I'll give my top recommendation for each language you named. I have used all 3 of these with great success. I have also used competitors for each of them. * PHP - Kohana * Python - Django * Ruby - Merb I used many PHP frameworks a while back and eventually settled on CodeIgniter (which is very good). After Kohana spun off from CI, it began to gain advantages and has continued to. I've used Pylons and TurboGears befor…
Thanks for pointing out Kohana! I was looking at PHP MVC Frameworks, and really liked CodeIgniter, but wasn't convinced about the PHP4 thing. Kohana seems to be what I was looking for.
I'll give my top recommendation for each language you named. I have used all 3 of these with great success. I have also used competitors for each of them. * PHP - Kohana * Python - Django * Ruby - Merb I used many PHP frameworks a while back and eventually settled on CodeIgniter (which is very good). After Kohana spun off from CI, it began to gain advantages and has continued to. I've used Pylons and TurboGears befor…
Coolio! Wow! I've now got Merb on my http://localhost:4000 I installed Ruby On Rails too. Will see which one of them I'm gonna love. Now it's playtime to get some code of my own. I also read a lot of reviews about merb. All being great. Incase if someone else wants to know why merb is good for web apps that expect to handle a lot of processing and traffic even for a small amount of users. It seems that merb has a sma…
As you mentioned, the main difference (to me, at least) is agnosticism and hackability. Merb forces almost nothing on you in terms of the framework stack. Also, the core of merb is much more approachable for people wanting to modify it for their own needs.
I'll give my top recommendation for each language you named. I have used all 3 of these with great success. I have also used competitors for each of them. * PHP - Kohana * Python - Django * Ruby - Merb I used many PHP frameworks a while back and eventually settled on CodeIgniter (which is very good). After Kohana spun off from CI, it began to gain advantages and has continued to. I've used Pylons and TurboGears befor…
I don't know why but I just like using variety of languages. I enjoy the learning different stuff. After 3 years with PHP, I developed an app for a contest a while ago on Google App Engine using web.py. That was my first shot with developing a python web app. I'll give Django a try later. But since my web app deals with developing for plugins go blog engines, I guess I have to deal with some Python blog engines too.…
I too think it is important to work with a variety of languages, but it is even more important to be good with at least one. Basically, don't spread yourself too thin.
Scalability isn't a magic pixie dust you find in some boxes of cereals and not others. Scalability is extremely application specific. As your application grows, what will be the bottleneck? Maybe it's page-serving performance. Maybe it's the database. Maybe it's disk storage. Maybe it's synchronization of data. Maybe it's raw bandwidth. With no specific knowledge of your constraints, any specific advice is worthless…
"Scalability isn't a magic pixie dust you find in some boxes of cereals and not others. Scalability is extremely application specific."
Absolutely correct. I have an app that is not scalable in most of the traditional ways because one live memory based database needs to be fast, have very large capacity, and be instantly accessible to all users concurrently. This appears to require a custom coded C program whereas the front-end web servers are a minuscule issue in comparison.
Scalability is the last thing you need to be worried about. Worry about the business model. If you get the business model right, and you have scalability problems (i.e. "Oh shucks there are too many people trying to pay me money!"), then you can just pay to get them resolved.
>Scalability is the last thing you need to be worried about.
That's what friendster thought too.
Friendster became very popular but couldn't handle the scalability part and ended up dying a slow and painful death...