Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 22:41

Ben Moxon wrote:
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> Carrie wrote:
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> Part of the rails philosophy is that processor cycles are cheaper than
> developer cycles so if you have an application that needs a more
> powerful server but takes half the time to write it's probably a
> long-term saving.
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Absolutley,

I will take another look when I have the time,
but I am very cynical these days,
I have the tools at my fingertips to fulfill the jobs I tend to be
offered, Ruby and or Rails do not offer me any performance advatage (in
my clients terms)
or any advantage in developer cycles - I have snippets of just about
everything I need - and I quite enjoy creating new ones.

The people I work with tend not to need anything fancy, but they
*allways* need something completely different from the last lot.

There are common themes,


If you could convince me that the stuff I have already, which is direct
and eficient, and covers most of the needs of my clients, (and only
needs a search and replace to convert to a new client.)
should be replaced, involving another vertical learning curve
(pass me the crampons!)

and that would not involve contortions to fit to a "normalised" structure.

I work with an artist and I am amazed by the way that he constructs his
artworks, lots of it is routine, like cutting and pasteing snippets, he
prepares the canvas/board, there is stuff with chalk, just like setting
out a form or return page, then pencil, then blocking in, then major
features, then detail, then polishing.

It often seems to me that we work in very much the same way, we both
build something, by doing the same (fairly dull) thing in different
patterns, the clever bits are the overall scheme, and the detail, and
elegence of execution.

Someone asked him to do a project which involved airbrushing 3d
scupltures recently, he spent a fair amount of time learing how to make
it work to his satisfaction, and did a good job.

He now can do airbrushing - it cost him weeks - no one will ask him to
do it again in the forseeable future - he enjoyed it so good!
But
for the amount of times I would need to stray from simple PHP/MySQL
it does not make economic sense.

Just the new kid (tech) in town.



Call me a luddite

Carrie