I've never done anything on the web. I mean, never developed anything. (I've got accounts on dA and wikipedia and half-a-dozen other things; I know HTML and enough JavaScript to hack away at it when friends need help).
Mostly because I've never had anything worth doing: I've written a set of python CGI programs (an eCards site) and set up apache, just because I wanted to learn how. It used raw files; no database. And it sits there, working just about flawlessly, at http://localhost/maxecards/. I've even done a minor security audit, just to learn how (I met a hacker and he impressed me). But now I'm ready to do it in the real world. Nothing complicated, but a real project. And I have to choose my tools. Zope, Plone, Django, what are these? I don't have to stick with Python, although it's my preferred language. I know Python, Java and C++. But I'm ready to learn Ruby if RoR is as good as they say. I could do it in Python cgi (or mod_python). But it seems from all the hype that this is not a good way to write scaleable, extensible web applications. There's a reason I'm asking here: I like Python. But I only learned it because I had incentive (30000 local monetary units in the computer olympiad; I won 10000). Is RoR incentive enough? --Max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
