Tag: web frameworks
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A Replacement for PHP
I asked Quora for ideas for how a replacement PHP might look. On the whole people are not enthusiastic. Alexander Tchitchigin had an interesting answer, but which focused on the basic theme of “once we move away from PHP’s weaknesses, we might as well use any language. Which prompted me to write this comment elaborating…
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Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails
It’s fascinating to read Giles Bowkett on Rails, its bloat, its falling out of fashion. Fascinating mainly because it so clearly highlights that no-one is immune from this life-cycle that goes : new, simpler and easier than anything else hot-new thing that everyone loves adding more fluff to deal with more edge-cases build-up of technical debt re-writes…
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Meteor
Just looking at the quickstart demo of Meteor, the hot new web framework people seem to be getting excited about. First thought. Seems to me that far more important than using the same language for the client and server is being able to write the client and server code in the same file. That is something I’ve…
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Rails Off The Rails
Seems like the same thing has happened with Ruby on Rails as happened with, say, Zope. Giles does a pretty good analysis. The key point is that as frameworks mature they start supporting legacy users and applications who, in turn, have different requirements and values from those looking for a quick way to build new…
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Chicago Boss
Very nice looking Erlang web-framework.
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Going completely against the spirit of what I said yesterday, Web2py looks interesting.