web-frameworks

What are the best MVC web frameworks on the market?

I am looking for a Web Framework to move windows based applications to the web. The main requirements to WF are the following: unit tests support desktop and mobile browsers support long term viability maturity of the framework ...

Pros/Cons of Django vs Pylons

I'm begining a new webapp in Python. I've narrowed my choices down to Django and Pylons. What are the pros/cons of each? ...

Rails or Django? (or something else?)

I'm interested in learning a web framework. The two big ones, as I gather, are Rails and Django. Which one is better/faster? Is one better designed or more logically consistent than the other? Is there another framework I should look into? How easy is it to set up and administer a Rails or Django server, and how easy is it to find a shar...

MVC or event-driven component-oriented web frameworks?

This question intends to be technology-agnostic. Which kind of web framework do you prefer, and when: Pure MVC or event-driven component-oriented? Just to make the point in "technology-agnosticism", here I name a few MVC vs. component web frameworks, in diverse technologies / languages: Struts vs. Java Server Faces / Tapestry The new ...

Web "frameworks" for haXe to deploy in a PHP environment?

Lately I've been taking a look at haXe, to build an application to be deployed to Apache running PHP. Well, while it looks like it might suit my needs (deploying to PHP, but not using an awful language), I haven't found anything to make the actual application development easier than building a traditional non-MVC PHP app. Are there any t...

Python Webframework Confusion

Could someone please explain to me how the current python webframworks fit together? The three I've heard of are CherryPy, TurboGears and Pylons. However I'm confused because TurboGears seems to use CherryPy as the 'Controller' (although isn't CherryPy a framework in in it's own right?), and TurbGears 2 is going to be built on top of Py...

How best to decide on an MVC framework between developers with different backgrounds?

Let's say that Developer Alex has a strong background in Perl and is familiar with the Catalyst framework. Developer Bob, meanwhile, has a strong background in Ruby and is familiar with the Rails framework. Alex and Bob get together on a start-up. Of course, each will have very good arguments for their own specialty. Each will have a go...

which python framework to use?

I'm looking for a framework which is appropriate for beginners (in Python and web development). I already found out about Django and web.py. I think that one of the most important things for me is good documentation. Thanks for the help, Dan ...

How close are development webservers to production webservers?

Most python frameworks will have a development webserver of some kind that will have a warning that it isn't for use as production servers. How much different do they tend to be from their production equivalents? I haven't quite decided which framework to go with, much less what production server to use, so it's kinda difficult for me ...

I want to create a desktop like (RIA) web app, any feedback on frameworks

I have found related posts here but they don't apply completely. I want to create a desktop like (RIA) web app, and I have several constrains: I want to move as much computation as possible to the client and save money on hardware or hosting plans I don't want to compile (qooxdoo and gwt are out) I need to be able to create UI element...

Paid support for web-frameworks

This may sound strange but sometimes when your ASP.NET webapp isn't working and you can't tell why, you call Microsoft, pay them something like $300 and get about 1-3 weeks of 1-3 people looking at your configuration, memory dumps, sometimes code... but usually not the db, and with a fairly good percentage they help you fix your mistakes...

Django versus Plone?

I plan to read about Django. Should I go with Django or Plone? What makes Django/Plone better than the other? Edit: From a comment below: I just wanted to know a framework for developing web applications. ...

What are the best and worst features of your preferred web framework?

The title says it all. ...

Web Framework that handles forms intuitively?

Will be starting a web app that will have to provide many different HTML forms for data entry, so I was wondering if there is a web framework out there that does this in a clever way. generally when you have forms you have many considerations like navigation, validation, etc. that are not handled very efficiently by he frameworks I've se...

Is Catalyst+Mason+Template::Toolkit worth learning rather than sticking to LAMP+Axkit?

hi, Currently i'm using pretty much Unix + Mysql + Perl + Apache with some javascript to make it more ajax like. and i've been looking at sites which are web 2.0 and stackoverflow and really like the simple design and the smooth flow from pages and action, etc. i'm trying to decide if learning catalyst, mason and the likes are going to ...

How do CMS's show pages at directories or at plain filenames?

If all CMS's (Drupal, MediaWiki) are just a collection of PHP or ASP in the background, then how do they display pages at www.site.com/directory/ or www.site.com/File_name without extensions or anything? Is this some .HTACCESS configuration? Python? Perl? What could do this? How could I do this for my server/websites? (Without using a ...

Find out what sites are powered by

Any online tool/service that tells you what sites are powered by? Web Frameworks Multimedia platforms JavaScript libraries eCommerce Features ...

Choosing a simple web application framework

I'm evaluating web application frameworks for a hobby project I'm starting, and am beginning to go crazy trying to decide among the vast number of frameworks available to choose. The framework language isn't helping me filter out frameworks as I have varying levels of experience with Java, Python, Ruby and C#, and don't mind frameworks i...

Using java (desktop) codebase in a webapp

I have a rather large (80k loc) java desktop app that talks to a database. We're now looking at exposing some parts of the database via a web application, using the existing codebase and preferably not having to modify it. I have good separation between the data access, business logic and presentation layers, but we haven't used enterpr...

What is the Linux friendly MVC Web based framework with highest amount of developers?

MVC is a great concept, but choosing among all the variety and flavors out there is not a simple task. Very soon we are going to start a new web development project and we want to do it in a solid, enterprise class, long lasting language. We are choosing linux friendly language. Even we know that MONO will allow us to run .NET in linu...