On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:28 AM, thebigdog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris, > > I usually look at various technologies, hardware requirements and customer > requirements before deciding which language to choose. There are other > requirements as well: development lifecycle, cost, employee skill, employee > retention, training and other items. At that point I start to figure out the > architecture requirements and what needs to be accomplished (ie location of > customers, deployment, hardware) and start spec'ing it all out. Then i turn > my attention to development environments and team mechanics. After that i > will start looking at the language to see which one will accomplish the > design by factoring in skill set, training, hiring, cost and a few other > things. Once the language is determined, the planning phase needs to include > how you are going to develop the software...whether that is fully web or > parts are web based and development decisions. > > But i would agree with Tyler, most languages are sufficient for what you > are trying to do; however, you need to take a lot more into account when > making that decision. You really don't want to do a java app if all your > guys are php guys; you don't want to do a php app if all your guys are ruby; > etc. > > yet there is only one database that you should use - pgsql!!!! > I'm in an odd situation where our programmer resources probably don't match what I need done. I've got a couple of hard core C programmers that work on our hardware product and our parent company has some hard core COBOL programmers. :) There are two of us that can hold our own in Perl, but web development or much UI development in Perl is not the direction technology and tools are going and we don't have time to work on it. The reality is that I'm going to end up hiring somebody to write it or contract it out. I'm not constrained by what my staff knows or what we have developed in previously. It's a catch 22... I can't base my decision on what the skills of the person doing the programming since that person doesn't exist until I decide what language/platform we will program in. I have started building out the requirements document independent of the language and doing a lot of the things you talk about (thanks for the list of things to cover). Given my lack of constraints and the ability to start from scratch, do you have opinions one way or another? Chris _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
