thanks boh. this looks promising. the specific things that i am looking are small backend processing stuff. examples are : 1. extracting tables from web pages and converting them to text files 2. transforming / restructuring the data into dimensional models 3. analytical regressions on the dimensional models
things that the example bi tools do. the instance you mentioned is a good example. are there any equivalent open source projects ? python applications that does analysis on numbers ? On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Boh Yap <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Raja, > > as always I wld suggest Python.... but what exactly do you have in > mind. From what I can see, its a BI type application, but do you > intend to rebuild the entire thing when there are some good tools > already out there? > > Or do you have some specialised solution that these cannot solve? > > If its the 2nd case, then I think Python is a great tool. If its not a > well defined problem, it could call for a fair bit of experimentation, > different approaches to the problem, compare the approaches etc... > Python's dynamic nature and rapid-prototyping capability allows for a > great deal of experimentation, and exploration to arrive at the right > solution. And you are not afraid to 'throw away' code, because the > cost/speed/efficiency of writing Python code is is pretty low. > > Then once you have the solution/algorithms in mind, you can deploy it > in Python, which has many choices of frameworks etc... and if you have > performance bottlenecks, parts of it can be rewritten in C and you can > call that from Python w/o problems. > > The only problem is you may find a lack of Python programmers, a > problem that can be said of good Java, Ruby and even PHP programmers > (and i don't mean cut & paste programmers;-). But they can be quite > easily trained up. I have personally taught an ASP programmer Python, > and he was able to do fairly sophisticated task after 2 weeks, it was > to pull log data off a mobile app from a Postgres DB, rehash the data > into another DB, to generate sales reports, delivered online with > graphs in JS, live, on the web. (Mind you this guy had a far bit of > initiative to go thru the docs and tutorial...) > > I can certainly help with the training, and I'm sure I can get others > from the Python community. > > PM me if you wish to discuss further.... > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Raja Iskandar Shah > <[email protected]> wrote: > > good day all > > > > any suggestion for language to replace java > > > > the type of applications that we are looking at are > > http://rapid-i.com/ > > http://kettle.pentaho.org/ > > > > > > -- > > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > > > Facebook Fan page > > > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en > > > > -- > #------- > regds, > > Boh Heong, Yap > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
