We definitely will, and hope to contribute a lot to ChicagoBoss as we grow our team
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:13:04 PM UTC-6, Nick Pavlica wrote: > > Karim, > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:02:42 PM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: >> >> Nick thanks for your valuable input, >> >> My developers are already getting up to speed and are loving CB/Erlang, >> Elixir is next. >> > > Awesome, happy they are loving it! > > As far as developing the product I described in 6 months that is obviously >> not going to be the >> full feature set of Trip Advisor as we don't even need that much, only >> the components I mentioned >> above. >> > > Thanks for the clarification! Please share the site with us when your > ready! > > -- Nick > > > >> >> > Thanks, >> Karim >> > > > > > >> >> On Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01:32 PM UTC-6, Nick Pavlica wrote: >>> >>> Karim, >>> >>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:26:43 AM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: >>>> >>>> They are slowly getting convinced, but they adamantly want to stick to >>>> ChicagoBoss over Zotonic >>>> if we are going to use Erlang which we will, since I have had a very >>>> good experience back in >>>> 2001 when I was involved (as a partner not as a developer) in creating >>>> a layer 5 switch totally built in erlang. >>>> >>> >>> Erlang is an excellent language/runtime for web applications, and offers >>> a number of advantages over the other languages and frameworks mentioned in >>> this thread. Additionally, Elixer, another language for the EVM, can be >>> used as well. Elixer is gaining allot of support from some serious players >>> in the Ruby/Ruby On Rails community like Dave Thomas. Your developers >>> should pick up enough Erlang/Elixer quickly enough that they can get the >>> the basics done, and grow from there. If they can't, you should reconsider >>> the real value of your team. Over the long run, I think you, and your team >>> would be happier with ChicagoBoss. Going with a general purpose framework >>> will allow you to more easily grow into your real requirements :) >>> >>> >>>> As I had mentioned previously we are building a site that is similar to >>>> Trip Advisor but for the online gambling >>>> industry, so if we are going to be starting from scratch with CB and >>>> would have to create all the following modules >>>> >>>> 1. CMS (with all the standard functionality such as seo modules, RSS >>>> feeds, support for media embedding >>>> 2. Forum >>>> 3. Social Media integration (Facebook login and registration and >>>> profile synching) >>>> 4. Review modules >>>> >>>> Could something like this be done in 6 months with 4-5 developers using >>>> CB? >>>> >>> >>> You should have a good start in 6 months, but it seems a little naive to >>> think that you will be at parity with a site like Trip Advisor that has >>> been under development for years. >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> -- Nick >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thanks again! >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 3:13:00 AM UTC-6, David Welton wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > Thanks for your reply, I have decided to use some sort of Erlang >>>>> Framwework >>>>> > to develop a site that is similar in features to >>>>> > Trip Advisor, we have thrown away 3 complete rewrites in PHP, my >>>>> biggest >>>>> > issue right now is that my developers are pushing >>>>> > really hard to go with Django, and they tell me that Erlang is not >>>>> well >>>>> > suited to this type of project and there are no large scale >>>>> > websites that use Erlang, and information I can use to prove my >>>>> point would >>>>> > be of great help. I do have to say that they have >>>>> > no experience with Erlang but my take is that they can definitely >>>>> learn it. >>>>> >>>>> If you hired them to code, presumably they know what they are doing >>>>> and are giving you good advice, no? >>>>> >>>>> For *most* new sites, the difficult problem is finding product/market >>>>> fit - can we get the right mix of features/community/whatever to make >>>>> it successful? This often requires rapid iteration - adding new >>>>> stuff, trying new ideas, and with something like Django, or Ruby on >>>>> Rails, or even PHP, you're more likely to find a lot of code to use >>>>> out of the box. >>>>> >>>>> Where Erlang is really good is that it uses fewer resources to >>>>> accomplish the same thing. One area where Erlang *really* shines is >>>>> if you need to use web sockets. Those just aren't a good fit for >>>>> Rails or Django. For some kinds of projects, these things are >>>>> critical - for many, though, they are not. >>>>> >>>>> There are certainly large and well-known projects that utilize Erlang. >>>>> Whatsapp. Facebook used to use it for their chat system >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> David N. Welton >>>>> >>>>> http://www.welton.it/davidw/ >>>>> >>>>> http://www.dedasys.com/ >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/86a181c8-6c19-414f-ab98-bdbc9bdc13c1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
