[Ilugc] choice of web development technology

[Parthan]

anantha narasimhan wrote:
> hey,
> 
> iam trying to build a web service. I tht i ss hd take a quick response
> from the community in choosing the technology. The project demands a
> good UI (planing to rope in ajax) and has  pretty complex
> datastructures to work with in the back end. The performance is also
> critical as its  traffic is going to be a bit high. which
> technology/framework/language would be best  for developing such an
> application.

First you have to select with either Python or Ruby to have as the base 
language. I do not have much idea about Ruby, other than something about 
Ruby on Rails. But, I work in Django. Python is easier to learn, 
documentation is fantastic and you have a very good community.

Django, again has a fantastic documentation and tutorial. Even a Django 
book is being written. Has a very good community on IRC and google 
groups. Being Python based, it is very powerful in terms of the 
language. Makes it easy to create database using models ,and your 
database, python code or logic and the template/presentation layer is 
loosely coupled so that you gain more flexibility in handling each of 
them. It is well suited for faster production and deployment.

The best suggestion will be to select a few options and try a pilot 
module on them. Whichever seems to be more comfortable to you and whose 
results are more satisfactory can be taken up for the main project :)


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