Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Lesiecki
here is a movie where a NASA employee compares Ruby EJB, and a few other technologies: Sorry, just noticed this line giggled. Nick On Jun 25, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:02 PM, josh zeidner wrote: Why is it that every Ruby expert that I run into has

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-25 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:02 PM, josh zeidner wrote: Why is it that every Ruby expert that I run into has absolutely nothing to show? I've never claimed to be a Ruby expert, and it'll be quite a while before I could claim even being close. I barely claim expertise in Java, and in that

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-25 Thread josh zeidner
btw- community walk is very similar to Ning. Have you ever seen Ning? jmz --- Chad Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/24/06, josh zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that every Ruby expert that I run into has absolutely nothing to show? I'm definitely not an expert,

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread Drew Davidson
And in OGNL it's similar to apply an _expression_ to any collection, enumeration or iterator: parent.children.{ #this.doSomething() } or you can filter any collection, enumeration or iterator using filteredItems = parent.children.{? name.startsWith("foo") } This is what Buddha would have

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread josh zeidner
Just curious, what sites have you done using RoR? -jmz --- Erik Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: Can't you feel the peace and contentment in this block of code? Ruby is the language Buddha would have programmed in. Yeah, being

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread josh zeidner
sarcasm Its no where near the level of peace and contentment that ruby offers. There's just something so darn cool about Ruby I cant seem to put my finger on it. Maybe its the cool graphics. Maybe its the videos and the fact that ruby programmers use Macs. Maybe its that it hasent showed up

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread josh zeidner
Hi Erik, After having worked with countless web frameworks and dozens of languages I will say this: What you gain in development effort and 'syntactic sugar' you lose in performance. As all these sites prop up I just give it a year or two before people start marketing themselves as

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread Chad Woolley
Well, lets be empirical. Here's a real Rails site: http://communitywalk.com communitywalk.com is a RoR site that was developed at my current employer, usually by one or two pairs at a time, with most of the work done by the site owner (who is an employee too). I didn't work on it much (was

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 24, 2006, at 5:15 PM, josh zeidner wrote: After having worked with countless web frameworks and dozens of languages I will say this: What you gain in development effort and 'syntactic sugar' you lose in performance. But Ruby is not just a sugar coating of syntax. As all these

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread josh zeidner
--- Erik Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2006, at 5:15 PM, josh zeidner wrote: After having worked with countless web frameworks and dozens of languages I will say this: What you gain in development effort and 'syntactic sugar' you lose in performance. But Ruby

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread Chad Woolley
On 6/24/06, josh zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that every Ruby expert that I run into has absolutely nothing to show? I'm definitely not an expert, but I just showed you http://communitywalk.com in another post. http://zubio.com is another one we have done. There are a couple

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-23 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 21, 2006, at 9:08 PM, josh zeidner wrote: RoR: Why? because its Web 2.0( see CMP Media scandal ). The whole Web 2.0 thing( which RoR is invariably linked to ) has turned out to be a very stupid multi-level marketing scheme starring Tim O'Reilly. RoR offers no technological

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-23 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: Can't you feel the peace and contentment in this block of code? Ruby is the language Buddha would have programmed in. Yeah, being pragmatic, Buddha probably would be using RoR. The more idealistic of us would likely be doing Smalltalk.

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-23 Thread Erik Hatcher
And if you want to be wowed by what a difference a programming language makes, check out the video of DabbleDB: http://www.dabbledb.com/ Sure, you could program this same thing in Perl CGI, assembly language, C, Java, etc, but it was done using Seaside and the beauty of what is

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-22 Thread Thomas Hicks
At 09:44 AM 6/22/2006, Chad wrote: Cool. I checked out the REXML page. This quote is great: Some of the common differences are that the Ruby API relies on block enumerations, rather than iterators. For example, the Java code: for (Enumeration

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-22 Thread Chad Woolley
On 6/22/06, Thomas Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr. Ralph Griswold (creator or SNOBOL and Icon programming languages) used to say that there's really nothing new under the sun in CS, it's all recycled. Yep, you certainly can get a lot of mileage out of just 1's and 0's... I have to note

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-22 Thread Andrew Lenards
There was a Smalltalk/Squeak web framework that got some noticed at OOPSLA 2004 called Seaside 2. I think there was a similar version done for Java called Lakeshore. On 6/22/06, Chad Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/06, Thomas Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr. Ralph Griswold (creator

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Warner Onstine
. -Original Message- From: Thomas Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:29 PM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices Hopefully not. I didn't ask which app framework is better? I asked a specific question of Rick

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread cara
On 6/20/06, Rick Hightower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[snip] Injection via an abstract getter, anyone?Shudder? shudder. I think I have grasped it (but I enjoy complex stuff), but to use it on alarge team... YIKES! There is going to be a lot of developer body bags. [snip] Granted Tapestry is very

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Chad Woolley
however that power begets complexity. Tapestry 5 should focus on developer productivity. Well you asked. -Original Message- From: Thomas Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:29 PM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Hightower
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:29 AM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices Yeah, but what about Ruby on Rails?! ;) My current projects (yes, more than one) consist of a RoR front-end and a Solr (http://incubator.apache.org/solr

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread josh zeidner
, 2006 12:16 PM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices you may have just started the next religious war On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Hey Rick, You raise an issue I've been looking at lately: the pros cons

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Hightower
Flame bait? From: cara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:17 AM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices On 6/20/06, Rick Hightower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Injection via an abstract

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Hightower
things broadens you horizons and understanding of development in general. -Original Message- From: josh zeidner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:15 AM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices --- Rick Hightower

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Warner Onstine wrote: Solr looks pretty slick! Thanks for pointing this one out Erik. Any idea when it's coming out of incubator status? Solr is where it's at... hear me now, believe me later. As for the incubator... who knows? It's very mature as it is and

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: lowercase web services? What do you use to talk XML on the RoR side? One of the Ruby SOAP implementations, something homegrown, or something else? Currently Solr returns back a custom XML layout and accepts a custom format. These are

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread josh zeidner
for him. Python is also cool. thanks, jmz -Original Message- From: josh zeidner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:15 AM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices --- Rick Hightower [EMAIL

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Andrew Lenards
To Rick: I really haven't had a chance to use either of the framework (Spring.NET nor NHibernate) but I've tracked their progress. I caught a podcast from one of the devs for Spring.NET and it sounded like they was a fair amount of interest in the project. NHibernate hit version 1 around the

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Jon Thomas
-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices you may have just started the next religious war On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Hey Rick, You raise an issue I've been looking at lately: the pros cons of various web app dev frameworks. I

RE: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-21 Thread Thomas Hicks
and process management curve. -tom At 12:36 PM 6/21/2006, you wrote: Flame bait? -- From: cara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:17 AM To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices On 6/20/06, Rick Hightower

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-20 Thread Jon Thomas
you may have just started the next religious war On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: Hey Rick, You raise an issue I've been looking at lately: the pros cons of various web app dev frameworks. I was motivated by my lack of knowledge about what's out there and inspired by Matt

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-20 Thread Thomas Hicks
Hopefully not. I didn't ask which app framework is better? I asked a specific question of Rick (and others) from his experience When would you choose to use Tapestry over JSF/Facelets? I was hoping for a summary based on his experiences with various frameworks. cheers, -tom