Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree with most of what you say but I *would* expect a .Net guy to like 
jsp's since they are so similar to each other.  Me, I *never* use 
jsp's.  MVC for me HTML served by the FreeMarker template framework with 
native servlets accessing the DB.  jsp's mix and match HTML and Java and 
don't get me started on Struts and Spring (write once and configure 
EVERYWHERE)....

Most of my stuff is Javascript now that JSON and Ajax are the tools de 
jore. I use Java at the back end because I can write the whole tamale on 
my laptop and deploy to something secure and stable like IBM i.....

Didn't MS have a version of windows that ran on power (early on)? I am 
surprised that IBM didn't pick up and run with.  Imagine how fast 
Windows could crash on a Power 7!  You'd hardly see that blue screen of 
death.  But those constant security updates would apply quicker.... ;-)

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 8/1/2012 12:53 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> Well I've played a bit with Ruby and didn't find it all that compelling.
>
> But that's just me :-)
>
> JSP is just as easy if not easier and same with Java, so why mix ?
>
> Also, I can do a new web or mobile app much, much faster using ASP.Net, but those afraid of .Net would not know that fact :-)
>
> RPG isn't bad either.  Anyone seen my jQueryMobile sample yet ? :-)
>
> I'm still irked by the fact that IBM doesn't embrace MS technology on the i, especially when their own internal team did an R&D project to port the Mono runtime to PASE/AIX and it got deep-sixed.
>
> When I have more free get time to learn another new language just for fun it will probably be Javascript as that's more and more the UI language of choice :-)
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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