Comments on: Lowering the price of Web-Apps http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/18/lowering-the-price-of-web-apps/ Testability Explorer Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:59:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Peter http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/18/lowering-the-price-of-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-2252 Peter Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:48:24 +0000 http://misko.hevery.com/?p=579#comment-2252 An eXist server will happily work with the LDAP of your choice. There are choices to make with data, of course, but ease of experiment counterbalances unfamiliarity. All the Javascript that gives you rich widgets already still works, and - since it's pure HTML going out - browser compatibility is straightforward (any problem areas are probably covered by your JS framework, as is Ajax-ability) An eXist server will happily work with the LDAP of your choice. There are choices to make with data, of course, but ease of experiment counterbalances unfamiliarity.
All the Javascript that gives you rich widgets already still works, and – since it’s pure HTML going out – browser compatibility is straightforward (any problem areas are probably covered by your JS framework, as is Ajax-ability)

]]> By: misko http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/18/lowering-the-price-of-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-2198 misko Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:45:30 +0000 http://misko.hevery.com/?p=579#comment-2198 @Peter, how do you figure? Authentication? Data Storage, Behavior? Rich widgets? Compatibility with existing browsers? @Peter,

how do you figure? Authentication? Data Storage, Behavior? Rich widgets? Compatibility with existing browsers?

]]> By: Peter http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/18/lowering-the-price-of-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-2196 Peter Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:13:28 +0000 http://misko.hevery.com/?p=579#comment-2196 An XQuery and an XML document is all it takes, isn't it? An XQuery and an XML document is all it takes, isn’t it?

]]> By: misko http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/18/lowering-the-price-of-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-2125 misko Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:51:07 +0000 http://misko.hevery.com/?p=579#comment-2125 @Trevor, The back end of is written in Ruby. Ruby has lots of scripts which let you generate things and get going fast, but in 5 minutes you can get a hello world going. To get a simple app with voting going you would have to create schema, controllers and routing. Than you would have to deploy this someplace and set up mySql. And you would not have authentication, nor embedability working. But this all is a moot point. Since to write Ruby you need to know a lot about programing, databases, etc. Where as with everything is declarative, which means you can build quick apps with just the HTML. In Ruby you need: HTML, Ruby, Rails, SQL, and ERB. @Trevor,

The back end of is written in Ruby. Ruby has lots of scripts which let you generate things and get going fast, but in 5 minutes you can get a hello world going. To get a simple app with voting going you would have to create schema, controllers and routing. Than you would have to deploy this someplace and set up mySql. And you would not have authentication, nor embedability working. But this all is a moot point. Since to write Ruby you need to know a lot about programing, databases, etc. Where as with everything is declarative, which means you can build quick apps with just the HTML. In Ruby you need: HTML, Ruby, Rails, SQL, and ERB.

]]> By: Trevor http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/18/lowering-the-price-of-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-2123 Trevor Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:38:40 +0000 http://misko.hevery.com/?p=579#comment-2123 eh, sounds like rails could do that in about the same time :) at worst still not "days" eh, sounds like rails could do that in about the same time :) at worst still not “days”

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