'rails' Category
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Nov212005
42nouns.com is the Answer for Everything
After pondering my last post “The Real Definition of ‘Web 2.0″, I figured I needed to act quickly. After all, I already live in Chicago and I’ve been programming in Python and JavaScript for years. And besides, I thought it would be cool to work for Google someday…
So last week, not wanting to miss [...]
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Nov172005
The Real Definition of “Web 2.0″
Web 1.0: Move to San Francisco. (Take frequent trips to New York City, though.) Learn Java or PHP or Perl. Buy UNIX servers from SUN and laptops from IBM. Create a useless web-based commerce site that sells objects like books or dog food. Your website must be some made-up word– like “joinks.com” or “gadzooks.com” or “floobiejoobie.com”. [...]
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Nov112005
Error Messages in a RESTful API
I haven’t seen this suggested anywhere so I thought I would just put this out there and let the lazyweb inform me who invented this first. :-)
Cool frameworks like Rails, Django , and Plone provide a nice little HTML framework to show you validation errors on screen. They pin-point exactly where you goofed. This [...]
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Aug152005
Pretty screenshots – My first Django app
This is a screenshot from a fully functioning Django timesheets “app”. It took me about a day (mostly spent reading documentation) and about 100 lines of code in my Django model definition. 100 lines!
I weep when I think how many months and how much code it took me to do the same in Plone. [...]
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Jul182005
Comparing Django/Rails to Plone
In response to this comment to this blog post:
Question: “It’s interesting no one is comparing Django to Plone, no?”
Okay, I’ll give it a try. :-)
I have production sites in Plone and have been working with Plone full-time for 2 years. But I’m happy and eager to flirt with other frameworks, and I’m very eager to [...]