i think IDE has a big role in this, with Visual Studio i feel so much more productive, but it also puts so much information at my finger tips, and programing i

i think IDE has a big role in this, with Visual Studio i feel so much more productive, but it also puts so much information at my finger tips, and programing in C# or VB.net were really pattern based. programing raw javascript and dealing with DHTML with support for IE6/7, Safari, Opera, and FF can really cut your productivity. Not only are you looking up everything on the web when something breaks, but there are just so many pieces to the puzzle that make good JavaScript hard. Thank you Douglas Crockford for part one of making JS better, and thank you John Resig for making the second part easier. Hopefully mozilla will be able to make a 3rd part easier with their new tools R&D lab. In PHP I generally felt really unproductive until I had zend and a debugable server set up. Closing that loop is hard, and I wish there was a better measure of productivity than LOC.