Ach! Yes that's it - JPL - It was from Sean Kelly who's video starts with him working at NOAA:
http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:42 AM, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > > ----- > all the rest of this is smack-dab peachy: I'll remind you of one > thing - > there was a website, guy from NOAA I think it was - that showed all > the > frameworks that claimed to have something; he tried building > something > simple with them and uncovered all the flaws and gotchas and try to > say > "here's what I would (wouldn't) want to build with".... most things > just > took a long time... > ----- > > Actually, it was a guy from JPL as I recall. In fact, watching his > screencast is exactly what got me started looking at frameworks and > CMSs. One thing led to the next and I found Django. And then I watched > a video of one of Django's developers and he said something like this: > "... Django's templataing language is different from python because > it's made for page designers. Page designers don't write programs and > programmers don't design pages." > > That is exactly what lost me for Django. Then I found web2py and the > rest is history. > > I agree wholeheartedly with MDP's observation of the 80:20 rule. > However, I find that web2py is an exception. On my first web2py app I > probably used 90-95% of the features of web2py. On the next app, it > will be 100%. Interestingly, my plate will be clean AND my appetite > sated. There is nothing extraneous in web2py that I can discern. > > Web2py's niche is that one person of reasonable skill can develop a > sophisticated enterprise web application in minimal time with minimal > effort. This is because of its 3Cs: consistency, completeness, and > conciseness. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
