![]() ![]() I have cheap tools I bought in that era that are higher quality than the same brand/model today. Also, I suspect cheap tools have gotten worse since 1991. I merely found it difficult to use the cheap pencil iron to get good results, because good results required a lot more out of me, mostly in the form of patience waiting for it to get hot. But, really, when you've gotta wait 15 minutes for it to heat up, and then after a few joints you have to wait some more because it cooled off in the process.really, is it a good, or even usable, tool? Sure, I'm a poor craftsman in this regard I don't solder enough to ever be good at it. But I know, at least for myself, that what iron I use doesn't make a difference in the project, but rather the skills I bring to the table.Īs the old saying goes, "a poor craftsman blames his tools". I also have a couple of older temp controlled irons - and they are great tools as well honestly, I prefer them over my old iron. I've assembled tons of things with it over the years. Now, I'm not saying you could do SMT rework using it, but basic thru-hole is no problem at all. The tip is not in the greatest shape.īut I can tin that puppy up and solder perfectly with it. You have to wait like 15 minutes for it to heat up. It's something like a 35 watt pencil iron, and the tip is janky like nobody's business. I have a soldering iron that has to be the cheapest of the cheap, that I've had since 1991 I got it when I went to a local votech electronics school fresh from high school. I also like having the second IDE because most of todays projects have a front end and backend on two different services / serversĪnd adds full-fledged support for PHP and Databases/SQL.If I ever could get my lazy butt in gear, I want to make a video to prove that you can solder competently with a cheap and crappy soldering iron. PHPstorm obviously has more system and environment languages available, but Webstorm is better suited for java/angular/typescript/etc projects. The layout and functionality of the two platforms are a bit different to where each specializes in its own area to make programming in the specific language that much faster/easier. You can add almost all of the "Web" functionality that WebStorm has to PHPstorm but it is not installed by default and often created by third parties. Instead it uses the cryptic loosely written statement "PhpStorm includes all the functionality of WebStorm" and doesn't specify details, which makes that statements intention appear more as a marketing tactic than a fact. The product description pages of either product does not convey that properly. I got no response back.īeing a developer for the last 12 years and having both PHP storm and Web Storm I would like to add they are infact the same only different. I went ahead and purchased a new license of Phpstorm using the $25 "customer loyalty" discount, but emailed sales back saying I was not very pleased that their lack of an upgrade path meant I wasted money on a piece of software that is now totally useless to me. The sales person responded back that there was no path for the upgrade, but that since I had been a customer for several years (using Resharper since 2005) I could get a $25 discount on a new license of Phpstorm. I then emailed back links to topics in these forums where it is stated that if you want to upgrade from Webstorm to Phpstorm you should use the contact form, and that I was not trying to "move from product to product to product" but instead upgrade from a product that has less features to a different version of the same product that has more features. ![]() The response I got back said that they are totally different products and "we can't just let customers move from product to product to product". I used the contact form, giving them info on my existing Webstorm license, and saying that I wanted to upgrade to PhpStorm. I came to these forums and saw discussions about upgrading from Webstorm to Phpstorm, with the same information stated here (use the contact form). I already had a license for Webstorm, then a couple of months later found that I needed PHP also. ![]() "But if you don't need PHP functionality of PhpStorm, you can contact our sales guys and ask to downgrade PhpStorm license to WebStorm and get a refund: " ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |