tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43689245536472750492011-04-21T20:43:11.768-07:00Mark Buckinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202204700131960209noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368924553647275049.post-9180893096622940542008-01-22T19:00:00.000-08:002008-01-22T16:08:48.380-08:00<span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi- Welcome to my blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is going to be an attempt to keep track of my progress while I try to create a shopping cart for my wife's </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sterlingmaiden.com/">website</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I'm basically a java/perl/c-if-I-have-to kind of guy. At my day job, I write and maintain back-end service apps in java.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I haven't done too much on the web so far, except for my wife's existing website, so I've got a bunch of things to learn.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I want the new site to be all nice and ajax-y and pretty and stuff. I could just go ahead and dive in with perl cgi scripts, but I'd like something nicer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So... I have to pick a language, maybe a web framework. Right now, I develop on Mac OS X, and deploy to a linux shared host.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here's what I'm looking at so far:</span><br /><ul style="font-family: verdana;"><li><a href="http://catalyst.perl.org/">Catalyst</a> (perl)<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.masonhq.com">Mason</a> (perl)<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.symfony-project.org">Symfony</a> (php5)<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.rubyonrails.org">Ruby on Rails</a></li></ul><span style="font-family:verdana;">I'm going to base my decision on the following:</span><br /><ul style="font-family: verdana;"><li>Ease of use - how much trouble will it be to use this thing?<br /></li><li>Ease of deployment - how hard will it be to get it running on my host?<br /></li><li>Learning curve - how much do I need to learn just to use it?<br /></li><li>Performance - good enough on shared hosting?<br /></li></ul><span style="font-family:verdana;">So that's it for now. Thanks for reading.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368924553647275049-918089309662294054?l=markbuckingham.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Buckinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202204700131960209noreply@blogger.com0