Web based applications become more and more popular. Not only normal Web sites but also enterprise management systems are adopting this to deliver the functionalities due to the benefit of zero installation on the user’s side.
There are a lot of Web Frameworks today, probably more than anyone can grasp. For each programming language, there is one or more Web frameworks that help you to create Web based applications. Choices are definitely good but may give you a hard time to decide which one is best for your project. More often than not, there is no single best one that suits all your need. In other words, you have to decide the best in the context of your problem.
What should be in the thought process to a decision? Read more... (698 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)
- Programming language. You have to decide what programming language to use for your Web applications. With the preferred language in place, you can only use the frameworks supported by the language. This usually limits much fewer options to your list. The most popular programming languages for Web applications are PHP, Java, C#.
The choice of your programming language is not a choice sometimes. The most rational choice is to use a programming language you and your team are already familiar with. If that happens to be C, you then want to go down your list. Learning a new programming language and a new framework can be daunting. Not long ago, I tried to learn the Lift framework based on Scala language, and found it’s not that easy at all.
If it’s a team project, you have to find one language that all or most people are comfortable with and at least one person are good at.
In the May 3rd issue of InformationWeek, Bob Evans wrote an article “Oracle’s Phillips: Standardizing On Oracle Is IT Cure.” I am sure most IT companies won’t agree with it even though Oracle is now a full stack company after grabbing Sun MicroSystem not long ago. The big players probably want to claim the same for themselves, for example, standardizing on IBM is the IT Cure.
Digging further into the article, we can find some interesting arguments by Phillips:
What CIOs are struggling with right now is trying to find a way to get the opportunity and ability to manage the entire stack with a single management tool that’s predictive about that stack’s going to behave, how the change management around it is more prescriptive and planned, and where they really know how to upgrade and patch the entire stack.
All the dependencies between these layers – the middleware, database, storage, software, systems — they’re all related but unpredictable. And that’s the cycle they’re trying to get out of it — all that need to constantly provision and manage — it’s a huge cost, and it’s kinda boring and takes lots of people to do it, and it’s risky. Read more... (491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)
Security is a very important aspect of application development. Tonight I learned a new security framework called Apache Shiro, the successor to the JSecurity project.
It’s a great talk given by the founder and lead of the project, Les Hazlewood, who relocated to Bay area not long ago for starting his company katasoft. The presentation ran over for one hour but still got most people seated. Read more... (272 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)
I am probably one of a few persons who read the VMware vSphere API reference extensively because of my book. When I read it, I normally quickly click the Managed Object Types link in navigation pane on the left side, and then choose one type for the details on the right side. Read more... (214 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)
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