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Code snobbery: I could compare dates faster than DreamWeaver - Greg the dogsitter - 08-26-2006
Big site; a thousand files or so. I want to download newer files from the ftp server, so DW has to compare dates. It feels like this:
Compare file 1...
Compare file 2...
Compare file 3...
The other week, I wrote a real basic perl script that got the modification dates for files on a totally different ftp server. It grabbed the results of the ftp dir() command, then mashed the dates around offline. It was a heckuva lot faster than whatever DW is doing.
What the hey, DW?
GtDS
Re: Code snobbery: I could compare dates faster than DreamWeaver - mattkime - 08-26-2006
>>What the hey, DW?
If you can code a perl script that does something faster than DW, then you don't need DW.
Re: Code snobbery: I could compare dates faster than DreamWeaver - Greg the dogsitter - 08-26-2006
In this case, that might be a good idea.
Re: Code snobbery: I could compare dates faster than DreamWeaver - M A V I C - 08-26-2006
I used DW a lot from version 1 to 4. I still keep up with it, even taught a class in it.
Now I do it all by hand.
Re: Code snobbery: I could compare dates faster than DreamWeaver - TheTominator - 08-26-2006
But can you compare dates as fast as a contestant on elimiDate?
http://elimidate.warnerbros.com/