Re: Amazing work

2011-02-07 Thread Jon J
Cal, You are so right. I've always taken it as a rule of thumb that the bigger a corporation is, the bigger and bloated their software is. It's gotten to the point where I won't touch jobs with a ten foot pole whose companies are built upon Microsoft products. On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Cal

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-06 Thread Mike Seidle
On Sunday, February 06, 2011 02:54:23 pm Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > Interesting. See, when I compared Zope to Django, I found Django's > extensive documentation and feature set to be perfect for prototyping, and > then optimizing bottlenecks at a later date, either via C extension

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-06 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Interesting. See, when I compared Zope to Django, I found Django's extensive documentation and feature set to be perfect for prototyping, and then optimizing bottlenecks at a later date, either via C extensions, raw SQL replacement etc. However, as 'cliché' as this may sound, most large enterprises

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-06 Thread Mike Seidle
On Thursday, February 03, 2011 08:02:43 pm Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > May I ask, how well did you get along with Zope? From what I can tell, > Django is suited for SME, where as Zope is the kinda thing that banks would > be using etc. Cal - I just used Django to write a credit

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-05 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
To be honest, I've *never* been a fan of frameworks that try to merge every language into one, like Ext JS, or HTML builders in PHP. Hell I don't particularly like the 'widgets' in Django either :S I even once saw a PHP project that builds HTML and JavaScript from PHP objects, it was absolutely awf

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Hannam
Hi, Plone (which runs on Zope) is not that unusual a CMS system for business. It suffers from a lack of documentation like Zope but there is a pretty thriving community behind Plone currently. Certainly worth a look if nothing else. CH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-05 Thread Jon J
Yeah, I guess I'll have to redact my comment about Zope. I must say though, I've never been much of a fan of bloated frameworks like this. I spent enough time being forced to maintain Cold Fusion, thank you. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:56 AM, kojiro wrote: > It would be a mistake to compare Zope t

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-05 Thread kojiro
It would be a mistake to compare Zope to Django. Django is a lightweight, easy-to-learn, something-like-MVC framework with a built- in ORM. Zope is a complex, rich, unabashedly pythonistic metaframework with a built-in ACID compliant key-value store. Zope is neither a POS nor unusually slow. Its hi

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-05 Thread Jon J
Well I was unfortunate enough to look up the official zope website, and as I'm typing this it's STILL loading. Haha, I can see what a POS it is and definitely won't be using it for any projects anytime soon. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 01:02

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 01:02 +, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > May I ask, how well did you get along with Zope? From what I can tell, > Django is suited for SME, where as Zope is the kinda thing that banks > would > be using etc. as long as one sticks to out of the box stuff and z

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-03 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
May I ask, how well did you get along with Zope? From what I can tell, Django is suited for SME, where as Zope is the kinda thing that banks would be using etc. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > I am a hobbyist programmer started with pascal and then perl. Loved > perl,

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
I am a hobbyist programmer started with pascal and then perl. Loved perl, but once I had to hire a programmer to do some enhancements that I did not have time for - he did a good job, but after he left I found I could not understand a word of what he had done. Then someone introduced me to python a

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-03 Thread Jon J
Well, PHP does have its intended purpose and accomplishes its objectives nicely. If you're building a one-shot, off-the-cuff application with no forethought to design or scalability, then PHP is great. It's not hard for novices to use (object orientation is optional, etc) and uses a much easier to

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-03 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
You know, even if PHP had a framework like Django, I wouldn't use it. PHP is clunky, has horrible code syntax, piss poor exception handling, awful garbage collection, weirdly named functions, and just feels 'wrong'. And don't even get me started on performance! On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jon

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-03 Thread Jon J
KG, I've been a PHP developer for years and haven't reached outside of PHP pretty much ever. After writing the same code over and over and over and over and over again and always dealing with the same issues (tweaking the database through a database manager, writing admin interfaces, not having a

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-02 Thread km
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 08:56 -0600, Jon J wrote: > > I just stumbled upon django when looking for a good way to use Python > > in web programming, > > welcome to the club - btw, how did you manage to avoid stumbling over > django all these

Re: Amazing work

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 08:56 -0600, Jon J wrote: > I just stumbled upon django when looking for a good way to use Python > in web programming, welcome to the club - btw, how did you manage to avoid stumbling over django all these years? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG r

Amazing work

2011-02-02 Thread Jon J
I just stumbled upon django when looking for a good way to use Python in web programming, and I must say, I'm extremely impressed. I have dabbled in other frameworks such as Ruby on Rails but deemed it wasn't worth the time because frankly, RoR throws a bunch of nonsensical terms at you (rails, rac