Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application?

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."

Comments

Re:Even more important

[Anonymous Coward]

Ghaaa! GHAAA!! I eat your face for saying "forget PHP".

PHP is superior.. I say this because you can do damn near anything in PHP. I can generate dynamic SVG in PHP, I can post dynamic encrypted AJAX-script in PHP, I can communicate with my server's serical port in PHP, I eat your face in PHP!!!

Nothing you can do in any language is superior to any other except for SIMPLICITY! The more human-readable the code is, the more PHP ZOMBIES EAT YOUR FACE OFF!!!

Re:CMS and done.

[Lehk228]

QDB.us #307623 wordpress is an unauthenticated remote shell that, as a useful side feature, also contains a blog

First, dont ask in slashdot.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

If you describe your idea in sufficient detail and you don't even know which tool to use, someone else will beat you to it. If you try to hide important details, you would appear to be cagey and would not be taken seriously. So best thing is learn some tool and get to work. A good idea will work even if the tool is less than optimal. A crappy idea would not flourish even with the best tool.

Most importantly, stop listening to strangers like me.

Re:Most important

[spacenet]

Google Web Toolkit.