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Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application?

Posted by timothy on from the use-a-lot-of-blink-tag dept.

New submitter sdoca writes "I am a Java developer and for the past number of years I have mainly been working on server side code. I have an idea for a webpage/application that I would like to develop. For the general public, it will be a site where they can view upcoming events, filter them by type, date etc. and view details of events they're interested in. There will also be an admin section to the app where organizations who want to post their events can log in and set them up. In the long term, writing a view-only version as an Apple and/or Android app is on the radar, but I want to focus on the generic web app for now. I'm not sure what languages/frameworks to look at using for the webpage portion of my project. Many (many!) years ago, I wrote some applets. After that I did some work in WebObjects and after that I tinkered with Wicket. I have no experience with PHP and would like to stay in my Java comfort zone as much as possible, but want to use the right tool. I'm concerned about browser compatibility issues. Chrome didn't exist when I last did web page development. I'm looking for good resources (books, internet) that will guide me through the potential issues and your recommendations for a web development framework."

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  1. Most important by Skal+Tura · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    FORGET java, forget everything you know about JAVA development.
    Go with PHP, and CodeIgniter or similar framework which does not force you to their patterns (ZFW used to be like this...)

    and keep it simple - keep everything as simple as possible.

    And "PHP Templating" is *NOT* templating, it is spaghetti some ate yesterday and came up today.

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    1. Re:Most important by Cyberax · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Yep, that'd be great advice. After we shoot all living PHP developers and go back in time to change PHP to be something decent.

      ANYTHING is better than PHP. Anything. Even CGI scripts in Perl.

      And Java is fine for web development. In particular, Wicket + JRebel + IDEA can allow one to write code waaaay faster than stupid PHP coders.

      Also, I might recommend Scala and Typesafe stack: http://typesafe.com/stack - it's quite nice and powerful.