hahaha - I was concerned when I saw the title coming from an active web2py user!
On Sep 1, 12:22 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > LMAO > > On Aug 31, 9:00 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
