[ciapug] Frameworks

[Matthew Nuzum]

Someone I correspond with loves this PHP framework called Agavi:
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5907?p=Agavi

I've never used it, and I find their website's lack of helpful
information kind of a put-off, but this guy is a major code purist and
a fanatic about well organized and well optimized code. That he speaks
for it means to me that its worth investigating. Anyone here know
anything about it?

We talked last night about discussing frameworks at a future meeting,
here's an idea, just as a topic starter:

What if each of us (who are interested in it) picked a framework and
then we all tried to build the same application with it. We could
start with clearly defined goals, the same HTML and end with roughly
the same results. Then compare how easy or difficult it was to create
the application with the various frameworks.

Then, at the meeting, we could each do a lightning talk about what was
good, bad and ugly regarding the framework we evaluated.

If we did this, I think it'd be interesting if we included a few
non-php frameworks, such as Rails (Ruby), Django (Python) and Grails
(Java). For PHP I know of Cake, Symphony and the aforementioned agave.
Any others?

http://www.rubyonrails.com/
http://www.djangoproject.com/
http://grails.codehaus.org/
http://www.cakephp.org/
http://www.symfony-project.com/
http://www.agavi.org/

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Matthew Nuzum
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