I've been using web2py for around 6 months now and I thought I'd share a bunch of reasons why I think web2py is a bad thing all around.
I used to be an expert at all sorts of things in order to build my websites. I developed a whole python infrastructure over a couple of years that mostly enforced a MVC development structure. With it, I could get a new website, like a photo gallery website, roughed-in in under a week. I had a bunch of tricks up my sleeve, written in javascript, css, cookies, AJAX, Apache, MySQL, html, XML, and other arcane stuff. It was a steep learning curve and frustrating having to learn all those different languages, but it gave me big mental muscles and a big ego to go along with them. My websites were reasonbly consistent looking and did a few nifty grpahics tricks to boot. They stood up pretty well to lots of page hits. Now, I only use what comes in the web2py package and my sites look way more consistent, do more graphics tricks, and use a ton less code. My websites never break and I rarely check in on them to see if they're working. They just work. I can develop the look and feel of the site before writing the database and controller code. The photo-gallery site that took a week to develop ... I can now do in an afternoon. Another site that took me months to develop ... I'm on the way to implementing it in a couple of weeks. I have so much extra time on my hand that I find myself worrying about really dumb stuff, like implementing rounded corners on my boxes or getting just the right shade of eggshell blue in my background. I thought I still had a valid complaint that the web2py doc was thin and incomplete, but now that Massimo has come out with the fantastic rev 2.0 of the doc, even that gripe has been taken away from me. Now my mental muscles are going flabby and my ego has been deflated. Practically any shmoe can now make an excellent dynamic website with web2py. Web2py is a bad, bad thing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
