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Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Short: we use a Django frontend to an Erlang backend.

Long answer: we used Django because that's what I knew best, but we're going to switch to Pylons because it's more flexible (being a so-called "glue framework") and has less dependency on a database (tried writing a custom authentication backend in Django without a database? Good luck).

So Django is great if you have a database; less so if you don't (I guess that's the whole "full stack" thing).

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I the only one who thinks that people who are correcting the grammar and spelling are actually doing a service. It really doesn't matter in a forum like this.But if you have poor grammar,you may find that the impression you make on other people may be less than stellar.A good command of the language can be incredibly valuable. [Palin vs Obama]

valid point, not sure about the example though. Palin's speeches won't make much sense, even if they are grammatically correct and presented elegantly.

Which is why I said "command of the language". Good grammar is merely the starting point.

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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post #27

Here we are using PHP/CakePHP on almost all our projects. Why? I have being using PHP for almost 10 years, so it was a lot easier to switch to a PHP framework when I switched to an open source framework about 3 years ago. PHP is also easier to get on a shared hosting (maybe not anymore, but at the time I made my switch, it was a major concern). Like : API, doc, large community. Dislike : php syntax (->), no active re…

It is funny, when every I speak php to another coder I call -> "dot". It isn't a dot, it is an arrow, but something got wired that way in my brain. "Object" "dot" "attribute"

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I the only one who thinks that people who are correcting the grammar and spelling are actually doing a service. It really doesn't matter in a forum like this.But if you have poor grammar,you may find that the impression you make on other people may be less than stellar.A good command of the language can be incredibly valuable. [Palin vs Obama]

Linguistics study states that grammar is always evolving and there is no such "thing" as grammar. How do you know "should of" is my minor dialectical difference of English compared to yours. It's like argentinian spanish people correcting other spanish people to use vos instead of tu. Or nothing ending with a preposition. And being a good orator doesn't mean strict adherence to a one persons capture of grammar. If th…

He guessed

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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post #54
post #27

Here we are using PHP/CakePHP on almost all our projects. Why? I have being using PHP for almost 10 years, so it was a lot easier to switch to a PHP framework when I switched to an open source framework about 3 years ago. PHP is also easier to get on a shared hosting (maybe not anymore, but at the time I made my switch, it was a major concern). Like : API, doc, large community. Dislike : php syntax (->), no active re…

It is funny, when every I speak php to another coder I call -> "dot". It isn't a dot, it is an arrow, but something got wired that way in my brain. "Object" "dot" "attribute"

object arrow attribute is just not as smooth
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