we did a java web framework smackdown last year ( or maybe the year before) at http://www.seajug.org. We asked for 3-5 folks who wanted to talk about their fave web framework and why they like it better than the others for 10-15 mins. We had 3 folks who talked about grails, wicket & GWT. We did a poll before the smackdown to tally votes for all the various web frameworks for java and then did another one after the smackdown to how people's opinions had changed.
you can find the notes at: https://www.nimret.org/seajug/space/start/2010-03-15/1#16_Mar_2010_:_JWF_Smackdown that meeting went very well and folks have asked for subsequent follow-up talks on similar topics @ seajug fyi, my current bestest awesomest web framework that I am going googlyeyed over is http://www.playframework.org ( admittedly java, but with turnaround times akin to web frameworks in dynamic languages like python, ruby, etc) nimret http://www.nimret.org On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we have a wifi connection we could even visit some of the project's > sites. > > Just this weekend I found 4 smaller frameworks I've never heard of. > > I think just being exposed to what is out there is a good idea. > > If some folks have worked with a framework and can share their impression > that works. > > Slides are a lot of work so few with do it. > > Panels get boring 95% of the time in a heart beat. > > The other 5% are priceless. > > > I thought the last meeting was really great. > > As it was open to explore and free to discuss as we went based on who > showed. > > This might be an advantage for the meeting that could drive people to show > up. > > > -Kevin > > > > On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Mike Orr wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I think one of the upcoming meetings about all the all the web frameworks >>> out there could make an interesting evening of discussion. >>> >> >> We could do that, possibly in June. We haven't had an in-depth >> discussion of the state of the frameworks for a long time. >> >> How should we organize this? I don't know if anybody wants to do a lot >> of research and make tutorial-presentations, but we do have people who >> are well knowledgeable about specific frameworks. How about if we get >> one person each to champion a particular package? They can talk about >> it for 5-10 minutes (how it's unique, what advantages it has, its >> current development status, and how soon it will work on Python 3) and >> then answer questions, either about the specific framework or general >> framework-comparison questions. A kind of panel, but not necessarily >> having the panelists all sit at a table in front. We could also have >> champions for other aspects of web development, such as the plethora >> of non-framework libraries. >> >> -- >> Mike Orr <[email protected]> >> >> > -- -- Nimret Sandhu http://www.nimret.org
