Re: [PLUG] Advice for Web Application Framework

[Gordon Dexter <gordon@texasdex.com>]

I used Django as well, and liked it.  Managed to make a simple web app 
pretty quickly, and next time around I'll be able to make something 
complicated, pretty quickly, since I know how it works now.  If you're a 
fan of the MVC paradigm, Django's a good way to go.

--Gordon

Mag Gam wrote:
> starting to use Django and its really nice.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Chaz Meyers <plug@thechaz.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:11 PM, John Karr <brainbuz@brainbuz.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm starting development on a web based data application. Since this will be
>>> a fairly large application I would like to select a Framework (ie Django,
>>> Ruby on Rails, Catalyst) or collection of libraries/modules so that I can
>>> focus on logic and functionality.
>>>       
>> If you want to stick with Perl but don't have much programming
>> experience, I recommend looking at CGI::Application.
>>
>> Catalyst is awesome and I believe has a larger community surrounding
>> it, but it takes advantage of programming concepts and Perl syntax
>> which may not be familiar to you, so there might be a steeper learning
>> curve.
>>
>> In contrast, in your usual C::A webapp you're just writing a fairly
>> straightforward class. It's pretty transparent what's going on, and
>> CGI/Application.pm is fairly understandable to read for someone even
>> with a little Perl OOP experience.  As you become more experienced,
>> you have the option of adding more advanced functionality like hooks
>> and plugins, but none of those are needed when you're getting started.
>>
>>     
>>> I plan to take advantage of the fact
>>> that Postgres supports writing Stored Procedures in PERL to move logic from
>>> the front-end to the database, which further supports PERL as first choice
>>> and Python (which is also supported by PostGres) as second choice.
>>>       
>> I don't know your exact situation so this bit may be completely
>> irrelevant to you. If you have multiple applications touching the
>> database, stored procedures can help a lot to eliminate duplication of
>> logic and ensure data integrity.
>>
>> However, if your database is just acting as a data store for your
>> webapp and you know for a fact that no other application will ever
>> touch your database directly, it might be smart to keep as much of
>> your logic in your application as you can. Web nodes are very easy to
>> scale to multiple machines. Throw a reverse proxy in front of a bunch
>> of web nodes, and as long as they're not writing session data to disk
>> you're set. Scaling to a second database machine can be much more
>> tricky.
>>
>> - Chaz Meyers

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