Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
[fixed quoting] At 02:42 PM 12/16/2005 +0100, Joachim wrote: > > However, in my particular case, it's not like I am the only one who does > > some work on the website, and I'll not be around forever either (it's > > volunteer work, basically). Using straight PHP is technically inferior, > > but is

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > > Yes, FastCGI looks really cool. > > > > However, in my particular case, it's not like I am the only one who does > > some work on the website, and I'll not be around forever either (it's > > volunteer work, basically). Using

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 02:42 PM 12/16/2005 +0100, you wrote: > However, in my particular case, it's not like I am the only one who does > some work on the website, and I'll not be around forever either (it's > volunteer work, basically). Using straight PHP is technically inferior, > but is much more likely to actual

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-16 Thread Pierre-Yves Ritschard
> Yes, FastCGI looks really cool. > > However, in my particular case, it's not like I am the only one who does > some work on the website, and I'll not be around forever either (it's > volunteer work, basically). Using straight PHP is technically inferior, > but is much more likely to actually be u

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:36:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (It also looks like there's no mod_python in the source tree; I don't > > know why, but I never really used python so that's not surprising, but > > it might be an argument against python. There is a mod_perl, mod_ruby, > > and

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-16 Thread pierre-yves
> (It also looks like there's no mod_python in the source tree; I don't > know why, but I never really used python so that's not surprising, but > it might be an argument against python. There is a mod_perl, mod_ruby, > and it might be supported via another port - but I don't see it in > python. An

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:08:00AM -0800, Dag Richards wrote: > I have a php app that I inherited, and moved to an OBSD server. > I can make it run but only by -u -ing it. It makes a bunch of > really risky calls to shell utils ( cp, rm, openssl for example). > > So I will rewrite the app so it w

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Brandon Mercer
Darrin Chandler wrote: I'm not sure you're going to get many flames about this... If you try really hard, you can clean up the php. Mostly. Then there's Python or Ruby on Rails. Better stuff than php. You still have to code securely. Rails just had a new release with emphasis on cleanup and

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
Dag Richards wrote: I have a php app that I inherited, and moved to an OBSD server. I can make it run but only by -u -ing it. It makes a bunch of really risky calls to shell utils ( cp, rm, openssl for example). So I will rewrite the app so it will run in a properly chrooted web server, not s

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Allen
On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Dag Richards wrote: Php is what I am comfortable doing what I used to do with PERL CGI. So what are the recommended languages for developing ... Interactive Data Driven Websites . http://catalyst.perl.org/ -- Bryan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bda.mirrorshades.n

Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Dag Richards
I have a php app that I inherited, and moved to an OBSD server. I can make it run but only by -u -ing it. It makes a bunch of really risky calls to shell utils ( cp, rm, openssl for example). So I will rewrite the app so it will run in a properly chrooted web server, not shell out, and use a da