Evaluating web frameworks

Abundance

Article from Issue 145/2012
Author(s):

Stop re-inventing the wheel and build your web applications with the excellent tools already available.

One theme I’ve noticed in many large web applications is badly reinvented wheels. I suspect a lot of this is caused by the “not invented here” syndrome or by developers who want to avoid external dependencies (portability is nice). The problem is that virtually all web applications have a rather complex set of requirements and security needs that often are not implemented well (if at all). And, a lot of us who have been programming web applications for more than a decade might still be a bit mentally stuck in the 2000s, when a little HTML and some form fields were all you needed to make an “interactive” site that actually worked quite well. Conversely, I can’t help but think newer programmers aren’t aware of all the problems already discovered and solved in frameworks during the past decade and a half.

Buy this article as PDF

Express-Checkout as PDF
Price $2.95
(incl. VAT)

Buy Linux Magazine

SINGLE ISSUES
Print Issues
Digital Issues
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Print Subs
Digisubs
 
TABLET & SMARTPHONE APPS
Get it on Google Play

US / Canada

Get it on Google Play

UK / Australia

Related content

  • Django Web Framework

    We talk to one of the creators of the Django project about the formation of the Django Software Foundation, and we show you how to get started with this user-friendly web framework.

    more »
  • Tech Tools
    • Zend Studio 10 Announced
    • Django 1.5 Released
    • Tizen 2.0 Now Available
    • Ruby 2.0 Released
    more »
  • Security Lessons – Ruby Tools

    Great tools and resources are available to help you write secure Ruby on Rails code. Kurt examines some tools and offers some tips.

    more »
  • Django 1.5 Released

    The Django developers have released version 1.5 of the popular open source Python web framework.

    more »
  • Security Lessons – Hash Maps

    What do all programs have in common? They store data at some point, usually in arrays – everything from commandline options to the input and output. But how is data actually stored by the program? Kurt explains.

    more »
comments powered by Disqus

Visit Our Shop

Trial Subscription

Digital Subscription

Subscribe

Direct Download

Read full article as PDF:

054-055_kurt.pdf (205.74 kB)

News

Tag Cloud

Administration Community Desktop Events Hardware Linux Linux Pro Magazine Mobile Programming Software Ubuntu Web Development Windows free software open source