A good counter proposal to the "typical" server-side web architecture is seaside (www.seaside.st). Its tutorial (A walk on the seaside on http://seaside.st/doc

A good counter proposal to the "typical" server-side web architecture is seaside (www.seaside.st). Its tutorial (A walk on the seaside on http://seaside.st/documentation/tutorials http://seaside.st/documentation/tutorials) is rather basic, but shows the concepts well. (edit: longer article http://book.seaside.st http://book.seaside.st) Of course it has a different set of quirks to get used to, so it's not a cure-all - but it gives a different perspective on web-things.