Weheh, I have to say, you are a bad, bad guy. Because when I saw the title of your post, I was ready for a fight and rushed to see your post. But after reading, I lost the reason to make a heated-up dispute. :-)
PS: It doesn't need a native English speaker to understand your humor. I am from China too. :-) Iceberg On Sep1, 10:00am, weheh <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using web2py for around 6 months now and I thought I'd share > a bunch of reasons why I think web2py is a bad thing all around. > > I used to be an expert at all sorts of things in order to build my > websites. I developed a whole python infrastructure over a couple of > years that mostly enforced a MVC development structure. With it, I > could get a new website, like a photo gallery website, roughed-in in > under a week. I had a bunch of tricks up my sleeve, written in > javascript, css, cookies, AJAX, Apache, MySQL, html, XML, and other > arcane stuff. It was a steep learning curve and frustrating having to > learn all those different languages, but it gave me big mental muscles > and a big ego to go along with them. My websites were reasonbly > consistent looking and did a few nifty grpahics tricks to boot. They > stood up pretty well to lots of page hits. > > Now, I only use what comes in the web2py package and my sites look way > more consistent, do more graphics tricks, and use a ton less code. My > websites never break and I rarely check in on them to see if they're > working. They just work. I can develop the look and feel of the site > before writing the database and controller code. The photo-gallery > site that took a week to develop ... I can now do in an afternoon. > Another site that took me months to develop ... I'm on the way to > implementing it in a couple of weeks. I have so much extra time on my > hand that I find myself worrying about really dumb stuff, like > implementing rounded corners on my boxes or getting just the right > shade of eggshell blue in my background. I thought I still had a valid > complaint that the web2py doc was thin and incomplete, but now that > Massimo has come out with the fantastic rev 2.0 of the doc, even that > gripe has been taken away from me. > > Now my mental muscles are going flabby and my ego has been deflated. > Practically any shmoe can now make an excellent dynamic website with > web2py. Web2py is a bad, bad thing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
