I have not done a good job at keep track. These are two outdated lists: http://www.appliedstacks.com/PoweredBy/web2py http://web2py.com/poweredby
On May 6, 4:02 pm, Christopher Steel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > I am new to Python and started dabbling in Web2py late last year. > Without a doubt the most awesome thing about working with Web2py aside > from Web2py itself is the totally rocking Web2py community. > > Massimo has and continues to set a very high bar in terms of his > stellar commitment to supporting the Web2py community. This example, > combined with the ability of community members as a whole to follow > his lead, identify and honestly report on and own the occasional bugs > (or faux bugs caused by late nights of programming; ), make this > community something special. > > Oh right, and sometime so much awesome new code and examples get > contributed to the project that it seems like it has been raining high > quality code for weeks on end. > > I created a laundry list of the qualities I was looking for in a web > product / application framework and ended up here. > > As far as impressive sites goes, gee, do we have a list of impressive > sites around anywhere anyone? > > Christopher Steel > > On May 6, 1:37 am, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am brand new to web application development, and I'm looking for a > > good web framework to learn in order to build a new web application > > (sort of a personal task/project management system). I want it to look > > (and act) like a serious, polished, state-of-the-art Web 2.0 site/app > > (i.e., not amateurish or out-dated). I've got some experience with > > website building, HTML, CSS, and a little javascript. I don't have any > > experience with server-side coding, but I do have general programming > > experience (i.e., not web/internet related) as well as some experience > > with relational databases and SQL. > > > I'm looking for a framework that will be relatively easy to learn, > > though I'm just as concerned with how easy it is to go through the > > learning process (i.e., find well-organized documentation, tutorials, > > examples, community support, etc.) as with the conceptual simplicity/ > > easiness of the framework itself (i.e., I don't mind learning > > something hard if I've got good learning resources). > > > Also, rather than creating everything from scratch, I'm hoping to rely > > as much as possible on existing libraries, plug-ins, applications, > > examples, etc. So, a framework that's compatible with as large a > > universe as possible of existing solutions would be ideal. I'm also > > planning to link to various web service API's (e.g., Google Calendar). > > > From what I've read, web2py sounds like a great framework -- > > comprehensive, well-integrated, easy to set up, learn, and deploy, > > etc. However, although it sounds good on paper, I haven't yet found a > > single site built with web2py that looks all that impressive (at least > > superficially). It's easy to find quite a number of sophisticated and > > impressive looking sites/apps built with Ruby on Rails and Django, but > > I haven't seen anything remotely comparable based on web2py. I'm > > wondering why the disparity. Is it simply that web2py is a relative > > newcomer and has a small user base, or does web2py have some inherent > > limitations that make it less than ideal for building polished, larger > > scale web apps? In other words, could a site like Basecamp > > (www.basecamphq.com) be built just as easily with web2py as with ROR, > > or is web2py not really suited for that level of development? > > > I'm also wondering about the long term viability of web2py. I don't > > want to adopt a framework that ends up fizzling out in a couple years. > > Is web2py on an upward trajectory, or is its future uncertain? For > > example, I notice that the web2py-developers group has only about one > > tenth as many members as even the Pylons and TurboGears developer > > groups (and one one hundreth as many as ROR and Django). Is web2py too > > dependent on just one or two key developers who may lose interest over > > time? > > > Any insights and advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
