Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

I guess that PowerPC version of Windows NT 3.51 does not run well on an IBM
I for the same reason that OS X for PowerPC does not.

It is more than just the CPU architecture that determines a platform (but it
is rapidly going away- there are not many new computers that cannot run
Linux).



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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: 1. august 2012 21:39
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

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,
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