Comments on: Building a Web 2.0 Website

By: Maruis Marais

Maruis Marais — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:01:47 +0000

Code Complete is a good book, but I found the book takes to long to make the point on each topic (To much fluff). This leads to a book that is thick and heavy. But it does cover a lot of good topics.

I’ve read “Agile Web Development with Rails” from the pragmatic programmers fame. What a nice book… The cool thing about RoR is that I could knock out a web site looking like the pragmatic site within 2 hours on a friday night. That is installing (RoR, MySql, RadRails), setup and coding. Cool hey…

My next mission is to build a blog site in RoR. I want to replace my current blog and have some nice idea’s I want to implement.

Cheers,
Maruis

By: Dominic

Dominic — Mon, 29 May 2006 09:01:15 +0000

Hi Maruis,
I’m keen to take a look at RoR. I took a look at it briefly about 6 months ago, but became distracted by the set up procedures and went no further.

My webhosting supports RoR so I should probably take another look at it. I’m definitely keen on knocking out a Web 2.0 app ASAP.

I noticed on your blog that you are currently reading Code Complete. Is it any good?

cheers
Dom

By: Maruis Marais

Maruis Marais — Thu, 25 May 2006 11:42:33 +0000

Hi Dom,

I’ve gotten involved in Ruby on Rails lately and if you want to build web sites quickly, then I would recommend RoR. I can build a E-commerce site like Amazon in a day, granted not as flash as Amazon, but most of the nuts and bolts and looking not to shabby.

I would say that you could build web sites with RoR in probably 10-20% of the time it would take to build the same site in C# or Java. It is really a awesome language and web framework.

Check out Ruby on Rails if you are interested.

Cheers,
Maruis