It's a great framework when you know you can make a quick application for some problem at the office on your lunch break. You can't do that in many webframeworks, I tell you that much. (I made a lunch coordination software in about an hour.) Congrats and good luck! BR, Jason Brower
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:36 AM, ron_m <ron.mco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good for you on the course completion. There is a lot to learn especially > if you have never done web development before of this type. For web > development many people do HTML/CSS and to a lesser degree Javascript only > so the server only pushes pages that are pre-canned. I worked with Java for > many years doing server development and by comparison web2py is a dream. > Part of the comparative ease of use is Python but much of it is the > organization and integration of web2py. At first it looks like magic, then > you learn a little because magic is an uneasy feeling but as you gain > experience you learn some more and start to realize how well put together it > all is. > > Java in it's own way is okay, just so much boiler plate code and some of > the frameworks have you writing pages of XML that has no equivalent in > web2py mainly because it follows a philosophy similar to Ruby on Rails > (convention not configuration). > > Maybe see you back if you do more with web2py. >
