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What was I doing all this time?

It passed a lot of time since I written something on this blog. The reason was that I wanted to replaced it with yet another custom blog built with some other cool new framework I happend to learn. Time passed by and I dod not have time to make that new shiny blog. I now decided I would upgrade this blog with the rails 2.x as soon as possible. That will be hopefully after Christmas. Before that I can’t do nothing. I just have to much work to do.

If you are curious here is the list of frameworks I tried:

1. Django (excellent framework, done my university graduation thesis using it)
2. CakePHP (it is PHP but it is a nice framework. I also done a twitter component for it check it out here)
3. Symfony (nice framework, very configurable, has an admin generator)
4. Zend (it has some really great components Zend_Search_Lucene to name one but it never clicked for me)
5. Merb (just poked at it but I’m a pythonic in nature so I don’t like to many options – I like the saying “There should be one and preferably only one obvious way to do it”)

So after evaluating all these and some other frameworks beside these (erlyweb – erlang web framework) I came to the conclusion that I actually like rails because of it opinionated nature. This is the same reason I like Django. Django is pluggable with applications as rails is with plugins but both frameworks are opinionated about their core. For example Django uses its own ORM tool instead off SQLAlchemy, it also uses its own routing system instead of Routes or some other solution. The same is with rails. And that is the thing I like about both of these frameworks. And that is why I will stick with rails and upgrade this custom blog to rails 2.x as soon as possible. Rails and django will remain mine first choices for new web projects.

For backend stuff like servers, or web services I am leaning towards Erlang but I still have to learn it properly. I did not written anything with it for now. But I know I will think of some interesting project for me to use it for.

That all for now.

Enjoy!

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