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Interesting: it's fairly Railsy, but uses lots of what feel like more idiomatic Node/Express conventions (it's built on top of Express). Waterline looks strong, and I like the integration of ACL/Policies. Might be useful for doing something fairly realtime but in an MVC way.
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Interesting: it's fairly Railsy, but uses lots of what feel like more idiomatic Node/Express conventions (it's built on top of Express). Waterline looks strong, and I like the integration of ACL/Policies. Might be useful for doing something fairly realtime but in an MVC way.
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"Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library world: short, sweet, to the point. And at 5k and under, micro-frameworks are very very portable. A micro-framework does one thing and one thing only — and does it well. No cruft, no featuritis, no feature creep, no excess anywhere. Microjs.com helps you discover the most compact-but-powerful microframeworks, and makes it easy for you to pick one that’ll work for you." Ooh, nice.
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A nice post to end the year from Kars – it feels like a top-trump of so many things that have risen to the surface in my head in 2008.
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"Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation." Yehuda Katz weighs in with a great, informative post.
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"Merb and Rails already share so much in terms of design and sensibility that joining forces seemed like the obvious way to go. All we needed was to sit down for a chat and hash it out, so we did just that." No, really. Not an April Fool. It sounds like the architecture changes that are going to be made are going to be a big win for Rails 3. Looking forward to it.
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Not concerned with the Javascript bundle, but the Vibrant Ink syntax-highlighting link is lovely.
The hellish state of PHP frameworks
15 May 2007
As you probably know, when it comes to code (both in and out of work) I’m a Ruby and Rails guy. It’s not necessary to go into much detail “why”: the expressiveness of Ruby and the dynamism and speed of development in Rails are big wins for me.
But it’s not always possible – or practical – to knock out Rails applications for every task, and right now, I need to deploy something in PHP. Something very simple, that doesn’t warrant the deployment overheads of Rails (which we’re all aware of, right?)
Refusing to get caught up in WordPress if at all possible (not going into that again, either), I set out to look for a nice, well-documented, lightweight PHP web framework.
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Game over
18 November 2005
Interesting post to the london.pm list, following London Web Frameworks Night. It addresses the image problem Perl has, and the marketing it needs to do. In short, Perl itself is fine, and it has some a few advantages (eg CPAN, DBI) to Ruby/Python, but it sure needs to sell itself better. [As spooled earlier today.]