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10 year ago the RIA (rich Internet applications) platforms were the trendy thing of the day. Microsoft had Silverlight, Adobe had Flex and so on. I made a bet o
by scardine 9y ago
10 year ago the RIA (rich Internet applications) platforms were the trendy thing of the day. Microsoft had Silverlight, Adobe had Flex and so on. I made a bet on OpenLazslo, an open source contender. I made a wireframe and the snappy interface impressed a client that gave me a big project.
1 month working with OpenLazslo and PHP it became clear I would not be able to finish in time. I started searching for alternatives and was unable to finish the Rails tutorial - but after 30 minutes I had a basic CRUD app done using Django.
I ditched the RIA thing, rewrote everything in Python/Django, was able to finish that project in time and this stack is paying the rent since then.
It was really worth.