Reading majic's journal

After further evaluation and review J2EE is not (currently) the web server platform I'm looking for. Don't get me wrong it is extremely powerful and well suited to even the most complex web applications, but I don't feel it's something I need right now. I feel that the learning curve and the hardware requirements are not suited to my personal home server with two fairly minimal websites and a DSL connection. I was extremely impressed with Servlets/JSPs/Custom Tags and I know that they would go well towards what I'd like to implement but from development to release in my current schedule will just take too long.

What I am looking for is something a bit simpler with a nice object oriented language which runs decently on older hardware (P4 1.6Ghz). What I'm doing now is evaluating Ruby and Ruby on Rails. It looks very promising and much simpler to set up and maintain than a J2EE solution and it runs good on my old hardware. From the onset Ruby has been very easy to learn, it's object oriented and has a nice clean simple syntax. Let's see how this one works out. There are quite a few tutorials on it that are impressive and really show off the benefits of a Rails web solution. If anyone has broadband and is interested in seeing what Ruby on Rails can do I suggest you look at this 10 minute setup video with a sample application video. I thought it was pretty impressive but then again I get off on these kinds of things.

From what I've seen of this technology it looks like it's the simplest from development to release. The whole thing just looks very well put together and thought out. Let's see how far this goes. =)

More on this later!

Yeah watching an application evolve from a tarball of sourcecode into a full blown implementation can be VERY impressive.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Yeah watching an application evolve from a tarball of sourcecode into a full blown implementation can be VERY impressive.

Did you watch the videos they have on their website demonstrating the software? They are pretty impressive!

Sometimes I really wish I understood what you guys are talking about... it is a language that I don't speak. I am ignorant of it, but fascinated, nonetheless.

If mountain goats like living at high elevations, why do none live in high rise apartment buildings?

Sometimes I really wish I understood what you guys are talking about... it is a language that I don't speak. I am ignorant of it, but fascinated, nonetheless.

Don't let what I wrote fool you. I don't even understand most of what I am interested in. I've been working hard for alot of years on this crap and I have just a little to show for it. However, despite that I'm still plugging away in hopes that one day a light bulb will go off and I'll say "BINGO, I think I fully understand!".... Well that is the dream of course. =)

Python kicks Ruby's butt any day. ;-)

Python kicks Ruby's butt any day. ;-)

That's clearly SPAM! HAHA, enjoy the red rating Mystilleef, I'll see you in the IRC channel. Anyway Python is extremely good and I'm still trying to figure out why Ruby on Rails isn't called Python on Rails.

But I digress. Now if I could find somebody to co-develop some code with me... Any takers?