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

date posted 20th November 2007 12:26

Alex Townsend wrote:

> I'm going to be the nay-sayer on this one, I'm afraid. I just never
> got into Ruby/Rails to any serious degree, and found that when I tried
> to do stuff with it, it became too complex too quickly.

My experience exactly, but I will take a book on my next holiday and
have a read. There might be a project - but it probably wouldn't pay.

In this job I am constantly learning new things, every day mostly,

as you say Alex, there is always lots of new stuff coming up which needs
my attention first, last week it was acessibility issues, when I found
to my surprise that tables for layout are no longer officially a no-no.
(Although obviously still a very bad idea.)

I found this:

a (brief and superficial) look at web 2.0 accessibility isues
particularly with reference to AJAX

http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/future.shtml
which I will have to do some more work on researching...

(sorry answering two posts in one here)

Gary and I obviously have very different client profiles,
when working for a large body such as a bank the sort of specification
will be completely different to one for back end systems for a Credit
Union (which is one of the things I am doing at the moment)

it is absolutley a matter of scale - a couple of thousand members
against a couple of hundred thousand bank customers.

Both projects will improve the effiency and profitability of the
respective organisations.

And in the great scheme of things both projects are in effect tyring to
give the same sort of services (lending) to the general public,

but I don't think that that meens that they both should be designed in
the same way - ie that I should design a system that will work with
hundreds of thousands of customers.

It is as much a matter of budget as anything else, many of my clients
have a pay-as-you-go attitude, and wants bits bolted on in an ad hoc
way. True "design" means that I have accounted for this in advance, and
have not developed myself into a corner.

Thats why I prefer simplicity.

It seems that Gary's world is not the same as mine.

Just another 2p

Carrie