Hi Tobia, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:58:04 +0100 Tobia Conforto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm about to design a new, very AJAXy web application and I'd like to > write it in Chicken, plus jQuery on the client side. > > What framework/server/storage engine/miscellaneous eggs/deployment > tactics do you recommend or have worked with in the past? > > Here's my limited experience. > > I've recently written a simple web forum in Chicken, with just 2 > presentation cgi scripts (view layer), 1 cgi script to receive the > forms (controller layer), 1 "include" file with the database functions > (model layer) and another include with miscellaneous utilities. > I've made use of the excellent sxml-tools egg, the decent cgi-util > egg, and sqlite3 for database storage. > All HTML is generated from s-expressions, using sxml tools. > The CGI scripts are compiled into binaries and run by Apache. > > This setup has worked very well for this private forum of mine with 10 > users and 3 cgi pages, but I fear it would not scale well for bigger > applications, although I wonder by how much, if anybody has any > experience to share. > > > I'm going to look into Spiffy next, and the egg repository at large, > but I thought I'd ask for your real-world experience before making up > my mind. I've been using spiffy + ajax + postgresql + web-scheme + json + other eggs for web programming and feeling comfortable with that. One example is (in portuguese) http://spiffy.freedom.ind.br/index.ws?action=main&user=1234&passwd=demo Best wishes, Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
