to a well functioning Web application that uses a database. There are
thousands of techniques available to make great application. Perhaps your
experience relates to applications that did not tap into those techniques.
In your reviews, what techniques and tools do you use to analyze and manage
actor messages?
At 06:56 PM 3/12/2004, you wrote:
> > Switch-box gets little press largely because I don't spend
> > time promoting it. Nevertheless here are some things to
> > consider when choosing your framework.
> > -- the single biggest problem with building a Web
> > application is actor messages. It is not CF code, nor DB
> > design, nor Web page layout, nor networks, nor performance.
>
>Without commenting on the usefulness of switch-box, which I'm not qualified
>to do, I would disagree with your characterization of "the single biggest
>problem" with web applications. In my experience, as one who has reviewed
>hundreds of problematic web applications, the "single biggest" problem is
>all things database-related: database schema design, inefficient database
>access, insufficient caching of database records (and other generated output
>for that matter). Admittedly, I'm stretching to classify this as a single
>problem, but there it is.
>
>Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
>http://www.figleaf.com/
>phone: 202-797-5496
>fax: 202-797-5444
>
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