Dragon's Den

[Sysman]

The thing about the Mingle example I used was that it is written by thoughtworks who see themselves as the most forward thinking software company/consultancy going so I really cannot fathom how they let a server go out the door that eats 300 meg without doing anything.

Sometimes these types can get carried away with abstract concepts. I once audited a project which was so modular that half a dozen users could bring the system to its knees. It was supposed to support over a hundred users.

Module A would call B, C, D, E and F, and they'd all call each other, duplicating I/Os previously done, and it was worse than that - up to 200 ISAM reads where 5 or less would have sufficed.

 

[tim123]

Don't know how easy it is to learn, what languages are you used to? RoR requires you to learn Ruby (duh) and gives you very easy ways to do common web-server tasks, such as databases and web services.

I don't think it replaces HTML, it's an alternative to PHP/ASP(.net)/JSP so I guess it does dynamic page creation but you'd still have to set up your HTML somewhere (AFAIK).

Thanks

tim