On Tue, 2007-25-12 at 11:55 -0800, Nicolai Richter (Gm) wrote: > Hi Iain, > > thanks a lot for your reply! > > Even though the app is more simple than I think my description looked > like (just one seminar type and just one speaker, the client), I think > three weeks are indeed mighty tight. Others have indicated that as > well. > > I usually am quite a quick learner, but I agree that I will probably > not be able to digest Toscawidgets in the given timeframe. I know the > client needs an "advanced beta" up in three weeks after the assignment > is given, so I probably HAVE to use Django and will not be able to > migrate to TG for this app later on. > > Therefore, as others have pointed me into similar directions, I think > I'll Django, but keep my eyes on TG, waiting for the 2.0 release. As > soon as that comes around the corner, I will probably try it out to > use it in future projects. Or maybe my Django experience will be so > nice that I won't look back, who knows? I like my experience with it > so far, I had authorization/session based stuff up after a few hours > of hacking on a test site.
That is probably a good decision. In all honesty, I think Django is a great platform for those kind of constraints, and if the client/boss is giving you such a short lead time, they really can't complain if the admin interface is not perfectly tailored to their requirements. I also believe it is well worth learning all three of Turbogears, Django, and Pylons, though if you are in no rush, it is possibly best to learn TG2 when the beta is ready. I have done some work ( though trivial in pylons ) in all three and found the learning experience of seeing similar tasks done in similar ways very beneficial. (I even plan on learning Ruby and RoR as well as there seems to be a lot of good books out on them and it seems it would be a useful comparison. ) In the long run, I like the flexibility of the glue approach better, I like understanding my admin interface inside out, and I like to use components I'm unlikely to outgrow. For that reason I think SA0.4, Genshi, and Toscawidgets are much nicer ( for me ) than the Django alternatives, and a low level platform built centrally around WSGI ( as pylons is ) is the way to go. But all of those took longer to learn than Django. > > Where do you think I should have looked if I had wanted to outsource > the whole thing to a subcontractor? I know it's too late now, but I > considered that seriously before deciding I want to have a learning > experience under pressure ;-). Probably these lists of a local python user group. But I'm guessing there! Good luck, Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
