Karim, On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:02:42 PM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: > > Nick thanks for your valuable input, > > My developers are already getting up to speed and are loving CB/Erlang, > Elixir is next. >
Awesome, happy they are loving it! As far as developing the product I described in 6 months that is obviously > not going to be the > full feature set of Trip Advisor as we don't even need that much, only the > components I mentioned > above. > Thanks for the clarification! Please share the site with us when your ready! -- Nick > > Thanks, > Karim > > > On Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01:32 PM UTC-6, Nick Pavlica wrote: >> >> Karim, >> >> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:26:43 AM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: >>> >>> They are slowly getting convinced, but they adamantly want to stick to >>> ChicagoBoss over Zotonic >>> if we are going to use Erlang which we will, since I have had a very >>> good experience back in >>> 2001 when I was involved (as a partner not as a developer) in creating a >>> layer 5 switch totally built in erlang. >>> >> >> Erlang is an excellent language/runtime for web applications, and offers >> a number of advantages over the other languages and frameworks mentioned in >> this thread. Additionally, Elixer, another language for the EVM, can be >> used as well. Elixer is gaining allot of support from some serious players >> in the Ruby/Ruby On Rails community like Dave Thomas. Your developers >> should pick up enough Erlang/Elixer quickly enough that they can get the >> the basics done, and grow from there. If they can't, you should reconsider >> the real value of your team. Over the long run, I think you, and your team >> would be happier with ChicagoBoss. Going with a general purpose framework >> will allow you to more easily grow into your real requirements :) >> >> >>> As I had mentioned previously we are building a site that is similar to >>> Trip Advisor but for the online gambling >>> industry, so if we are going to be starting from scratch with CB and >>> would have to create all the following modules >>> >>> 1. CMS (with all the standard functionality such as seo modules, RSS >>> feeds, support for media embedding >>> 2. Forum >>> 3. Social Media integration (Facebook login and registration and profile >>> synching) >>> 4. Review modules >>> >>> Could something like this be done in 6 months with 4-5 developers using >>> CB? >>> >> >> You should have a good start in 6 months, but it seems a little naive to >> think that you will be at parity with a site like Trip Advisor that has >> been under development for years. >> >> >> Regards >> -- Nick >> >> >> >>> Thanks again! >>> >>> >>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 3:13:00 AM UTC-6, David Welton wrote: >>>> >>>> > Thanks for your reply, I have decided to use some sort of Erlang >>>> Framwework >>>> > to develop a site that is similar in features to >>>> > Trip Advisor, we have thrown away 3 complete rewrites in PHP, my >>>> biggest >>>> > issue right now is that my developers are pushing >>>> > really hard to go with Django, and they tell me that Erlang is not >>>> well >>>> > suited to this type of project and there are no large scale >>>> > websites that use Erlang, and information I can use to prove my point >>>> would >>>> > be of great help. I do have to say that they have >>>> > no experience with Erlang but my take is that they can definitely >>>> learn it. >>>> >>>> If you hired them to code, presumably they know what they are doing >>>> and are giving you good advice, no? >>>> >>>> For *most* new sites, the difficult problem is finding product/market >>>> fit - can we get the right mix of features/community/whatever to make >>>> it successful? This often requires rapid iteration - adding new >>>> stuff, trying new ideas, and with something like Django, or Ruby on >>>> Rails, or even PHP, you're more likely to find a lot of code to use >>>> out of the box. >>>> >>>> Where Erlang is really good is that it uses fewer resources to >>>> accomplish the same thing. One area where Erlang *really* shines is >>>> if you need to use web sockets. Those just aren't a good fit for >>>> Rails or Django. For some kinds of projects, these things are >>>> critical - for many, though, they are not. >>>> >>>> There are certainly large and well-known projects that utilize Erlang. >>>> Whatsapp. Facebook used to use it for their chat system >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David N. Welton >>>> >>>> http://www.welton.it/davidw/ >>>> >>>> http://www.dedasys.com/ >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/3a45eea6-0da7-4a82-9bea-f58ac44d2970%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
