Simon Willison’s Weblog

Drupal or Django? A Guide for Decision Makers. A surprisingly interesting comparison—the author describes Django as “a framework with CMS-like tendencies” and Drupal as “a CMS with framework-like tendencies”, then explores the benefits of those two different approaches.

# 15th November 2009, 10:14 pm / django, drupal, frameworks, php, python

Play framework for Java. I’m genuinely impressed by this—it’s a full stack web framework for Java that actually does feel a lot like Django or Rails. Best feature: code changes are automatically detected and reloaded by the development web server, giving you the same save-and-refresh workflow you get in Django (no need to compile and redeploy to try out your latest changes).

# 25th October 2009, 11:21 pm / django, frameworks, java, play, rails, web

Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites. Leonard’s thoughts on what the next generation of web frameworks should aim to provide.

# 29th January 2009, 1:36 pm / django, frameworks, infrastructure, leonard-lin, rails, sysadmin