Archive for August 2007
New Collaboration Application
I started working on my new application recently, and just what the world needs, another collaboration application. However, this is targeted for Management Systems. I have been spending a lot of time thinking about this since my early career at Intel which had strong management systems.
Technology is going to be Pylons (with Mako templating and SQLAlchemy). Javascript right now is Yahoo YUI but, it is pretty verbose and heavy. Considering JQuery. I originally considered Ext.JS but that was very heavy(463kb for all) and too focused on widgets, not enough on the library. Also looked at Mootools, Prototype, MochiKit, Dojo, etc. Prototype and Mootools were too rubyish, prototype from my days with Rails didn’t seem as adaptable as Yahoo YUI. Since this is an “application” my thought was the JS would be cached. We will see if that holds up.
