This isn’t exactly breaking news, but it’s new to me! I just came across this screencast by Sean Kelly of NASA, where he does a bake-off between several web application frameworks: J2EE, Ruby on Rails, Zope/Plone, TurboGears, and Django. He starts out by creating a simple “Hello, world” application, just to get a feel for the frameworks. As he goes along, he gives each one a “fun level” rating, as well as making note of how many lines of code, configuration files, and XML sit-ups were required to get the desired functionality. Once that’s done, he goes into creating a more involved application, so that he can really try out a few of the advanced features each framework offers.
Not to spoil the ending, but it did make me want to give Plone a try. I currently do mostly Python with Django for the web stuff at work, and its been great so far. But it certainly couldn’t hurt to try out something different and see how it fits in…
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