There are some new hot web server frameworks: Ruby on Rails (Ruby), Yaws+ErlyWeb (Erlang) and HAppS (Haskell.) These new frameworks are supposed to facilitate fast development. But, how fast – and scalable – are the applications built in and for these frameworks? The goal of this post is to get a preliminary answer to this [...]
If one would measure popularity by number of hits on Google, these are the five most popular computer languages: PHP Java C Flash Perl A graph of Google hits, using the query +lang +programming, for some of the most common languages follows. NOTE 1: please inform me if your favorite language is omitted. NOTE 2: [...]
There is this popular wrapper for common JavaScript idioms, called Prototype. I will not explain it – since that is done elsewhere – nor praise it. What I will do is to look critically at one part of this library, the array extensions. This library is used by most fancy AJAX libraries popping up, whether [...]
AJAX is a bunch of cryptic JavaScript snippets on the client side together with some advanced web services, written in another, and more powerful, language. Right? Not necessarily. I here give a brief comparison of three ways to create AJAX applications with only one language, running on both client and server. The three unilinguistic approaches [...]