd, considering that every Mac ships with MySQL *AND* SQLite now. You may find that taking your DB skills and applying them to the Mac might be a good move for you, as you'd be a forerunner in a new market that is looking for soultions. :] Just a thought.
The people who make 4th Dimension might disagree.
Originally posted by Mr. Me
Why not an Aqua version of Emacs?
No. Emacs is not cool.
For the level of work that you want - use RealBasic. Its very much like VB, yet it also has the ability to use SQLLite as a backend db which means no you can make it so that your app has SQLLite embedded in it.
Thanks for all of your input. I appreciate it tremendously..
Originally posted by Akac
I am a windows dev - as well as a Machead.
For the level of work that you want - use RealBasic. Its very much like VB, yet it also has the ability to use SQLLite as a backend db which means no you can make it so that your app has SQLLite embedded in it.
At work I'm stuck behind an XP box all day. Thankfully, i'm only using it as a front end to our terminal applications server which runs linux.
As much as I love the mac platform, I'll have to go against the grain here and recommend that you stick to developing windows software on a PC. While there are ways to work around cross-platform development issues, these work-arounds tend to be "neat" rather than optimal or productive.
I recommend two computers, a PC for your current Access based dev work, and a Mac for everything else.
Right?!?!?!?