Comments on: Plunging into Web Development

By: Carroll B. Merriman

Carroll B. Merriman — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:34:13 +0000

Thanks for this blog. I am new at development and this is a big help.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:41:26 +0000

Thank you so much, I have been searching for an article on this for weeks! It’s amazing how information and technology can get the best of us sometimes!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:09:10 +0000

@Ferry The Python decision was made mostly because of the ease of getting Django up and running and Google’s support for it.

The Java path is far more involved (e.g. see the 2 part series here: http://blog.newsplore.com/?p=1093). The same is true for JRuby on Rails (see http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine). If I had previously worked with a Java Web Framework, J2EE, or RoR, a Java deployment would probably have been the logical choice.

By: Ferry

Ferry — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:00:56 +0000

Very informative and decisive.
I’m also about doing the same thing, GAE+DJANGO+app-engine-patch.

Just wondering why python instead of java ?

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:49:41 +0000

Great article Bob. I rarely venture out of the MS space but you’ve nearly encouraged me to have a play with the GAE, S3 and Django combination and compare it to Azure and ASP.Net MVC.
Thanks