currently investigating <br><br>ruby on rails (looks very interesting)<br><br>and python django (looks very interesting)<br><br><br>I can't see why we can't just use mysql, it's a lot easier for me to<br>develop with it, you can always scale up to oracle later.<br><br>I'll play around with it this weekend, and I'll see what results I get<br><br>failing that, back to php? and stick a web framework on it?<br><br>so many options..!!!!!!!!!!! where to start!!!!!<br><br>any got an example code for any technologies??? , <br><br>thanks to everyone who's replied so far!!! and I mean everyone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 08/02/2008, Gary Short <gary@garyshort.org> wrote:<br>> Simon Wells wrote:<br>> > Although if the idea of the project is for them to learn something
about<br>> > databases then using a tool that does the heavy lifting might be<br>> > counterproductive. Bearing in mind that the tools that we would actually<br>> > choose for real world development are often quite different to the ones<br>> > selected for pedagogical use in a teaching and learning situation.<br>> ><br>> > Simon<br>><br>> True, but once you've done the CRUD stuff once, there's little point in<br>> having to redo it over and over as your db schema changes as the project<br>> moves forwards, best leave that to the framework and concentrate on the<br>> parts of the sql that make the project what it is.<br><br>The danger here is that depending on your domain and application there<br>maybe no SQL to write.... e.g. a simple blog in rails is likely not to<br>need much (if any) SQL.<br><br>R.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing
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